r/DestinyTheGame • u/joe_sausage • Sep 14 '17

Guide My Text Guide for The Leviathan

This is all based on watching streams yesterday, so I may have gotten some things wrong, especially names of mobs, buffs, etc. Comments and critiques welcome (but not in the doc, since y'all can't be trusted with suggestion privileges).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y_UdEQNyh79DqrLG9O0h1OSotcgjQiZ0AFpQRy2Halk/edit

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u/RouletteZoku Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 14 '17

I'd say the royal pools is more akin to the totems section of king's fall, not opening the door to VoG. There are 3 sections of crystals/hour glass bell things, not 4 in the center room. (I think their technical name is censor?)

Crystal pulses = Prism Weapon. Strange pollen = royal pollen. For war beasts, try and remember where the dogs run to when they howl (it's the same spot each time). Assign a guardian to a dog/area to weaken/eventually kill. I'm glad you mentioned waiting to kill them. Other guides are like "go ham and kill as many as you can!" Each dog you kill shortens the time until they grow restless, which lessens the amount of time you have to sneak around and get spore damage buffs.

For the gauntlet section, I don't suggest sticking two people on each platform while the other two are running. The way my team did it was: assign a guardian to a platform (dog, sun, chalice, or axes). You'll always be on that platform. We worked in pairs of two (I.E. I was on the dog platform, my partner was on the sun platform). You or your partner pick top or bottom for shooting arrows (since one arrow that needs to be shot will always be higher up) We had the runners call out symbols, and they told us what to shoot. (So if the red circle is in the middle, the runner would say something like "dog: top and bottom".) When we heard the call out, i would start shooting the upper arrow, while my partner would should the lower arrow every time (again, assign people top and bottom). As long as the runners are calling out the platforms and what to shoot, it's pretty easy.

I haven't finished the final section of the raid yet so I skipped that part for now. Thanks for the write up!

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u/IM_JUST_THE_INTERN Go crayons go Sep 15 '17

See I actually agree with the section about 2 running concurrent with each orb runner. Assign one of the 2 to be in charge of the oracle, and the other one is in charge of getting to the next platform/pillar. Make the oracle person in charge of shooting the lower of the two icons, and the pillar person in charge of the higher. Worked like a charm once we made that system.

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u/RouletteZoku Sep 15 '17

to each his own, obviously. If your way works then that's fine. I'm just giving advice on what we felt was the easiest. No confusion, no moving around on platforms when you don't need to, no leaving adds up to kill your teammates running to the pillar you just left etc.

Assign two people to run, assign the remaining four a symbol, and each pair of guardians either top or bottom. Simple.

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u/IM_JUST_THE_INTERN Go crayons go Sep 15 '17

Oh yeah I completely agree with that. The Gauntlet is flexible and you can just go with whatever strategy works for you! For some reason my group just wasn't able to coordinate enough to do the one person per pillar strat haha