My friends and I had a pretty frustrating run against Qodron during our first attempt. We banged against him for 3 hours straight and eventually quit with our tails between our legs. We spent a week strategizing and going over our failures before attempting again. Yesterday, we beat him first shot; no Gjallarhorns. And it felt like a cake walk. Imo, the right hand side of the arena is way more secure than the left side. During the left side, you're flanked from generally all directions. Where on the right, as mentioned above, you typically only have to worry about your front side and left side flanks. While we were all without Gjallarhorns, all of us had Super Good Advice. What's key about SGA is, strikes against the bubble do not count as a "landed" round, and therefore, ammo is returned directly to the magazine of SGA, while SGA continues to chew through the containment bubbles. When possible, if one of us had the bubble breaker perk, we would group together. Lastly, I switched out my primary weapon for rolled hand canons with reload perks and explosive rounds. Most precision shots with a hand canon will 1-shot most of the vex trash mobs. And after doing some math, we found out the body shots with explosive rounds cause more damage than body shots with regular rounds. By the time we completed the round, I had 77 kills, to my friends' 34 and 11 (albeit, '11' was focusing on the boss, but '34' was dedicated to the adds, just as I was). In summary, if you are still struggling with this fight because you don't have the ever elusive Gjallarhorn, get some Super Good Advice, hand canons + explosive rounds, and head to the right.

Me and 2 of my friends made/found our own tactic that although sounds crazy actually worked after a few tries to get everyone on board with the plan. I am a 34 Titan (Defender - not fully necessary though) and both my friends are a 33 & 34 Hunter with Gunslinger. We went in and straight to the left side were most people say to hide. Strangely enough we found our tactic worked best if one person was almost always dead. As they can be revived after the shields go up and not be affected. One of us was designated Qodron's Eye killer who would bust the shields. This was my job with my icebreaker, we all grouped together around the dead orb in that left corner when shields were about to go up and I would shoot free us with jailbreaker on with my Exotic Sniper Icebreaker and the other friend would revive the other player. And then one of them would die again. To repeat the technique. However sometimes if one of us (or me) died then one of the others had to kill a Qodron's Eye and break the shield and I would be the Dedicated Down player for that round of shields to be revived after they go up. They used theyre gunslinger specials to destroy the bubble shields and break free when they were jailbreaker. One at a time of course due to Trickle being on, so not to waste they're specials. This maybe isnt an ideal tactic but who cares. It worked for 3players who don't have gallys to kill him. My shield was barely used. Only in the worst of the worst situation to save us. However you do not want to be in the defender bubble when the other bubble goes up because it can mean you cant shoot through your own bubble to destroy the trap one. We only attacked him once all the smaller guys were dead. But do as much damage as possible because more enemies will spawn and the process repeats. All in all we took about 2 & half hours to complete this lvl 34 Prison of Elders however most of that (1-2hrs) was all on Qodron including the attempts it took before we figured out this technique and practiced it a few times.

My friend. If the answer to the question is not gjallahorn then you are asking the wrong question.

Nice good post, thanks.

Nice we spent hours getting here to just quite at this level. I told my group to try right side. 😠 ended up quitting due to needing to leave.

Twice. Did it a second time to help friends because someone rage quit.

Ok