Same for Xbox One crew A. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Saturday, September 19, 2015, 10:17 (3450 days ago) @ someotherguy

Did not know that. Hot damn that would have been useful. We thought it was a straight-up DpS race. Had no idea you could extend the timer

The person with the buff will notice 2 new things on their HUD:

* A countdown timer that starts at 10 seconds
* A ticker that is set to "5"

The countdown is telling you how long you have until your buff runs out. But the person with the buff can reset the timer by killing an add. You can only do this a limited number of times. That's what the ticker is for: it tells you how many more times you can reset the timer before the buff goes away.

So the person with the buff wants to let their timer get as low as possible, then kill an add to reset the timer. Their ticker will go from 5 to 4. Do this again. Ticker goes from 4 to 3. Repeat, etc.

The other mechanic in play is that if the person with the buff dies, the buff gets passed to another player. They start with a fresh 10 second timer, but moving the buff does seem to remove from your ticker count. So keeping everyone alive is ideal, but if someone dies it's not a total write off.