I had the pleasure of defeating Skolas last night in the level 35 PoE encounter. It took a while, but was well worth it. It wasn't that hard once you figure out the strategy. My fireteam consisted of one character of each class. I have listed the basic mechanics, and then a guide as well that makes the fight pretty easy. It's Solar burn, so make sure to have abyss defiant, black hammer, vision of confluence, etc... Here is a simply layout of the mechanics of the encounter: 1. Servitor Buff -Upon entering the arena there are servitors that spawn, they have a glow to them so they are distinguishable. -Once you kill a servitor, the servitor bonds will be weakened for 20 seconds, which is basically when Skolas can take damage. -If you do not get Skolas below 50% health before that time expires, you will have to kill another servitor to gain another 20 seconds of the servitors bonds being weakened. -Once you get Skolas below 50% health, the servitor bonds are broken and Skolas will take normal damage the rest of the time. 2. Devouring Essence -Once Skolas reaches 50% health a random firteam will receive a debuff called Devouring Essence for 30 seconds. -This is kind of like the thorn burn. It will kill you once the 30 seconds is up unless another member of your firteam comes over to you and holds x (on Xbone) and takes the debuff for himself (kinda like the chalice of light). -Once the debuff is taken off of you, you are immune for 30 seconds, which means you cannot take the debuff off your fireteam member until the immunity wears off. This calls for precise coordination between you and your fireteam members. -The debuff stays with you until the end of the fight. 3. Splinter Mines -On top of the Devouring Essence, at 50% health, you will have to defuse 3 splinter mines, failing to defuse any of them will casue your fireteam to wipe. -Another wave of splinter mines will appear when Skolas reaches 25% health. -After you kill Skolas, and defuse the splinter mines, the encounter is over and you can return to airlock and drop down to the treasure chest room to obtain your loot. Here is our strategy that seemed to be the easiest and work the best: -Upon entering the arena, all three members go left and kill the first servitor. -Have a titan pop a bubble with weapons of light. -Unload 7 gjallarhorn rockets at Skolas. -Ignore everything else -pop a heavy ammo synth and unload 7 more gjallarhorn rockets at him. -This should kill him, and then all you have to do is defuse the 2 waves of splinter mines. -If you kill him fast enough no ads will spawn and defusing the mines is just a matter of making it to each one in the time given. Make sure you have a key for the gold chest in the treasure room. That is where you get your exclusive emblem, shader, and ship for beating the level 35 PoE. Hope this helped, feel free to ask me any questions, or let me know if anything I listed is incorrect. I'll post a video as soon as I have it uploaded. Edit: to get to the mine quick enough, as soon as I shot my last rocket, I popped my super and blade danced across to the other side. Edit: 100+ replies, thanks for all the positive feedback and questions. Seems like everyone has the same strategy, just blast him with rockets. Lol Edit: So it seems like you only get the shader, emblem, and ship on the first character you open then level 35 chest with. I just ran my second character through and got hard light and a queens shotgun. Nothing special. Edit: I just ran through with my third character. We had 2 Titans and a hunter. One of the Titans didn't have a gally so he hit him with the vex and whole the other Titan and I hit him with gally. When we paused to use a synth the other Titan unloaded HoC rockets on him to keep him staggered. Worked just as well as 3 gallys.