It wasn't that fun.

If you want to do it on some raid in the future, I'll back you up and we can force everyone else to give it a go.

But yeah, swords block oversoul, Skolas taint, tons of stuff.

Wow, so you NEVER pick up the aura. Not even the first time. Amazing.

Two of the four in the middle do, since that's how you gain the "Deathsinger's power" buff... when the aura's timer runs out.

It doesn't seem like a real cheese - just an alternate way of doing the encounter. The guys on the totems are on their own - which can be a real problem, for multiple reasons. Sometimes you miss your first couple of shots on the boomer knight. Sometimes you run out of ammo. You've got no backup in either of these events - I'd say 80% of all the ammo I pick up in this entire encounter is in the center room, so hoping that the adds in the sides drop enough to keep you going (and drop it near enough that getting off the totems doesn't kill your group) is a crap shoot.

Definitely sounds intriguing - but I wouldn't call it 'easy'. ;)

Wow, so you NEVER pick up the aura. Not even the first time. Amazing.

Two of the four in the middle do, since that's how you gain the "Deathsinger's power" buff... when the aura's timer runs out.

Wow, so you NEVER pick up the aura. Not even the first time. Amazing.

Seems like it would be fun to try, just for the experience. ;)

He is specifically talking about blocking damage from the rooms in the prove your worth section. If you block it enough times, you stop taking it, negating the need to cycle players.

Blocking damage from the rooms...?

What does this even mean?

Block the damage you take without the aura using the sword. Sorry, that was unclear.

I think (and I could be wrong about this) that Cyber is saying you can use a sword to block the damage that kills players who stand in the side rooms... the damage that we typically survive by passing the aura back and forth. But this is the first I've heard of it.

Wow, I had no idea! (I thought he was referencing some PS4-group in-joke with 'swads' - I don't think I'd EVER have come up with 'swords' from that.)

Not 100% sure how that would work, though; if you let the aura expire, you're faced with not just that invisible damage, but also very real damage from stuff in the room (shooting at you and meleeing you, if you're using your sword for defense only). The sword block will keep SOME of it off you... but not all.

Someone told me that the sword block will also negate the Oculus if you aren't hiding behind a totem in the Warpriest room, but I've never tried this (or seen it tried). Safer, in general, since there aren't any other things shooting at you at that point.

He is specifically talking about blocking damage from the rooms in the prove your worth section. If you block it enough times, you stop taking it, negating the need to cycle players.

Blocking damage from the rooms...?

What does this even mean?

In the Basilica, where the rooms hurt you with their evil air. Sword-block the air-damage enough times (ten), and you stop taking damage, letting you stand under the totems, while the Aura-swappers can stand safely in the middle room without having to run back and forth. The cheese turns this lengthy process into a simpler matter of gunning down adds for five minutes, and you can even lose half the team (as long as the two under the Totems are alive).

It's actually an interesting way to do the encounter, since you have to keep the lone guy at each totem alive, while remembering to swap the Aura with the right person. Not entirely a cheese in the classic sense... But definitely not what Bungie intended.

He is specifically talking about blocking damage from the rooms in the prove your worth section. If you block it enough times, you stop taking it, negating the need to cycle players.

Blocking damage from the rooms...?

What does this even mean?

I can't do it. I can't get 7 precision kills in a game with that stupid awful hand canon.

How many people can play rumble? I'm seriously thinking of just being cheap on this one.

The guy that's completely against cheesing a long and repetitive part of a raid that we run every week wants to cheese a unique challenge...

Come on, man. :P

Raids are fun and challenging. This is boring and stupid. The raid is way more of a unique challenge.

Peaks and Cyber helped me out in free for all afterwards. I got my First Curse, and Cyber got his sword kills.

I can't do it. I can't get 7 precision kills in a game with that stupid awful hand canon.

How many people can play rumble? I'm seriously thinking of just being cheap on this one.

The guy that's completely against cheesing a long and repetitive part of a raid that we run every week wants to cheese a unique challenge...

Come on, man. :P

I can't do it. I can't get 7 precision kills in a game with that stupid awful hand canon.

How many people can play rumble? I'm seriously thinking of just being cheap on this one.

That's what I did.