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And finally, here we are: the encounter that makes me both want to pull my hair out and fall asleep all at the same time. No other encounter arouses such a strong mix of boredom and anger than the [[Throne]] room with [[Emperor Calus]]. First thing right off the bat, Calus, if you think we're a disturbance to you, why not just immediately send us to the Mind's Eye dimension instead of lazily sending in reinforcements? Sure, that means Bungie will have to pull another Atheon move, but at least we actually get to the action.

So, he teleports one half of the team into his mindscape with his double clap and they do what they normally do in there (except they don't have to worry about the symbols on Calus' forehead), while everyone in the throne room need to defend a bowl of Royal Wine against waves of Cabal. In the meantime, a Councilor will appear, which will cause everyone in the mindscape to get sucked in while also personally shielding [[Major]] [[Centurion]]s called [[Forum:Royal Consumer|Royal Consumers]] with a random element. Killing it will halt the sucking process as well as temporarily stun the Consumers. The Consumers must be killed for, if they ever consume any wine, they will enter a permanent berserker rage which will give them significant damage resistance and increased movement and attack speed. To assist in this, Calus will summon his Afterburn blasts followed by shots from a wrist-mounted rocket launcher. If 3 Consumers successfully consume the wine, then Calus will summon his Imperial Nova. Shoot him to stop this attack, or you all die. Just remember those Councilors. While the throne team is fending off everything else, the Mind's Eye team shoots down the skulls as normal to see how many stacks they can gather, but when they re-enter the throne room, they will need to spill the bowl over the other teammates to grant them the "Force of Will" buff, allowing you to damage Calus as normal, except that standing on a plate starts to drain your health, so always be rotating. When he enters his robot phase, his attacks are faster and have a much longer range. Kill him and you'll get your loot down below.

So, he teleports one half of the team into his mindscape with his double clap and they do what they normally do in there (except they don't have to worry about the symbols on Calus' forehead), while everyone in the throne room will need to defend a bowl of Royal Wine against waves of Cabal. In the meantime, a Councilor will appear, which will cause everyone in the mindscape to get sucked in while also personally shielding [[Major]] [[Centurion]]s called [[Forum:Royal Consumer|Royal Consumers]] with a random element. Killing it will halt the sucking process as well as temporarily stun the Consumers. The Consumers must be killed for, if they ever consume any wine, they will enter a permanent berserker rage which will give them significant damage resistance and increased movement and attack speed. To assist in this, Calus will summon his Afterburn blasts followed by shots from a wrist-mounted rocket launcher. If 3 Consumers successfully consume the wine, then Calus will summon his Imperial Nova. Shoot him to stop this attack, or you all die. Just remember those Councilors. While the throne team is fending off everything else, the Mind's Eye team shoots down the skulls as normal to see how many stacks they can gather, but when they re-enter the throne room, they will need to spill the bowl over the other teammates to grant them the "Force of Will" buff, allowing you to damage Calus as normal, except that standing on a plate starts to drain your health, so always be rotating. When he enters his robot phase, his attacks are faster and have a much longer range. Kill him and you'll get your loot down below.

==Conclusion==

My goodness, there were so many sections I had to take apart. This raid is definitely not perfect the way it is, even if I'm looking at it differently than what it's supposed to be played like. Point is, the Leviathan has nothing on the raids from Destiny 1, especially [[Vault of Glass]]. Anyway, here's to hoping that the next full raid won't suck, but let's be honest: it probably will...because this is Bungie we're talking about.

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 And finally, here we are: the encounter that makes me both want to pull my hair out and fall asleep all at the same time. No other encounter arouses such a strong mix of boredom and anger than the [[Throne]] room with [[Emperor Calus]]. First thing right off the bat, Calus, if you think we're a disturbance to you, why not just immediately send us to the Mind's Eye dimension instead of lazily sending in reinforcements? Sure, that means Bungie will have to pull another Atheon move, but at least we actually get to the action.
-So, he teleports one half of the team into his mindscape with his double clap and they do what they normally do in there (except they don't have to worry about the symbols on Calus' forehead), while everyone in the throne room need to defend a bowl of Royal Wine against waves of Cabal. In the meantime, a Councilor will appear, which will cause everyone in the mindscape to get sucked in while also personally shielding [[Major]] [[Centurion]]s called [[Forum:Royal Consumer|Royal Consumers]] with a random element. Killing it will halt the sucking process as well as temporarily stun the Consumers. The Consumers must be killed for, if they ever consume any wine, they will enter a permanent berserker rage which will give them significant damage resistance and increased movement and attack speed. To assist in this, Calus will summon his Afterburn blasts followed by shots from a wrist-mounted rocket launcher. If 3 Consumers successfully consume the wine, then Calus will summon his Imperial Nova. Shoot him to stop this attack, or you all die. Just remember those Councilors. While the throne team is fending off everything else, the Mind's Eye team shoots down the skulls as normal to see how many stacks they can gather, but when they re-enter the throne room, they will need to spill the bowl over the other teammates to grant them the "Force of Will" buff, allowing you to damage Calus as normal, except that standing on a plate starts to drain your health, so always be rotating. When he enters his robot phase, his attacks are faster and have a much longer range. Kill him and you'll get your loot down below.
+So, he teleports one half of the team into his mindscape with his double clap and they do what they normally do in there (except they don't have to worry about the symbols on Calus' forehead), while everyone in the throne room will need to defend a bowl of Royal Wine against waves of Cabal. In the meantime, a Councilor will appear, which will cause everyone in the mindscape to get sucked in while also personally shielding [[Major]] [[Centurion]]s called [[Forum:Royal Consumer|Royal Consumers]] with a random element. Killing it will halt the sucking process as well as temporarily stun the Consumers. The Consumers must be killed for, if they ever consume any wine, they will enter a permanent berserker rage which will give them significant damage resistance and increased movement and attack speed. To assist in this, Calus will summon his Afterburn blasts followed by shots from a wrist-mounted rocket launcher. If 3 Consumers successfully consume the wine, then Calus will summon his Imperial Nova. Shoot him to stop this attack, or you all die. Just remember those Councilors. While the throne team is fending off everything else, the Mind's Eye team shoots down the skulls as normal to see how many stacks they can gather, but when they re-enter the throne room, they will need to spill the bowl over the other teammates to grant them the "Force of Will" buff, allowing you to damage Calus as normal, except that standing on a plate starts to drain your health, so always be rotating. When he enters his robot phase, his attacks are faster and have a much longer range. Kill him and you'll get your loot down below.
 ==Conclusion==
 My goodness, there were so many sections I had to take apart. This raid is definitely not perfect the way it is, even if I'm looking at it differently than what it's supposed to be played like. Point is, the Leviathan has nothing on the raids from Destiny 1, especially [[Vault of Glass]]. Anyway, here's to hoping that the next full raid won't suck, but let's be honest: it probably will...because this is Bungie we're talking about.