Anyone else notice that these guys are complete BS? On the daily heroic mission, they always have unflinching, making it extremely hard to kill them, and they do a good amount of damage for how hard they are to kill. Also, they are generally supposed to deal 1/4 or 1/2 of your health depending on how high your level is, but most of the time they will instantly kill you and it will say it was the architects. It would be nice if Bungie would fix the insta kill.
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We failed first try nightfall because the phalanx ohko 2 guys after they just got rezzed xD
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How about they change them to teletubbies amd lollipops to fix this? They won't resist much.
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The instant "killed by the Architects" isn't damage caused by them hitting you with their shield. The shield has a push mechanic that sends you flying. You die when you hit the wall or ceiling at high speed.
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I like playing Chicken with the Phalanx, let him charge me, run to my left, punch his exposed face. 1-2 punches does it
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go in and out of cover and shoot his hand theres no special secret they have weak spots shoot them, ok meg
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Edited by eridian: 11/2/2014 4:21:19 PMThe only issue I have is when on the nightfall those -blam!-ers and the shielded psions come out. Scions will -blam!- you up major if you are not careful, and then the phalanxes will charge on in. And on the boss fight like 3 of them come out and are yellow named, can't make them flinch to get headshots in so you need to just go for normal hits on exposed parts, which can get you killed when three of them are out and some psions are too.
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Edited by CrimsonVlk23: 11/2/2014 4:15:20 PMYou have to be kidding, the Cabal are easily the most overrated faction in this game just based on their in game reputation/lore as being these amazingly tough enemies. It's complete crap and their heads pop like water balloons in seconds. The Colossus is about the only tough member of the faction. A good scout rifle or accurate/stability auto rifle chews through Cabal like wet tissue paper. Even the Fallen are tougher than these guys and they are the whipping boys of the game for the first 14 levels or so.
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Their feet are exposed a lot of the time too. Fusion rifles or snipers work great as others have said. High impact, or keep your distance. Not that hard.
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You must be stupid.... How to kill a phalanx: 1)throw a grenade slightly behind him 2)throw a trip mine at his shield 3) use your hand cannon/sniper to shoot his gun hand 4) flank 5) don't get hit like an idiot
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Instantly kill you? Get a gun and shoot them, they die. You do know guns can be used from range? "I used to be a Cabal Phalanx, then I took a bullet to the hand." (or the foot).
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Just pull out da shotgun blink towards them do a 360 spin switch to sniper pull out knife pull out sparrow through knife reload shotgun shotgun then land and they are all dead it's called the "360 blink shotgun switcheroo knife throw sparrow no scope"
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Finally, some complaining I can agree on!
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Edited by aaronhulan: 11/2/2014 3:54:57 PMShoot them in the hand with a high stability fusion rifle. That's become my go-to lately
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Grenade with dot and huntard throwing kaniff with dot, one shot to the arm or leg for good measure. Ded
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You can poison them with Thorn by shooting their shields.
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Use a sniper to kill them. Why run in like a loon when you can stay back and use your brain
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Ikr such a frustrating enemy to deal with...