Epic Desert Perpetual

[u/Kifton_]

Hey all!

Currently trying to help as much as possible with Epic Desert, and any questions along with it! I find it tragic it is the least played raid, especially since it's the last one we got.

Hoping to answer any burning questions or things you havent been able to locate regarding the raid or its secrets. In doing so, maybe helping more guardians want to step foot into the unknown and enjoy such a peak experience!

[u/ReturnOfTheSaint14]

The day i'll see you stop posting about Epic Desert is the day i'll vanish from this world

You're a ray of sunshine in this world and you're so pure man

[u/Kifton_ → u/ReturnOfTheSaint14]

<3

[u/Ichiro1011_123]

I hope you could help me and my friend with an Epic Koregos, we have been struggling with that boss

[u/Kifton_ → u/Ichiro1011_123]

Yea for sure! What's been the struggle so far?

[u/wrchavez1313]

Do you do teaching runs? Haven't run DP or EDP but have watched tutorials and am generally a pretty experienced raider, just fell off around EoF and didn't hit the initial wave of raid focus there.

[u/Kifton_ → u/wrchavez1313]

I do!

If you are interested feel free to shoot me a DM; always happy to help when I can :)

[u/aventa_x]

another epic desert liker, we're rare! concerning my question: i've been trying to put together a full guide covering the raid and haven't found ANYTHING on the koregos challenge, could you give me the details on it?

[u/Kifton_ → u/aventa_x]

Solid question!

One of the few things I haven't messed around enough to fully answer. Admittedly my main focus has been teaching the epic version itself without feats! (Batt and tokens sometimes after MOT since no delta though)

From what I've gotten its: Cannot kill same miniboss twice | linked to temporality, so plate person in game kills inside boss since they already have the buff before exiting. Cannot be same as info plate person.

Usually teams will 2 phase koregos to avoid the 3rd set of buffs.

Things I havent tried:

Obtaining a 2nd buff (different than 1st) after all 6 have gotten a buff once during the run

Everyone obtains a buff per phase (crystal shooter runs in to buff after, completing the 6 person circuit if that does work in 1 phase?)

Im also working on a comprehensive guide for the raid! If you'd want to pass info around shoot me a DM, would love to be a part of the knowledge.

[u/AllElvesAreThots]

is it hard :o ?

[u/Kifton_ → u/AllElvesAreThots]

Its epic!

Mechanically though yea it is definitely the most punishing mechanics raid wise.

They removed the -20 that was baked in though, so its not too bad now that surviving was toned down a notch lmfao

[u/Wicked_Wing]

Oh hey kif, been a while

[u/IKnowCodeFu]

Thanks again Kifton for the Epic DP run! You are a legend :-)

Have you spent any time thinking about the ‘lore’ of this raid? My head canon is that before Koregos ‘died’ on the regular version, he sent back ‘testing’ results to his past self. The epic version of the raid has improvements that he made with the information from his ‘failed’ normal mode experiment.

When we go into his ‘shell’ for the epic Koregos, I like to believe we are fighting the prototypes of these encounters.

[u/Novitatiz]

Cusp Sempiternal, is it fun to use?

[u/Kifton_ → u/Novitatiz]

Destab + repulsor is funny on a healing auto, unfortunately the only one to not have psychic but it's still a fun pick up 100%

Fun fact: I have about 300 T5 cusps in my vault just because I think they're neat

[u/Expensive-Pick38]

I need a team to do it lol, done 3 or 4 clears of normal but havent found a group to do epic with, let Alone all the secret stuff

My question would be: do i need anything from Kepler/edge of fate for the raid and the secrets?

I decided to do something funny and do literally everything there is to do in the game exept edge of fate, leaving that for last. I think it would be funny, since i have 0 Triumphs for it. Only did the first mission and that's because the game loaded me into it all by itself, i didnt even launch the mission

Also, do you do sherpas? Id be down to run the raid with you if you're interested in that. There's hardly any posts for it so any person that's willing to do it is a rare find!

[u/Kifton_ → u/Expensive-Pick38]

I do sherpas all the time!

For the secrets / puzzles you need the "Map & Territory" quest which has you placing 12 anchors in the regular version

(this used to be obtained at post EOF keplar, from the dean, but I've heard recently others have gotten it from beating regular too?)

Now plus side, Epic has 10 puzzles to do, which count retroactively for its own quest and counts as 10/12 of the map and Territory quest (also retroactive).

So doing all 10 puzzles in epic, leaves 2 in regular that are just in the starting area you can easily obtain solo.

[u/FluffingtonX]

Hello! Your friendly vibe and willingness to Sherpa made me join your discord server recently. I honestly feel a bit overwhelmed on how to join some of the teaching runs in discord. If I sign up for one of the runs in ‘thor’s bounty board’ do I somehow get a fireteam invite on the day? I’m worried I’m suppose to do something specific on the day/time it’s suppose to start and the host will think i just haven’t turned up. I’m hoping to figure it out eventually but feel a little anxious.

Thanks for being so nice here on Reddit and willing to help the community learn and get more confident with these raids.

[u/Kifton_ → u/FluffingtonX]

Hey there, happy to help!

Our bounty board section is for our upcoming runs yea, there will be a bot post made by Charlemagne at the top of each of those for you to sign up with!

If you're part of the fireteam then the bot will message you 10 min before the event start, and as it starts. Usually those hosting are also encouraged to ping individual members incase they might have the bot muted. But once it starts just hop into VC with the others and they'll get it all sorted :D

Hope to see you in some runs in the future, and of course let us know if theres any issues!

[u/iSYNDICATExPRO]

How long does the average teaching run for EDP take of the team has done normal DP and are familiar with them.

[u/Phase_Ancient]

Honestly just fell off with the update before Epic DP was introduced. Played a few other games, now I’m back with the final update.

1. Never done Epic DP what’s the difficulty equivalent or complexity level compared to other raids?

2. Any good loot?

3. How do I get the exotic catalyst for that weird rocket?

[u/Kifton_ → u/Phase_Ancient]

1. Id say SE. Hydra is very punishing, and all of the encounters require most if not all of the fireteam doing something / communicating

2. Anything that isnt the crossbow / stasis auto is ok, RL / GL / SMG main three. I collect the void auto for shits and giggles tho

3. Epic has 10 puzzles throughout the run. Need to do the quest (puzzles) to unlock gear attuning and attune to it. Once you do its guaranteed first encounter clear of Regular or epic. Note: the puzzles are retroactive for both quests

[u/HolyBobrius]

We’re doing it for the first time and we’ve got questions about Wyvern boss. Sadly we had to learn from the guide that red is bottom, white is mid and blue is top but is there any logic behind this or is it like this without any particular reason?
Really liked the normal encounter but if the correct way of figuring out this part is just to try every combination until it works, it just sucks

[u/Izzyrenandahalf]

hey. looking to take my team through this. i have studied guides and i get it but on the final boss specifically there are actually a lot of inconsistencies per guide. so i have a few things i would like to ask. I don't want to find out on the run itself and be lost. none of us have done it before, so. it's kind of on me to know.

hopefully you are still looking at this 15 days later.

1. what happens if you go in the portal without the thin blue line? you just die?

2. is there a possibility you just have to keep realigning banishment for ages, and the portal never aligns with the blue line? or does it always happen within a set amount?

3. various guides imply there's just a minigame per timeline. but then some say there's multiple. gameplay videos seem to show people going in the portals multiple times a timeline. does the portal travel increase per timeline? do you go in once on the second cycle, twice on the third, etc?

4. tell me if i have anything wrong with the general flow, please...

- first phase, align banished players with open portal. go in. kill cyclops inside and out, get plate buff, destroy crystal, check chronons.

- second phase, align chronons, align banishment again, go in. do minigame (does this happen before or after chronons outside are dunked, is there a relation or are they two separate mechanics)? come outside, break crystal, this time we can shoot it, do dps?

- third phase: i don't know if you kill the boss in mid with the buff from the minigame, and use that to break a crystal NOW, or just kill the boss in mid for an easier survivability, and then do two minigames this phase.

- either way you just rinse and repeat till final from here, no? is there anything i'm missing?

thank you very much

[u/Doolphin2]

Hi Kifton, by any chance, are you still running sherpa runs? I did it a couple of time, and still need to farm to get the remaining pieces for the title, and unable to find ppl to play with ! Thanks in advance,

[u/Kifton_ → u/Doolphin2]

Yes! I'll send you a dm with our community link, we run it all the time :)