Not really, but kinda'... just did it 1st try for the 1st time.
I learned some things:
99% of aggro can be blinded.
I did with Mothman, I'll link the kit here:
[url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/264217379?sort=0&page=0]Mothman[/url]
I changed the loadout a tad, I ran Outbreak, Abby, and an Adept Linear (Reed's Regret) with Ensemble Firing Line.
I changed Defiance (Fragment) to the Sever Fragment.
Stay as a group, for the most part. Only the final plate Tormentor in the first area is immune to CC. The trigger Tormentors before each DPS phase are bosses too, but I think that's it.
2nd Area... you can skip the 1st 2 phases, my team didn't... but you can. There are no time limits for 3rd phase. It's probably best to do some dmg...
Why?
Because you can farm Rez's on the right side between phases. If you want, you can have 2 people shoot the hands that pause some of the AOE spam. I joined a no mic lfg, so there wasn't any communication... I was focused on spamming Overshields, Transcendence, and Amplify to farm Champs. My deaths? I think I died 6 times total, but I probably farmed 40 rez's.
I didn't die in the 1st area, I died 3 times on the plate... no excuses, I'll get better at it.
Try Fireteam Finder, play safe... you'll get it eventually if you want the title and catalyst for Ergo.
It wasn't a stellar performance by any means, we went into last phase with 20 tokens, 1 left at the end, but everyone was up.
It was fun 😇 👍💠.
I'll link Mactics vid too... I watched it before I went in, the team I joined did it a bit different, but it's still a good primer to get the lay of things.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaRVcUzrp4]How ANYONE Can Beat GRANDMASTER Excision (Seriously.. Its Easy)[/url]
credit: Mactics
That's the title of the vid, btw, not my characterization. Don't get frustrated if it takes you a few attempts. Mac was sayin' it was easy the entire time... and they still almost ran out of tokens in the 1st area during his guide.
If you have a crew though... mic'd up... probably not that bad, imo. It's still a GM delta though.
One final tip, if you're dying on the plate because your ads'd... you can Hipfire a linear pretty accurately.
I do wanna try Vexcalibur for Boss, has anyone tried it? I didn't want to get kicked, so I didn't equip it, but I think if you stayed just behind the group... you could probably tank for the entire 12 man team and then maybe you wouldn't need to move.
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My tip. Stop dying and using all the revive tokens