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[Rubenov]

"bring GHorns and lots of extra heavy ammo packs" is wrong.

I agree it is, but what's the alternative?

Once we're Lvl 33 or more this will not be an issue

 

[Deku Tree]

I am not wasting my motes on a helmet engram again. That Praxic Fire will be mine one day.

What are you saving your motes to spend on otherwise?

 

[Auto_aim1]

What are you saving your motes to spend on otherwise?

Chest engram duh.

 

[xplicitone]

Stating the obvious but I've found that headshotting boomers (but not necessarily killing them--definitely not killing both) with sniper rifles so they stagger is a good way to keep them at bay when protecting the swordsmith or moving around the map. This is also helpful at the very beginning to prevent the sword knights from rushing into the crystal room.

Yea that's all the team I completed it with did. We just staggered them while swordsman was doing his thing then go back to rocketing.

Rocket -> stagger -> rocket - > stagger - > RUN!

 

[MagnetoWasRight]

Yep

It's the same as cosmo's strategy with a few changes.

1. Bubble with blessing at the crystal

2. Clear trash, make sure everyone is using supers to make a nice reserve of orbs

3. Go to the middle ledge, but do not go out until everyone is ready, heal, heavy synth. Etc. swordbearer does not come out until someone exits the area.

4. 5 people on the swordbearer, sword carrier should jump down and use rockets if required

5. One player on the knights in the left tower, do not shoot them immediately, wait for them to take their positions and then fire, firing early will stagger and fuck up path finding and then you may not see them behind there


6. DPS on Crota, Ghorns all the way, swordbearer does their thing going up the left side rock, we aimed for 3 swords, so you have to be careful you don't do too well (come on Bungie!) in case you leave Crota with too little health and hit the enrage

7. Regroup inside the left area and wait for Crota to move to center, heal up, pop heavy ammo, etc start doing #4-6 just before he goes center, don't wait

8. ogres, rush down to the right tower inside. Have the team jump up above the doors, suppress ogre with a flashbang grenade once he comes out the door. DPS ogre, then be safe and kill the second ogre from that room, a blessing of light bubble is very useful here too

9. Go back to the ledge when safe, ensure Crota is not there, wait if needed

10. If you took too long to kill the ogres then go to the crystal room wait for crota to go to the right then middle again

10. Rinse repeat for the last kneel

Pretty much identical to what we did.

 

[LiK]

Stating the obvious but I've found that headshotting boomers (but not necessarily killing them--definitely not killing both) with sniper rifles so they stagger is a good way to keep them at bay when protecting the swordsmith or moving around the map. This is also helpful at the very beginning to prevent the sword knights from rushing into the crystal room.

shooting Boomers in the chest is fine as well. they were staring at me instead of going after Figs. it also takes off less health so less risk of killing them. they're pretty dumb AI.

 

[xplicitone]

I agree it is, but what's the alternative?

Once we're Lvl 33 or more this will not be an issue

Not really much else at the current state of the game and Crota. Fixes will definitely help that.

 

[Deku Tree]

Chest engram duh.

Only sold a chest engram three times. Week 1, week 2, and then not since week 6. Good luck. You should have a lot of motes by then..

http://www.destinyxur.com

 

[BokehKing]

3 Exotic Helm Engrams

3 Titan Helms

I DONT HAVE A TITAN. COME ON

Time to make one

 

[gdt]

I need 2 helmets. Apthowhatevs Viel and Skull of Ahamkara. All I have left to get. I'll take all the rolls I can and see if I get them.

 

[Dhruv_hanom]

Eris plz

I gave up on Eris long time ago. I'm still 3700 point away from rank 4.
Seriously Eris? I cleaned up your mess and killed Crota which if I may add killed 4 of your fireteam members, turned one into a witch and almost drove you insane.
Then I resurrected him and killed him again and you still want me to do MORE to get that shader -.-

 

[rNilla]

shooting Boomers in the chest is fine as well. they were staring at me instead of going after Figs. it also takes off less health so less risk of killing them. they're pretty dumb AI.

Yeah whatever takes the heat off the swordrunner. Staggering them is useful when we're all running back into the room (and moving to the right tower) though. On our run I hung back and and did this to stop their spam.

 

[noomi]

We will forever go down in history as the guardians who got Crota HM first try. It was actually my first try ever at Crota HM lol. Hadn't played Destiny since tuesday really haha.

I'm uploading a vid as we speak. It cut out the first sword run because I was an idiot and saved the clip too late, but you should get the jist of it.

Grats Jinjo! Glad to hear you guys got through it

 

[patchday]

My Dad started playing Destiny recently and after hitting 20 he is trying to get geared. I told him to spend his Vanguard marks at the vendor to buy legendary gear, but he said all the vendor gear requires the expansion now? Is that right or is he just going to the wrong vendor?

I was able to hit 31 before buying the expansion

(Only purchased Crota recently for Black Hammer / Glasshouse)

 

[BokehKing]

So what is Xur peddling this week?

 

[silver.tongue]

Chest engram duh.

Same. I'm still in search of Praxis.

 

[Homeboyd]

Yep

It's the same as cosmo's strategy with a few changes.

1. Bubble with blessing at the crystal

2. Clear trash, make sure everyone is using supers to make a nice reserve of orbs

3. Go to the middle ledge, but do not go out until everyone is ready, heal, heavy synth. Etc. swordbearer does not come out until someone exits the area.

4. 5 people on the swordbearer, sword carrier should jump down and use rockets if required

5. One player on the knights in the left tower, do not shoot them immediately, wait for them to take their positions and then fire, firing early will stagger and fuck up path finding and then you may not see them behind there


6. DPS on Crota, Ghorns all the way, swordbearer does their thing going up the left side rock, we aimed for 3 swords, so you have to be careful you don't do too well (come on Bungie!) in case you leave Crota with too little health and hit the enrage

7. Regroup inside the left area and wait for Crota to move to center, heal up, pop heavy ammo, etc start doing #4-6 just before he goes center, don't wait

8. ogres, rush down to the right tower inside. Have the team jump up above the doors, suppress ogre with a flashbang grenade once he comes out the door. DPS ogre, then be safe and kill the second ogre from that room, a blessing of light bubble is very useful here too

9. Go back to the ledge when safe, ensure Crota is not there, wait if needed

10. If you took too long to kill the ogres then go to the crystal room wait for crota to go to the right then middle again

10. Rinse repeat for the last kneel

This is exactly what we did minus the ogre strat, but we're using this on our next run. Got him in under 10 min on our 2nd run using this method and that's without a good ogre strat. 3rd time should be faster for sure.

This seems to be the best strat anywhere and worked really well for us.

 

[Deku Tree]

So what is Xur peddling this week?

http://xurday.com

 

[LiK]

Yeah whatever takes the heat off the swordrunner. Staggering them is useful when we're all running back into the room though. On our run I hung back and and did this to stop their spam.

i notice they shoot 4-5 shots at once from each guy. i had to stop as well to avoid the barrage. the most dangerous part of our strategy.

 

[everyday math]

I gave up on Eris long time ago. I'm still 3700 point away from rank 4.
Seriously Eris? I cleaned up your mess and killed Crota which if I may add killed 4 of your fireteam members, turned one into a witch and almost drove you insane.
Then I resurrected him and killed him again and you still want me to do MORE to get that shader -.-

I just want shards ;___;

 

[Auto_aim1]

Only sold a chest engram three times. Week 1, week 2, and then not since week 6. Good luck. You should have a lot of motes by then..

http://www.destinyxur.com

I have like 150 now; will dump everything on the chest engram once he sells it. Will use my Warlock obviously. Praxic Fire will be mine, and if it doesn't, I'm done with this game.

Spoiler

Not really lol

 

[LiK]

I just want shards ;___;

dismantle the dupes

 

[rNilla]

I gave up on Eris long time ago. I'm still 3700 point away from rank 4.
Seriously Eris? I cleaned up your mess and killed Crota which if I may add killed 4 of your fireteam members, turned one into a witch and almost drove you insane.
Then I resurrected him and killed him again and you still want me to do MORE to get that shader -.-

This aspect of Eris is so nonsensical. She even remarks on how you defeated Crota. "THEN HOW ABOUT SOME MORE REP, HUH?"

 

[Johan Liebert]

Did another run uptil Crota. Got shards/energy again. One more chance, need that auto rifle.

 

[Deku Tree]

Oh I almost didn't XurBish my Invective lol. Gotta do that... seems to be the first week Xur is offering it... and the last exotic weapon for Xur to offer for upgrade too. Not like I use it.

 

[bitsurugi]

Anyone going HM Crota in the next few hours?

I'm available and with regenerated energies for the 3rd kill this week.

 

[everyday math]

dismantle the dupes

I already dismantled my old arms for my new ones. Not dismantling my old chest piece yet. Since it's fully upgraded. So once I get 14 more shards I'll be lvl 32.

 

[Dazzler]

what a shitty Xur week

Just the helm engrams x3 for me later once I'm home

 

[Jinjo]

Grats Jinjo! Glad to hear you guys got through it

Thanks man! I was really fearful of going up against Crota on hard, but we had an excellent fireteam and Dhruv briefed us exceptionally well on the strategy beforehand. Like clockwork.

Something went wrong with the vidupload, trying again.

 

[lt519]

Whats the weekend special for crucible? Please tell me it's salvage

 

[Dhruv_hanom]

i notice they shoot 4-5 shots at once from each guy. i had to stop as well to avoid the barrage. the most dangerous part of our strategy.

Their fire rate is a little too high. I don't expect a gun firing projectiles of that size to fire so quickly. Then again "space magic".

 

[Darryl M R]

Anyone doing some HM Crota kills? I want to knock his ass out.

 

[CouchMaster]

Our earlier Crota HM run with Druv, Steroyd and others, just under 9 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8kCziHrbuw

 

[patchday]

Whats the weekend special for crucible? Please tell me it's salvage

I wish it were Expansion - Clash. Tired of Control all the time. Love the new maps. But Control wears me down

 

[LiK]

Their fire rate is a little too high. I don't expect a gun firing projectiles of that size should fire so quickly. Then again "space magic".

yea, they're the Hobgoblins of CE. so annoying. Knights are a pain but the Boomers probably killed us the most in our runs in HM.

 

[Kor of Memory]

Also, can I be added to the Become Legend? I posted this a few weeks ago and I guess it never got added.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146745974&postcount=14614

Done

 

[Omni]

So hard to find a team to do the Crota raid with if you don't have a jellyhorn. It's kinda ridiculous. Hunger of Crota is more than adequate enough to take down Crota. Bleh

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Didn't notice the new OT. I promise this is the last time I will post this LOL from Reddit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=Ylw8HxPKPY8

This sums up Destiny for me. Late nights with my friends overcoming what the game throws at us. The feeling of relief after killing Aetheon/Crota for the first time is akin to gaming nirvana.

 

[LiK]

So hard to find a team to do the Crota raid with if you don't have a jellyhorn. It's kinda ridiculous. Hunger of Crota is more than adequate enough to take down Crota. Bleh

why don't you join a group here instead of LolFG?

 

[WipedOut]

Any xBoners getting a Crota team together tonight?

 

[dB Viper]

Time to make one

But dat grind doe.

 

[silver.tongue]

Done

Me too Kor!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=147717701&highlight=#post147717701

 

[GalacticToast]

Anyone want to start a group to try and take down Crota?

1. cloud945076 (32Hunter/Warlock)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

 

[Karl2177]

Done

Thanks!

 

[Manp]

I gave up on Eris long time ago. I'm still 3700 point away from rank 4.
Seriously Eris? I cleaned up your mess and killed Crota which if I may add killed 4 of your fireteam members, turned one into a witch and almost drove you insane.
Then I resurrected him and killed him again and you still want me to do MORE to get that shader -.-

jesus man, i can't believe you've not hit lvl 4 eris yet. you're like, don't know, one of gaf's destiny mvp in my eyes

 

[LTWood12]

Anyone want to start a group to try and take down Crota?

1. cloud945076 (32Hunter/Warlock)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Wish i were home to try it with you Cloud. you're a wizard when it comes to staying alive.

 

[2real4tv]

Anyone going HM Crota in the next few hours?

I'm available and with regenerated energies for the 3rd kill this week.

join on me doing deathsinger part hurry up though
bigmanny287

 

[everyday math]

Didn't notice the new OT. I promise this is the last time I will post this LOL from Reddit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=Ylw8HxPKPY8

This sums up Destiny for me. Late nights with my friends overcoming what the game throws at us. The feeling of relief after killing Aetheon/Crota for the first time is akin to gaming nirvana.

Awesome video.

 

[PrivateWHudson]

Yea that's all the team I completed it with did. We just staggered them while swordsman was doing his thing then go back to rocketing.

Rocket -> stagger -> rocket - > stagger - > RUN!

I hate it when one of the dps guys tries to come in with a sniper shot. Staggers him left, when I'm aiming right and fucks up my white nail. Just leave the boomers alone and go back to your ghorn.

 

[lunlunqq]

I need 2 helmets. Apthowhatevs Viel and Skull of Ahamkara. All I have left to get. I'll take all the rolls I can and see if I get them.

I hwve all the exotic armor pieces for all 3 claases except for one hunter helmet ( the new dlc one). I spent 150 motes this morning. I stil dont have it.