Hello fellow guardians,
Last time around I tested out Celestial Nighthawk, with 5 other hunters vs. Atheon. With brawler as a modifier for the Skolas fight this week, it was Khepri's Sting turn to shine.
The run took a very long time, as it was a suprisingly safe, yet painfully methodical and time consuming strategy. We managed to get it down on our first try, which was suprising considering the two others hunter(shoutout to barlowbull and HisMalevolence2) were guardians I managed to find on LFG. If you're not ready or interested in watching the whole video, I'll go through a quick rundown below:
1. Top priority was always adds whenever they spawned(unless mines were up). We went throught the whole thing with a very straightforward method. Damage Skolas until adds spawn, rotate map slowly picking off adds, repeat.
2. Rotations were constant. Anytime Skolas was near us we would start rotating. The only real threat of us wiping was Skolas teleporting right next to us unexpectedly, so we always remained as far as possible if adds were up.
3. With servitor bonds still up, one player would be in charge of killing the servitor while the other two would go invis and "go in for a hit". Only one person would ever go in for a knife at a time, that way only one of us was ever in real danger. Skolas teleported a lot right as we were about to get a hit, and invis glitched out a few times where it didn't give us invis when crouching quick enough, we could've reduced the time quite a bit with two hits per servitor at the start.
4. Blink strike was the only viable method of escaping Skolas' stomp, which as you can see in the video has an incredibly big radius. If you didn't get behind cover and Skolas continued to target you, you'd most probably die as you'd have very little health after blink striking. Other two players would then "play safe" until all three of us were up again.
5. Mines were pretty much improvised. If we had someone pass off the taint as soon as they came up he would stay next to closest mine spawn and the other would rotate to the opposite side/middle. As invis hunters this was fairly easy.
6. Communication was 100% the key for being able to do this first try, and for the Skolas fight in general. I would mainly call out who is getting taint from who and ask what the timer was at. Whoever had taint would callout when he was at 15/10/5 seconds and what location to swap it at(wall, behind pillar, etc).
The video pretty much shows the textbook method you should use for defeating the encounter, obviously swapping knifing for weapons. I assume this is what Bungie had in mind when creating these mechanics for this fight, and it's suprisingly fun. I had a ton of fun doing this run, hope you guys enjoy the video and make sure to get Khepri's Sting if you have a chance, they're great when Brawler is active!
Disclaimer: I don't have a Warlock character just yet and only ever use the bladedancer for specific PvE situations where invis is helpful. Blink strike negates most invis effects, so I never use it. The blinkstriking in the video is painful to watch, and I'm sorry in advance!
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