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Blind Raiding (an observation, no major spoilers) (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, September 28, 2015, 16:52 (3438 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I went in blind to the raid and found the following:

I'm spoilering each step, so don't mouse over the next one unless you want to read about it. I don't discuss the actual mechanics of the fights, but people may not want to know how easy or hard I found each one to be, as that may tip them off when doing it themselves.

Opening the door and the first encounter were totally intuitive to figure out and were really fun to do blind.

The second encounter (the one in your spoilers) is mostly intuitive, but has 1 element that my team was never going to discover on our own. We're playing with a "1 night then spoiler" rule, so each night if we had at least 2 hours on a boss fight and didn't get it, we read the strat online. We were not going to figure out that 2nd encounter's little trick any time soon (though we may have cleared it anyway, since our DPS was so damn good). That being said, we did figure out every other aspect of the fight, so we were damn close.

The third encounter we had properly identified all of the elements, but completely failed to recognize the phase transitions of the fight. I guarantee we would never have gotten it without spoilers because we made some very broad assumptions that our approach simply would never have disproven. Having a good strat for this fight trivializes it, so I recommend banging your head against it blind for longer than you normally would.

The fourth encounter was the easiest for us by far and we figured it out and beat it in only 3 attempts.

The last encounter is utter horseshit and we never in a million, billion, trillion years would have figured it out without looking up the strat. There's one element where we actually thought the game was bugging out on us because the mechanic at play is so incredibly subtle. It's also a stupid fight where one errant button press from any single player completely wipes the attempt. And it's a 20 minute fight. Serious F that fight. Even fully spoiled we've only gotten more than 75% of the boss' health down once in 8 hours of attempts.

IMO the last encounter is the least fun part of TTK by a large margin. Any fight with a one-shot wipe and no opportunity to recover from someone's mistake or to save the day when something bad happens is a shitty fight as far as I'm concerned.


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