Calling all Relic ninjas! I need help (Destiny)

by slycrel , Saturday, February 14, 2015, 21:53 (3807 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I think you did great. I'm horrible with the relic, so other than what has been mentioned, I have little to add. I'm usually playing the role that vortech did, so ill speak more to that.

Traditionally, my role has been "guy on the left" in my pre-DBO days. We would have the relic bearer start in the back middle, me in the back left just before the hidden room passage, everyone else on the right back and right middle, depending on where the Templar was. I actually used this position as well the first time I ran hard mode with DBO because I jumped down, not realizing the standard thing was to stay up top and snipe.

Having a person stand there helps as they can thin the harpy population, help with oracles that are generally hard to reach, and give a place where the relic bearer has less pressure from harpies, because they are split between that position and the right. They come in groups of threes, so on the right you'll usually only be dealing with a few at a time. The middle ones seem to alternate between going left and right.

In my experience, the relic bearer would alternate back and forth between the back left and right, charging their super, and hitting the back oracles as needed. If you're going for speed, kill everything, but mostly focus on The shooters, the others are less of an immediate threat. Especially the ones that end up n the middle and up front you can ignore.

Note that once the Templars health is down some, you will see the harpies start spawning faster. This is where it can get dicey there on the left, if the Templar is in line of sight and 2 groups come in at once both from the middle and the back left, with the Templar firing on that position. I have occasionally run out of primary ammo there and had to use a primary ammo synth, one of the few places I've done that more than the random bad luck with drops.

Not sure there's much new there, maybe something that can help though.