Destiny 2 Prestige Leviathan raid guide: Royal Pools
The Royal Pools on Prestige is easily the hardest fight in the entire raid, Calus included. The normal version of the fight forces you to rotate around the arena, refreshing your buff and clearing out enemies. The Prestige version doesn’t change much in terms of mechanics, but each enemy is much more lethal on their own. If you’re unsure how the normal version of this fight works, we’ve got you covered in our guide to the non-Prestige Royal Pools.
Here’s how to deal with the increased difficulty of the Royal Pools.
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The first thing you may notice when starting this encounter is the new adjective attached to the Bathers. These enemies will now be known as the Oiled Ceremonial Bathers. In addition to having far more health and dealing more damage, Oiled Ceremonial Bathers will drop a puddle of oil when they die. If you stand in this puddle, you will lose stacks of Psionic Protection rapidly.
Since you should be striving to kill the Bathers before they get anywhere close to your plate, this mechanic will rarely come into play.
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This fight isn’t hard because of a new mechanic. It’s hard because the enemies can kill you so much faster. The adds in the normal version of this fight were essentially useless, only existing to annoy you or distract from the Bather. On Prestige mode, the Legionaries and Psions that rush your plate are the most dangerous enemies in the entire fight.
To deal with these adds, you should put your strongest members on the bottom right and bottom left plates. Because of the increased Oiled Ceremonial Bather and add difficulty, rotations will be much slower. These bottom plate players will have to deal with their Bather and the adds alone.
Learning where the adds emerge from on each plate is key to surviving this fight. Bottom left and top right should be looking for enemies to spawn on their right while bottom right and top left look for adds on their left.
These adds must die before they hide from you behind cover, otherwise they will become problems the moment your Bather spawns. To stop that from happening, kill them as they enter your area.
Learning where the adds emerge from on each plate is key to surviving this fight.
You should be using a Kinetic weapon that can stagger the Bather and a damage over time grenade. Our group found success with either Sweet Business or Better Devils. Your Energy weapon should be a medium range energy auto rifle like the Uriel’s Gift or the Number. You should be using this Energy weapon on kill the adds as they get close to you. Fusion Rifles are your best bet when it comes to Power weapons, as they deal high damage to both the Bathers and the Censors. Our group used Merciless or the Main Ingredient.
When your ally comes to relieve you, you must take some extra time to help clear adds. Leave your ally to deal with the next wave of adds, or help them clear it out if there are still adds leftover from the last wave.
When you reach the middle area, clear out as many Cabal as possible before grabbing more Psionic Protection. Once you have renewed your buff, rotate to your next plate and help that ally clear their room.
After a lot of practice, the chains will lock into place and the damage phase will start.
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Not much has changed during this phase. Once your entire party reaches the middle, do not jump on the plate. Work as a team to clear all of the enemies and kill the first Bather that emerges. Once that Bather is down and the room is relatively clear, have five members hop on the plate while the sixth pops their Super to clear adds. If you have a Hunter with Raiden Flux, have them run Arcstrider to help clear adds very quickly. Keep shooting the Censors and using Supers for adds.
Once the Psion spawns in the middle of the Sun plate, damage time is over. Four players will be marked with “Burden of Worthiness.” For those four players, a symbol will appear above the Psion.
Each player will need to look above the Psion, call out the symbol they see and run to the corresponding plate. If you have “Burden of Worthiness,” you will only be able to get Psionic Protection from that specific plate.
If you die with Burden of Worthiness, it will not return upon your resurrection. This means that one player will never be able to get Psionic Protection, essentially wiping the team. Do not die after the damage phase is over. Once all four players have jumped on their commanded plate, the two unburdened players will be able to pick up Psionic Protection from the middle room.
From here, the rest of the fight remains the same. However, because the plates are randomly assigned, the teams will be completely different than the first phase. This simply requires more communication and flexibility. The mid player will still relieve top, who will then run mid and then relive bottom. Nothing changes aside from the players relieving you and where you start from.
Once the chains have been locked for a second time, return to the center room and eliminate the remaining Censors.
Destiny 2 Prestige Leviathan raid guide: The Gauntlet
The Gauntlet is Calus’ ultimate athletic challenge. In the normal version of the fight, you need to run the track until you get enough charges to fill the elevator. The Prestige mode requires everyone to run, shoot and punch. If you aren’t sure how this fight normally works, we’ve got you covered in our non-Prestige guide to the Gauntlet.
Here’s how to overcome the Prestige version’s new challenges.
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The Prestige version of the raid offers up far more difficult enemies. This really comes into play in the opening section of the Gauntlet. Instead of hanging out by your plate, the entire Fireteam should bunch together in the elevator dome. From the four doorways, everyone should have a shot at the monster closets that spawn the Cabal. Shoot them as you see them and take cover whenever necessary.
When the Centurions come out, rush them with all you have. Use your Supers, your Power ammo and your Energy weapons to bring them down quickly.
If you leave a Centurion alive for the next section, he will almost certainly kill your team. Since they always have Solar shields, it’s worth swapping your Energy and Power weapon’s mods to Solar.
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In the normal version of the Gauntlet, shooters are assigned a plate and stay there for the entire fight. For the Prestige version, we will be breaking up into teams of three one the waves of adds have been defeated.
Break your team out into runner, puncher and shooter.
- The runner will grab the charge and run the Gauntlet.
- The puncher and shooter will stay together at all times, rotating around the arena with their runner.
- One player, the puncher, will stay on the ground shooting triangles and punching Psions.
- The shooter will jump from plate to plate dealing with the Psionic reflections.
When the runner calls the triangles, the shooter and puncher will work together as usual.
- While the puncher does their thing, the shooter should immediately run to the new plate on their right.
- Once the shooter is on, they should turn back toward the plate they just left and destroy the spawned Reflection. The Reflections usually hang out in the air above the Psion, on the columns, above the fire pits or on the plate itself.
Once all three jobs have made it through a single triangle shot, everyone will rotate together to the right. Repeat this process until the runner is proven worthy.
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One of the fun new mechanics in the Prestige mode Gauntlet is the “Proven Worthy” debuff. Once a runner has successfully run through the Gauntlet, they will be marked as “Proven Worthy,” meaning that they can no longer run. When it comes time to reenter the Gauntlet, either your puncher or shooter will have to enter instead.
This new process leaves the runner with a new job as well: replacing whoever is now inside.
This fight now requires quite a bit of planning. The first thing your group should do is determine who is the weakest runner in each group. The weak runner should go first, before Calus spawns the pits. The rest of the roles can be dished out before the pull if you have a great memory or called as it happens.
The two players from each team remaining in the arena should determine if they are punching or shooting and if they are responsible for the top or bottom triangle. Once the roles are called, you will do your job like normal. Once the fight starts over again, runner two will go in and runner one will be assigned as puncher or shooter.
This section requires extreme coordination. Be flexible as a team and you should learn the flow in no time.
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During the final race, where all six members are on the track at the same time, Calus only offers up three charges per gate instead of four. That’s the only change to this section.
Pick your three strongest runners and have them skip charge one, three and the finish line charge (these runners need to jump over the finish line). The weakest runners will skip charges two and four.
Once you have slammed nine charges into the elevator, the Prestige Gauntlet will finally end.
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Leviathan / Leviathan
- Addition: vanilla
- Difficulty level: normal, prestige
- Location: Orbit Nessus
- Bosses: Emperor Calus
Leviathan — Destiny 2 First Raid.
Leviathan Raid invites the Guardians to try flying to the Leviathan, the ship of the former Emperor Calus, and complete the trials for rewards. The sequence of stages changes every week.
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Leviathan «Eater of Worlds»
- Curse of Osiris add-on
- Difficulty level: normal, prestige
- Location: Orbit Nessus
- Bosses: Argos, Planetary Core
Leviathan «Eater of Worlds» — Destiny 2’s first Raid Lair. It is somewhat harder to complete, but less time consuming with experienced players.
Stages: jumping puzzles with firefight, prism opening stage, shield removal and boss damage stage.
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Leviathan Spire of Stars
- Spire of the Stars
- Difficulty level: normal, prestige
- Location: Orbit Nessus
- Bosses: Val Ca’uor
Starspire Leviathan is the second raid lair in Destiny 2; also takes place on Leviathan. requires a higher level of light (370) and more coordinated teamwork than Leviathan and Leviathan the Eater of Worlds.
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Dreaming City Last Wish Raid
- Forsaken Expansion
- Difficulty level: normal
- Location: City of Dreams
- Bosses: Kalli, the Corrupted Shuro Chi, the Corrupted Morgeth, the Spirekeeper Riven of a Thousand Voices
The Last Wish is the second raid of Destiny 2.
It is located in the Dreaming City and differs from Leviathan in that almost every stage is a boss with different conditions for passing it. It has a recommended light level of 550 and requires clear communication and coordination of the entire team.
Stages: the first stage is the activation of platforms, causing damage to the boss. Second Stage — a series of Destruction of mobs followed by damage to the boss, a puzzle of pressure platforms. nine0003
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The Last City, Earth Raid «Scourge of the Past»
- Black Armory DLC
- Difficulty level: normal
- Location: Last City
- Bosses: Ablazed Glory, Kell’s Scourge;Insurrection Prime, Kell’s Scourge
Exterminators of the Past is the third raid in Destiny 2. It is located on the ground in the back streets in the last city, this is the final battle with the fallen, the Black Armory storyline. The raid consists of 4 main stages, the action of which takes place on the streets of the city at night.
At the first stage, you will be divided into three pairs (cartographer and defender, deliverymen). The cartographer determines the location of the marked berserker, the deliverers kill the berserker and deliver the spheres that have fallen from him to the desired objects. pairs of deliverers are changing, as they will have a debuff with a timeout that will not allow you to pick up spheres from the berserker. The second pair of deliverers should arrive at the desired generator and kill two minions there in order to make it possible to bring the sphere into the generator. The second stage of the raid is a spero race to a key point where two people must close the airlock with a simultaneous melee attack to prevent the minion from flying into the room. You are being chased by an angry minion on fire. Further actions take place at dawn and are divided into two stages. At the first stage in the tunnels under the ruins, you have to pick up 6 buffs (continuous, parallel, angular, two of the same per character or one each) and bring them into the generators to summon tanks on which you will shoot 4 pillars of the boss’s shelter.
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Leviathan Raid «Crown of Sorrowt»
- Abundance Expansion
- Difficulty level: normal
- Location: Ness Orbit
- Bosses: Gahlran’s Deception, Gahlran, the Sorrow-Bearer
Crown of Sorrow is the final raid of Destiny 2 Year 2, Season of Opulence.
