Pretty happy with how we placed here but we could have done better and we know we have things to work. Had some late drama happen with roster so it's good we still performed with some new faces. Happy and proud of the boys for yesterday.

Challenges:

Abyss ~ The challenge is that the chalice must be deposited before enlightened is dump into the lamp (or plate at the end). Keep in mind the enlightened is only to make you run faster and does not extend the timer (putting chalice depo is what extends wipe timer). So you can kind of bypass this by never depositing enlightened until you are on the final plate if you use funny swords OR strand to get through the maze. Have one person scout ahead to see where the next deposit site is (this changes per run). It will be on the last glowing lamp in the set. That player can sit there and wait for the rest of the team as they catch up using strand or eager edge sword. Rinse and repeat until final plate. Final deposit will be next to the plate. Start building enlightened people but deposit chalice every time before depositing enlightened into the plate. Rinse and repeat and survive until the bridge is built.

Bridge ~ The bridge can not be fully formed while anyone is crossing the bridge. The encounter is done in the exact same way but just have whoever is crossing the bridge be the person on the middle plate (no one else be on this plate). Doing this reduces having to coordinate with a teammate on when to step off the plate. The only time you'll need to time with teammates to do this is when building the bridge from the far side to get someone across or if someone needs to come back. Our encounter bugged for some reason and we were able to finish with four people on the other side BUT if the swordbearer had spawned we would just take chalice, do a full swap, person enlightened grabs sword and then communicate the other side of when to step off plate while both of us are crossing. Person with chalice would then deposit it.

Ir Yut ~ The same person cannot hold the chalice until everyone else has had it. Split into 2 teams of 3. Player 1 on team 1 will be the fourth deposit for team 2. The final phase, everyone else BUT PLAYER 1 ON TEAM 1, in the same order from 2-6, will get enlightenment from chalice. To help with this, during damage start building enlightenment players. This seems difficult but she doesn't have a lot of health and it will give you a head start for the next phase. Just make sure to remember the order and this isn't bad. Have the last person in the second team be the scout for the team (this was me in our vod). One tip for scouting the far right corner tower. Use the shrieker arrow in order to see what level it is on. Always scout from the top floor. If the circle shows now arrow when on the balcony but a down arrow when you jump up then the wizard is on the second floor. If the circle shows and up arrow when on the balcony and then the arrow disappears when you jump up then the shrieker is on the top so the wizard would be on the bottom.

Crota ~ Simplest IMO. You must take crota's shield down in one go. To do this get three swords. Set an order once again to pass the chalice around. First three people to get enlightened grab swords. The fourth person holds enlightenment to expunge Crota (this will get rid of a chunk of health similar to golgoroth) and the 5th and last person with enlightenment should hold it in order to shoot the oversoul (this was me and make sure this person is tractor with a fusion rifle). Rinse and repeat, ideally you get crota to a sliver before final stand and then send him at the beginning of third phase (to save ammo and wells). Save the expunge and oversoul enlightenment people for final. We didn't do this as we didn't know we could extend final stand so both expunges went into final stand.

Good luck everyone with your clears. Thank you bungie for an actual difficult contest. Step in the right direction and you've renewed some hope in the higher end PVE community. Looking forward to TFS more so now! Leave any questions or comments down below please!

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