Atheon Challenge Mode
From Destiny 1 Wiki
- See also: Vault of Glass (Age of Triumph)
Requirement
Each guardian MUST kill one oracle each during the teleportation phase of the Atheon fight. A guardian killing multiple oracles will cause a "challenge failed" when time's vengeance starts.
Guide
We achieved this by splitting up the teams (like normal) 3 on each side to start the fight and doing the following things.
Once 3 people were teleported, the team inside would call out which side they are on (mars or venus).
- When the group is teleported, the 3 people on the outside immediately decide who will kill the last oracle (number 6) the other 2 guardians will kill numbers 4 and 5 (does not matter which as long as they each kill 1)
- The relic holder is in charge of killing oracle #3 with their super charge from the relic
- The firs two oracles are killed by the 2 guardians inside with the relic holder. They each kill ONE oracle.
- While the first 3 guardians are eliminating their oracles they should be calling out each spawn such as oracle 1, oracle 2 or 1st spawn 2nd spawn and so on for each oracle.
- Once the team has counted up to oracle spawn #3 the team on the outside that is building the portal now step in to get their oracle kills. number 4 and 5 go in first and get their, 6 goes in last shortly after and gets the final kill then everyone meets up in mid with the original group for times vengeance.
- Once the original 3 members that were teleported have killed their oracles and the 2nd group of guardians start to enter the portal to kill theirs, the original team heads outside to prepare for times vengeance, the later group once done killing their oracles, will head back outside and jump to mid for times vengeance.
- For the cleansing portion of the fight, you cleanse as normal when you are teleported. When guardian 4 and 5 come into the portal and are killing their oracle, the relic holder can cleanse them once on the way out and let them finish their job along with guardian number 6. All 3 should have plenty of time to get their kills and make it back to time's vengeance before their screen goes black from the darkness.
Team Setup
- 1 Hunter with tether
- 1 Hunter with Celestial Nighthawk Golden Gun
- 1 Warlock with self res and solar grenades
- 3 Titans with various bubbles (weapons and blessings)
Our gun loadouts depended on the fight but for the 2 challenges it was mostly Sleeper Simulants and high caliber Sniper Rifles (mine had Triple Tap)
Tips and Tricks
- Be prepared to wipe - a lot. So keep your spirits up and good morale. Don't blame others, you will die too.
- We all have seen videos with only one damage phase but most probably you will do it in two phases.
- First teleport: I don't think it matters if the relic holder is killing the 3rd oracle or the last one, you need to react and adapt to the situation and call out. But one rule: be fast. Very fast. The outside guardians must step in very quickly.
- First DPS phase: we won our challenge by exiting with 5 seconds left. That was the thing that changed everything for us. Don't try to put that extra bullet. Exit/Jump from the platform in the back, and survive. That's all. We had a couple of wipes after some excellent first DPS phases but people exiting at last second and getting wrecked by Supplicants. When we changed that, we succeeded almost instantly.
- Second DPS phase: was a breeze, I did not have any special not primary but he was going down so fast...
- My loadout: I had a Sleeper and Doctrine. Doctrine works well on supplicants and Oracles, where you need a high fire rate. I don't believe it matters so much in the end, but Sleeper wrecks everything.
