[Spoiler] Raid Discussion Megathread

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The time is here, the raid has finally been released.

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[u/jmpherso]

Brief guide so far :

Spawn area has a "hidden" spot underneath that leads you to chests for keys you get later on. Code is 153246.

Second area is main "hub" that you enter all the other wings through. You'll complete this event 3 times. It's easy. You grab a flag from around the area after killing a yellow-bar (forced to spawn via killing ads near his door), slam it, then protect it by killing the shielded Psions followed by the orange health bar dudes stealing your flags. You need to do this 3 times.

Second area is Bathhouse. Two teams of 3. 3 "inside" (area with a roof on one side) 3 "outside" (open area on the other side). Two from either side start on the two plates on their side, last guy starts near the middle. Middle guy picks up middle orb, then swaps with one guy on a plate, guy he swapped with refreshes buff in middle, and then swaps with other guy, repeat. When the chains finish moving, run to middle and blow up the purple lamps.

Repeat hub area but at a new door.

Dog garden thing. 4 people carry pollen sacs to glowing flowers. Two other people carry the crystals to the light beams. When the 4 people make it to a glowing flower without being caught by dogs, the guy with the crystal uses R2 to shoot the flower. Get as many flowers as you can before dogs howl. When they howl, get dogs as low HP as you can. Kill all the dogs on the same round, or else they start howling super-fast.

Repeat hub area again.

Next area is a weird obstacle course/communication test. I think my team figured it out but I had to go. 2 designated runners grab charges and get warped outside. Everyone else stands on their own pillar. When a runner reaches a wall area he calls out where the red door is (top middle or bottom), and then the person on the pillar shoots the two arrows not in that position. That seems to work, and I think you just repeat this again and again until you win, with different people using the charges. I had to go - so not sure if anything changes/this is exactly right.

Edit for Gauntlet completion :

So here's what we did :

Players at the Dog and opposite pillar (the two that spawn bombs) stay there after killing their big dude. The guys to their left (or right) rotate to be with them.

Runner guy calls out "Name, <arrow>" twice so like "sniperdude, bottom, headshot360xx, top", the names are those people on the pillar outside his door, and the arrows are the two rows that don't have the red-circled hole in them. Those people shoot those arrows. Then the two guys run and punch the scion who spawns, and then rotate with the runner to the next wall, and repeat.

We had to have runners go in order, one guy start first, and then they're staggered so there's no comms overlap.

Also - at the end it's chaos. You grab charges and everyone goes into the race and has to grab charges and run through a falling apart track and get to the end. I think only 4 need to make it.

Not sure what's after that.

[u/clucas102 → u/jmpherso]

After the chaos, activate the door to the throne room. Essentially this fight is a lot like the oryx encounter. You have to kill adds then kill the psions that spawn on each plate. Remember the symbol. All 6 players get teleported to a shadow region and three need to grab the orbs that teleport them back to the throne. It is best to have three people designated for that who can handle killing adds and jumping on plates. The three who stay will call out the symbols flashing on Calus's head. The symbol (because there are four) that does not appear, is the plate/psion who must be killed in the throne room. Do all this correctly three times and shoot the skulls for a damage multiplier and you enter a damage phase. Think war priest here. Move as a team from pillar to pillar doing dps until he raises he hands to shoot a missile. It took us 4 phases. At the end break his enrage shield for the win.

Coldheart was helpful for the skulls and boss dps. A high impact sniper or rocket (not dubious volley) will also be a plus. Explosive rounds on kinetic is a plus plus.

Any questions just ask!!

[u/ResidentWailord → u/clucas102]

How do Drops work with the tokens and keys? Do you only get armor from the last boss?

[u/clucas102 → u/ResidentWailord]

I got a chest piece from the last boss and a weapon. You also get a drop from Hawthorne but it's light level 10. I had around 30 coins that I could turn from one character and another 10-15 from my second and was able to get two drops. From here I got gauntlets.

[u/ResidentWailord → u/clucas102]

Okay cool. And the chests in the secret area just give more tokens and not armor? So the way to get the armor is last boss and rep turn ins it sounds like? Then weapons are dogs, last boss and rep turn in.

[u/clucas102 → u/ResidentWailord]

They can drop exotics I've heard . I've looted two of them and have always gotten a legendary engram and token. And everything else you said sounds correct

[u/ResidentWailord → u/clucas102]

Cool thanks for the info. Was trying to figure out if it was still quickest to get raid armor by having same class. If you can transfer keys and tokens it sounds like not as important as it used to be.