My group's all 26. I've been 25 since last Thursday. I've had 11 legendary engrams decrypt into blue and green garbage.
Le sigh.
Hopefully I can knock out enough Vangaurd marks today to just buy my way to 26 with one more piece of legendary armor. We have a 3-hour session set up for tonight and another 3-hour session for tomorrow night so we can test the waters. I don't expect we'll get through it this week, but I think next week after it resets, with the experience and hopefully some more legendary special weapons of various damage types we'll be good to go.
I'll tell you this for anyone considering attempting it: Doing a level 28 strike, the captains were virtually invincible until a buddy of mine used his Arc damage sniper. It was two shotting them. My void damage sniper took 8 shots to kill them (if they didn't hide and regenerate).
I fully expect this level of play in the raid. Certain enemies and presumably bosses will only be feasibly killable with certain special weapons and heavy weapons with the right TYPE of damage (Arc, Void, Flame). So get ready to plan your routes, take multiple weapon loadouts, and take plenty of ammo consumables. Oh, and lots of lubricant for when you get bent over on the first few runs or so.
Also, a raid group with a Sunsinger Warlock, a (Defender?) Titan, and not sure about hunter (probably blade dancer spec) will work wonders I'm thinking. Stop thinking of maxing your own damage and figure out how to max the group.
I'm also thinking TWO Sunsinger Warlocks and a defender Titan will be pretty strong too, if the Warlock buffs stack (even if they don't, alternate Super uses ftw).
Edit: forgot, 6 man, so 3 Sunsinger Warlocks, 2 Defender titans, and a hunter of some sort
Good luck everyone!
Entrecôte;130231457 said:
At level 19/20 the strike bosses absorb enough damage to make a mission last near an hour, and that is if someone doesn't quit due to extreme boredom.
I don't want to think how mind numbingly awful that would be over a few hours with double the people, unless this content is all new?
We can run the level 18, 20, and 22 strikes in the strike playlist in 15 to 30 minutes tops depending on which one it is. Our record for the level 20 strike (first one that gives marks) was just over 10 minutes start to finish. Coordination is more important than people are realizing, as is running right past any enemies you don't HAVE to kill. Boss fights shouldn't be taking you an hour unless you're playing level 28 Heroic strikes if your group is at the appropriate level.
