Welcome to the world's longest, and probably most boring to watch, Solo GM The Lightblade. I got inspiration from the video @Chablo91 posted yesterday ( ua-cam.com/video/zQ_1l4dYIB4/v-deo.html ), showing that we can now load into GMs with a -99 handicap. The GM enemies are at 2050, and the lowest possible power you can go in with is 1951 where you're still able to deal damage. Previously you'd be only able to load in with a max of -40, so I'm not too sure if it was TFS or this season that allowed for higher handicaps. Either way, considering I'd previously done other max handicaps, 0 resilience and 0 mod runs before, it was fitting to do the -99 run. A couple of things about this run: First, surprisingly you can actually take at least two hits from many of the attacks. I was expecting everything to be a 1 hit at -99, but the majority of the attacks you'll survive at least one hit. Second, I skipped the majority of the champions. As you probably tell from the beginning, it takes at least 1-2 minutes to defeat a single barrier champion, and that's making use of multiple Anarchy shots. I knew on the boss fight itself it was going to be pretty unrealistic to be able to focus on a champion for that long to be able to clear them out for platinum without taking splash damage back, so I opted to skip the majority of them in the beginning to save some more time. Even if I had infinite anarchy ammo I still feel like it'd be unrealistic for this specific GM. Third, I used pretty much every cheese or skip imaginable. The damage you deal at -99 is pretty much pitiful, and again in this strike specifically the boss fight would be a nightmare to do legit at this much of a handicap. While it's entirely possible, there's far too many inconsistencies at this handicap, and it'd make the run even longer than it already is. Fourth, this strike is both very good for the -99 handicap run, but also very bad. Solely for a completion, a majority of the strike can be either skipped or cheesed. But the Hive Guardians are a menace to deal with during the boss, especially so before the final phase. If not for those it'd obviously be very easy to do. I do think there's other strikes in the line up that will be possible to do platinum at -99, but for a single completion and ignoring champions, this one isn't too bad either. Lastly, this isn't a "true" -99 handicap, as two of the weapons are still 2010. I think if scaling is still as it was before, it means they're doing more damage than they otherwise would if everything is at -99, but the damage taken is as it should be. I think the damage I deal is bad enough as it is, so I don't think that should be too much of a problem. But it's pretty much impossible to get an exact set of everything at 1951 (or 1937 considering the +14 artifact). Maybe customisable difficulty will allow for "true" runs like this. Anyway, all of that being said, it's obviously not all that impressive or difficult considering the approach. It's mostly just a test of patience, having a gear set that allows you to get to 1951, and not getting too greedy. This attempt was unfortunately by far the worst entrance area I've done, about 5 minutes slower than usual. And I also sped up a few sections where I was just doing nothing but firing the scout rifle endlessly, to make it less tedious to watch.
They really have fallen from grace. Even in year 4 GMs could be a little scary since you still took a ton of damage (and season 16 by extension, in which the best example of this was OG lightblade). Resilience change and the power creep of subclass 3.0 and better weaponry over time has contributed to GM difficulty decaying substantially. Hoping in frontiers things get shaken up a bit :)
The first time we got The Corrupted as a GM was rough, all 3 of us standing in the back with Wish Ender plick-plonking until it was safe to move. These days it's a speedrun challenge more than anything, same goes for most other activities in the game currently.
It is because he takes his time and uses cover. Most Destiny 2 players fail or hate certain content because they want to rush through it, not realizing how scaling works. I have watched many videos from this Brother, especially his soul series. It's improved my game a lot. Everyone wants to one-shot or one-phase everything, and that's why you fail or hate specific GM. Players don't use the characters or their abilities correctly. No one communicates
@@Kotoknow yeah on the one hand, there's a lot of takeaways you can get from watching eso play and learn more about top level movement, but on the other, it feels like this is massively downplaying his skill or at least in this case his patience
@@w.clouds It's not glazing when you're just stating facts. Glazing typically means when people make stuff up to make someone appear better/more impressive than they actually are
this is what shaw han's fireteam musta felt like in the cosmodrome edit: omg the LB disciples in the final encounter were so confused :) they had no idea what to do
Ok now you're just flexing. This is absolutely deranged behaviour. Soloing a NF this hard with this high a power defecit? Madness. Craziest part is that the first room and both boss immune phases took the longest. Meanwhile you can apparently cheese Alak-Hul into a corner and make him harmless. Utterly mental stuff right here.
Welcome to the world's longest, and probably most boring to watch, Solo GM The Lightblade. I got inspiration from the video @Chablo91 posted yesterday ( ua-cam.com/video/zQ_1l4dYIB4/v-deo.html ), showing that we can now load into GMs with a -99 handicap. The GM enemies are at 2050, and the lowest possible power you can go in with is 1951 where you're still able to deal damage. Previously you'd be only able to load in with a max of -40, so I'm not too sure if it was TFS or this season that allowed for higher handicaps. Either way, considering I'd previously done other max handicaps, 0 resilience and 0 mod runs before, it was fitting to do the -99 run.
A couple of things about this run:
First, surprisingly you can actually take at least two hits from many of the attacks. I was expecting everything to be a 1 hit at -99, but the majority of the attacks you'll survive at least one hit.
Second, I skipped the majority of the champions. As you probably tell from the beginning, it takes at least 1-2 minutes to defeat a single barrier champion, and that's making use of multiple Anarchy shots. I knew on the boss fight itself it was going to be pretty unrealistic to be able to focus on a champion for that long to be able to clear them out for platinum without taking splash damage back, so I opted to skip the majority of them in the beginning to save some more time. Even if I had infinite anarchy ammo I still feel like it'd be unrealistic for this specific GM.
Third, I used pretty much every cheese or skip imaginable. The damage you deal at -99 is pretty much pitiful, and again in this strike specifically the boss fight would be a nightmare to do legit at this much of a handicap. While it's entirely possible, there's far too many inconsistencies at this handicap, and it'd make the run even longer than it already is.
Fourth, this strike is both very good for the -99 handicap run, but also very bad. Solely for a completion, a majority of the strike can be either skipped or cheesed. But the Hive Guardians are a menace to deal with during the boss, especially so before the final phase. If not for those it'd obviously be very easy to do. I do think there's other strikes in the line up that will be possible to do platinum at -99, but for a single completion and ignoring champions, this one isn't too bad either.
Lastly, this isn't a "true" -99 handicap, as two of the weapons are still 2010. I think if scaling is still as it was before, it means they're doing more damage than they otherwise would if everything is at -99, but the damage taken is as it should be. I think the damage I deal is bad enough as it is, so I don't think that should be too much of a problem. But it's pretty much impossible to get an exact set of everything at 1951 (or 1937 considering the +14 artifact). Maybe customisable difficulty will allow for "true" runs like this.
Anyway, all of that being said, it's obviously not all that impressive or difficult considering the approach. It's mostly just a test of patience, having a gear set that allows you to get to 1951, and not getting too greedy. This attempt was unfortunately by far the worst entrance area I've done, about 5 minutes slower than usual. And I also sped up a few sections where I was just doing nothing but firing the scout rifle endlessly, to make it less tedious to watch.
Eso what happens at 1950 power?
You ain't wrong tho
@@rickydoesstuffenemies are immune
theres no way he actually did it. someone made a video about this earlier saying why nobody has done this…and this lunatic actually did it😭
"Chablo 91"
Yo pretty bad ass
@@EpicJonC the legend didn't think he had an adoring fan 😂
Yes I watched that video this is pretty unreal
Great choice of words to describe him, lunatic is right 😅
D2 vets using this video to explain how GM’s felt back in the day 🙏
They really have fallen from grace. Even in year 4 GMs could be a little scary since you still took a ton of damage (and season 16 by extension, in which the best example of this was OG lightblade).
Resilience change and the power creep of subclass 3.0 and better weaponry over time has contributed to GM difficulty decaying substantially. Hoping in frontiers things get shaken up a bit :)
The first time we got The Corrupted as a GM was rough, all 3 of us standing in the back with Wish Ender plick-plonking until it was safe to move. These days it's a speedrun challenge more than anything, same goes for most other activities in the game currently.
Here's the man of the hour GG man incredible will be watching today. Thanks for the mention sir :)
Pples champ 👊🏿👊🏿
It is because he takes his time and uses cover. Most Destiny 2 players fail or hate certain content because they want to rush through it, not realizing how scaling works. I have watched many videos from this Brother, especially his soul series. It's improved my game a lot. Everyone wants to one-shot or one-phase everything, and that's why you fail or hate specific GM. Players don't use the characters or their abilities correctly. No one communicates
This is next level cope
@@CPWS_The_Stingray yes and no
@@Kotoknow yeah on the one hand, there's a lot of takeaways you can get from watching eso play and learn more about top level movement, but on the other, it feels like this is massively downplaying his skill or at least in this case his patience
Yeah man it just so happens that none of the knights spam their shields on him. Totally
@@CPWS_The_StingrayYou're coping for the fact we're not supposed to one shot end game content
What next? 'Solo Grandmaster Power Level 0, Only Starting White Gear.... While Blindfolded and Being Chased by Homicidal Clowns...on an Apple II'
At some power level, you won't even deal damage, maybe -100
Chablo put up a video yesterday talking about this. One day later it’s done. 😮
Bro's playing Destiny 2 as a civilian ain't no way
Holy i wasn't expecting anyone to do it so fast I just saw chablos video just yesterday 🤣🤣🤣
This is what my average gm run feels like ngl
You sir are a sick individual!
Absolute madlad!
genuinely insane i can’t believe this
Lol, you said you wouldn't do it!
Love you Chablo! Long time subscriber and watcher of all your vids.
absolute legend bruv
Great job as always. This video just highlights how poor scout rifles feel in the current sandbox..
No words just cool bro
This guy deserves 2M subscribers
YES!! THE GUNDAM RIFLE!!
Kinetic tremors ftw
I have a hard time completing a normal grandmaster and this man is just doing it solo while being handicapped
@@Bananalorian glaze
@w.clouds how is that glazing? That's exactly what happened
@ how is it not glazing i mean
@@w.clouds
It's not glazing when you're just stating facts. Glazing typically means when people make stuff up to make someone appear better/more impressive than they actually are
The boss pedicure strat got me rolling ngl :)))
INSPIRING AF!!!!!
omg that hiding spot at the end hahah shooting his feet
When Esoterickk writes a spelling mistake, the dictionary corrects itself.
Eso- '" i see your feets "
godlike
There’s a actual cheese spot for the boss 😮😮😮😮
In the description this is the lowest power level you can still do damage, what happens at 1950?
the enemies become immune
@ ah ok
Simple tu eres el Destiny
babe wake up, esoterickk uploaded.
It isn't election day, it's Esoterickk day. Dude is a Destiny 2 legend
This is how I felt trying to do A Garden World...
I'm looking forward to customizable difficulty as well. Should make for some very interesting challenge runs.
Does Alak-Hul have toes? Well, if he did, he surely doesn't now.
Do not underestimate the person who ran a strike with no damage.... all hail a gaming god
Is that the mercurial
@@gotahavesomeMacabre I think
@RandomZen411 yea thats it
Gaming god lmfao
First of all this gamer is more than that so yes god...😂❤
bro's just flexing now
tf, so much free time man.
He heard the call..
ESO on another level when it comes too grandmasters
This is the Esoterickk I’m bored video
Man be telling me "skill issue" with every language 😭😭
yeah bro is the best d2 player
Bro must be so damn bored waiting for episode two to drop😭
Wow....😂😅😂 you are the man.
The sped up sections made me laugh so hard idk why.
this is what shaw han's fireteam musta felt like in the cosmodrome
edit: omg the LB disciples in the final encounter were so confused :) they had no idea what to do
Bro is so good he had to nerf himself
I understand that hes 99 below the enemy but that scout damage is sad to see
Why not rewind rounds on the scout? + shieldbreak weapon mod you can shoot it forever
You think it’s possible on all classes?
Challenge accepted!
Every blueberries dream
Should we call it UNDER-light blade
What is your sensitivity?
"Grandmasters should be watchable" - Bungie
Strange thing i just noticed: why do all the recent GMs have “The Ordeal” in their name at the end? What does that mean?
Protracted or Horrific
My god your a mad man lmao 😂
was it hard to find gear with a power level that low?
"Hunters suck" mean while Eso
this shows that LFG dont need to kick low power lvl ppl. Just slow and steady and have a decent build :) Great video btw! Keep it up man!!
Doing something that lasts 30 minutes max in 1 hour is just insane time waste
I don't kick people in lfgs, but you really should have at least 2010 light if you wanna do gms
Solo run is not exactly the same as a three man lfg. The game does upscale for the amount of gaurdians.
This me in patrols 😭
why do you do this to yourself?
Their needs to be a difficulty called esorerckk lol
I feel bad now
You probably could of saved 20 minutes with wish ender
next time try a no aspects run, that's difficult.
Do it again I blinked.
Ok now you're just flexing. This is absolutely deranged behaviour. Soloing a NF this hard with this high a power defecit? Madness.
Craziest part is that the first room and both boss immune phases took the longest. Meanwhile you can apparently cheese Alak-Hul into a corner and make him harmless. Utterly mental stuff right here.
Nah that's crazy
Huh, like seriously. How the hell is this possible
Ain’t no way bro 😅
this man .. IS NOT NORMAL 😭 BRO WTF YOU MEAN -99????
NO EFFING WAY
Eso forgot to add 0 power horror's least
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Bro is lore accurate 😭 (Dear Mr. Esoterickk, will you be my friend?)
You need to calm down. I haven't even done it on regular gm yet.
Bruh 😤
Ok
I will still complain about this gm being too hard…
Ggs though
Eso IS the Guardian wtf
Dude is just doing side quests at this point
Destiny
This is one of the most boring strikes ever 😂 More power to you because I wouldn’t have the patience or skill to do it
dude... whats wrong with you.... in a good way
as if the gane isn't hard enough
this was indeed the most boring gameplay of all time lol
Wtf
2030 - 1951 = 79
i can't wait to see the eso glaze.
Why do you hate eso so much
@ he's my opp
@w.clouds… you argue with people in comment sections on your own videos and have like 26 subs. Nobody is your “opp”
@@josephsmith2417 you realize those people say shit to me. why does my channel matter i post for fucks and giggles.
@@rickydoesstuff how is that hate? He's speaking facts
Well, 1951 - 2030 = -79 actually🤓👆
It's 2050.
Without killing all the champions, and invisible how boring. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz