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Edited by LiamCDM:
11/13/2015 2:08:11 AM
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It's Time We Retire the No Knight Strategy
I know I'm going to be flamed for this since my elitist and hardcore ideology and opinions are widely unpopular among the casual majority on Bungie.net but I will attempt to bring light on yet another cheese strategy found by the ever so cleaver Destiny community. The [i]No Knight Strategy[/i] as many of us know is a cheese strategy in which Ogres are weakened but not killed until after Oryx is staggered in order to skip the task of killing the Light Eater Knights. As you're skipping a raid mechanic, this is not a legitimate strategy, but is merely a cheese, on par with knocking Atheo off the ledge in Vault of Glass or the bridge in Crota's End. I don't believe cheeses should be condoned by the community or the developers. Just like in games like WOW, I feel cheesing and/or exploiting should be punished by a short temporary ban with your raid gear and completion taken away. Bungie should at the very least fix this exploit so raiders will be forced to complete it legitimately and possibly one day, follow in the steps of more hardcore and competitive games where etiquette, competition and difficulty is proudly embraced. Please debate, fellow Guardians and please be respectful to other's opinions.
[b]EDIT[/b]: I'm not going to be able to respond to everyone. The haters are flowing through the gates once again. I asked for it though. lol
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3 RepliesSee I was hoping you were going to come in with a demonstrably better strategy. Your analogy is very bad. A more apt comparison would be the hard mode crota strategy where you deliberately leave the boomers alive to avoid spawning a witch. A strategy which is legitimate. And whose principle feature is dealing with adds by finding a way to avoid them. The mechanics of the Oryx fight are that you have someone grab the relic and steal the aura, kill ogres to leave bombs which you detonate to deal damage, then hide in the aura to not die yourself. The no knight strategy does not circumvent any of these. The rest is just adds and the adds force a choice on you. Do you want to deal with ogres, or deal with the adds that spawn after you kill the ogres. Same idea as crota. Deal with the boomers, or kill them and deal with the witch. And choice is a good thing. It's what keeps PvE from being a single script activity. Another poster mentioned golgoroth. Same thing. You can trade the gaze back and forth, getting more damage in, but you'll have to really deal with the cursed thrall. Or you can do the one orb strategy, where you don't have to try to dps and kill adds at the same time. Sorry but I just don't see how this is a cheese. You aren't taking advantage of an environmental glitch. You aren't abusing any code. You're killing the ogres at a different time and then dealing with them being alive. And you know what? Some people prefer not to do that. Not because they consider the no knight strategy cheating but because they'd rather deal with the extra adds than the ogres. You want to complain about the issues with the strategy, including the fact that a lot of people can't pull it off without getting lucky, then that's fine. Different people will disagree on which they find easier. But declaring the strategy illegitimate is just silly.
