Flawless King's Fall! (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, October 05, 2015, 19:15 (3433 days ago) @ Chappy

I die all the time detonating the tainted ball of light. Last raid was much better tho'. :)

Raid spoilers below:

My raid team and I believe that there's a mechanic at work here - the "bombs" go off a fixed time after the first one is triggered. If you're late triggering your bomb, you won't have enough time to return and you'll die. We do a quick countdown so that the 4 members of the platform team enter and leave their bombs at the same time ("Enter your bomb in 3-2-1-now"*). There's a black circle on the ground around each bomb to indicate the trigger distance. It takes about 4 seconds inside the circle to trigger the bombs.

Not exactly. each bomb goes off ~10 seconds after it is triggered. The first bomb that goes off will kill everyone not in the Aura of Immortality, which is what you're seeing as "all of the bombs going off". If you time all bombs to go off at once, you're less likely to kill players, but you're more likely to have them all go off while the white shield is still up without the heart exposed. Setting the first bomb off a little earlier guarantees the heart is exposed for the later bombs if your people in the middle don't have good enough DPS to keep the chest cavity open.

If your team isn't doing enough damage to Oryx, it's likely that you're not getting all 4 bombs triggered each round. I think an ideal Oryx kill looks like this:

4 bombs -> Airstrike
4 bombs -> Airstrike
4 bombs -> Thunderdome
4 bombs -> Thunderdome
4 bombs -> Final kill

Ideal is actually:

4 bombs -> Airstrike
4 bombs -> Thunderdome
4 bombs -> Thunderdome
4 bombs -> Final Kill

Each set of 4 bombs does 25% of the boss' health if the heart is exposed when they all go off (which is why having your two non-bomb triggering people continue to DPS the boss during the bomb section is so important).

* If you're calling out the bomb detonation, make sure to allow for the slight travel difference between the front team and the back team. If you're on the short side, start the 3-2-1 countdown after you get to your bomb. If you're on the long side, start the countdown as you're running so you get to "now" just as you reach your bomb. This is why it's important to kill the ogres as soon as they spawn - you want the bombs relatively equidistant with no chance that a guardian will accidentally trigger them. We also think it's possible for the knight to trigger them, btw.

My team doesn't call out the bombs at all. We go as quickly as possible so we can maximize boss dps to keep his chest open for the bombs going off. It really does not matter if anyone dies when they do explode. You're either running like crazy during the Airstrike phase (we call it the "Marathon" phase) and fewer people means easier running), or you're waiting for the darkness zone to appear. For the darkness zone, the first guy will be inside before bombed people are rezzable, but that's it.