Editing Forum:Unnamed Raid

Upon completion of the previous encounter, the doors behind you will shut. Players will receive a new objective: Complete the trials. This objective stays until the final encounter. Players will enter a massive stadium, with surrounding stands filled with combatants; hive, nightmare, and taken they are. When the doors close, the encounter begins, but nothing initially happens. Two messages will appear. The first one, "The crowd is placing bets," does nothing until the end of a wave. Then, the message "The crowd demands some flair" will appear. To please the crowd, all players must activate any of their emotes. If someone does not activate an emote after 15 seconds, the message "The crowd grows disappointed" will appear, and everyone who did not taunt will be struck dead by combatants with snipers in the crowd.

The first wave uses red-health enemies, the second wave uses both red and yellow health enemies, and the third only uses elites. The ads are spread out fairly evenly, and will not attack you if they don't see you— they will attack the thing that is closest to them instead, regardless of species. Enemies will continue to spawn after the major has been drawn out, but will cease to spawn when the major dies.

Once a boss reaches half health, it will introduce its wipe mechanic. If not already in the stands, it will teleport back up. For 60 seconds, it will raise its arm, stand still, and charge up its attack. To make it stop, simply repeat the process to get it down from the stands. If not, it will bring down its arm and six massive bolts will fall from the sky onto each player, killing them. Players must be very careful about how evenly they spread the damage to each boss. If all three are charging their wipe simultaneously, you're in trouble.

When a boss is defeated, instead of dying, it will kneel in the center and not attack. One of two messages will then appear. If the message "The crowd demands a spare" appears, players must leave the boss alone and after a few seconds, it will teleport back up to the stands with its shield up. If the message "The crowd demands an execution" appears, the fire team must nominate an executioner to approach the boss and use their finisher to end it. If these instructions are not followed, the bosses will not die and the player who disappointed the crowd will be killed. The messages that appear are random. A boss may be spared 0, 1, 2, or 3 times.

If a boss is spared, bring its shield down again and it will instantly teleport to the center and kneel. Repeat this process until all three minds are dead. Once they are dead, the message "The crowd goes wild" will appear and all players will receive a random legendary item. Upon receiving the item, the encounter is complete.

Dying in this area displays the message "The void below absorbs the kill" and causes what once was complete darkness below to catch fire. The player who died can be revived with no trouble, but if there is a total of six deaths, the fire will grow in size with each death and eventually consume the fireteam, causing a wipe.

There is no major complex mechanic to kill Primius for these encounters, which may feel like a nerf, but do not be swayed. The sheer number ads that will spawn is enough to overpower a team of 5 in a minute, and Primius has incredibly high resistance and does a ton of damage. The taken cyclopses that are summoned also have the special ability to shoot five different elemental grenades (kinetic, solar, arc, void, stasis) to go along with their standard attack, which is commonly a one shot. In addition to this, dying will cause a pool of taken energy to start filling below, similar the the Infernal Abyss. When 10 deaths occur, the pool will reach the lower part of the arena. When 20 occur, it will reach the upper level, causing a wipe. When added up, this boss fight has three wipe mechanics.

For the first phase of this encounter, Primius teleports you to a multitude of different simulations and summons many different enemies. For each simulation, players have two minutes to eliminate all of the enemies. If that time passes, the team will be inflicted with the "Simulation Meltdown" debuff and will be wiped five seconds later, even if the last enemy is defeated within those five seconds. There are a total of 6 simulations, and in between each one, you can do a little bit of damage to Primius, but not enough to make any difference. Dying while inside a simulation does not effect the pool outside of it.

Upon Completion of the previous encounter, Primius will summon 2 taken cyclops majors. These cyclopses have shields and power Primius's shield while all three of them are shooting at you. Primius also summons many enemies down where you are, and you should take them out before doing anything else. Once all enemies are defeated, attack the cyclopses. To take down the cyclops shields, stand on two nearby synch plates and shoot at them. Once Primius's shield is down, you can do a bit of damage to him. After 30 seconds, he brings his shield back up and spawn more ads. He also has the strange ability to attack with darkness bolts and poison clouds, much like a hive wizard. Keep in mind, He is on the other side of the chasm so long ranged weapons are crucial. Precision hits may be hard to land, as his crit point is small and he is always moving slightly. He will continue to summon enemies and bring his shield back up until a forth of his health is depleted.

Once half of Primius's health is depleted, the message "Primius lures you across the chasm" appears. Vex time weaving platforms will appear, and you are now able to cross. Standard taken enemies will now spawn on both sides, and Cyclopses will generate his shield. It is recommended to split into two teams of three, one crosses the chasm, the other stays back. This is so the team that stayed can easily eliminate the cyclopes and any other major threat the other team may be facing. The team on Primius's side is there primarily for damage.

In addition to summoning standard taken enemies, Primius will switch to using only one shot attacks. The most commonly used one is summoning Walls of Deletion, which spawn at the back of the area and move slowly toward the front. You cannot shoot through these walls, making it hard to target things for the team that stayed. For his second attack he picks the person that has done the most damage to him in the past 15 seconds and grants them the debuff "Marked for Annihilation" for 15 seconds. Once these 15 seconds are up, they die. This attack cannot be avoided. For his third attack, he will give everyone the "Reality Collapse" debuff and the message "Primius attempts to erase the fireteam" will appear. To avoid this, players must destroy the Totem of Annihilation that appears before 15 seconds pass.

Somewhere along the wall is a small room with a loot chest. Players must quickly enter and exit this room if they wish to remain alive, and staying inside the room will not work because enemies will enter it.

Players will be affected by the Weight of Darkness debuff upon entering the room. It stacks up to ten times. To start the encounter, one player must pick up a glowing orb called an Unstable Light Charge in the center. Once the orb has been picked up, ads will flood the room. Holding the orb and standing near the person carrying the orb removes the Weight of Darkness, but beware, the orb doesn't last forever. Orbs have a countdown of 30 seconds and when they reach zero, they explode. Players can throw them early to create a powerful area-of-effect detonation. Once the orb has been destroyed, every major will drop another. Only three orbs will be present at a time.

Galrath will come into the room using the door that was left open from the last encounter. Once he enters, the message "Galrath's presence darkens the room" will appear and the room will darken. Lamps are scattered that pop on and off to provide light. The damage phase can begin as soon as Galrath enters the room. Players must use extreme caution fighting him, because every attack he possesses is a one shot. Hive enemies will continue to spawn throughout this encounter.

Galrath's attacks consist of a melee attack with his blade, and occasionally shooting a massive blast at players. He can also shoot the blast at a random ad, which will transform it into a nightmare.

Tzak will stay in the back of the room here. If a player tries to approach him, he will kill them with his melee. He will also have a shield up. He will wander around in the back, firing strange blasts of pure darkness that do some decent damage. Lots of hive enemies will swarm the room as well. In order to draw out Tzak, six things must be done. A major Empowerer must be killed, stolen light must be deposited, three sacrifices must be prevented, one of three synch plates must be captured, a Swordbearer's relic must be destroyed, and all remaining ads must be cleared.

Once all of that has been said and done, Tzak will teleport to the center, summon five nightmare knights, and a large rectangle with a barrier in the center will appear. This is basically volleyball. The goal of this part of the encounter is to score 2 times before your opponents do. If the other team wins, your team will be wiped. If you win, the other team will drop their shields and become hostile. Tzak will serve the ball he summoned, and to volley the ball, players simply touch it before it hits the ground. Players should also be aware that they can go under the net, but doing so will burn you when stepping on the ground, and you will die fast. If the ball lands on your side and is not returned, it will detonate, killing anyone who is too close. It is advised to immediately revive them. When hitting the ball, there is a pattern of how many hits it will take to get it back over the net. The pattern goes 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2. When this ends, Tzak will miss the ball and his shield will drop after his third miss.

This begins one of three damage phases. Tzak will use his standard attack, but he will also sometimes summon a ball and throw it at a player. Players can catch the ball, but if not, it will explode, killing them. Catching a ball allows a player to throw it back, but they must be accurate; the ball will not gravitate towards Tzak. Tzak will generally stay on the right side of the room, unless he teleports, which happens occasionally. He will try to teleport directly on a player that is standing still, which will instantly kill said player. If a player gets to close, he will melee. He also occasionally uses a tether attack, in which he tethers one person and drains their health until either he is shot until he flinches, or all of the players ability energy has been drained. If all ability energy has been drained, the player will die and Tzak will regain health. If three people have been successfully drained during the encounter, Tzak will use the light he drained in a massive attack that will wipe the team. Tzak will also summon six nightmare minotaurs during the damage phase. Eliminating them is necessary to continue.

After Tzak's shield has been dropped, he will teleport to the back and try to stay there until he has a small portion of health left. The minotaurs he summon will also be taken. Once his health is low enough, he will then run away from players in any given direction every 5 seconds. Once he has enough health left to be killed by any given super (minus Ward and Well), he will travel to the middle and stay there. End him there. Once he has been killed, you have a five second time frame to approach and taunt him, which will reward you with an additional piece of raid armor.

There is a grandmaster difficulty. In this difficulty, heroic modifiers will be in place, incoming damage is increased, shields cannot be broken without the proper matchups, enemies will not flinch (Tzak is an exception during his tether), enemies will have higher health, and there will be no red health enemies (exploders are an exception). There will also be additional exclusive challenges. If the raid is completed on this difficulty and none of the challenges were failed, players will be rewarded the full set of raid armor, two raid weapons, two ascendant shards, five enhancement prisms, ten enhancement cores, Wavering Neutrality with its catalyst, and an additional random exotic armor piece a previous year.

During the SIVA crisis, Primius was able to get his hands on a few small garrisons of splicer fallen, though he did not initially take them because he wanted to study them a bit first. Sometime afterward, he managed to open a time portal and abduct an army of splicers and held them in custody. He did this a few times until he was satisfied with how many se had, and took them all. He also learned how to create his own splicer fallen through simulations, but did not know what to do with them.

Sometime after the reef's prison break, Primius learned of the existence of scorn, and took large numbers of them as well. He mostly experimented with his taken during this time, and also learned how to take the summoned entities in his simulations. By learning how to do this, he managed to create and take thousands of hive, cabal, vex, fallen, scorn, and splicers.

During the events on Europa, A small fire team of guardians somehow entered Primius's ascendant plane. He took all three of them to defend his realm. Since they were now under the influence of darkness, their former light-based abilities transformed into darkness-based abilities.

 

Tzak is of a race that is unknown to all but himself and his peers. Even the hive do not know exactly what he is, though they speculate his race is made up of devoted servants of the Darkness, or entities that were created by the Darkness itself, which would elevate them as gods above the Worms. According to Tzak himself, there are 13 other entities like him, though he does not use their names. He refers to them as "the Isolated," "the Fearful," "the Anguished," "the Despaired," "the Brutal," "the Failed," "the Greedy," "the Insane," "the Jealous," "the Obscure," "the Raged," "the Servant," and "the Vain." All of these titles are those of essences dropped by nightmares. This is most likely not a coincidence. Tzak and his peers also seem to live on the Pyramids. Tzak did list a few names in his writings, but never associated them with their titles. (Morzum and Durzic were the names mentioned)

According to Tzak, there are 20 "Main Pyramids." These are the largest of the pyramids. Fourteen of them are occupied by those of his race, and the other six are occupied by other unknown enemies. One was blown up by "something too bright for us to see." One is said to be a Cabal mercenary, another is a large Taken figure, and the rest are powerful ascendant Hive. The pyramids that entered the Sol System during Shadowkeep were supposedly smaller pyramids, though the Luna pyramid is said to be medium sized.

With the destruction of Tzak's pyramid, there are only 18 "Main Pyramids" left.

Galrath gained the title "The Malevolent" shortly after Oryx was assassinated. He salvaged the Tablet of Ruin that was placed inside Golgoroth and somehow incorporated it into his helmet. It allowed him to gain strange abilities using the Darkness, but he did not gain the ability to take like he intended. He himself basically became a "Living Nightmare," and discovered he had the power to turn those around him into nightmares as well.

Sometime during the events of Curse of Osiris, Galrath sought out to meet the most physical form of the Darkness there was, and entered the Pyramid on Luna. It told him of the coming of the fleet, and that he was invited to be a champion on one of the main pyramids. On Tzak's pyramid, Galrath formed a cult that revolved around himself.