Feel free to leave your own tips and advice for other players in this comment thread. I'm sure you guys have tons of different loadouts and strategies that you've used to make this dungeon much easier than I made it on myself.
You can swap the weapon mods on your special weapon from major spec to boss spec while you are falling into the damage room. You can then swap it back after damage is done.
In the cube room after dunking the mote, you can wait around and acolytes will still spawn on their timer if you need ammo for the next room. This also applies to the rooms before the final boss DPS. You can dunk the 3rd mote, kill the ogre, and if you need ammo, wait for a psion wave or two. (you can also use this time to take a breather and mentally prep for DPS or the next cube room)
Here’s my easy mode guide, obviously gonna talk about exotics and some raid exotics. If you wanna make the first boss a cakewalk, use trinity ghoul. It will wipe out each group is psions in one shot. Bonus points for using the catalyst. Add dark drinkers as well for boss DPS and your golden. Any kinetic special you like will get the job down for knights, but I used MT. A shotty will do work too. For the wasteland I recommend either xeno or anarchy for the blights you clear them nice and quick. Put on a long range weapon for hobs. Second encounter riskrunner is amazing and with a sniper you’ll breeze through it. Final boss I would use anarchy and MT of a sniper. A primary with HCR will stun psions so that will be nifty for clearing. Take your time and you will get it done in no time!
Yea I had witherhoard, recluse, and falling guillotine at 1060 power on hunter but now that I see that warlocks literally bypass the phalanx shield I’m definitely gonna attempt it on that class now
HOT TIP: It is true that detonating a mote will cause you to lose all forward momentum, but that ONLY happens if you are physically holding the W key or forward on your controller. IF you jump forward and release the W key just before you detonate, your momentum WILL carry you forward. This is a HUGE HELP in basically every encounter.
IMPORTANT TIPS BELOW THIS BTW Personally as a titan main, I would say it's the hardest since warlocks have devour (it's so op, imo use it in the first encounter) and hunters have invis which can help you out a lot since each encounter has barely any safe room Tips: barrier mods give 20% reduction, hive barrier procs on taken knights so having taken + hive barrier gives 40% damage reduction Riskrunner is VERY good here, damage reduction + no reload, VERY good for devour You can get riskrunner from a new light quest You can get taken barrier from last wish chests (can do bonus chests solo, guides on youtube) You are garenteed a hive/levi mod you DON'T have in heroic menagerie, it is quite easy with an lfg group, do this until you unlock hive barrier Major resist also helps with damage reduction but focus recovery first On legendary guns, use taken spec to deal more damage to enemies which DOES help in a pinch and all of the enemies here are taken so you don't need minor/major/boss specc Encounter tips: first encounter, immediately run behind a wall and try to keep on the move, if there is too much fire than you may get stuck in a bad situation Second encounter, not sure if datto mentioned this but hobgoblins and knights are linked together, if you kill a hobgoblin, a knight will spawn, if you kill a knight, a hobgoblin will spawn, from the runs I have done they have similar spawn patterns so they can be very predictable, knights are easier to deal with than hobo gobos as most of the time you are 2 shot from the hobgoblins (also in the final room, the hole in the floor has no death barrier, don't ask why I know this but can be handy in a pinch) Third encounter tip 1: you NEED to get one plate down as fast as you can, using riskrunner you can get the psions down really quickly so you can focus the knights while having damage reduction, once you have got one corner down, the fight is significantly easier Tip 2: you don't have to stand on the plate to dunk the motes, if you huddle by the wall where the beam is, the walls closest to the boss, you can dunk the motes from there, sure the boss can still hit you but you are mostly safe from the other ads Tip 3 (boss damage phase): FOCUS THE HOBGOBLINS, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, solo flawless is NOT a speedrun, it is a fight about attrition, you need to prioritise your safety over extra damage, having that little chunk of boss health lower down means nothing if you die and have to restart the entire dungeon (also make sure to remember dark entrophy, always stay inside the boss' ring) This was an extremely long comment, I hope I have managed to help someone at least, i doubt this will get traction but if anyone reading this has any questions whatsoever, I will answer them to the best of my abilities Good luck guardian. You will need it.
@@sir_gort ah, I posted this to reddit too and changed it there but forgot to change it here, also i didn't know how much it increases the damage so thanks, thats good to know
Good tips man. Tbh though im excited for the barrier mods to go away come Beyond Light. I find they turn things into a joke. I tried this dungeon without them and struggled but eventually got it done then tried again with barrier mods and it was actually a cake walk and only rarely felt threatened. Maybe im crazy but i much perfer the thrill of not having them haha
As someone who doesn't have mountaintop, a poorly rolled Militia's Birthright saved my flawless run because of 'blinding grenades.' Firing it even near a mob stuns them for quite a few crucial seconds keeping you alive, I would just fire them at the knights and stun them while clearing the psions. You can also stunlock the knights and ogres with it. Wendigo does the same job as well, this coupled with riskrunner really keeps you alive at the end.
pretty sure its not rolled at all, its just the standard role from the end of the quest for the pyramid ships on titan io mercury + mars. static role for everyone who completes the questline
This is why I love Datto: he keeps things super REAL with you; he doesn't expect you to be an elitist, but rather takes the time to explain everything! So, MAD props to him for taking his time to do that with his audience. 👏
For the first encounter witherhoard is amazing as you can hit 2 knights directly and hide away and 1060 one direct hit kills. In wasteland and cube xeno 3 shots both knights and blights and one shots hobgoblins. I know these tips break some rules but everyone has WH and if you can solo this you can solo xeno
Skip the first encounter, use devour or defensive strike, use risk runner to stay alive, xeno to take down blights, do the double banking glitch (jump up very high when you have max motes and bank when you are in the middle of the two pillars you need to cleanse), get on top of the cube because nothing can hit you there, don’t use a sparrow, use a sniper and walk down ribbon road, use icarus dash and a sword, shoulder charge is good too, cleanse one side and take down snipers before killing the boss. You can go through the tunnel many many times, staying alive is more important. Good luck.
I highly, HIGHLY recommend Witherhoard for anyone who doesn’t have anarchy. It has very good ad clear, very good dps, 1 shots knights (at proper levels) and since it takes a while to kill a knight, you can blight them, move to light/dark, then pick up their motes. It’s also very good for the kell echo, as you can kill hobgoblins while passively doing damage .
On my flawless run I ran Well the entire time and saved the well on the final boss for when she goes to the stairs. I went behind to where you would step on the portal to go back to the big room. There are 2 of those small pillars there. I placed well right up against the right pillar when you are facing back where you came in the platform room. and just peeked and shot. I had MT and Anarchy and if I had a perfect damage phase I could have got half health off in one phase. If you are using a GL you might be able to get some good damage off at the end doing this. It works with bubble too. If you are using it in a season with oppressive darkness then throw a nade at the start of the phase for some nice DPS boost, then save nade for the stairs. Throw the nade to get the debuff then cast bubble behind one of the pillars and you get another nade on super cast. You get a great debuff and buff and can really hammer her health down. It should be long enough to unload everything on a heavy GL. I waited till I got by super back before going in. Another tip is dont stand behind those pillars on the platform. Ive been teleported behind them so often. Bait out the first throw and jump to the left platform. Then wait for next portal and jump to the right platform. A hobgoblin spawns on the one right in front of that next. Try to spawn kill the hobgoblins. As you are back loading the damage you can afford to prioritize the snipers. learn the spawn and try to take at least one out as it spawns. before she does the last 2 teleports, being the closest platform and stairs, I was already in the back stairs having killed the 2 snipers there. When she teleports to the closest platform I was using the left side, the side that she is, on the stairs to peek and shoot. You are just within the radius for the dark entropy to not build. When she teleports to the stairs do what I suggested earlier. for the final room the first side you are on, to the left near the monument, there is a long pillar with a circle cut out. I started the phases here. A knight spawns close to it and you have easy access to both light and dark, and because its long you can hide from the bosses shooting. Just be careful of adds. Try to get rid of one of those bosses that would have an angle and after that should be much more manageable. Riskrunner in cube room and first boss is great. Damage reduction and it chains and stuns enemies. Easy to kill the adds that will multiply over time. I believe in all areas its 3 sets of 3 adds that spawn. After cleansing, and before going through a portal, more adds spawn, the same number, so if you want to farm ammo or super you can just kill them. This works in both cube room and final room. Takes a min or 2 for them to respawn after you killed the first wave.
Here's a tip for the Hexahedron aka cube encounter. If you need to bank dark motes then I highly recommend scaling the pillars and getting as high up in the room as possible. Every location you stand above the cube is in the dark and being able to look down upon every enemy at a distance means you can kill them so much easier than on the ground. Edit: If you want this to work you have to check where you need to dunk your motes at and get to the top of the room as soon as possible. If you're too slow at jumping then the hobgoblins will just snipe you before you make it up top. Also if you have Xenophage then it helps a ton for killing knights and snipers.
WIther is such a great addition to the game. Now unlucky people and not-many-friends people can do good dps. (also anarchy is a heavy so you cant anarchy sword but wither can.)
He sounds like an unwilling raid sherpa who is pissed that they have to explain the mechanics for the 100th time in every single video. Literally his default tone.
Don’t even play the game, but I watch because Datto is so informative and it’s cool hearing him talk about something he/the community likes/wants. Great job and keep it up.
Not going to lie, I found devour a much better bet for the whole of the dungeon than well. You need to be more aggressive than if you were running well, but the number of adds means that you can almost always have devour up, and the grenade regen from kills with devour active just help even more. In the hexahedron encounter, the only time I didn't have devour running was when I moved from one room to another, and I always had a grenade to eat to refresh devour. The super also does great damage on the boss if you fire it when you first drop-in. I also heavily recommend Xenophage. If you are attempting this dungeon solo flawless, you should be good enough to find an lfg to run the quest. It is the best weapon for the Hexahedron encounter, killing Hobgoblins in one hit and Knights in three if you are at least 1060.
I finally completed this solo (not flawless yet) on devour lock, using all meta weapons. I found a subsistence-rampage Gnawing Hunger with taken spec to be really really effective in taking out the psions. With rampage procced, it did some work on the knights as well. It cannot be overstated how much taken barrier (and hive barrier b/c it stacks against the knights) helps with survivability. This actually gave me confidence to attempt Shattered Throne solo-flawless, as I never attempted that.
I would like to add some tips as well from my experience. It helps save a lot of time skipping the first mote collection phase, you can find guides online. The general idea here is using sword swings and well timed jumps to get up a hole near the initial spawn. This bypasses the first mote collection phase and brings you straight to the Phalanx boss. In the wasteland section after the first encounter, all you have to do is destroy each of the three blights for three sets of spawns. The snipers should be your priority, they hit pretty hard. After you destroy the blights, remember to run by Toland to start spawning the next set. For the cube encounter, Xenophage is really good here. Killing the snipers procs the knights to spawn and vice versa. The snipers will be the biggest threat. Remember you can use your melee button to move forward while carrying a stack of motes to move a bit faster. Also you can run on and off the middle plate after you have cleansed and hide in a corner. You will still be teleported and it saves you in case the entire room is shooting at you. Anarchy is amazing for the final boss. If you are a warlock, Contraverse Hold is also really good here as you can keep Oppressive Darkness on him each time he teleports. For the cleansing phase, getting one corner cleansed as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no cover.
First i'd like to say you are extremely gifted with your instructional videos and how you break things down. Second, does anyone remember when you actually had to read the 1,000 plus page strategy guides that came out for RPG games?? I think i like this a bit more lol!! Thanks for another awesome video.
For the first boss, on warlock, 100% use well. For the rest of the dungeon, i found devour to be just THE BEST, because if you have high discipline, you will almost always have your grenade, which is a get-out-of-jail-for-free-lmao-you-cant-kill-me-card
I was about to say, High Discipline makes sense. But the first time I tried Devour in the Kell fight I got slaughtered in under a minute. Of my 3 1/2 hour grind on the Kell i’ve made it to damage phase i think...2 times? Seriously about ready to pay someone to do this for me, the 2 1/2 days I spent on the Phalanx alone was excruciating enough.
Here's a note on why Well works through the phalanx shield as well as a few other enemy mechanics. It counts as being in a super, and supers generally bypass certain shield or immunity mechanics. This includes both phalanx and taken phalanx shields being bypassed be melees and swords, being able to melee and sword Hobgoblins through their solar barrier, and damaging enemies through taken goblin shields projections. Unfortunately, bubble does not provide these kinds of benefits, but you do get a better damage boost, and the ability to walk around with the buff if need be. Also an overshield if you choose to wear the Helm of Saint 14 like me.
Another cool thing i found about well is that whatever weapon youre using to get kills while inside it counts as that element of ability damage. I found it while playing around with tyrants surge last season and idk if it would still be useful for anything but its still an interesting little tidbit
I did it with nezeracs and it was daunting to say the least. I wasnt in the red a lot but thats because devour procced like, every encounter (as well as being aware of smaller enemies and managing the mob density) devour is super OP for this, but also took some finesse.
For the motes, the tip i can suggest is if there is still ads present just pick about 2/3 of it and leave the last one, this will give you time to clear ads and when the last mote starts to blink pick it up and it should reset your mote timer. Another tip is if you have any grenade launcher with blinding effect it can save you in tough situations, it may not deal alot of damage unlike snipers but it can provide a brief moment of recovery for you and doing splash damage to nearby enemy is not bad.
Yes this solo flawless is WAY harder than Shattered Throne or Pit Of Heresy. Thank you Bungie for this sort of content, it takes me back to those solo Legendary campaign runs on Halo 2. I've approached this solo run in pieces. Master a part, then move on to putting everything together. I'm attempting this with a devour warlock and Sin. First boss: Izanagi's Burden, Gnawing Hunger with subsistance and demolitionist and god rolled falling guillotine. Taken specs and mods in whatever can hold it. Well of radiance, relying on my GH and sin to refresh the grenade for panic moments. One shot the Knights, clear the psions, dunk. Then well to one phase the boss. Hexahedron: Whispering slab with sympathetic arsenal, my GH and Xenophage. This time running devour with everything else the same. The way I go about this is always have two knights, I can easily hide from the knights while dunking, whereas the two snipers will always have an angle on me. At every rotation, I start by using devour, one shotting the snipers with Xeno, do some acolyte cleaning then dispatch the two knights as quickly as possible, take the motes from one knight, kill the snipers again, collect the motes from the other knight then dunk. More often than not I can safely dunk while the knights are spawning. I usually stay for a while longer to replenish ammo. I use the bow to kill the acolytes, that way my Xeno is always ready to dispatch snipers and knights, I throw a grenade here and there to get heavy ammo back. It's the safest, most effective strategy I've used for this part. Kell Echo: this one has been a tough one, it's an attrition battle. The least amount of phases I've managed to kill the boss is in 4 phases, I'm working on lowering to 3, but I have to get many things right. For this, Whiterhoard, my trusty Gnawing Hunger and Line in the Sand with clown cartridge+rapid hit and oppressive darkness. I begin each encounter with devour, drop a blight on the psion spawn, then move on to clean house of psions. I'm managing devour all the time because I'm tanking stuff with hive and taken barrier, GH works amazing to get the grenade back quickly. I kill the knights with Whitherhoard and GH. I hide on the middle side of the arena, from there I tag the ogres, then finish them with auto fire. Damaging the boss is a choreography. As soon as I spawn, I hit the boss with a direct shot from Whiterhoard, then without moving from where I spawn I get as many Line in the Sand shots I can before I get 4-5 atrophy debuff. Then I make my way to left platforms behind the boss, using devour while I jump to heal then kill the snipers from there, while hiding behind a pillar so the boss can't teleport me. From there I shot another Whiterhoard shot on the boss, then he teleports. From this same platform I kill the next two snipers with GH, then tag the boss some more untill he teleports. I jump on the next middle platform while using devour in midair, when I land I kill the next two snipers. I kill one, then jump over the teleporting wave of the boss, kill the other sniper, tag the boss with WH, then the teleports. After this I move to the platfrom on the left that's in front of the boss, hug the first pillar to not get teleported, drop a well then use LitS to kill the snipers at the end of the hall, tag the boss some more. He teleports in the platform in front of me; the left one in front of the final boss position. Tag some more with WH and get as many LitS shots I can before he teleports to the end. It's at this final position I get the most damage in. By this time I have my grenade ready, I drop a grenade on the boss, land. Get the pillar on this platform between me and the boss in such way he can't hit me with his auto attack or his teleporting wave, but I position my self in such way that I can only see his face. He throws his wave, it gets blocked by the pillar, I jump, super and tag with Witherhoard. Then go to town on his face with LitS until I can shoot Witherhoard at the boss again, I do this until he teleports. I can chunk his health at this last spot. If I can get more damage in the boss on the previous platforms I can three phase the boss. Rinse and repeat until boss is dead. Sorry if this was too long. I'm also using this to collect my notes on the dungeon before I attempt the solo flawless. Good luck.
2 things 1. If you MELEE with the motes, as in pushing 'c', rb, or r1 (I think, I'm not too sure about ps4 controls) you can jump and melee without exploding the motes. 2. In the spinning room encounter you can jump on top of that cube above the teleporter.
Titan specific tip for the final boss is that once you dispell one of the three clones in a room, the place where the clone was standing is not a bad place to go to if you have Towering Barricade up. Just go to the platform, drop a barricade and you can kill the ogre from relative safety and chill for a second. You may wanna switch back to rally for boss phases tho. And for the whole dungeon, if you're on titan, barricade can be good but you wanna be careful about not standing near it since the flames can splash you behind the barricade.
@@funnyvalentine5407 get a mark from last wish and you can equip it and since it's a class item, it will have no stats tied to it so you don't lose too much recov
tips for doing it with exotics and stuff: 1.if you pick up 1 mote it’ll reset the 30sec timer, so if you ever have 3 motes and it’s unsafe to get the other 3 on the ground, just try to pick up one and your timer will reset 2. riskrunner is amazing for all the parts, especially if you use a sword, for the final boss phase anarchy is better for safety but riskrunner and sword allows for the adds to be taken out. 3. i suggest saving your super for after the boss room, because one of the more rooms has a different spawning path where psions will spawn way more often than the previous rooms. if you need proof that i did it my gt is hobohalo1 and if you need more direct tips lmk!
Although this breaks the rules, during my solo flawless run I found taken and hive barrier to be pretty much must have mods (these can be acquired solo quite easily although rng is involved), xeno is very helpful from wasteland all the way until start of last encounter, witherhoard can be very good on the last encounter when paired with something like wendigo or a good interference roll, always focus psions and acolytes when present, walk through the rainbow road area rather than sparrow as it’s much safer, and always remember to take things slow as there’s really no time constraint except mote timer. If u need more ammo on final boss you can wait to go into the sand and fill up on ammo from the psions that spawn every minute or so
I feel like im the only one that basically exclusively died in the first boss by the main boss just doing that force push every 5 seconds and knocking me off the map
Weapons to bring if you have them: Kinetic: The Mountaintop (Boss Spec, for Hexadengron and Kell Echo Encounter), Blasphemer (Major Spec, for Knights in Phalanx Echo Encounter) Energy: Masterworked Trinity Ghoul (Psions Clear, Riskrunner is a good alternative), Recluse for the Reimer of the duengon. Power: Falling Gullitone (First Encounter), Xenophage (Second Encounter, Anarchy (Final Boss)
TIP FOR SOLO FLAWLESS: I used ruinous effigy for the trash mobs in the dungeon. The blocking attack can easily clear a room while keeping you alive even under intense fire due to the healing. This can also be used to stun knights for a decent period of time, giving you time to start healing or put down a rift/barricade. Ruinous is really easy to get, doesnt take but 40 minutes if you grind out the marrionets, and was a life save for me here. Ideally you want to switch to a sniper or something with oneshot potential for the final boss tunnel, but its a no brainer for the trash rooms.
Taken/Hive Invigoration is extremely useful as a warlock. It allows for nearly constant uptime on healing rift. Taken Invigoration is ideal but most of the time you are killing knights anyways so the hive variant from menagerie works fine.
Titan brothers, the final boss room can be done but not with bubble. Use top tree striker, skullfort, and a 1-2 punch shotgun. This combo allows you to infinitely shoulder charge for health regen and the run-slide-shoot-slam one shots knights
Honestly if you are trying this go get some of the Taken mods or at least the Hive mods from Menagerie. Be at least 1060 higher if possible Run recovery mods (unless you are running top tree nightstalker or devour lock) and boss and major damage reduction If you don’t have Anarchy Witherhoard and Wendigo are great with a decent energy primary.
If you are using seasonal mods and using the falling guillotine I 100% recommend you use lucent Blade! It's basically a free weapons of light damage of 35% for your sword for 5 seconds. You need to be charged with light to use this mod. I recommend using mods like taking charge or empowered finish to get charged with light. If you are unfamiliar with the charged with light mods, I advise you to watch Fallout's video on those mods. He explains the mechanics and usage of the mods pretty well! Also for fast ad clear: i use the seventh seraph SI - 2 sidearm and the seventh seraph SMG with a mod called global reach. The synergy here is that every 5 - 6 red bar enemies killed with the seventh seraph weapon drops a warmind cell when you have a warmind cell mod equipped like global reach and many more. Shooting the warmind cell LITERALLY kills every red bar in the specific room (It also makes the yellow bars like the knights weak enough to finish them off.) and makes everything a little less stressful. Also if you have mountaintop and Anarchy it basically makes this dungeon a joke. Having the taken mods from last wish is very using here! Edit: Note that some of the seventh seraph weapons like the sidearm, auto rifle, machine gun, and the hand cannon are unobtainable this season. You can farm god rolls for the seventh seraph shotgun and the submachine gun through umbral engram focusing. Also many of the warmind cell mods are also currently unobtainable, the gunsmith may sell them (I'm not entirely sure), but keep an eye out and visit him DAILY.
Some tips for the phalanx echo: Do it on a warlock, warlock’s well of radiance can bypass the bosses shield and the shield that taken goblins put up so you can one phase Control psions. whither hoard is good for this and a grenade launcher with blinding grenades will stop psions from replicating while they are blind: Don’t stop moving, knights’ cannons really hurt and there fire cannot be out healed by a rift. Use a sword, this allows a one phase of this boss
CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Although your weapons matter your mental state is more important. If you have been trying for hours and keep getting stuck at the same part stop for a little bit, take a break, go to sleep, do whatever you have to do to keep your mind on survival and nothing other than survival. As Datto says, "survival is your highest priority". CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. You don't want to sound like 18:00 when you complete your run.
all warlocks willing to take on this challenge well of radiance IS NOT FOR DAMAGE, don't have it in your mind that it is because it's not. If you have two knights pushing you PUT. DOWN. A. WELL. If you are low health and cant safely put down a rift PUT. DOWN. A. WELL. If you want to live for more than ten seconds in the room with a triangle pit PUT. DOWN. A. WELL. Datto mentioned the room as 'the one that has the fastest respawn times for the psions' (that's true), but keep in mind if you kill the knights and psions at the same time they will spawn at the same time, trust me it saves your life if you stagger their respawns. And DON'T FORGET TO PUT DOWN WELLS AS IF THEY WERE GRENADES IN MAYHEM CLASH. Trust me if your not placing wells then you will die.
Anarchy one shots the blights in the wasteland providing you actually stick the anarchy to the blight, I found this really helpful and I've noticed a few people don't know this.
for hexahedron, the whole encounter can be very easy if you know how to control the room, it’s very simple, kill a hobgoblin, a knight spawns, kill a knight, a hobgoblin spawns, and acolytes are as stated on a timer
I just went through it at 1062, I was surprised how easy it was, with a smart fire team. Some streamers got through this dungeon on the first week at 1030. That's nuts. Even me at 1062 light, the knights and final boss are complete bullet sponges. I wanted to wait until I was fully leveled up, and I'm really glad I did!
I don’t think he mentioned it, but in between the Phalanx and Cube encounter, when you roam the wasteland, be EXTREMELY careful not to be caught off guard by an invisible Minotaur. If need be, you could kill them as well, it’ll just take much more time. Another thing is to prioritize hobgoblins when taking out the blights, as they will destroy you. There should 3 minor hobgoblins and occasionally 1 major hobgoblin. Hope that helped!
Warlocks, if you want easy mode then stack taken and hive barrier mods, and rock karnstein arms, literally such an underrated and over powered exotic. Just constant healing, you can tank so much damage and is more reliable than devour.
If you're struggling with the first encounter, some of those pillars that have the round platforms in front of them can provide for some nice temporary cover while you snipe a knight for light motes. It works for dark too, but if you're struggling with dark you might be out of your league.
For anyone (like me) that died a lot in wastelands, thorn is amazing bc the burn damage will hurt the blights through the shield and allows you to no die to anything other than the minotaurs
For the final encounter, I highly recommend to kill everything first. By this I mean everything within a min. This way you have a more clear room to relax. Then you can organize the motes. Also be prepared to do this again after second mote drop
When I was giving tips to my friend on solo flawless (he was on a titan) for a 1 phase on a titan with guillotine, (1st boss) all you have to do is pop bubble and go at it until the first wave spawns, kill the whole wave as fast as you can then get back to dps, stick at it and when the 2nd wave spawns only stop dps if a goblin interrupts your damage. If so kill it then get right back at it. He was able to easily one phase it on a titan. Hunters are more inclined to 2 phase. Tad bit of goblin rng involved but this is a reliable way to 1 phase if your on a titan
In the very first encounter, the first tunnel has a ball outside of it, jump onto the ball and turn around to face the wall, there’s a tunnel going upward, pull out ur sword jump and swing yo the ramp half way and then summon your sparrow and boost to the top, skips to the first boss fight.
If you're using exotics I'd say Crimson in the 1st and 2nd encounters especially is criminally underrated for it's ability to heal you on any kill. It allows you to kill off a psion, acolyte or knight low on health and quickly gain some health in a pinch. Trinity ghoul also works wonders for clearing out the multiplying psions in the 1st encounter or the acolytes and their eyes on the 2nd encounter. Also don't overlook Wendigo in the 2nd encounter (or any other GL with blinding grenades) since it causes the knights to halt all their attacks for a few seconds.
For all classes especially warlock, the hive invigoration mod works on nights (Yes the hive one) and the taken one, you can easily spam heal rifts after every night kill
For anyone who doesn't want to kill themselves over this dungeon, use anarchy/witherhoard if you have them, and I found black talon to be EXTREMELY useful in the cube encounter and wastelands. The heavy attack kills from a distance. Play it safe on rainbow road. Use the path with the knight blocking the door on the second pyramid. Witherhoard and a grenade launcher heavy, or anarchy mnt top is the safest way to go for the boss. PLAY SAFE and good luck!
There's a pillar combination in some rooms forming a circle in the mote phase before the boss encounter. You can use those as cover if you need a breather before spawning the first ogre.
In the Wasteland encounter, a single tick of Anarchy will take down a Blight. You don’t need to kill any enemies at all, just get the 3 blights and then proc Tolamr. Risky if not on Hunter and obviously is a raid exotic, but I found it drastically reduced my time in that part and sped up further runs to spend more time on the important parts :)
When you're carrying the motes you can hit your melee key to "skate" as you would with the usual left click with other objects, not sure if anyones brought this up
Tips: 1) at 2nd encounter you can actually get on top of the middle cube from every room. Doesn’t matter what room you’re in, you can always get to the top. This gives you an easy cover and overview of all ads in all rooms 2) for boss (last) encounter, while dunking the motes you don’t have to be on top of the Light/Dark area. You can also dunk the motes from the sides. Note: if you are doing this then make sure you have enough health because the boss keeps shooting you from the side but you are safe from all ads in the room.
Thx for the run through, I have the dungeon down with no problems up to the last boss fight. Can’t seem to get that damage phase down without dying. But I like your well placement and target priority on that fight. I’ll try that next, everything else seems to be too hard :/
Just a quick tip for hunters using a maximum strength build with bottom tree nightstalker it will make this much easier as you have infinite smoke bombs, makes the hexahedron and wasteland encounter much easier
Remember guarding with a sword completely mitigates the boss stomp, so if you can get the guard timing down you can stay on the boss the whole time doing damage.
Witherhoard (Season 11 pass exotic) is very good for the second encounter because you can shoot it right where the Acolytes spawn and it even kills the Acolyte eyes. Also Trinity Ghoul with its catalyst is very good for the first and second encounter (pretty good without catalyst too)
As a Warlock, and an exotic armor piece, i believe Phoenix Protocol is the best choice, in the cube room, for every side, i was able to have one well and only one wave of knights to spawn,
Sooo thankful for this video! I don’t have anarchy or taken mods and I can make it to the puzzle room... I’m using surprise attack which boosts sidearms and consumes stacks of charged with light.. with weapon damage increase with charged with light along with picking up orbs makes me charged with light.. then I have my mountain top and devils ruin. (1 shot beam kills knights) ... I’m using Phoenix protocol... or transversive steps... I’m stuck now at the puzzle room
I'm starting to think that the Ace of Spades or catalyst Trinity Ghoul could be really good for the first two encounters. I know people already love xenophage for the 2nd.
Feel free to leave your own tips and advice for other players in this comment thread. I'm sure you guys have tons of different loadouts and strategies that you've used to make this dungeon much easier than I made it on myself.
The forgotten Colony grenade launcher kicks absolute ass in these encounters.
Why does everyone forget pathfinder nightstalker, its melee + refresh dodge is way more survivability than top tree
You can swap the weapon mods on your special weapon from major spec to boss spec while you are falling into the damage room. You can then swap it back after damage is done.
In the cube room after dunking the mote, you can wait around and acolytes will still spawn on their timer if you need ammo for the next room. This also applies to the rooms before the final boss DPS. You can dunk the 3rd mote, kill the ogre, and if you need ammo, wait for a psion wave or two. (you can also use this time to take a breather and mentally prep for DPS or the next cube room)
Here’s my easy mode guide, obviously gonna talk about exotics and some raid exotics. If you wanna make the first boss a cakewalk, use trinity ghoul. It will wipe out each group is psions in one shot. Bonus points for using the catalyst. Add dark drinkers as well for boss DPS and your golden. Any kinetic special you like will get the job down for knights, but I used MT. A shotty will do work too. For the wasteland I recommend either xeno or anarchy for the blights you clear them nice and quick. Put on a long range weapon for hobs. Second encounter riskrunner is amazing and with a sniper you’ll breeze through it. Final boss I would use anarchy and MT of a sniper. A primary with HCR will stun psions so that will be nifty for clearing. Take your time and you will get it done in no time!
The other day I soloed poh and thought to myself, “well how hard can a solo flawless of prophecy be”. Hard. Very very hard.
If you are lower than 1060 and trying to solo it it's sucicide
I swear the knights have fucking aimbot now
Yea I had witherhoard, recluse, and falling guillotine at 1060 power on hunter but now that I see that warlocks literally bypass the phalanx shield I’m definitely gonna attempt it on that class now
Pit is so easy to solo, but its really fun to solo too.
@@thephoenix8892 They dont bypass anything. What are you talking about?
HOT TIP: It is true that detonating a mote will cause you to lose all forward momentum, but that ONLY happens if you are physically holding the W key or forward on your controller. IF you jump forward and release the W key just before you detonate, your momentum WILL carry you forward. This is a HUGE HELP in basically every encounter.
I’m so glad I read this
Dude this helps so much with the cube room, I kept dying to hobgoblins thanks to that damn animation
Lost my first run in the cube because I assumed my momentum would be carried when I cleansed, but I ended up falling into a death pit
I like the sneaky cuts in the Tetrahedron to the different classes being used.
yeah i noticed that too
I was so confused. Like, since when could Titans use Divine Protection?
Yeah that was very cool
15:40 👌
I’m pretty sure that’s the point lol
IMPORTANT TIPS BELOW THIS BTW
Personally as a titan main, I would say it's the hardest since warlocks have devour (it's so op, imo use it in the first encounter) and hunters have invis which can help you out a lot since each encounter has barely any safe room
Tips: barrier mods give 20% reduction, hive barrier procs on taken knights so having taken + hive barrier gives 40% damage reduction
Riskrunner is VERY good here, damage reduction + no reload, VERY good for devour
You can get riskrunner from a new light quest
You can get taken barrier from last wish chests (can do bonus chests solo, guides on youtube)
You are garenteed a hive/levi mod you DON'T have in heroic menagerie, it is quite easy with an lfg group, do this until you unlock hive barrier
Major resist also helps with damage reduction but focus recovery first
On legendary guns, use taken spec to deal more damage to enemies which DOES help in a pinch and all of the enemies here are taken so you don't need minor/major/boss specc
Encounter tips:
first encounter, immediately run behind a wall and try to keep on the move, if there is too much fire than you may get stuck in a bad situation
Second encounter, not sure if datto mentioned this but hobgoblins and knights are linked together, if you kill a hobgoblin, a knight will spawn, if you kill a knight, a hobgoblin will spawn, from the runs I have done they have similar spawn patterns so they can be very predictable, knights are easier to deal with than hobo gobos as most of the time you are 2 shot from the hobgoblins (also in the final room, the hole in the floor has no death barrier, don't ask why I know this but can be handy in a pinch)
Third encounter tip 1: you NEED to get one plate down as fast as you can, using riskrunner you can get the psions down really quickly so you can focus the knights while having damage reduction, once you have got one corner down, the fight is significantly easier
Tip 2: you don't have to stand on the plate to dunk the motes, if you huddle by the wall where the beam is, the walls closest to the boss, you can dunk the motes from there, sure the boss can still hit you but you are mostly safe from the other ads
Tip 3 (boss damage phase): FOCUS THE HOBGOBLINS, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, solo flawless is NOT a speedrun, it is a fight about attrition, you need to prioritise your safety over extra damage, having that little chunk of boss health lower down means nothing if you die and have to restart the entire dungeon (also make sure to remember dark entrophy, always stay inside the boss' ring)
This was an extremely long comment, I hope I have managed to help someone at least, i doubt this will get traction but if anyone reading this has any questions whatsoever, I will answer them to the best of my abilities
Good luck guardian. You will need it.
Taken Spec actually does more damage (10%) rather than the 8% from other mods. However, the default mods are still useful.
@@sir_gort ah, I posted this to reddit too and changed it there but forgot to change it here, also i didn't know how much it increases the damage so thanks, thats good to know
devour sucks ass for this since there are times with no enemies so ur timer runs out
Good tips man. Tbh though im excited for the barrier mods to go away come Beyond Light. I find they turn things into a joke. I tried this dungeon without them and struggled but eventually got it done then tried again with barrier mods and it was actually a cake walk and only rarely felt threatened. Maybe im crazy but i much perfer the thrill of not having them haha
@@inventor4279 run a demo smg or auto and then cosume your nade to reset
As someone who doesn't have mountaintop, a poorly rolled Militia's Birthright saved my flawless run because of 'blinding grenades.' Firing it even near a mob stuns them for quite a few crucial seconds keeping you alive, I would just fire them at the knights and stun them while clearing the psions. You can also stunlock the knights and ogres with it. Wendigo does the same job as well, this coupled with riskrunner really keeps you alive at the end.
You should easily be able to get mountaintop if you're able to solo flawless with Milita's birthright, good job lad
@@Gareh13133 Especially right now with Momentum Control.
Haste fighting lion is the play on momentum control if you want mountain top
Ah yes, another like me. Bad a PvP but can easily do pve
pretty sure its not rolled at all, its just the standard role from the end of the quest for the pyramid ships on titan io mercury + mars. static role for everyone who completes the questline
18:00 you can literally hear him screaming in agony in the background after how long it took him to finish it on his warlock lmao
This is why I love Datto: he keeps things super REAL with you; he doesn't expect you to be an elitist, but rather takes the time to explain everything! So, MAD props to him for taking his time to do that with his audience. 👏
18:26 This is a perfect case of "I understand what you *actually* mean but that still sounds like a diss"
New idea: never say someone is stupid/dumb, but tell them their intellect stat is low
29:29 Datto's transition game is strong
For the first encounter witherhoard is amazing as you can hit 2 knights directly and hide away and 1060 one direct hit kills. In wasteland and cube xeno 3 shots both knights and blights and one shots hobgoblins. I know these tips break some rules but everyone has WH and if you can solo this you can solo xeno
Thank you.
Stasss I said for first boss either is good and the point of xeno is for cube room
Stasss xeno with oppressive darkness is actually pretty good...come to think of it, so is everything lol 🤷🏾♂️
Skip the first encounter, use devour or defensive strike, use risk runner to stay alive, xeno to take down blights, do the double banking glitch (jump up very high when you have max motes and bank when you are in the middle of the two pillars you need to cleanse), get on top of the cube because nothing can hit you there, don’t use a sparrow, use a sniper and walk down ribbon road, use icarus dash and a sword, shoulder charge is good too, cleanse one side and take down snipers before killing the boss. You can go through the tunnel many many times, staying alive is more important. Good luck.
I highly, HIGHLY recommend Witherhoard for anyone who doesn’t have anarchy. It has very good ad clear, very good dps, 1 shots knights (at proper levels) and since it takes a while to kill a knight, you can blight them, move to light/dark, then pick up their motes. It’s also very good for the kell echo, as you can kill hobgoblins while passively doing damage .
How is witherhoad with the orges In the boss room. It's one at the feet one stick right?
“But we will go over both strategies”
Also Datto: UHHHHHHHH 18:08
Maybe it was just orgasm? Datto really, REALLY likes D2? :D
On my flawless run I ran Well the entire time and saved the well on the final boss for when she goes to the stairs. I went behind to where you would step on the portal to go back to the big room. There are 2 of those small pillars there. I placed well right up against the right pillar when you are facing back where you came in the platform room. and just peeked and shot. I had MT and Anarchy and if I had a perfect damage phase I could have got half health off in one phase. If you are using a GL you might be able to get some good damage off at the end doing this. It works with bubble too. If you are using it in a season with oppressive darkness then throw a nade at the start of the phase for some nice DPS boost, then save nade for the stairs. Throw the nade to get the debuff then cast bubble behind one of the pillars and you get another nade on super cast. You get a great debuff and buff and can really hammer her health down. It should be long enough to unload everything on a heavy GL. I waited till I got by super back before going in. Another tip is dont stand behind those pillars on the platform. Ive been teleported behind them so often. Bait out the first throw and jump to the left platform. Then wait for next portal and jump to the right platform. A hobgoblin spawns on the one right in front of that next. Try to spawn kill the hobgoblins. As you are back loading the damage you can afford to prioritize the snipers. learn the spawn and try to take at least one out as it spawns. before she does the last 2 teleports, being the closest platform and stairs, I was already in the back stairs having killed the 2 snipers there. When she teleports to the closest platform I was using the left side, the side that she is, on the stairs to peek and shoot. You are just within the radius for the dark entropy to not build. When she teleports to the stairs do what I suggested earlier.
for the final room the first side you are on, to the left near the monument, there is a long pillar with a circle cut out. I started the phases here. A knight spawns close to it and you have easy access to both light and dark, and because its long you can hide from the bosses shooting. Just be careful of adds. Try to get rid of one of those bosses that would have an angle and after that should be much more manageable.
Riskrunner in cube room and first boss is great. Damage reduction and it chains and stuns enemies. Easy to kill the adds that will multiply over time. I believe in all areas its 3 sets of 3 adds that spawn. After cleansing, and before going through a portal, more adds spawn, the same number, so if you want to farm ammo or super you can just kill them. This works in both cube room and final room. Takes a min or 2 for them to respawn after you killed the first wave.
Here's a tip for the Hexahedron aka cube encounter. If you need to bank dark motes then I highly recommend scaling the pillars and getting as high up in the room as possible. Every location you stand above the cube is in the dark and being able to look down upon every enemy at a distance means you can kill them so much easier than on the ground.
Edit: If you want this to work you have to check where you need to dunk your motes at and get to the top of the room as soon as possible. If you're too slow at jumping then the hobgoblins will just snipe you before you make it up top. Also if you have Xenophage then it helps a ton for killing knights and snipers.
I’m glad you took Seasonal mods out of this walkthrough because other than “Anarchy” they are the most common listed ones.
Great walkthrough
WIther is such a great addition to the game. Now unlucky people and not-many-friends people can do good dps. (also anarchy is a heavy so you cant anarchy sword but wither can.)
@@jaywu4804 as a "not-many-friends" person i am thankful for witherhoard, i tried getting a friend into it but he doesnt want to buy the dlcs D:
Datto in the next dungeon: no ability no guns no controller no mouse and keyboard blindfold
"So first, go to Amazon and buy the Atari recreation Joystick.
Be suree to *100%* make sure it works with PC games."
go to the legend himself for that type of content, he already did a run with white gear
Datto!! I've lusted for the Prophetic Visionary emblem forever and finally earned it over the weekend. Thanks as always for the awesome guides! +1
Man... Datto totally lost his mind while in the cube euncounter lol
the knights tend to do the chase down mechanic thing when you go close to them. so try to always keep your distance from them.
Could have used this last week but I did my first hard thing without a Datto video HAHA!
U can feel the annoyance in his voice from doin it😂
fire-spitting motherfuckers everywhere across the whole map are really the most annoying enemies.
He sounds like an unwilling raid sherpa who is pissed that they have to explain the mechanics for the 100th time in every single video. Literally his default tone.
Don’t even play the game, but I watch because Datto is so informative and it’s cool hearing him talk about something he/the community likes/wants. Great job and keep it up.
You should give it a try, play with your friends
if you ever plan on playing try now
Mask of the Quiet One is really helpful in this dungeon for solo as you're always taking damage, especially in the first boss encounter.
Not going to lie, I found devour a much better bet for the whole of the dungeon than well. You need to be more aggressive than if you were running well, but the number of adds means that you can almost always have devour up, and the grenade regen from kills with devour active just help even more. In the hexahedron encounter, the only time I didn't have devour running was when I moved from one room to another, and I always had a grenade to eat to refresh devour. The super also does great damage on the boss if you fire it when you first drop-in.
I also heavily recommend Xenophage. If you are attempting this dungeon solo flawless, you should be good enough to find an lfg to run the quest. It is the best weapon for the Hexahedron encounter, killing Hobgoblins in one hit and Knights in three if you are at least 1060.
I finally completed this solo (not flawless yet) on devour lock, using all meta weapons. I found a subsistence-rampage Gnawing Hunger with taken spec to be really really effective in taking out the psions. With rampage procced, it did some work on the knights as well. It cannot be overstated how much taken barrier (and hive barrier b/c it stacks against the knights) helps with survivability. This actually gave me confidence to attempt Shattered Throne solo-flawless, as I never attempted that.
I would like to add some tips as well from my experience. It helps save a lot of time skipping the first mote collection phase, you can find guides online. The general idea here is using sword swings and well timed jumps to get up a hole near the initial spawn. This bypasses the first mote collection phase and brings you straight to the Phalanx boss.
In the wasteland section after the first encounter, all you have to do is destroy each of the three blights for three sets of spawns. The snipers should be your priority, they hit pretty hard. After you destroy the blights, remember to run by Toland to start spawning the next set.
For the cube encounter, Xenophage is really good here. Killing the snipers procs the knights to spawn and vice versa. The snipers will be the biggest threat. Remember you can use your melee button to move forward while carrying a stack of motes to move a bit faster. Also you can run on and off the middle plate after you have cleansed and hide in a corner. You will still be teleported and it saves you in case the entire room is shooting at you.
Anarchy is amazing for the final boss. If you are a warlock, Contraverse Hold is also really good here as you can keep Oppressive Darkness on him each time he teleports. For the cleansing phase, getting one corner cleansed as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no cover.
Great way to start off a day, with a datto video!
I just completed my solo flawless and all of a sudden there is this upload. The timing is impeccable to say the least Datto XD!
The transitions between the classes in the hexahedran encounter was amazing! Good job
First i'd like to say you are extremely gifted with your instructional videos and how you break things down. Second, does anyone remember when you actually had to read the 1,000 plus page strategy guides that came out for RPG games?? I think i like this a bit more lol!! Thanks for another awesome video.
For the first boss, on warlock, 100% use well. For the rest of the dungeon, i found devour to be just THE BEST, because if you have high discipline, you will almost always have your grenade, which is a get-out-of-jail-for-free-lmao-you-cant-kill-me-card
high discipline + nezarec sins or contraverse hold depending on encounter is gg
I was about to say, High Discipline makes sense. But the first time I tried Devour in the Kell fight I got slaughtered in under a minute. Of my 3 1/2 hour grind on the Kell i’ve made it to damage phase i think...2 times? Seriously about ready to pay someone to do this for me, the 2 1/2 days I spent on the Phalanx alone was excruciating enough.
The transitions between classes, in the tetrahedron, was a nice touch to the video. Well done, Datto. 👌🏾🔥
Here's a note on why Well works through the phalanx shield as well as a few other enemy mechanics. It counts as being in a super, and supers generally bypass certain shield or immunity mechanics. This includes both phalanx and taken phalanx shields being bypassed be melees and swords, being able to melee and sword Hobgoblins through their solar barrier, and damaging enemies through taken goblin shields projections. Unfortunately, bubble does not provide these kinds of benefits, but you do get a better damage boost, and the ability to walk around with the buff if need be. Also an overshield if you choose to wear the Helm of Saint 14 like me.
Another cool thing i found about well is that whatever weapon youre using to get kills while inside it counts as that element of ability damage. I found it while playing around with tyrants surge last season and idk if it would still be useful for anything but its still an interesting little tidbit
@@jamesgarvin3568 I imagine that has to do with Well of Radiance effectively turning your normal weapon damage into ability damage.
The Stag should be a good exotic on the Warlock for this specific dungeon, considering the amount of time you'll be in red health
taken/hive invigoration will return your rift after one major kill sooo
I main stag it’s op
I did it with nezeracs and it was daunting to say the least. I wasnt in the red a lot but thats because devour procced like, every encounter (as well as being aware of smaller enemies and managing the mob density) devour is super OP for this, but also took some finesse.
@@stftea that mod sucks, since virtually no enemies have shields in the entire dungeon
For the motes, the tip i can suggest is if there is still ads present just pick about 2/3 of it and leave the last one, this will give you time to clear ads and when the last mote starts to blink pick it up and it should reset your mote timer.
Another tip is if you have any grenade launcher with blinding effect it can save you in tough situations, it may not deal alot of damage unlike snipers but it can provide a brief moment of recovery for you and doing splash damage to nearby enemy is not bad.
Yes this solo flawless is WAY harder than Shattered Throne or Pit Of Heresy. Thank you Bungie for this sort of content, it takes me back to those solo Legendary campaign runs on Halo 2. I've approached this solo run in pieces. Master a part, then move on to putting everything together. I'm attempting this with a devour warlock and Sin.
First boss: Izanagi's Burden, Gnawing Hunger with subsistance and demolitionist and god rolled falling guillotine. Taken specs and mods in whatever can hold it. Well of radiance, relying on my GH and sin to refresh the grenade for panic moments. One shot the Knights, clear the psions, dunk. Then well to one phase the boss.
Hexahedron: Whispering slab with sympathetic arsenal, my GH and Xenophage. This time running devour with everything else the same. The way I go about this is always have two knights, I can easily hide from the knights while dunking, whereas the two snipers will always have an angle on me. At every rotation, I start by using devour, one shotting the snipers with Xeno, do some acolyte cleaning then dispatch the two knights as quickly as possible, take the motes from one knight, kill the snipers again, collect the motes from the other knight then dunk. More often than not I can safely dunk while the knights are spawning. I usually stay for a while longer to replenish ammo. I use the bow to kill the acolytes, that way my Xeno is always ready to dispatch snipers and knights, I throw a grenade here and there to get heavy ammo back. It's the safest, most effective strategy I've used for this part.
Kell Echo: this one has been a tough one, it's an attrition battle. The least amount of phases I've managed to kill the boss is in 4 phases, I'm working on lowering to 3, but I have to get many things right. For this, Whiterhoard, my trusty Gnawing Hunger and Line in the Sand with clown cartridge+rapid hit and oppressive darkness. I begin each encounter with devour, drop a blight on the psion spawn, then move on to clean house of psions. I'm managing devour all the time because I'm tanking stuff with hive and taken barrier, GH works amazing to get the grenade back quickly. I kill the knights with Whitherhoard and GH. I hide on the middle side of the arena, from there I tag the ogres, then finish them with auto fire.
Damaging the boss is a choreography. As soon as I spawn, I hit the boss with a direct shot from Whiterhoard, then without moving from where I spawn I get as many Line in the Sand shots I can before I get 4-5 atrophy debuff. Then I make my way to left platforms behind the boss, using devour while I jump to heal then kill the snipers from there, while hiding behind a pillar so the boss can't teleport me. From there I shot another Whiterhoard shot on the boss, then he teleports. From this same platform I kill the next two snipers with GH, then tag the boss some more untill he teleports. I jump on the next middle platform while using devour in midair, when I land I kill the next two snipers. I kill one, then jump over the teleporting wave of the boss, kill the other sniper, tag the boss with WH, then the teleports.
After this I move to the platfrom on the left that's in front of the boss, hug the first pillar to not get teleported, drop a well then use LitS to kill the snipers at the end of the hall, tag the boss some more. He teleports in the platform in front of me; the left one in front of the final boss position. Tag some more with WH and get as many LitS shots I can before he teleports to the end.
It's at this final position I get the most damage in. By this time I have my grenade ready, I drop a grenade on the boss, land. Get the pillar on this platform between me and the boss in such way he can't hit me with his auto attack or his teleporting wave, but I position my self in such way that I can only see his face. He throws his wave, it gets blocked by the pillar, I jump, super and tag with Witherhoard. Then go to town on his face with LitS until I can shoot Witherhoard at the boss again, I do this until he teleports. I can chunk his health at this last spot. If I can get more damage in the boss on the previous platforms I can three phase the boss. Rinse and repeat until boss is dead.
Sorry if this was too long. I'm also using this to collect my notes on the dungeon before I attempt the solo flawless.
Good luck.
2 things
1. If you MELEE with the motes, as in pushing 'c', rb, or r1 (I think, I'm not too sure about ps4 controls) you can jump and melee without exploding the motes.
2. In the spinning room encounter you can jump on top of that cube above the teleporter.
Cause there's no music I'll do it for you didu didu didooo Dido didu didooo....
This video just reminded why you are such a respected player. Badass run man.
29:30 boss literally teleports him back into the ad room :O (jk, great transition tho)
On the cube encounter - getting transported through the middle as one character and loading the next fight as a different character... super slick 👌
Those Hexahedron encounter transitions were smooth.
I was sat here like "wait, since when do Titans have Divine Protection?"
Titan specific tip for the final boss is that once you dispell one of the three clones in a room, the place where the clone was standing is not a bad place to go to if you have Towering Barricade up. Just go to the platform, drop a barricade and you can kill the ogre from relative safety and chill for a second. You may wanna switch back to rally for boss phases tho. And for the whole dungeon, if you're on titan, barricade can be good but you wanna be careful about not standing near it since the flames can splash you behind the barricade.
i recently solo flawless this dungeon. Taken Barrier is a must have mod to do this
Wait but that isn’t available on armour which is season 11?
@@funnyvalentine5407 It is available, but you have to open chest in The Last Wish in order to get ona
@@funnyvalentine5407 get a mark from last wish and you can equip it and since it's a class item, it will have no stats tied to it so you don't lose too much recov
Also hive barrier is equally a must have as well, plus it is MUCH easier to get too
@@funnyvalentine5407 You can also put it on armor from the Dreaming City, in case the last wish armor doesn't drop for you.
tips for doing it with exotics and stuff: 1.if you pick up 1 mote it’ll reset the 30sec timer, so if you ever have 3 motes and it’s unsafe to get the other 3 on the ground, just try to pick up one and your timer will reset 2. riskrunner is amazing for all the parts, especially if you use a sword, for the final boss phase anarchy is better for safety but riskrunner and sword allows for the adds to be taken out. 3. i suggest saving your super for after the boss room, because one of the more rooms has a different spawning path where psions will spawn way more often than the previous rooms. if you need proof that i did it my gt is hobohalo1 and if you need more direct tips lmk!
I'm glad you noticed and mentioned the hyper aggro the Knights go into sometimes. It's nuts.
I love datto cos he makes everything so simple and easy to understand, even if the activity is tedious
Although this breaks the rules, during my solo flawless run I found taken and hive barrier to be pretty much must have mods (these can be acquired solo quite easily although rng is involved), xeno is very helpful from wasteland all the way until start of last encounter, witherhoard can be very good on the last encounter when paired with something like wendigo or a good interference roll, always focus psions and acolytes when present, walk through the rainbow road area rather than sparrow as it’s much safer, and always remember to take things slow as there’s really no time constraint except mote timer. If u need more ammo on final boss you can wait to go into the sand and fill up on ammo from the psions that spawn every minute or so
I feel like im the only one that basically exclusively died in the first boss by the main boss just doing that force push every 5 seconds and knocking me off the map
I just got off pissed that I am unable to do it. Was still refreshing Datto thinking pls. Help.
Thank you Datto! Gotta try it again.
The sword save at 6:22 is definitely something you should keep in mind.
I was about to give up, but today I finally got my solo flawless. Definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done in any game.
Weapons to bring if you have them:
Kinetic: The Mountaintop (Boss Spec, for Hexadengron and Kell Echo Encounter), Blasphemer (Major Spec, for Knights in Phalanx Echo Encounter)
Energy: Masterworked Trinity Ghoul (Psions Clear, Riskrunner is a good alternative), Recluse for the Reimer of the duengon.
Power: Falling Gullitone (First Encounter), Xenophage (Second Encounter, Anarchy (Final Boss)
TIP FOR SOLO FLAWLESS: I used ruinous effigy for the trash mobs in the dungeon. The blocking attack can easily clear a room while keeping you alive even under intense fire due to the healing. This can also be used to stun knights for a decent period of time, giving you time to start healing or put down a rift/barricade. Ruinous is really easy to get, doesnt take but 40 minutes if you grind out the marrionets, and was a life save for me here. Ideally you want to switch to a sniper or something with oneshot potential for the final boss tunnel, but its a no brainer for the trash rooms.
28:10 boss damage "without a sword"
*thrusts daybreak sword into ground* smh
Taken/Hive Invigoration is extremely useful as a warlock. It allows for nearly constant uptime on healing rift. Taken Invigoration is ideal but most of the time you are killing knights anyways so the hive variant from menagerie works fine.
Titan brothers, the final boss room can be done but not with bubble. Use top tree striker, skullfort, and a 1-2 punch shotgun. This combo allows you to infinitely shoulder charge for health regen and the run-slide-shoot-slam one shots knights
Honestly if you are trying this go get some of the Taken mods or at least the Hive mods from Menagerie.
Be at least 1060 higher if possible
Run recovery mods (unless you are running top tree nightstalker or devour lock) and boss and major damage reduction
If you don’t have Anarchy Witherhoard and Wendigo are great with a decent energy primary.
If you are using seasonal mods and using the falling guillotine I 100% recommend you use lucent Blade! It's basically a free weapons of light damage of 35% for your sword for 5 seconds. You need to be charged with light to use this mod. I recommend using mods like taking charge or empowered finish to get charged with light. If you are unfamiliar with the charged with light mods, I advise you to watch Fallout's video on those mods. He explains the mechanics and usage of the mods pretty well! Also for fast ad clear: i use the seventh seraph SI - 2 sidearm and the seventh seraph SMG with a mod called global reach. The synergy here is that every 5 - 6 red bar enemies killed with the seventh seraph weapon drops a warmind cell when you have a warmind cell mod equipped like global reach and many more. Shooting the warmind cell LITERALLY kills every red bar in the specific room (It also makes the yellow bars like the knights weak enough to finish them off.) and makes everything a little less stressful. Also if you have mountaintop and Anarchy it basically makes this dungeon a joke. Having the taken mods from last wish is very using here!
Edit: Note that some of the seventh seraph weapons like the sidearm, auto rifle, machine gun, and the hand cannon are unobtainable this season. You can farm god rolls for the seventh seraph shotgun and the submachine gun through umbral engram focusing. Also many of the warmind cell mods are also currently unobtainable, the gunsmith may sell them (I'm not entirely sure), but keep an eye out and visit him DAILY.
As an addendum to this: Polaris Lance and the Ikelos weapons from Escalation Protocol and the Prophecy dungeon itself can all spawn warmind cells.
Some tips for the phalanx echo:
Do it on a warlock, warlock’s well of radiance can bypass the bosses shield and the shield that taken goblins put up so you can one phase
Control psions. whither hoard is good for this and a grenade launcher with blinding grenades will stop psions from replicating while they are blind:
Don’t stop moving, knights’ cannons really hurt and there fire cannot be out healed by a rift.
Use a sword, this allows a one phase of this boss
Taken knights are the most op major/minor in the game
CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Although your weapons matter your mental state is more important. If you have been trying for hours and keep getting stuck at the same part stop for a little bit, take a break, go to sleep, do whatever you have to do to keep your mind on survival and nothing other than survival. As Datto says, "survival is your highest priority". CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. You don't want to sound like 18:00 when you complete your run.
all warlocks willing to take on this challenge well of radiance IS NOT FOR DAMAGE, don't have it in your mind that it is because it's not. If you have two knights pushing you PUT. DOWN. A. WELL. If you are low health and cant safely put down a rift PUT. DOWN. A. WELL. If you want to live for more than ten seconds in the room with a triangle pit PUT. DOWN. A. WELL. Datto mentioned the room as 'the one that has the fastest respawn times for the psions' (that's true), but keep in mind if you kill the knights and psions at the same time they will spawn at the same time, trust me it saves your life if you stagger their respawns. And DON'T FORGET TO PUT DOWN WELLS AS IF THEY WERE GRENADES IN MAYHEM CLASH. Trust me if your not placing wells then you will die.
Anarchy one shots the blights in the wasteland providing you actually stick the anarchy to the blight, I found this really helpful and I've noticed a few people don't know this.
for hexahedron, the whole encounter can be very easy if you know how to control the room, it’s very simple, kill a hobgoblin, a knight spawns, kill a knight, a hobgoblin spawns, and acolytes are as stated on a timer
I just went through it at 1062, I was surprised how easy it was, with a smart fire team.
Some streamers got through this dungeon on the first week at 1030.
That's nuts. Even me at 1062 light,
the knights and final boss are complete bullet sponges.
I wanted to wait until I was fully leveled up, and I'm really glad I did!
I don’t think he mentioned it, but in between the Phalanx and Cube encounter, when you roam the wasteland, be EXTREMELY careful not to be caught off guard by an invisible Minotaur. If need be, you could kill them as well, it’ll just take much more time. Another thing is to prioritize hobgoblins when taking out the blights, as they will destroy you. There should 3 minor hobgoblins and occasionally 1 major hobgoblin. Hope that helped!
Warlocks, if you want easy mode then stack taken and hive barrier mods, and rock karnstein arms, literally such an underrated and over powered exotic. Just constant healing, you can tank so much damage and is more reliable than devour.
I LOVE the labeled times on the video
Nobody:
Me at 3 am watching datto explain how to solo the prophecy dungeon even though I'm trash at the game
18:00 datto went through true pain as warlock lmao
Having Protective Light and Major and Minor resists will help IMMENSLY.
If you're struggling with the first encounter, some of those pillars that have the round platforms in front of them can provide for some nice temporary cover while you snipe a knight for light motes. It works for dark too, but if you're struggling with dark you might be out of your league.
Yeah this is for sure the hardest dungeon yet to solo.. it actually took me 2 hours and 17 minutes on my flawless run, was playing it extremly safe.
Jesus, how many tries did it take you to do that?! Took me 2 1/2 days to get past the damn Phalanx
For anyone (like me) that died a lot in wastelands, thorn is amazing bc the burn damage will hurt the blights through the shield and allows you to no die to anything other than the minotaurs
For the final encounter, I highly recommend to kill everything first. By this I mean everything within a min. This way you have a more clear room to relax. Then you can organize the motes. Also be prepared to do this again after second mote drop
When I was giving tips to my friend on solo flawless (he was on a titan) for a 1 phase on a titan with guillotine, (1st boss) all you have to do is pop bubble and go at it until the first wave spawns, kill the whole wave as fast as you can then get back to dps, stick at it and when the 2nd wave spawns only stop dps if a goblin interrupts your damage. If so kill it then get right back at it. He was able to easily one phase it on a titan. Hunters are more inclined to 2 phase. Tad bit of goblin rng involved but this is a reliable way to 1 phase if your on a titan
A primary with Relentless on it, I find Cold Denial to be the best one for it, kill three ads and you get regen, it may not be red death but it helps.
It's "Unrelenting". "Relentless" is a sword perk.
In the very first encounter, the first tunnel has a ball outside of it, jump onto the ball and turn around to face the wall, there’s a tunnel going upward, pull out ur sword jump and swing yo the ramp half way and then summon your sparrow and boost to the top, skips to the first boss fight.
We must not forget to take the relic
I just did it with all the tryhard pinnacle weapons, exotic weapons and mods. It took a day of practising, i am so proud.
That scream of relief around 18:02 😂
If you're using exotics I'd say Crimson in the 1st and 2nd encounters especially is criminally underrated for it's ability to heal you on any kill. It allows you to kill off a psion, acolyte or knight low on health and quickly gain some health in a pinch. Trinity ghoul also works wonders for clearing out the multiplying psions in the 1st encounter or the acolytes and their eyes on the 2nd encounter. Also don't overlook Wendigo in the 2nd encounter (or any other GL with blinding grenades) since it causes the knights to halt all their attacks for a few seconds.
For all classes especially warlock, the hive invigoration mod works on nights (Yes the hive one) and the taken one, you can easily spam heal rifts after every night kill
For anyone who doesn't want to kill themselves over this dungeon, use anarchy/witherhoard if you have them, and I found black talon to be EXTREMELY useful in the cube encounter and wastelands. The heavy attack kills from a distance. Play it safe on rainbow road. Use the path with the knight blocking the door on the second pyramid. Witherhoard and a grenade launcher heavy, or anarchy mnt top is the safest way to go for the boss. PLAY SAFE and good luck!
There's a pillar combination in some rooms forming a circle in the mote phase before the boss encounter. You can use those as cover if you need a breather before spawning the first ogre.
this video came out at the right time cuz now im high enough light to attempt it
Btw guys assuming you want to use exotics, risk runner is your best friend for the hexahedron and even phalanx echo!
In the Wasteland encounter, a single tick of Anarchy will take down a Blight. You don’t need to kill any enemies at all, just get the 3 blights and then proc Tolamr. Risky if not on Hunter and obviously is a raid exotic, but I found it drastically reduced my time in that part and sped up further runs to spend more time on the important parts :)
When you're carrying the motes you can hit your melee key to "skate" as you would with the usual left click with other objects, not sure if anyones brought this up
Tips:
1) at 2nd encounter you can actually get on top of the middle cube from every room. Doesn’t matter what room you’re in, you can always get to the top. This gives you an easy cover and overview of all ads in all rooms
2) for boss (last) encounter, while dunking the motes you don’t have to be on top of the Light/Dark area. You can also dunk the motes from the sides.
Note: if you are doing this then make sure you have enough health because the boss keeps shooting you from the side but you are safe from all ads in the room.
It's a good day when datto puts out a video
Thx for the run through, I have the dungeon down with no problems up to the last boss fight. Can’t seem to get that damage phase down without dying. But I like your well placement and target priority on that fight. I’ll try that next, everything else seems to be too hard :/
Just a quick tip for hunters using a maximum strength build with bottom tree nightstalker it will make this much easier as you have infinite smoke bombs, makes the hexahedron and wasteland encounter much easier
Use Riskrunner for the Phalanx encounter. The abundance of arc damage from Psions and the boss allows you to clear them safer and faster.
Remember guarding with a sword completely mitigates the boss stomp, so if you can get the guard timing down you can stay on the boss the whole time doing damage.
Witherhoard (Season 11 pass exotic) is very good for the second encounter because you can shoot it right where the Acolytes spawn and it even kills the Acolyte eyes. Also Trinity Ghoul with its catalyst is very good for the first and second encounter (pretty good without catalyst too)
As a Warlock, and an exotic armor piece, i believe Phoenix Protocol is the best choice, in the cube room, for every side, i was able to have one well and only one wave of knights to spawn,
Sooo thankful for this video! I don’t have anarchy or taken mods and I can make it to the puzzle room... I’m using surprise attack which boosts sidearms and consumes stacks of charged with light.. with weapon damage increase with charged with light along with picking up orbs makes me charged with light.. then I have my mountain top and devils ruin. (1 shot beam kills knights) ... I’m using Phoenix protocol... or transversive steps... I’m stuck now at the puzzle room
Soo for the puzzle I’m going to try Xenophage... well of radiance and some charged with light mods... Phoenix protocol.... high intellect... 😬
I'm starting to think that the Ace of Spades or catalyst Trinity Ghoul could be really good for the first two encounters. I know people already love xenophage for the 2nd.