Post by agent on Jan 25, 2015 9:29:22 GMT
A few people I know ran me through the crota encounter on hard last night. They had a very good strategy that I reckon we could make use of in normal and hard. It made the encounter pretty straight forward. It does however require an invisi hunter as sword bearer. An icebreaker or black hammer sniper on tower duty and finally as many ghorns as possible for shield breaks etc. Obviously all 32!
In first area kill all the acolytes then chip the health on the 4 knights down. Then have a golden gun super with 4 shots kill them all (other supers work just as well). This will create 16x orbs. Now the crystal area is safe everyone should equip a piece of armour that heals upon orb pick up (mask of the third man for hunters).
Now the sniper takes up position on the left side a bit back from the doorway. His sole job is to watch the left side tower and to shoot at the knights. You can kill the one closest, but do not kill both or a hard as hell wizard spawns. Take a few shots at the remaining night every now and then. It will stop him shooting at the sword bearer.
The other 5 party members run outside the left door and turn right. Head for the ledge of the crystal room in the centre and stand on that. From here you are safe from everything. Take the sword bearer down quickly. As he is about to die out hunter makes his move to grab it and head to the left side rock. Go invis on there and when ready call for shield break. Sword bearer hits crota with 3* r2 then drops sword for the blink strike to invis trick.
Once crota stands count to three then shield breakers fire rockets. 4-5 should do it depending on ghorn / hunger of crota combo going on. Hunter then goes for another 3*r2 then drops off the platform. Everyone runs back inside to sniper position as crota is about to move to the right.
Once inside equip healing armour again and pick 1-2 orbs up. Once crota starts heading back to centre repeat previous step.
However after this run head to the left tower and into the room below the boomer knights. Jump up onto the doorways and get ready for an ogre to come out of one of the doors. Kill it then get ready to kill the other one as it comes over. Once both ogres are dead wait for crota to head back to the centre then everyone returns to crystal room to heal and calm down / pop ammo synth etc.
Now we wait for crota to move to the right then back to the centre. When he's on his way everyone but sniper head to the ledge. Kill sword bearer, let our sword runner do his thing then bust crotas shield.
After the 3*r2 crota will insta enrage and summon over soul. Ignore it and bust his shield as before. Super samurai hunter then finishes off crota with 3*r2 before over soul kills us.
I will be online tonight if anyone wants to run it in full. The other parts are meant to be easy enough. Crota is the only real issue. But that strat is a nice gentle pace that is safe. There is a way to kill him before ogres but it is insane!
Oh and I got the hand canon!
In first area kill all the acolytes then chip the health on the 4 knights down. Then have a golden gun super with 4 shots kill them all (other supers work just as well). This will create 16x orbs. Now the crystal area is safe everyone should equip a piece of armour that heals upon orb pick up (mask of the third man for hunters).
Now the sniper takes up position on the left side a bit back from the doorway. His sole job is to watch the left side tower and to shoot at the knights. You can kill the one closest, but do not kill both or a hard as hell wizard spawns. Take a few shots at the remaining night every now and then. It will stop him shooting at the sword bearer.
The other 5 party members run outside the left door and turn right. Head for the ledge of the crystal room in the centre and stand on that. From here you are safe from everything. Take the sword bearer down quickly. As he is about to die out hunter makes his move to grab it and head to the left side rock. Go invis on there and when ready call for shield break. Sword bearer hits crota with 3* r2 then drops sword for the blink strike to invis trick.
Once crota stands count to three then shield breakers fire rockets. 4-5 should do it depending on ghorn / hunger of crota combo going on. Hunter then goes for another 3*r2 then drops off the platform. Everyone runs back inside to sniper position as crota is about to move to the right.
Once inside equip healing armour again and pick 1-2 orbs up. Once crota starts heading back to centre repeat previous step.
However after this run head to the left tower and into the room below the boomer knights. Jump up onto the doorways and get ready for an ogre to come out of one of the doors. Kill it then get ready to kill the other one as it comes over. Once both ogres are dead wait for crota to head back to the centre then everyone returns to crystal room to heal and calm down / pop ammo synth etc.
Now we wait for crota to move to the right then back to the centre. When he's on his way everyone but sniper head to the ledge. Kill sword bearer, let our sword runner do his thing then bust crotas shield.
After the 3*r2 crota will insta enrage and summon over soul. Ignore it and bust his shield as before. Super samurai hunter then finishes off crota with 3*r2 before over soul kills us.
I will be online tonight if anyone wants to run it in full. The other parts are meant to be easy enough. Crota is the only real issue. But that strat is a nice gentle pace that is safe. There is a way to kill him before ogres but it is insane!
Oh and I got the hand canon!