PS4 DBO Crew King's Fall Progress (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Saturday, September 19, 2015, 05:35 (3450 days ago)
edited by Cody Miller, Saturday, September 19, 2015, 06:21

Our group managed to get to the second of three bosses in about 3 hours. If anybody reading this hasn't tried the raid, it's a lot of fun. It's more complex mechanically than Vault of Glass, without the bullet sponges of Crota's End. It's really really good. Try to do it blind. But if you don't want to…

Spoilers:

1. You have to activate six statues to open the portal. There are two halves of an artifact, that two people will have to carry and deposit them at the same time to activate a statue. The artifacts are on opposite ends, and each subsequent one get farther and farther away. One person runs the artifact, and the other two take out enemies and take down the shields blocking the way. This part is just a warmup.

2. Once inside, you have a bit of a jumping puzzle, by riding Hive ships across a void. Afterwards, you do something similar to the Crota bridge, although there are no enemies.

3. In this part, you open the door to the first boss. There is a plate in the middle, and totems on the far ends of the room. The rooms housing the totems will slowly drain your life and kill you. There's ball that gives you a buff, which lets you survive, and it effects nearby allies. When it wears off, it is passed on to whoever is inside your circle of influence. It works similarly to skolas, in that when you get it, you can't get it for a while. When you pass it on, you get a stack of ten Deathsinger's energies. You need to deposit these on the plate in the middle of the room. What you need to do, is send two people to each side, and put two people in the middle. Then you rotate in and out of the middle when you have the energy to deposit. If you have ABC, C stays in the middle, and A and B go to the side. A grabs the buff, and when he passes it to B, A swaps with C and deposits the energy. When B passes it to C, B swaps with A. Repeat. The biggest headache is the boomer knights on the ledges. Bring a scout Rifle!

4. Warpriest. Super cool boss. He is immune to damage. There are three circles, and three pillars in front of each. Waves of enemies will spawn, and at some point three yellow Knights will spawn. After killing them, you can activate the circles. You have to do it in sequence. There will be a flame in front of the one you need to activate, however if the corresponding pillar is up it will block the flame so you can't see which. Your first one you have to guess, and you get three tries. We did process of elimination. The person who activates the last circle gets a buff that allows them, and anyone standing in their circle of influence to damage the Warpiest. It is stacked 5x, with a ten second timer. When the timer runs out, you die. If you get a kill with the buff, it resets the timer and removes a stack. Essentially, you need to wait till it gets to 1 second, then kill something to keep the buff as long as you can. At this point everybody needs to lay into the boss hard. When the buff finally expires, the Warpiest will summon some taken ball thing which instantly kills everybody, unless you are hiding in the shadow of a pillar. The pillar you are hiding behind will then crumble. You essentially get four rounds to kill him, since there are three pillars. Rounds 3 and 4 spawn Taken enemies instead of hive.

5. Maze. There's a maze to get through, with a calcified fragment in it.

6. Golgorath. This is where we stopped for the night. What we know is that he can only be damaged by firing at his back, or at a point on his front. Shooting him in the back seems to cause him to focus on that person, giving him his gaze. We figure that someone needs to keep the gaze so that others can damage him, but we haven't worked out how. When someone dies, a rune appears on a pillar. 6 runes = instant kill, so stay alive.

Go try it immediately. We did fine with 2 Light 280s. So far… We are reconvening Sunday night.