The boss itself has vibes of The Taken King’s Golgoroth – it’s a big gross Taken ogre in the centre of the arena. It’s best to designate three people as eye-shooters and assign them an order: shooter one calls the eyes on her first appearance, and is responsible for shooting them both on her fourth. When you’ve completed all three walls, Shuro Chi’s song will reset to four minutes, and hemispherical platforms (like those around the Oracle Engine) will appear. No need to wait for a cleanse this time: dodge Riven’s attacks, stagger her, and call out the eyes that glow, but, shoot them yet. The other complication is that, if you have any Taken Strength, Morgeth may slap you with a debuff called ‘Umbral Enervation’. Riven can appear in either chamber, and what you do next depends on where she goes. When you’ve successfully shot Riven’s six eyes and cleared the adds, you’ll get hit with the ‘Creeping Darkness’ debuff. damage Shuro Chi as efficiently as possible.
So while you’ll technically be able to enter the raid at the former number, it’ll be essentially impossible, and still bloody tough at 530. Generally, Stormtrance and Hammer of Sol are better than any gun for sweeping up adds, while Sleeper Simulant, the Ikelos shotgun, and Whisper of the Worm are best for hammering bosses.
Adds will spawn during this phase, so have the remaining two players mop them up. If you enjoyed Leviathan, you’ll probably enjoy the Vault.
You’ll inevitably end up with many players inside Riven’s heart, where they will have to deal with mobs, but they can still help carriers out by gathering Taken Strength. You want to kill them quickly and get back to damaging Kalli – any add-killing Super is effective here, but a Nightstalker with Orpheus Rig can use them to generate orbs. Get involved in the conversation by heading over to our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Four orbs will spawn on the next wave, another four after that, and then one final, tenth orb. When the next four spawn, a player on the left and another on the right should pick up two orbs each, neither of whom should be the person who initiated. If you can damage Kalli between managing adds (low-level mobs), that’ll encourage her to bugger off. Adds will spawn during this phase, so have the remaining two players mop them up. Alternate between doing this and putting the hurt on Riven. Before the cleansing begins, the Decoders have to read the symbols. However, players have to figure out the puzzles themselves in order to solve them.
Throughout the entire encounter, these Knights will spawn in the three outer zones, walk through the Taken “wall,” and attempt to lock down the Vault. Here’s the Riven fight from beginning to end via Sweatcicle of Clan Redeem, during the world first completion of the Last Wish raid.
Each player can only ever hold two – if they try to take a third orb, they die. You need to kill adds and damage Shuro Chi as efficiently as possible. Rally barricades and empowering rifts are also handy.
You’ll begin the encounter by opening a pair of big doors. Add clearance is a real problem in this phase; each of Riven’s appearances will swarm you with mobs, including ogres. Distributing these stacks correctly is the key to success, and there are lots of complications that you’ll need to manage as you go, so keeping chatter to a minimum and your callouts clear is essential.
Compared with what you’ve just been through, this is a pretty simple encounter. When they get back to the centre, they use the grenade ability to cleanse whichever plate needs the buff they’re carrying. This copy needs to be ‘cleansed’ at the plate where it is found. You’ll be back here later, so take a minute to get your bearings. Splash and burst damage is what you want, so Fighting Lion, Wardcliff Coil, and drum-fed grenade launchers are all decent picks, as are rapid-fire shotguns.
Given all of this, here’s how things should shake out: Split your team into threes, each taking half of the arena.
Its other trick is the relevant one here, though: use your Super while carrying an Eye, and you’ll shoot a bomb that will cancel Shuro Chi’s new song. As always, a Dawnblade with Well of Radiance is extremely useful for buffing damage. She has a painful laser attack, and can push you around with an attack that’s telegraphed by the floor underneath you lighting up green. When the Eye-carrier is stood in the centre of the correct icon, they cleanse with the grenade button.
These are orb-like weapons which will drop from enemies of the same name – they look like Taken Captains – so keep an eye out for them during the add phase. Here you need to, This is where you get to do some damage.
You need to agree callouts for these, because Riven is about to change rooms – the other team now needs to stagger her in exactly the same way, and when they’ve done so, Note that Riven will change rooms after you stagger her, If you’ve shot her eyes successfully, an elevator beam will activate at the back of the room and carry you up to another identical chamber. When all the adds are dead, Shuro Chi’s song will speed up, and three crystals will appear on the plates.
There’s one more thing to worry about: a tough Knight of Riven will spawn during each attempted cleanse. Dying will feed any Strength you’re carrying to Morgeth, so don’t die. When you’ve cleansed all three plates, that’s one round. She is probably the most difficult and complicated raid encounter in the series’ history. Rich started PC gaming in the ‘90s and is wracked by nostalgia for that era. All the raid icons will fill the room, and you’ll also be able to see the Eye-carrier in the other chamber. No need to wait for a cleanse this time: dodge Riven’s attacks, stagger her, and call out the eyes that glow, but don’t shoot them yet. She serves as a bit of a gear check for the rest of the raid – you’ll likely struggle here if you’re underpowered. When all the required plates are completed, a message saying ‘Kalli conceives an ontological weapon’ will appear in your HUD. The Techeun is waiting for you back at the entrance to the Vault. That’s one cleanse.
Riven pokes her face through the top of the room, and if you hammer her with your hardest-hitting weapons, it shouldn’t be long before she finally succumbs. As promised, Bungie has made sure that the raid challenges for Destiny 2’s Last Wish raid are now cycling as they are supposed to. But if the team succeeds in wiping the Knights of Riven quickly, they will complete the challenge and earn another loot drop (if they have the clan bounty). Stack up wherever you fancy – ideally on a Well of Radiance – and light it up. Two players now have two stacks, and are the likeliest to get hit with Umbral Enervation, so they should drift to the centre of the map for easier cleansing. Dealing with the Knight be disciplined about your callouts and you shouldn’t have any problems.
Call this out, and have three other people call out the plates they’re standing on to solve the picture.
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This means that the third plate only needs to call their middle symbol if you get one of each buff on the first two plates.
Hunker down in the stone circle in the centre – Riven will show her face through the chamber walls all around you, and will repeat her fire and tentacle smash attacks. If you were quick when gathering Taken Strength, Morgeth’s strength before this phase may be 10% or lower, meaning you have that much more time to lay into it. Note that Kalli herself will periodically visit your plate to harrass you.
Here are some handy jumplinks to help you navigate: Kalli, the first of Queen Mara Sov’s Taken Techuens, isn’t too taxing. In the centre of the room is a pit, where three pairs of these icons are visible. Rally barricades and empowering rifts are also handy. Once the correct symbol on your plate has been determined, you will have to use either Penumbra buff or Antumbra buff to cleanse it. It’s immune to damage initially, but you’ll trigger a DPS phase when ten stacks of a buff called ‘Taken Strength’ have been gathered across your team.
Second: you. Use these to jump up to the next floor, but note that, This one’s all about speed. The central symbols help other players to know whether the left or the right symbol on their plate is the correct key for the plate.
This will cause the cleanser to steal the cleansee’s Taken Strength, so don’t cleanse if doing so will give you three stacks!
If she’s not in your chamber, you need to cleanse the room with another Eye of Riven.
May RNG be with you! That’s the finish line. Four of those ninths will look different from the others, obscuring parts of the picture with a dull green pattern. Riven stumped Destiny’s best raid teams for several hours during the race to world first. When the next four spawn, a player on the left and another on the right should pick up two orbs each. Once you land on the floor of Riven’s nest, return to the two chambers where you’ll once again alternately cleanse and stagger her. He joined us from Pixel Dynamo and likes shooters, Soulslikes, and most RPGs, but his cosiest niche is as our strategy and Warhammer nerd.
So with no further ado, let’s get into it. Raids in Destiny 2 require a lot of teamwork for the players to survive and complete the puzzles and trials. You’ll inevitably end up with many players inside Riven’s heart, where they will have to deal with mobs, but they can still help carriers out by gathering Taken Strength. Remember to watch out for the Axion darts at 50%, too.
Nightstalker tethers and smoke bombs are great for slowing and weakening them, and Sunbreaker’s Burning Maul can push them back, but if you’re wondering where you’ll spend all that heavy ammo without a boss, it’s here.
Hence, the proper strategy here is to make the whole team call out the location of the knight so that attacking him is easy.
It helps to know which room is next to which, as you’ll soon see, so get your bearings before you start. Use Whisper of the Worm or Sleeper Simulant if you have them. You need to direct them to the icon they called, so you need precise locational callouts: “perched bird is left stairs, bottom”. Take out her last chunk of health and you’re done. First: you melt one-sixth of her health and force her to retreat. Keep an Eye on Your Credit Report . When all Taken Strength orbs inside the heart have been collected, the orb carrier’s timer is reset to 15 seconds.
Reading the Symbols
The boss itself has vibes of The Taken King’s Golgoroth – it’s a big gross Taken ogre in the centre of the arena. The door will lead you to the Hall of Two Souls. For the third and last plate in the final zone, three knights will spawn. Pay attention to the rows of green doors that line the walls of the central pit: After the nuke the doors will open again and the pit will be full of Taken Psions. Destiny 2: Forsaken’s epically ambitious raid, The Last Wish, has now been live long enough for us to get a handle on what it’s all about.
Do this quickly, since standing on the plates will cause damage – best to just agree that you’ll shoot the teammate to your right. Note that the icons are randomised so you’ll have to reassign plates across your party, and that since the fight is active at this point, the plates already have bombs on them. Shoot these for even more damage, but beware: they will release Axion darts, which will kill you if you don’t hose them down first. Good orb-generating abilities plus a Warlock with Well of Radiance are invaluable. Stay as a group and try not to fall behind, or you’ll take ages to join the fun at the second floor.
If you let him reach a plate, he will bury his sword in it, and the entire team will wipe after a few seconds.
We would recommend high damage weapons with fast fire rates, like the Ikelos Shotgun or the One Thousand Voices fusion rifle. If the duplicate icon is on the left, you need Penumbra; if it’s on the right, you need Antumbra. After another few seconds the bombs will reappear, and you need to check that you’re standing in the safe zone.