Tier 3 Court of Oryx *Video/Spoiler* (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 12:28 (3445 days ago)

Jumped into Court of Oryx last night with Slycrel and Vortech. We were looking to complete a tier 3 battle to finish Eris' quest. Slycrel inserted his rune into the receptacle (I'm sure there's a better way for me to say that), we went to the portal... and out walks Crota. Well, technically it's Thalnock, Fanatic of Crota. But yeah, it's basically Crota.

We were joined by a couple of randoms, so I thought "no big deal, people solo Crota all the time. We can bring him down with 5".

Wrecked.

Crota stomped us. The mechanics are basically the same as the raid fight. Kill a sword barer, drop Crota's shields, smack snack smack. You even get the same music dropping in when you pick up the sword.

Except none of us have homing rockets anymore, so we couldn't get his shields down. And when we finally did, he only stayed down for a couple seconds. And he's flanked by wizards, while the sword barer has an entourage of Taken phalanx and acolytes. And there is almost no cover.

It took us 6 or 7 tries and a pair of replacement randoms, but we eventually figured it out.

Step 1: Kill the wizards that flank Crota ASAP, then go to work ok the rest of the adds.

Step 2: Kill the sword barer, but DON'T pick up the sword.

Step 3: Everyone now concentrate fire on Crota. Primaries or machine guns seem to work best. Takes a while to drop his shields, but steady sustained fire is the only way to prevent them from recharging.

Step 4: when his shields are almost down, someone needs to grab the sword and get ready. He doesn't stay down as long as he does in the raid. You'll have time for 2 or 3 slams, max.

It was an intense, challenging, awesome fight. Great twist on a mechanic that many of us have been handling with ease for months. Can't wait to try it again :)