Crota's End Raid
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Fri, 12/19/2014 - 07:27
Crota's End Raid
How are you folks finding the new Raid? I went in last night and messed about and got through the lamps section alone. I did get some Raid gloves for my efforts!
I'd love to give Crota's End a runthrough tonight if anybody is interested. I'm a 31 and while you can go in below 30, it will be tough sledding as the enemies go up to 32.
Some of my usual crew will be playing the Halo 5 beta tonight, so if you need a fireteam member, hit me up. GT is DV thello
I'd like to give it a try.
It's actually not too bad. The Crota battle is easier than the Atheon battle IMO
I imagine hard mode will be a bitch when it comes out, though
We made it to the Deathsinger and had issues. Seems you have to take out both Shriekers and then you can put damage on the Deathsinger, but all the adds really make this tough sledding.
We would lure out the witches and take them out, then move into the room and take out the shriekers. However, by that time there are so many knights that we could barely get damage on the Deathsinger.
Any suggestions?
I should be around tonight if folks want to try and run from this checkpoint.
Only what I've seen/read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpR2jcjaQco
split into teams of three to kill wizards/shriekers on either side, then during last 30 seconds ir yut's song begins at which point he doesn't move so everyone focuses all damage on him at this time.
fire damage on ir yut, arc damage on knights. Gjallahorn and icebreaker would be nice here. :)
I'm up..will be level 30 after another hour or two of gameplay. Just need 4 light, sitting at 116 now and bought the exotic gauntlets from Xur this week..no shards needed.
Nice gman!
I'm waiting on Tuesday and the 25 marks I'll need for Chest and then I'll hit 29. Will still need 10 more shards to hit 30 tho, and a bunch more for 31, hoping to get some luck running public events tomorrow. Would love to do another VoG raid if the opportunity presents itself.
Goal is 30 by end of next week, hope my luck holds out.
My damn team can't even make it past the towers :(
Starving for shards to get my gear to 31 but want to do the raid, please invite me if you see me on
Finally level 30...hell fu__king yeah!!!! Crota can suck it..lol
I got two lamps lit running solo. But then I was just poking around and not making a concerted effort.
Did it again last night. Is it getting weird and glitchy for anyone else? Crota drops to a knee, but fakes, or you're picking his shields apart when he decides to wildly start running across to the other side of the map?
Yeah..we tried as well..had orgre after first sword on one run. Was a bit glitchy. We saved at Crota. Didn't finish but I got some cool raid armor. Only bad thing is it takes 7 radiant shards per defense upgrade. Guess I need to run crota daily...lol
Weekly. It resets weekly on Tuesday. You can run it with multiple characters, though, per week.
ive done it several times now hit me up
Btw if you don't want to cheese Crota, this is an awesome guide to killing Crota legit without ogres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyD8OSk7qag
http://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update---01082015/en/News/News?aid=12483
Patches coming next week will close exploits on CE, gotta do it legit going forward...
Gotta do it legit beginning 1/13. The update they mentioned with The Deathsinger and Shriekers...I can't imagine that encounter being any more difficult!! Dang that was a royal pain!!! Guess I better get the raid done this weekend!!
Speaking of which, I am available to join a group for Crota's End, Vault of Glass, or other tonight 1/9 beginning 8:30pm ET or tomorrow same time. XB1 preferred, but available also on XB360. Message me here or to Deciduous Duke on XBox Live preferably well before then. If I'm not logged into XBox Live, I will still get the message and will log in very shortly.
I'm planning on running VOG hard tonight, at.... 8:30 EST! This will be my 1st time playing on hard though (so patience might be required). I'll send you a FR in case you're not already playing in another fireteam. I'm also planning on running Crota starting around 8:30 or 9:00 PM tomorrow if anyone is interested. Both on XB1.
Interested in VoG hard but probably won't be on until very late tonight. Will shoot to be on Saturday for CE
Will log in 8:15-8:25 EST and look for your VOG fireteam or invite. First time on Hard as well. Titan 31. No Gjallahorn or Ice Breaker, but have 300 level Atheon's Epilogue, Truth, Praedyth's Revenge, and various sundry other legendaries/exotics. Will tentatively plan for Crota's End 1/10 8:30 PM ET as well.
Thanks for hosting! Hard mode is, well, hard. Enjoyed making the attempt and glad we were able to finish on Normal.
As to Crota, I'll have to rain-check it for now: a TV-less friend of mine is a huge Seahawks fan and will likely be over to watch Panthers-Seahawks. I may be on later and can fill in any gaps before midnight ET.
I played with a pickup group yesterday (the100.io is actually a pretty cool way to gather and setup raid/strike groups, maybe 2o2p could form their own group on it.)
Anyway, it took 5 hours to finish off Atheon. The last part took 2 hours. No one got jack other than some shards and legendary ships. Ugh. Still had a ton of fun but wasn't expecting that level of challenge.
What hung you guys up so much, especially on Atheon?
Heh. It's hard to nail exactly what, mostly people didn't know how to stay alive and we had a few quitouts who weren't playing well. I admit making a few mistakes myself (I'm not a very competent relic holder especially in HM) but by far my experience was watching stuff like the relic holder dying a lot and leaving the platform 4 seconds before the shields were down, not cleansing (due to usually being dead) or really annoying stuff like guys getting killed by Atheon before he even teleported. At the first portal section I'd run into the portal, rocket the hydra twice and the guy who came in behind me somehow got insta-murdered. Or the other portal got wiped. *sigh* Cmon guys.
Had 1-2 guys that were doing a pretty good job too, so it was a frustrating experience. At the same time, I enjoyed it. Weirdness. Still I missed my 2o2p group. :)
Templar section was pretty messy too.
I maintain that the hardest part of the Vault raid is the two-conflux phase. All you have to do is survive. You don't have to be flawless and let nobody in. Also, you've got heavy ammo for a reason. Use it when you can.
More recently, our runs get weird at Atheon because of the oracles. Its been so consistently inconsistent where we just send 4 people in at about all times just in case..
Yeah those were the big problems with the raid group. You sure you weren't there? :)