Literally took me 5 phases today for guardian rank and I was not sweating, missed some shots. It's easy if you have experience in the game. Why casual players like to complain about content they don't understand? Just don't do a solo run if you can't make a couple of google searches on how to damage a boss

Honestly only thing that I wish they'd change about that encounter; Make boss immune to knockback. It's annoying af when I use [armory]Retrofit[/armory], and boss gets pushed to other end of map, leaving effective damage range.

I see two solutions to this: 1. Scale its health to fireteam size. But apparently this is not a good way to do it because the pro gamers in this thread say fireteams would be too easy. 2. Health gates. What I mean by this is, once you bring its shield down the damage phase lasts until you deal a certain amount of damage (let's say 25%). This prevents solos from going 6+ phases and fireteams can no longer one phase the boss. Everyone will be on even ground, and now a fireteam just makes it faster, not easier. Because apparently it was too easy before.

Dungeons need health scaling. There's no reason bosses should be so tedious to fight

It takes 4 phases, I don't think that unreasonable given you're doing it SOLO. you really need to grasp the concept of solo play. It's not about one phasing everything, it's about doing it WITHOUT help from team mates. This mean LESS damage per phase. If you wanna one phase crap go play strikes.

Akelous (and Persys) has so much health compared to other bosses in the game because getting to damage phase is comparatively very easy. It gets insanely quick when you have practice with nodes. So bring the right guns and don't go for the fewest number of phases, just shave off time in the circuit gaps in between.

Also there are just a lot of supers you can’t really use on him because he just flies off into a parallel universe if you dare hit him with one

I soloed it twice and both times took over 10 phases, even after changing my loadout. Bungie shoul take notes from From Software how to make difficulty. It's just tedious to do the same encounter 40 minutes then fall asleep and run into some physics trap pit or get thrown off the map. Not difficult, just tedious.

Much of this stems from the boss being a Wyvern. It's aggressive and does a ton of damage, so you have to actively move away from it, even with the safety of a Well. It's crit spot is nigh on impossible to reliably hit, so precision damage is largely off the table. The only saving grace is that Wyverns take massively increased damage from abilities, which is why Starfire Protocol Fusion spam is so effective, but for most people this isn't going to be the bulk of their damage output. On the other side, assuming this point is only in relation to soloing the boss, a solo Dungeon is just as much a test of endurance as it is execution. I remember barely missing out on a 4-phase kill on Kell Echo back in Season 11 and being terrified of making a mistake in phase 5. We have lost out on Solo Operative and Weakened Clear, which are likely to return at some point, but we have reliable heavy ammo (which I always feel is the biggest block in that fight) through Bricks from Beyond and Surge mods that make extra damage stacking easier than before. Edit: I'm an idiot, ignore the first half.

Dungeons bosses should scale by fireteam size (66% health reduction when solo, 33% when duo). Doing 5+ phases when solo is just dumb.

Lmao my best was like 1 million damage in a phase. 4 phases to get him to 50%. Took like 20 minutes. I just gave up and went back to orbit 🤣 Came to forums only to be told “I diD it LasT SeAsoN. skiLL iSsUe” like bruh last season you was doing 75% more damage with weakened clear, high energy fire and solo operative 🤣

It IS tedious, you're right! There's nothing interesting there, just don't fall off and follow the stupid cables as they tuck in and hide in scenery ugh. We had a weird glitch the other night where he would shift to one side off the runway during dps randomly and sail off and back again in a curve. Did NOT help the aim!

Weakened Clear was only a 15% debuff, but Anarchy got a 20% buff. Anarchy also got a 10% buff too not too long ago. Anarchy is sitting at 92.4% of what it was when it was complete meta and got nerfed. Here's where things get interesting. Anarchy was never nerfed for Champions and mini bosses. So Anarchy only has had buffs vs champs and mini bosses since it was created. Anarchy is currently doing 130% it's launch damage vs champs and mini bosses and 92.4% damage vs big bosses. If you can't kill the boss easily with Anarchy and a sniper/shotgun, that's a problem. Literally for Calus I shot two Anarchys, hid. Shot two. Hid. Over and over till he died and I said aloud, "What a ridiculously easy boss". Never died or even was close to it. You can literally spend all your time dodging -blam!- while Anarchy does all the work. Don't have to expose yourself for dealing damage. Yeah Solo Operative is gone but oh well. Youll be missing out on 10% damage overall which is nothing.

That fight is almost braindead. Complete 4 relays and damage phase starts? Literally one of the dumbest things to complain about, currently.