Editing Scourge of the Past

|next= [[Crown of Sorrow]]

|image= [[File:Past.jpg|325px]]

|place=[[The Last City]], [[Earth]]

|objective= Confront the Fallen [[Insurrection Prime, Kell's Scourge|war machine]] that has breached the [[Last City]].

'''Scourge of the Past''' is a [[Raid]] in ''[[Black Armory (expansion)|Black Armory]]'', set deep within an abandoned part of [[The Last City]]. It is the conclusion of the [[Black Armory (expansion)|Black Armory]] storyline and features a series of climactic encounters against [[Kell's Scourge]] bosses, along with puzzles and obstacles.

The [[Raid]] takes place at night, as Guardians progress through the [[Kell's Scourge]]'s territory, culminating in a climactic encounter against [[Insurrection Prime, Kell's Scourge]] in the dawn of morning.

===The Holomap===

The raid begins with the Fireteam flying dropping into the Botza District in [[The City]]. It is an exceptionally large urban area with many buildings, alleyways and rooftop patios and allows for the use of Sparrows. The most notable building is the Schnell building with a neon light picture of a bunny. The team starts in one of the corners of the map and will make their way towards the center of the map to a set of Fallen tech. Behind that, a Berserker class Fallen Captain mini-boss will be invisible unless at a close enough distance. The Berserker is immune unless the team shoots two spots, one on his chest and one on his back, while his suppression field is up and the Berserker is charging a powerful shot. This shot as a very good chance of a one-shot kill. Once the shield is down and the Berserker killed, it will drop a Radiant Battery. The battery will only last for one minute and that timer does not reset when picked up, rather it is "inherited". The battery is then placed in an energy station to officially begin the encounter. Once a Radiant Battery is place in an energy station, the player receives the "Ionized" Debuff, which makes it so the player cannot pick up another battery for two minutes.

Once the center energy station is activated, the Holomap will turn on. There is a elevated platform to view the map from. The Holomap will show you a 3D makeup of the Botza District, as well as the location of additional Berserkers and energy station locations, indicated by the number of dots above each one, one top (Schnell) 1, right 2, bottom 3, left 4, and center (map) 5. There is a timer on the top left piece of Fallen tech transmitting the map. If this timer runs out, the Holomap will detonate and the team will wipe. The team must locate a Beserker specifically marked on the map with a large multi-square beacon that follows its movements. Teams are usually one/two stay at the map while four/five go after the Berserker. The team kills the Berserker and instead of one battery, two will spawn. One of these batteries will go to the map, the other will go to one of the four surrounding energy stations. Once a battery is picked up, it will appear on the map with a number of dots, indicating the correct energy station it needs to go to. Placing it in a wrong one will cause it to explode, killing the player and anyone close. Upon coming to an energy station, adds and two major servitors will spawn. The servitors must be since they are blocking access to the energy station. Once they are killed, the player with the battery places it into the energy station. This process must be done 4 times, or rather, the outside energy stations must be done 4 times (not each one, ex. you could put 3 batteries on top and one in left then the encounter is complete). The station in the middles adds time to the timer to stop the team from wiping. Once the encounter is complete, enter the cave where the last battery was placed to obtain a chest. One player must approach the chest to open it, then everyone is given there reward.

===Insurrection Prime Phase 1===

This encounter is the first phase for the final boss, Insurrection Prime, in which consist of two teams of three within the raid fireteam. There are two main location for the two team to collaborate with each other, ground level that mainly consist of enemy clearance and the underground level which mainly focus on the mechanism of this encounter.  

The Ground Level team mainly focus on clearing out the enemy that can infiltrate the underground level, causing severe damage towards the underground team. The enemies are Shanks which are heavily shielded with the three elements, Void, Arc and Solar (in that order of spawn). The enemies will spawn from a Fallen Ship, randomly top, left, right or behind of the map. The Ground Level team must equip a variety of element weapons to quickly take down the Shanks before reaching the Underground Level, however if a few got down below, its not fatal towards the other team. Additionally there will be a Major Servitor spawning in the midst of the encounter in which will be later explain down below.  

The Underground Level team focuses on finding buffs around the circular room that they must melee on. These buff consist of Continuous (Pink) Angular (Blue) and Parallel (White) and a debuff that can caused an immediate wipe on the team. The debuff portrays as red and always shape shifting that players must avoid at all cost. The three players must have one of the buffs that's randomly located around the room. Once melee the buff, player will received the buff on the left screen and will have a circular line around the player's avatar corresponding to the colour of the buff. There will also be Fallen enemies in this room so be mindful when travelling around the Underground Level. Once all three players received their buffs, the Ground Level must defeat the Major Servitor to reset the buff spawn so that Underground Team can gain another buff. Once reset, the Underground team must find their exact same buff from before that is randomly located around the room. If melee the wrong buff, player will instantly die and also, running pass another player with a different buff will cause a debuff called Tethered. Tethered causes damage towards players that are near each other, entangled with their circular line around the player's avatar. Once the team have found their buffs again, the Ground team must yet again destroy the Servitor.  

Once the Servitor is destroyed and the Underground Team have 2x of their buff, they must leave the room to the Ground level and place these buff into the Tanks spawn in which are located at the very top of the map, bottom left and bottom right of the map. Once inserted the three buffs at the three tank location, three tanks will spawn that are main damage towards grounded Insurrection Prime, located in the middle of the map. Tanks can also use missiles in which when the three tanks uses it simultaneously, does severe damage. Once the damage start, the boss will shoot out missile airstrike that will portray as red circle on the ground, near the tanks location. The tank drivers must avoid the airstrike to avoid an early Tank explosion. After some time, the tanks will reach its limit and will start to self-destruct. The Tank drivers must evacuate and return to the Underground level to repeat the whole process again. If however, the Tanks does enough damage to defeat the boss, then this encounter is completed.

Loadouts are role-specific. One player must be assigned as a map reader, and another as a sniper. The rest should be grabbing the charges, and one person should be designated to drive the [[Drake Tank]]. The Holomap reader should have been equipped with close to medium range weapons. Hand cannons, pulse rifles, and shotguns are highly recommended. A sniper should be equipped with a pulse rifle and a kinetic or energy sniper rifle. Everyone else should have the same loadouts as the map reader, but mid to long range weapons are recommended due to the large size of the map. Regardless of roles, it's recommended that everyone come equipped with [[Whisper of the Worm]] for the DPS phase.

After the first part of the DPS phase, Insurrection Prime will emit a pulse that will give all players one of three charges; Angular, Continuous, or Parallel. No more than two players will be affected by the same buff. Two players affected by the same charge must stand next to each other to increase their damage output. However, if they stand next to a player with a different charge, the next time the boss emits a pulse, both players will die. The easiest way to get into formation is to form a V, with Angular on the left, Continuous on the bottom, and Parallel on the right. The boss will repeat this three times, so watch for your buffs and get ready to move. If the boss does not go down in this damage phase, the group has to start from the top.

* Insurrection Prime phase 1: Players can only pick up one of each phase radiance per phase.

* Insurrection Prime phase 2: All players must break 1 shield generator per phase, if a player breaks 2 the challenge will fail.

==Unique Enemies==

*[[Berserker, Kell's Scourge]]

*[[Brutal Shank, Kell's Scourge]]

*[[Unhinged Servitor, Kell's Scourge]]

*[[Insurrection Defender, Kell's Scourge]]

*The designer's sought to style the raid in the vein of [[Wrath of the Machine]], with climatic, escalating encounters characterized by fast, chaotic gameplay.

*Although it is a raid, it is much more closer to a raid lair due to the number of encounters and that there is only one main boss.  

**[[Insurrection Prime]] is the first raid boss who is a [[Prime Servitor]].