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However, there’s always a little misconception about adequately completing this specific challenge for players who didn’t achieve this on the first day it was available. This guide will help Destiny 2 players understand and finish the Hands-Off challenge for the King’s Fall raid.
The Hands-Off Challenge
For this Destiny 2 challenge, players cannot kill the same Light-Eater Ogre and Light-Eater Knight more than one time while the fight occurs. As a quick example, if a player were to defeat the R2 Ogre and R2 Knight, they cannot slay any more of them on the R2 side until Oryx is finally defeated.
This is a strategy players can check out to understand better how to complete the challenge correctly. The team should first designate four players to stand by a given plate: L1, L2, R1, and R2. The remaining two players should hover around the middle section of the encounter. Their roles will become important much later in the fight.
When the encounter starts, some waves of Thrall will spawn, along with four Taken Knights on top of each plate. Defeating all the Knights will trigger Oryx to move to a given side, left or right. He will then choose between a 1 or 2 plate and pound his fist onto it to start the construction phase. Players should hold off on forming any platforms until all Ogres and Knights have been defeated.
After Oryx’s fist attack, Light-Eater Ogres will start to crawl up from the ground near a given plate. Eventually, four of them will spawn in total during the construction phase.
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If someone were to defeat an Ogre at the L2 plate, a Light-Eater Knight would spawn on the R2 plate. In this instance, players should instead primarily focus on defeating an Ogre and Knight on their given sides. Crossing sides will make things more complicated for the team moving forward, so players should avoid doing so as much as possible.
After all the Ogres and Knights have been defeated, players can finally begin the construction phase to claim the Brand of Immortality. Once the Brand has been claimed, the damage phase against Oryx will begin, where players can then damage him for a short period of time.
Until players can begin the final stand, the challenge will remain in effect, and players will essentially have to rinse and repeat what they just did, but now at different locations. For example, if a player had defeated a Knight and Ogre at the R1 plate, they should rotate clockwise to the L1 plate to beat the L1 Knight and Ogre for this next phase.
The Final Stand, And Master Difficulty
When players deal enough damage to Oryx, he will then move toward the back of the room where he initially spawned to begin his final stand. This is where the last two players, who previously weren’t defeating Knights and Ogres, will now step in.
The first four players who were once beating them should now pay attention to Oryx, who is now charging his final attack. Light-Eater Ogres will spawn at the L2 and R2 plates when Oryx calls for the darkness to defeat the team; two Light-Eater Ogres will spawn at the L2 and R2 plates. The two Guardians that weren’t slaying Ogres before should now kill the two that just spawned, from which they will detonate their Corrupted Light to daze Oryx.
For maximum efficiency, players should detonate one Corrupted Light bomb at a time to maximize the amount of time they can deal damage to Oryx. Players will either have to defeat Oryx in that given time period, or he will wipe the team with his darkness blast, and they will have to start all over again.
For players brave enough to attempt the Master difficulty of the raid, there is one significant change during the Oryx fight. At the beginning of the construction phase, instead of Taken Knights spawning on top of each plate, they are instead swapped out for Taken Overload Hobgoblins. Players should use weapons such as Divinity, and the new seasonal Overload mods, such as Overload Bow and Machine Gun, to swiftly deal with these Champions. Taken Acolytes that spawn throughout the fight will also have Void Shields.
Destiny 2 is now available on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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