Destiny 2 Race for Crota\u2019s End World First: Did Elysium get their 4th belt? Twitter: DestinyTheGameElysium won the race for the world first Destiny 2 Crota\u2019s End completion, making it the fourth world first belt that the team has won. Destiny 2 features new raids and \u201creprised raids\u201d that Bungie brought back from the first game, Destiny 1. Kings Fall and Vault of Glass were the only reprised raids in the game \u2013 until September 1, when Bungie reintroduced Crota\u2019s End. Crota\u2019s End was notorious in Destiny 1 as the easiest raid in the game, with some calling it a \u201cstrike\u201d, and others being able to solo the entire raid. But on September 1 Bungie released a revamped Crota\u2019s End that teams battled over many hours for the title of first completion. Elysium made good Crota\u2019s End start and didn\u2019t let up To achieve the World First completion for reprised raids, teams must complete first the contest mode of the raid, and then complete the raid again in challenge mode. In Destiny 2 Crota\u2019s End, like every other raid, contest mode capped Guardian\u2019s power level to force them to focus on the mechanics. Completing the raid a second time in challenge mode not only requires mastery of the mechanics but makes teams complete each encounter in a specific way, abiding by the \u201cchallenge\u201d rules. As the clock ticked over to 10:01 AM PT teams readied up and loaded into Crota\u2019s End and the race began. Immediately teams noticed something different to the raid. From the onset, Guardians are given a Chalice of Light buff that must be passed around. Hold on too long and players would perish. Teams were neck and neck at this point, with Elysium and fan-favorite raid team ATP both waiting eagerly as they built the bridge to descend into the next encounter. Saltagreppo and the Elysium squad managed to get through the lamps encounter relatively easily, working their way past the infamous bridge\/sword encounter and up to the penultimate Deathsinger battle. At this point they had built a slight lead \u2013 but it was only slight, and the Deathsinger encounter was proving initially troublesome. But as expected of a 3x Champions team \u201cElysium\u201d they soon made it past Ir Yut and onto the final boss \u2013 Crota himself. Swords for the Sword-Wielding Boss Crota blew all the previous encounters out of the water. The boss combined all the previous mechanics of the raid together with a humongous health pool that had teams questioning their strategies. But Elysium wasn\u2019t going to let the massive health pool phase them. Switching up their DPS tactic, Elysium adopted a Tractor Canon and five Lament DPS approach. A few more attempts later, they were the first team to complete Destiny Crota\u2019s End in contest mode. Other teams continued to struggle on Crota, and by the time other teams had defeated the contest mode Crota fight, Elysium and Saltagreppo had already made it to Challenge mode Crota. And they needed every second of the lead they earned themselves. Destiny 2 Crota\u2019s End: A photo finish Elysium were smiling and laughing as they reached the final hurdle between them and Crota\u2019s End. But Crota had other ideas than going down easily. The challenge ruleset wiped Satlagreppo\u2019s team before they even got to the Crota damage phase. Then it wiped them again. And again. And again. Minutes then hours passed and suddenly the Elysium team wasn\u2019t smiling anymore. They were now in second place, behind another team. However, they weren\u2019t going to go down without a fight. A heroic performance later, speedrunning to get Crota\u2019s shield down, blasting away at the sword-wielding behemoth, and they\u2019d done it. And not a second too soon, beating the team that was ahead of them by 1 minute and 5 seconds. Fans issued huge congratulations to Elysium and Saltagreppo for the world first, adding a fourth belt to their collection. The team also earned themselves the Necrochasm, which Dexerto has a guide for if you\u2019re interested in getting the Destiny 2 Hive Exotic gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 Race for Crota\u2019s End World First: Did Elysium get their 4th belt? Twitter: DestinyTheGameElysium won the race for the world first Destiny 2 Crota\u2019s End completion, making it the fourth world first belt that the team has won. Destiny 2 features new raids and \u201creprised raids\u201d that Bungie brought back from the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}