knutaf | Destiny 2: 3-man Taniks pt2 Deep Stone Crypt encounter success (read description too) @knutaf | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Getting to Damage Phase
- Augments being deactivated is a big problem. With all 3 holding an augment, no way to swap between people quickly.
- Can we do the 4-core strat, so we can skip scanner? No, not enough time for 3 people to juggle 3 cores. If the cores sit on the ground too long they explode. The moment a third person picks up a core, nobody can pick up the 4th.
- Can we do with only 2 augments, so someone can always swap for the deactivated one?
- Scanner is needed since we can't guess which bins to bank in.
- Suppressor is needed because the bins aren't bankable otherwise.
- Operator is needed because Taniks' first purple bubble is basically immediately after core dropping is done, well before suppression is possible.
- So we need all 3 augments, and operator needs to be available all the way up until suppression happens, to take care of bubbles.
- Scanner can pick up one of the cores first.
- Suppressor can't pick up the second core because there isn't enough radiation timer for suppressor to pick up a core, casually walk between the three suppression drones, and then go bank.
- Operator needs to start without a core so they can pop the first bubble.
- Taniks always bubbles someone holding a core, or else the person closest to him, so scanner can grab a core first to give the operator a more predictable target.
- Operator needs to be without a core to pop the second bubble, about 5 seconds later.
- So the operator has to pop the first bubble to free the scanner to go bank before their radiation timer, and then pick up the second core.
- The problem is a second bubble shows up just before suppressor can finish suppressing.
- So somewhere *during* suppression, the suppressor needs to take the core away from operator to free them to pop the second bubble.
- And then suppressor needs to activate the third suppression drone.
- The answer is, of course, Anarchy. Suppressor activates first drone, activates second drone with Anarchy, grabs the core from operator on the way to the third drone, and just runs over the third drone while Anarchy continues to do damage to the boss, which finishes suppression. If that sounds fiddly to you, that's because it kind of is. :)
- Now to deal with deactivated augments. The deactivation cooldown timer is 45 seconds, but there isn't enough time to do the core switching, deposit the augment, wait for the cooldown, and then be ready with the augment for the second set of 2 cores. Taniks starts too quickly.
- The answer (which we couldn't quite figure out ourselves) was to have operator and suppressor juggle their core to stretch the suppression until the deactivation timer has 30 seconds or less left. That gives *just* enough time to make it until his next 2 cores start dropping.
- Stretching this way has to be balanced against the radiation timers. It's pretty easy to get the timing wrong and have to bank the core too early, before the deactivation timer is low enough.
Other considerations:
- Core dropping phase is a fixed duration, after which he is suppressable. Try to drop the two cores at the very end of core dropping phase, to allow a few more seconds to leave the cores on the ground while suppression is in progress and therefore lower radiation timer.
Congratulations, it's damage phase!
- Before damage phase starts, make sure to deposit the deactivated augment.
- One Titan bubble placed just before debris shows up, which covers the whole damage phase.
- One person with Well and Divinity, also used a sword to cancel getting blasted out of the DPS area to keep Divinity up quicker.
- Other 2 people using Anarchy + slug shotgun with auto-loading holster, reconstruction, or Hunter reload. 3 shots anarchy, switch to slug and empty the clip. While getting blasted out, reload Anarchy. Once back in, 3 anarchy and empty clip again. Ideally you should have no shotgun ammo left and it should be roughly 1/3 of the boss's health. We needed all 3 DPS phases.
- Before the next core drop starts, pick up previously deactivated augment, clear adds aggressively, and find shotgun ammo. 2x shotgun finder, 2x shotgun scavenger, and shotgun reserves helped. Didn't really need any grenade launcher finders; a little Anarchy goes a long way.
- At final stand, there was enough time for us to do Anarchy + auto rifle damage since we were all out of shotgun ammo.
Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/knutaf
Getting to Damage Phase
- Augments being deactivated is a big problem. With all 3 holding an augment, no way to swap between people quickly.
- Can we do the 4-core strat, so we can skip scanner? No, not enough time for 3 people to juggle 3 cores. If the cores sit on the ground too long they explode. The moment a third person picks up a core, nobody can pick up the 4th.
- Can we do with only 2 augments, so someone can always swap for the deactivated one?
- Scanner is needed since we can't guess which bins to bank in.
- Suppressor is needed because the bins aren't bankable otherwise.
- Operator is needed because Taniks' first purple bubble is basically immediately after core dropping is done, well before suppression is possible.
- So we need all 3 augments, and operator needs to be available all the way up until suppression happens, to take care of bubbles.
- Scanner can pick up one of the cores first.
- Suppressor can't pick up the second core because there isn't enough radiation timer for suppressor to pick up a core, casually walk between the three suppression drones, and then go bank.
- Operator needs to start without a core so they can pop the first bubble.
- Taniks always bubbles someone holding a core, or else the person closest to him, so scanner can grab a core first to give the operator a more predictable target.
- Operator needs to be without a core to pop the second bubble, about 5 seconds later.
- So the operator has to pop the first bubble to free the scanner to go bank before their radiation timer, and then pick up the second core.
- The problem is a second bubble shows up just before suppressor can finish suppressing.
- So somewhere *during* suppression, the suppressor needs to take the core away from operator to free them to pop the second bubble.
- And then suppressor needs to activate the third suppression drone.
- The answer is, of course, Anarchy. Suppressor activates first drone, activates second drone with Anarchy, grabs the core from operator on the way to the third drone, and just runs over the third drone while Anarchy continues to do damage to the boss, which finishes suppression. If that sounds fiddly to you, that's because it kind of is. :)
- Now to deal with deactivated augments. The deactivation cooldown timer is 45 seconds, but there isn't enough time to do the core switching, deposit the augment, wait for the cooldown, and then be ready with the augment for the second set of 2 cores. Taniks starts too quickly.
- The answer (which we couldn't quite figure out ourselves) was to have operator and suppressor juggle their core to stretch the suppression until the deactivation timer has 30 seconds or less left. That gives *just* enough time to make it until his next 2 cores start dropping.
- Stretching this way has to be balanced against the radiation timers. It's pretty easy to get the timing wrong and have to bank the core too early, before the deactivation timer is low enough.
Other considerations:
- Core dropping phase is a fixed duration, after which he is suppressable. Try to drop the two cores at the very end of core dropping phase, to allow a few more seconds to leave the cores on the ground while suppression is in progress and therefore lower radiation timer.
Congratulations, it's damage phase!
- Before damage phase starts, make sure to deposit the deactivated augment.
- One Titan bubble placed just before debris shows up, which covers the whole damage phase.
- One person with Well and Divinity, also used a sword to cancel getting blasted out of the DPS area to keep Divinity up quicker.
- Other 2 people using Anarchy + slug shotgun with auto-loading holster, reconstruction, or Hunter reload. 3 shots anarchy, switch to slug and empty the clip. While getting blasted out, reload Anarchy. Once back in, 3 anarchy and empty clip again. Ideally you should have no shotgun ammo left and it should be roughly 1/3 of the boss's health. We needed all 3 DPS phases.
- Before the next core drop starts, pick up previously deactivated augment, clear adds aggressively, and find shotgun ammo. 2x shotgun finder, 2x shotgun scavenger, and shotgun reserves helped. Didn't really need any grenade launcher finders; a little Anarchy goes a long way.
- At final stand, there was enough time for us to do Anarchy + auto rifle damage since we were all out of shotgun ammo.
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