Which part? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, September 28, 2015, 19:13 (3438 days ago) @ Cody Miller

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.

I'm curious which part you think your team would not have figured out? (MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW v)
It took us several tries before one of us noticed that the back of the runes would light up to tell you the order, but even without knowing that you could pretty easily work out a system to guess the correct order. For a long time we also thought that you just needed to hide from the light to survive the oculus but that obviously didn't work. Eventually we realized that the pillars were protecting us and that's why they dissapear. The final key for us was realizing which player was going to get the red bubble. Once we knew that it was just a matter of working hard to get our DPS up and not die stupidly. :P

The thing we missed was that the player with the red bubble could reset the countdown timer by killing adds. Prior to learning that, we were just chaining deaths and resses as we all focused the boss.

The score screen gave that away for us :-)

What did it say? I don't recall the clue.

It tracked kills while you have the buff. Once we saw that, we knew those were somehow pivotal. We then noticed almost immediately what it did.

I am embarrassed that we missed that!