1) Always shoot him 2) Shoot his crit spots 3) loot the chest

if you think event horizon 3 bullet mag will improve DPS your delusional, grab a longbow synth with casket mag / speed reload / empty speed reload, with huge stability you'll fire 5 bullets instead of 1 bullet from even horizon type garbage sniper snipers is not your major DPS on Aksis anyways, it's tether / weapons of light and use the cannons :-) 80k+ per shot, after that it's the pulse riffle

Hes been 2 manned. Dps isint the problem, the problem is that people panic when they get empowered...this is the easiest raid by far...all you need is communication because the rest is easy as fk

One thing people also do is wait until the charged shot explodes on its own, you can wait 2-3 seconds til you hear the high pitched beep and let go for 68k, does not need the 5 second hold to do maxed damage. Should be 0 cannons left during middle of last teleport phase if done right.

If youre firing your cannon without both weapons and tether, youre wasting DPS. If youre hogging the cannons and wasting shots without buffs, its not surprising your DPS is higher than other people's because they have less shots to use. I have seen a lot of people saying they don't have time to fire off all of the cannon shots with both weapons and tether buffs, but i think a lot of these people don't properly understand some things. [b]1) Aksis is vulnerable from the time the final siva bomb hits him until he teleports back to mid. Don't wait, shoot that -blam!-er.[/b] * If youre using dark drinker or any sword for DPS, you don't have to wait until aksis is stunned to start doing damage. You can hit him literally as soon as he teleports. * If its the third phase, and he teleports, get that tether on the boss as soon as the teleport is done, you shouldn't wait for the boss to be stunned before tethering. * If youre a weapons titan, don't wait for the stun to pop your bubble, pop it as the boss is teleporting (assuming youre saving weapons bubble for the third phase), so people can get their weapons of light and be ready! If youre using bastion, you can pop it in the middle of the second DPS phase as the bubble will last 45 seconds. * If youre a cannon user and already have gotten your weapons/tether is up, shoot that -blam!-er! Don't wait for the stun! Cannons do the same damage with body shots and headshots, so there's no need at all to wait for the stun! [b]2) You don't need to charge the scorch cannon until it explodes automatically. Its fully charged after about 1.5 seconds (the ball gets a bit brighter). Scorch cannons in wrath of the machine only have 2 states : charged and uncharged. There is no "partially charged" like prison of elders scorch cannons[/b] * As soon as the cannon is charged, let go of the charge! If youre waiting for it to automatically explode, youre wasting a ton of time! * You can begin charging a cannon before entering a weapons bubble and explode it after (if your titan is slow...) to still get full damage. [b]3) Other tips for DPS:[/b] * Reminder : dark drinker applies the best DPS against aksis other than cannons as proven by datto's videos. If you have one, try it (use repeated R2 attacks and make sure you have the upgrade selected that increases the damage of the R2 attack)! * Glasshouse is very very convenient exotic to have equipped on your titan, especially for people doing DPS with dark drinker or other swords. This means that if the bubble isnt right next to aksis's feet (which is often the case so that people with snipers can also do good DPS), dark drinker users will likely maintain weapons for the entire damage phase without needing to returning to the bubble. Glasshouse extends the duration of weapons of light buff by 5 additional seconds after leaving the bubble for the whole fireteam. * Melting point is a significant buff to DPS. If you have multiple titans, consider having one of them go sunbreaker and apply melting point during the phases you are not using tethers (if any),. Melting point is a 50% damage buff. Melting point stacks with weapons of light but not tether (tether overwrites it). Titans using melting point should use a double melee exotic (ex: insurmountable skullfort) so they can apply melting point during multiple damage phases. Dark drinker is a great choice for a melting point titan because they will be at the bosses' feet already to apply sword damage. * An alternative if youre using 2 defender titans is to have one pop weapons on first teleport and the second one pop weapons on third teleport or middle of second teleport.

You don't need a sniper or even heavy to do damage. All you need are 2 tethers, a weapons bubble, 3 guys running cannons and 3 guys running outbreak prime. Killed in 3 passes.

Idk, I use my Eirene with LitC/Dark Drinker and do plenty of damage, never had a problem killing him

How does the dread fang compare to dark drinker? Thinking of freeing up my heavy slot. Is it worth it?

There is no way you can inflict 130-200k damage on aksis with cannons without the use of buffs (tether and bubble).

Get Dark Drinker!

I have 4 snipers I like, any opinions on which one would be best for the raid Devils dawn Life support Armor Piercing rounds/quickdraw Firefly 2 event horizons 1. Spray and play Quickdraw/snapshot Hidden hand 2.Spray and play/grenadier Explosive rounds Hidden hand 1kys Army of one explosive rounds spray and play Thanks fellow guardians

I love how people don't even mention the secondary empowerment ability. Which will more than likely be required during heroic or challenge.

I like to use a cannon for his first 2 stuns because I can usually get off all but 2 shots by the 3rd stun and then I can use 16 shots of my event horizon on the 3rd stun. I usually end up with ~650k damage per phase doing this

I have a 5 in the mag triple tap 1kys. It's a beast.

You are wasting cannon DPS shooting them without buffs. 1 cannon shot with Wol and Tether at 385 is hitting for 124,000 charged. Rarely does my team have any cannon shots left ever. Using special and heavy during 1st and 2nd teleport is key for crits. Just hit with your primary until Aksis pops his ugly head. This is how you maximize damage without a fully coordinated team doing other tactics.

Yep the main thing I noticed was exactly this i.e. people yelling drop cannon middle then not managing to do the DPS that the cannon is capable of because they don't have enough time to fire and full charge them in the third teleport. Seriously people he's damageable three times for a very good reason!

So here's the thing, people save the cannons for the third phase because stacking weapons and tether at the end can make cannons do 120k each shot. That's why it's the best strat...now for the best possible dps you mentioned that his head is down while waiting to be slammed, well that's a great time to use dark drinker since it doesn't rely on crits. Remember your main source of dps is always going to be those cannons and not utilizing them correctly will make you lose out

Who cares how much damage u make on aksis phase. As long as u kill the guy. Everyday i see a new post "how too max damage on aksis" there tons of videos on YouTube too. Is there fireteams that cant kill aksis on 5 rounds of damage or what. Why is there a need too repost on this topic Oh and i aint hating on op