About the boss fight... (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, September 28, 2015, 18:43 (3438 days ago) @ dogcow

When I say 1 little button press, I mean someone accidentally jumping while on a pressure plate tower, or missing their jump up to one. I'd say only 1 in 7 attempts do we even get the relic because people aren't good at standing still and killing ogres. The fact that there's literally no margin for error in that initial setup is brutal since you have to do that exact thing 4 times over the course of the fight.

Did you know that you only need 3 people to jump on the plates? The plate under the relic does not need to be activated, this allows you to have 2 roamers to help the 3 on the plates with their ogres (although there are still 4 ogres).

Yes, and it was awesome when we figured that out!

But yeah, jumping on the plates in the wrong order is bad and easy to get wrong. Fortunately it's mostly a communication problem and not a skill problem. It would be nice if it were a little easier to "reset" than having everyone start over. I suspect there's an easier way than a full reset, I just don't know what it is yet.

Yeah, it's a really simple thing that two of the guys I raid with are friggin' terrible at. Amazingly terrible. Horribly incredibly stupendously terrible. It boggles my mind, actually. Neither of these guys have ever raided before and they don't understand that they need to do X when Y every single time no matter what else is going on. Oryx is just especially unforgiving of their mistakes, and because any mistake = wipe, those of us who get it don't even have an opportunity to pick up the slack. And then there's annoying random stuff like, "oh, I jumped too high and the spaceship clipped my head and now I'm dead." or "the ogre freaked out and charged the middle so you can't walk on the road now" or "The aura decided not to protect me anymore even though I'm well inside of it."