[spoiler]tl;dr. I'm a xmas VoG noob who wandered aimlessly for hours on daily paradox last night to get praedyths ghost because I had no idea where to go[/spoiler]
So I decided to go ahead and solo the Paradox daily last night to get the cult shell. While it was not particularly difficult, I will be honest and admit my noobiness.
I am a Christmas noob. I bought destiny right after TDB was released. As a scrubby casual, I was not to level 30 until late January. Crota was all the rage. I skipped the VoG. Still haven't done it. Only ventures into the vault came via the HoW mission and paradox.
I go in solo, fire up youtube because I know I won't find the ghosts myself. Grab first memory...die a few times jumping. Then the YouTube video skips to the second ghost. I recognize the location, near the Templar fight.
But now I'm like....how the -blam!- did they get there from here?? I'm staring at some random tree and no idea where to go. Look around...see a platform...jumps...dead end. Jump back, short the jump, dies. Go back, get first ghost again, back at tree. Dies again. So many damn tunnels and ledges.....
After what felt like hours (probably 30 minutes), I finally find the back way to the Templar area. But of course I die in the taken fight to a stupid captain. Can't go back to get the ghosts now. Restart.
Get the first two ghosts this time no problem. Kill the hydra in the gorgon maze. Check youtube for the third ghost. Near the jumping puzzle.....easy enough....except I have no idea how to get out of the damn maze lol. My missions always ended at praedyths bones! The youtubers (rightly so) assumed people knew how to get out of the maze so skipped that part.
If you want a good laugh bungie, go watch my game footage of a poor guardian wandering in circles for nearly an hour trying to find the path to the jumping puzzle. Wait, I've seen this puddle before. Sigh, same stupid red light. Same God damn pillars for the tenth time!!!
Finally I found the nook and was able to grab the ghost and do the jumping puzzle without issue (that would have been a rage quit had i died). Got to the taken fight, died a few times (which thankfully at that point doesn't prevent getting the cult ghost), but was able to solo the boss after a few tries.
So my cult ghost is turned in, now just waiting for my chance at Fallen to Light to come back.
I will be doing VoG as part of the no time to explain questline. I can see why people enjoy the VoG itself, even though I didn't experience the boss mechanics.
I set personal records for longest life and longest mission as it took me over two hours to run that one mission lol. Overall fun experience but did I feel dumb being a level 40 and not knowing how to simply get out of the gorgon maze lol. I spent a lot more time walking in circles than I did fighting. That said, it was rewarding to still feel something "new" after nearly a year.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Vault is awesome.
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GO AND DO THE FREAKING "VOG" ! BEST RAID EXPERIENCE YOU CAN EVER FIND !
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I've done VOG many times... YET, after I killed the hydra for the life of me couldn't get out of the maze. I ended up stepping back, taking a breath (yelling at myself for being an idiot). I went to the beginning of maze an ran it as if there were gorgons there and I was doing the raid. Found the damn hole in seconds... Lmao
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LOL, basically the same thing happened to me too!! Same solution.
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Literally what my team had to do. Twice, because my first teammate waited until I scanned the last memory and then scanned the bones while I was learning the last puzzle.
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Edited by ixi_kinky_ixi: 10/22/2015 11:32:25 AMYou should have watched the posted video... I show you how to go through the areas. No skippage.
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Your experience was [u]Exactly[/u] like mine.
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I'm a day one player, and I got turned around enough in the maze for a bit too. And the last fight was stupidly hard for me. I must have been doing something wrong, because it took forever. There was a constant stream of 2 hobgoblins and 2 goblins from the left and right area. I stayed at the entrance and couldn't do enough DPS on the boss, so I switched to a shotgun and rocket launcher and ran up to get a few rockets off before retreating. Took so long. I am sure it was a L2P issue, and there is a much faster way, but man was that annoying.
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don't feel bad, I played the VOG many MANY times and still got lost in the maze
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[quote]don't feel bad, I played the VOG many MANY times and still got lost in the maze[/quote]
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[quote][quote]don't feel bad, I played the VOG many MANY times and I am still lost in the maze[/quote][/quote] Fixed that for you.
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Hahaha
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why not get yourself a part of a vog raid group to practise the mechanics.