I got two really good roll clever dragons so fortunately it doesn't matter that I've never got a grasp lol

lucky you. All i got from my iron banner bounties is 2 snipers and a load of hand cannon.

Hard Mode raid comes out on Tuesday. Thinking about going in blind and trying to figure out the mechanics of the hard mode myself (with my raid group ofc).
Didn't do the normal mode raid blind and I seriously regret it. So I want to try going in blind.

This post was edited by Beacon on Oct 16 2016 09:35pm

I went into normal today for the first time half listening to sleepy on how to do things. It was pretty standard and all the strikes and pve mechanics made it easy.

Yeah, my first run of Wrath of the Machine honestly felt like a carry. Got up to Aksis Phase One, and I felt like I didn't even contribute.
Still picking up on different tactics each time I do it. Like having one person go ahead and clear out the slow time bombs during Zamboni, for example.

Very curious to see what they do for hard mode. Not being able to revive is going to be interesting in itself, let alone extras.

theyre probably just going to ramp up the same mechanics they already have. like vosiks will probably spawn more monitors after each bomb phase, and youll probably get a debuff if you throw a bomb so you cant throw it again for a minute. the siege engine will probably have a shorter time to complete and require that people actually shoot the face plate to extend the timer further. asksis phase 1 will probably introduce the longer debuff as well to encourage people to split roles, or have continuous servitors with more targets on all 3 phases. aksis phase 2 will probably have the debuff preventing you from doing the same role as well, but will likely have the continuous servitor mechanics as well. hes probably going to have boatloads more hp too requiring fireteams to utilize the extra empowered charges to replenish supers on all 3 damage phases to get enough damage in.

challenge mode is probably going to have some combination of these things as well where it will require people to switch roles on the fly to not violate the challenge condition. thats the whole theme of the raid is teamwork but more importantly communication. kings fall as pretty much just assign roles and go at it. this raid is all about switching things up

Thanks again for the run yesterday boo

yea well do it lots more bro cause the hard mode loot table for weapons is completely different

Sweet. Hit 369 today. Need to start just grinding out vanguard and crucible for ranks to get more shiz in the mean time since strikes are basically useless again after 365 :/