Jeez, is this normal? Hours upon hours? (Destiny)

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Wednesday, July 08, 2015, 11:33 (3663 days ago) @ JDQuackers

I've never done Skolas either (I only dipped my toes into PoE for the first time last night).

Are these accounts "normal"? 5+ hours to take down Skolas? That seems insane. It's going to take me a while to get to 34 to attempt this, but I kind of don't want to if this is what I have to look forward to. Not to mention I'm in a similar boat as you--my playtime is very limited due to the whole kids thing, so I don't think I could ever set aside that much time.

i've done skolas hard several times, and the most it has taken was 2 hrs on skolas. The fastest was probably 45 mins at skolas (LFG group from reddit, everyone knew what to do).

There was only one time where i did not finish, and it was b/c it was getting late, and the party leader had to quit.

This week is probably bad due to the lightswitch modifier. The basic strategy is kill the servitor and hit skolas with everything you've got to break the bond. After that, you just go back and forth from the high ledge to the small ledge (whichever side skolas is NOT at). Ignore skolas and slowly pick off all the adds (they won't respawn until you do significant damage to skolas).

Once all the adds are gone, focus on skolas, as soon as adds show up, avoid skolas and focus on adds again.

When the mines spawn, whomever is "immune" stays on the ledge (whichever ledge you happen to be at when the mines start. The tainted person and one other person leave together for the far mine. The immune person can solo the ledge mine, then head to center. The other two ppl need to cap the far mine and trade the sickness off.

The mine spawn is random, I find it works best when the center one spawns last, as all 3 players can focus on it. When the center one spawns first, it kinda throws a wrench into things with swapping the sickness around.

If there is only 1 titan in the fireteam, then save their bubble for the middle mine. Hunters with invis are great, but in my opinion titans and warlocks are best for Skolas. Titans for their bubbles and warlocks for their self-res. If a warlock dies with the sickness, and self rezes, then there is a little bit of a pause before the sickness is applied to someone else. that really helps in a "last guardian standing" situation, or if players are spread out from each other during the mines.