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

by cheapLEY , Monday, September 28, 2015, 17:46 (3438 days ago) @ Kahzgul

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.

Can you elaborate one what you were missing? Just out of curiosity? I think our group figured out this encounter relatively quickly and easily. We just couldn't execute and do enough DPS before we ran out of available damage dealing rounds.

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.

Again, we figured this out relatively quickly (I think), but we were missing a key step in how the adds spawn in. We just weren't killing them all before we started burning the ogre, which, looking back, seems really stupid. Why wouldn't we at least try it before just jumping in after the big guy?. We finally figured that out on night 2 of that encounter, though. You're right, in that finding a workable strategy changes the fight from "Seriously, fuck this!" to "Holy shit, that was it?" pretty quickly.

Can't wait to figure out the next one!