Swapping gazes is damage based (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Thursday, October 29, 2015, 20:00 (3408 days ago) @ ZackDark

A single 1000-Yard Stare shot takes the gaze, while it takes several Hung Jury shots to take it. To optimize time, then, you'd need a sniper/rocket. Bear in mind, however, that it is not instantaneous, no matter how much damage you put out. It takes a second or two for the message to appear, so don't leave it to the last second to try switching gazes.

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you guys that you can only take 6 gazes, no matter how many orbs you shoot down. The bastard keeps his back closed during the 6th.

This is known. What would be interesting to find out is would doing this burn through multiple gazes at once? Wouldn't that be funny? Everyone lines up & takes their shot & bam, his back closes & adds spawn. One other thing that hasn't been noted, is that when the gaze is swapped his back closes for a few (5?) seconds before opening back up. I wonder if the trigger for his back opening up (during the swapping gaze period) is time based or (belly) damage based or what.

And of course all this hinges on a couple things, first that you can hit him with multiple snipers in the back at once, second that some random guy on reddit is correct in that the pool bonus stacks with the 'back damage' bonus.