I beat Skolas for the first time last night. (Destiny)
Thanks to Disciple and Zero for the excellent execution. We had some mic issues and wiped during Skolas when we lost the ability to communicate with Disciple, although we tried to keep it going as long as we could by dancing at 10 seconds to mark when to pass the debuff.
I felt like I imagine Nevin feels.
I still feel like there is one thing too many happening during this battle, but it is less of a nightmare now that adds are linked to the boss's health and you can actually empty the arena. Needs checkpoints. Took us 1:45 with just the one wipe on Skolas. Two defenders and a sunsinger, and all 3 supers came into play during the mines.
This is definitely an unforgiving experience. You need 3 strong players.