FWIW......There's a couple of good strats out there. Here's what I've learned in about 150 attempts from day 1. Three titans, two hunters, warlock seems to be optimal. Titans run no knight bubble strat on top of sister pillars opposite of oryx. One runs blessings other runs weapons to decimate ogres. Once they kill ogres, they focus on knight 4 from top. Relic runner is a Titan. They have the best jumps for platforms hands down. Usually they have relic by the time the 3rd knight spawns. Use raze lighter to kill the relic holder and immediately run to top platform with other Titans. Plate1 Hunter, plate 2 warlock, plate 3 hunter. This is the tricky part. The Hunter on plate one shoots a couple rounds at his ogre then immediately focuses on his knight. Ba hoot a tether in the middle path for the Knights to et stuck in. Same holds true for plate two. Just assist with ogre and focus on knight. By the time knight two is down, the relic holder should have relic. Both of these guys (plate 1+2) should now be jumping up to platform. Plate three is arguably the hardest since adds will be coming in. Assist with ogre killing. Once ogre is down. The relic holder should have relic. Shoot a tether on the knight path and Immediately jump up to platform and start looking for your knight. Blessings/weapon bubble should be up still and touch of malice will shred the knight. Plate three guy should also be looking for knight 4 and assisting. Once all knights are dead, the relic runner should be now getting to platform with aura. Oryx should be slamming simultaneously. Put the damage into oryx to stun. Then focus on adds. You want the ones up front to be clears for shade. Stay up top and kill knights and then teleport in. Relic runner Titan should have blessings bubble for shade. Once out, rinse repeat until you have the four blights. On final run, stun oryx...but do not immediately jump to your blights. Kill adds around your plate. And have relic runner give 5 second countdown. Relic runner must continue to shoot oryx in chest after he's been stunned to get full blight detonation damage. Once countdown is up you should go into blights and relic runner should drop to middle. Everyone meets in middle and you should be complete. It's not horribly difficult. Problem is with knight strategy is the adds. Other problem with the challenge is there is not much room for error with Knights or anything else for that matter.. In the standard knight strat, if you get an errant knight, you lose a blight. Not a big deal. You need the 16 and a three shade run for the challenge. Hope you get it done. There's other methods, this setup worked best for our group, 3 Titans, 2 hunters, one lock. Sister platform so the adds don't kill your two ogre Titans on bottom. Hunters to tether knight paths.

FYI no banner or ship for regular mode challenge completion. Yes I received the calcified fragment, yes I opened 2 chests after Oryx died and yes I checked the kiosks.

Servers have sucked the last two day with nothing but glitches.

Did it tonight after several attempts and still didn't get a helmet. I got a 305 scout, 310 auto, 316 fusion and a 320 hand cannon which is really bad. The actual challenge was pretty easy, and I think I prefer the 16 orb method.

So, the 3 shades aren't the right way? I heard it will work too?

I got picked up by a group of randoms on LFG and we got this done first try with no wipes. It was very easy. Probably as easy as the warpriest challenge.

The challenge should've been no reloading. It would force everyone to use cocoon and touch of malice mechanics.

On my warlock I got 320 harrowed helmet and 320 harrowed chestpiece from oryx challenge. One of them was guaranteed 320 other one I was extremely lucky.

What gives with the rewards? Done hard Oryx challenge on 3 characters - emblem and ship on all. Yet rewards were another 320 artefact on all but no 320 armour and only 1 320 primary. Anybody else get the same?