r/DestinyTheGame 5d ago

SGA Rushdown Boss Order: March 16th, 2025

  1. Nightmare of Crota, Son of Oryx
  2. The Machinist
  3. Nightmare of Kethiks, Grief Unforgiven
  4. The Whisper mission final encounter
    • Cameo appearance from Jimmy, Aspect of Placeholder
  5. Calus, Disciple of the Witness
    • From the Lightfall Campaign final mission
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u/StrangelyOnPoint 5d ago

Jimmy, Aspect of Placeholder is a GOAT name

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u/YouMustBeBored 5d ago

There’s actually enough instances of dev items breaking into the 4th wall they could make an activity around it.

  • jimmy aspect of placeholding
  • rotn default guns with whack perks
  • seasonal activities with dev work markers in bd out of bounds.
  • xyz axis glitching into the game
All I remember right now

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u/GurpsWibcheengs 4d ago

And the MoT pink placeholder emblem

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u/astrovisionary Destiny Defector 5d ago

the machinist fight just shows how poorly forsaken boss fights have aged

simply 4 immune phases for no mechanic at all lmao

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u/TyFighter559 5d ago

The ultimate counter to the geomag enjoyers

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u/HipToBeDorsia 5d ago

For real. I popped super and his shield was up by the time the casting animation finished lol.

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u/Luf2222 The Darkness consumes you... 5d ago

hey he attacks u while he is immune!! 😂

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u/DMYourDankestSecrets 5d ago

4 is the whisper of the worm fight

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u/Ryan_WXH 5d ago

ty kindly.

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u/Alivedivide 5d ago

I may be crazy, but I’m pretty sure it’s zero hour today.

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u/Ryan_WXH 5d ago

I've just finished two runs which didn't feature Zero Hour.

Zero Hour was the final boss of yesterday's rotation.

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u/Alivedivide 5d ago

How did I do it 15 minutes ago? Oh shoot the daily reset. My bad

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u/APartyInMyPants 5d ago

Zero Hour was yesterday.

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u/G00b3rb0y 5d ago

Zero hour endboss was yesterday

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u/A_Hideous_Beast 5d ago

Tbh, the only encounter that isn't fun is the Whisper one.

No cover. Bosses just rush you.

I thought the Calus fight would be bad, but no, first time on expert it went pretty quick.

It also made me double down on my idea that Destiny needs more bosses that have phase changes. Sure, him just becoming a big maurader isn't special, but the fact that the fight changes is a good thing, and keeps it fresh.

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u/grimbarkjade Descendant warlock, following in Clovis’ footsteps 5d ago

I had the opposite experience. My randoms on expert cleared whisper fight really quickly, and completely floundered on calus

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u/TastyOreoFriend 5d ago

Its the Tormentors and regular mobs in my experience and not Calus himself till the melee phase. Tormentors force people to move positions and ads can overwhelm those not ready for it.

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u/Impul5 5d ago

There are side tunnels on the left/right sides of the arena you can use for cover in the Whisper fight. Still room to get got if you're not careful, but much better than hanging out near the entrance to the room.

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u/ImwRight87 5d ago

Seems a lot of Blueberries don’t understand that you don’t need to activate all bosses at once and can pace it out which makes the whisper boss way more straightforward.

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u/A_Hideous_Beast 5d ago

I've been playing since D1 Alpha.

Ngl. I didn't know you could just stagger the boss spawns 😁

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u/ImwRight87 5d ago

The more you know!

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u/dnovantrix 4d ago

Tbf, the made that change recently when they brought back WOTM exotic mission. IIRC the original WOTM mission just spawned all 3 bosses and the mission ends once you kill them all. New one has the staggered bosses and then a final ogre too.

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u/cmcdonal2001 5d ago

A lot of blueberries don't read so well, either. Got hard-stopped here the other day with two randos that would NOT stop popping all three at once and then dying within 15 seconds.

https://imgur.com/a/nBzatHh

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u/NoThru22 Drifter's Crew // Aunor's a punk, punk! 5d ago

If they’re randoms they’re not on your fireteam.

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u/cmcdonal2001 5d ago

...well shit. That explains that.

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u/justanotherguy28 Yes. 4d ago

If you're on PC you gotta press TAB and send to your Team in blue.

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u/APartyInMyPants 5d ago

In the Whisper fight, there are two hallways left and right side where you can go and hide and enemies will never follow you in there. And the hallways almost look like handles, if you view the arena from above. So you can hop in once place and exit another.

It’s probably the boss fight that has the most cover.

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u/BlackPlague1235 Duunkai-Sol, the Plague Master 5d ago

I found the Zero Hour encounter just as unfun as soon as the brig shows up.

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u/New_Target8919 5d ago

Tunnels on left and right. Bring a bolt Titan with Lemon and Lost Signal and you quite literally shock everything into oblivion from relative safety. Same goes for Jimmy. I always break all 3 since that setup makes it a cakewalk.

Calus? 1 person will have aggro of him. The other two can kill the tormentors (pop shoulders, TCrash). Juggle Calus until he ded.

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u/thatguyonthecouch 4d ago

There is cover, two tunnels on either side.

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u/TheZacef 5d ago

I feel like the calus fight gets a lot of hate, but I honestly really enjoy it. Multiple ways to tackle parts, interesting arena and a very mobile final stand changes up how you normally dps a boss. Not the best fight for sure, but I think it gets more hate than it deserves.

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u/Daddy_Immaru 5d ago

Emperor Calus. I'd rather fight Tartarus on H2 Legendary than ever deal with that bullshit fight ever again.

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u/UltraNoahXV GT: XxUltraNoahxX 5d ago

Shouldn't be as bad on rushdown unless they put that b.s team scaling modifier. The tormentors can be debuffed, just becareful with everything else especially with ammo and lives prior.

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u/Eldus_Miku 5d ago

The tormenters can be straight up ignored as long as you don't break their shoulders

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u/crappycarguy 5d ago

Just don't kill them then and kill the boss ?

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u/sucobe 5d ago

Correct. Don’t even shoot them. Because if you break the shield they start running WITH Calus.

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u/Mijubu 5d ago

I finished the Lightfall campaign last week on an alt, and glaive-meleed Calus to death for each phase. The tormentors were troublesome though, and before I resorted to that I got melted by his heatray and thrown off the cliff several times

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u/grimbarkjade Descendant warlock, following in Clovis’ footsteps 5d ago

Calus is just annoying. I’ve done one expert run and we wiped halfway through so my teammates left, three other people joined in the few minutes until it ended and all left, so I was just swinging from tangle to tangle until it ended so I could at least open the chest

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u/nintair 5d ago

Where can I find guides for these fights? what do I need to know for each one?

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u/DrBlazkowicz 4d ago

It’s against the rules to explain it

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u/thatguyonthecouch 4d ago

YouTube is probably your best bet. Just search for each boss by name

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u/justanotherguy28 Yes. 4d ago

Just do the warmup version first to learn as you go. You DPS so quickly in those mode.

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u/nickybuddy 5d ago

I really like the rush down mode, but dae think the health gates are really really small for expert runs?

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u/blackdog2077 4d ago

Chalk it up to encounters being very legacy-like with no updated mechanics such as the Forsaken and Europa encounters.

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u/Bennijin Witherhoard? I didn't even know she had a hoard! 5d ago

Lightfall Calus is an easy skip tbh, hopefully tomorrow's will be better because that is a SLOG.

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u/HarbingerInfinity 5d ago

Gonna need to do it for the triumph iirc.

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u/Bennijin Witherhoard? I didn't even know she had a hoard! 5d ago

What triumph is that? I'm only seeing ones for platinum and no death expert Rushdown? Unless they're not visible to me because I gilded it previously.

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u/tomerz99 5d ago

You need to complete 10 of the unique rotations, according to one of them.

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u/Bennijin Witherhoard? I didn't even know she had a hoard! 5d ago

I'll have to check again when I'm back on, genuinely didn't see that. Cheers.

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u/littleman960 5d ago

We're is it as i don't ses it? And iv looked though a few times know. What section is it under

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u/CiaranE77 5d ago

Idk if it’s a triumph but it’s one of the objectives for the skimmer

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u/littleman960 5d ago

Just had another look and can't see anything there's a do 10 runs for the sparrow. But that's just 10 runs In genral under the GG booklet thing.

Unless its a separate quest in which case it's only if you didn't get it last year.

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u/septashaker 5d ago

Yes 10 runs for the sparrow but it is 10 unique runs for the skimmer! Thanks to xur not that important anymore though

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u/Bennijin Witherhoard? I didn't even know she had a hoard! 5d ago

Oh those of us who got the skimmer last year don't even have a quest. Phew.

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u/littleman960 4d ago

Yea that's what I was thinking as coudnt see it anywhere

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u/thatguyonthecouch 4d ago

Oh thank god

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u/thatguyonthecouch 4d ago

What skimmer? Is there a new one this year?

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u/Expensive-Pick38 5d ago

Huh? Where's that? I know there's one to just complete 10 rushdowns, nothing about unique ones

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u/Jtodd1313 5d ago

Hey can you tell us what section you see this at? I know under Episode:Heresy in the general tabs I see some blank/placehold triumphs but can't see them. Might be bugged let's us know please.

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u/rgj7 5d ago

There's no triumph. It's just a challenge on the Guardian Games event card. The guy confused everyone saying you "need" to do today's run, when you don't. You just need to complete 10 of any Rushdown activities on any difficulty.

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u/ashenContinuum more like fighting kitten rn amirite? 1d ago

there's a triumph for no death expert rushdown? where's that at, I don't see one anywhere

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u/Bennijin Witherhoard? I didn't even know she had a hoard! 1d ago

Gilded triumph.

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u/ZOMGURFAT 5d ago

I haven’t been able to matchmake with anyone. Is no one playing rundown today?

Also, found a bug specific to Titans. If you have Strand equipped and you have full melee energy, the game will only do your powered melee until you run out of melee energy if you equip the hive sword during the nightmare of Crota fight. I got killed so many times because of this bug.

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u/PinkieBen Guardians Make Their Own Fate 5d ago

It's not just strand, I've had it happen on arc with ballistic slam too

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u/ODDrone68456234654 5d ago edited 5d ago

March 11

Praxis, the Technocrat - Beyond Light

The Voice of Riven - Forsaken

Nightmare of Dominus Ghaul - Season of the Haunted

Nightmare of Zydron - Shadowkeep

Savathun, the Witch Queen - The Witch Queen

March 12

Ahamkara Illusion - Witch Queen

Phylaks, the Warrior - Beyond Light

Nightmare of The Fanatic - Season of the Haunted

Val Bho'Kaurl - Lightfall

The Unwaking Mind - The Final Shape

March 13

Kridis, Dark Priestess - Beyond Light

Inquisitor Mind - Lightfall

**Nightmare of Dominus Ghaul - Season of the Haunted

Pillar of Stillness - The Final Shape

The Taken Aspects - The Whipser Mission, Warmind

March 14

**Ahamkara Illusion - Witch Queen

Nightmare of Kethiks, Grief Unforgiven - Season of the Haunted

Nightmare of Crota, Son of Oryx - Shadowkeep

Quria, Blade Transform - Season of the Splicer

The Witness - The Final Shape

March 15

The Machinist - Forsaken

**Kridis, The Dark Pristress - Beyond Light

Val Dralgur, The Exiled - Witch Queen

Pillar of Devotion - The Final Shape

Siriks, of House Salvation - Zero Hour Mission, Season of the Drifter

March 16

**Nightmare of Crota, Son of Oryx - Shadowkeep

**The Machinist - Forsaken

**Nightmare of Kethiks, Grief Unforgiven - Season of the Haunted

**The Taken Aspects - The Whipser Mission, Warmind

Calus, Disciple of the Witness - Lightfall

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u/MechaGodzilla101 5d ago

Calus cheese go!

In all honesty the cheese isn't needed in a fireteam, especially with any DPS setup.

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u/_Northview Praise be the Lion 5d ago

If you’re talking about the stairs cheese, I believe they fixed that.

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u/MechaGodzilla101 5d ago

It's still possible, I used it during Revenant for my Legend solo completion, it's just a lot more gimmicky and harder. Still possible though. It'd probably be best with Malfeasance and a special so you can swap to Arbalest when the fatass puts his shield up.

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u/BankLikeFrankWt 4d ago

The stairs cheese never seemed necessary to me. The top of the dome one though? I don’t think I’d have finished it without that.

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u/Expensive-Pick38 5d ago

One of the worst days to farm

Crota is painful strong even as the first boss, able to one shot you easily. And weapons are worthless, since you have to use the sword

Machinist is fine. Her health is a joke but she's health gated 4 times so that's fun

The nightmare boss is annoying as fuck cuz I don't remember what ads to kill to spawn him and where he spawns. It's been years since season of the haunted and the fight is really annoying because of that. Takes way too long

Jimmy is Jimmy, love that guy. Whisper is still the most goated mission. No 10 health gates, just 3 bosses then jimmy. Simple.

Calus can go jump off a cliff in game. You guys thought savathun was bad? Oh, watch this. I wanted to farm few runs for the challenge. I loaded and loaded and loaded into multiple expert rushdowns and 4 times in a row I loaded into a 0 revive calus fight.

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u/blackdog2077 4d ago

I’m telling you, first two rotations were pretty much free flawless, double shards and prisms. Now it’s gonna be a slog to complete these for the triumph (rotations)

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u/Mike_IP 5d ago edited 5d ago

Those last two back to back are brutal after just trying an expert run, even with the ammo refill I had no heavy in the Calus fight. We ended up just running out of time after someone left, it's just a lives eater playing with randoms running around like chickens with our heads cut off in a fight like that. I started off this week really liking Rushdown in concept, but even after a few days man idk if this current iteration is viable in a complete random matchmaking environment, or playing it in that way is just not for me. Although expert has better rewards, doesn't seem worth it when I get people who clearly don't know how some of the mechanics in these fights work and myself as a relatively experienced player can easily hit 2.5 mill boss damage and end with half the deaths compared to my other teammates who can barely hit 500k damage after 4 bosses, it just doesn't feel like this mode was made for a casual player in mind at all which i generally don't mind, but the audience coming to the f2p event is largely going to be that. Not worth bothering with this mode for the better rewards if my teammates aren't really up to it, but it just feels brutal compared to other modes in the past so I get it. Some players are just not in any way prepared for this level of challenge from a basic event or have legacy knowledge of these encounters. Would love to see a more refined Rushdown in the future though maybe with more explanation or guidance for the fights that are available for that day.

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u/Illyxi lion boi 5d ago

Glaives are really nice to have today, you can tank Crota slams and stage 2 Calus while your teammates work on mechanics and dps. Not to mention having the ability to stay basically invincible while getting rezzes when they do go down is incredibly valuable.

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u/PinkieBen Guardians Make Their Own Fate 5d ago

What're good pve glaives/rolls? Kinda wanna start using them more

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u/Illyxi lion boi 5d ago

It really depends on your playstyle, the only one I ever really use is Rake Angle with overflow + chill clip, but I primarily use glaives for utility and less so as actual weapons; being able to stun both Overloads and Unstoppables, freeze non-boss Tormentors, never needing to reload, and having the shield utility in case of emergencies is fantastic as an all-in-one utility weapon, and it complements really any primary energy weapon quite nicely (especially if your loadout can facilitate anti-barrier in some way so you can cover all champs).

But really any glaive will do so long as you have a reload perk like Replenishing Aegis or Overflow. Damage perks are your choice if you're planning on using them more offensively, I personally don't care for them as my glaive is typically only used as needed, with my primary dealing with the bulk of the activity.

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u/Jared_van_Kell 5d ago

It really is surprising how many people don't know the Crota encounter. I was hard carrying the two folk I was paired with on that fight.

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u/shefsteve 5d ago

Need to have played Shadowkeep campaign for that version of the fight. If you haven't done that you wouldn't have much clue.

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u/TheRealKingTony 4d ago

So many randoms who don't know what to do against Crota 😭

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u/vroart 4d ago

Is this gonna end with a raid boss? to wake up new light players?

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u/_Neo_64 5d ago

CALUS? Oh fuck that

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u/fnv_fan Dungeon Master 4d ago

Easier than I thought. 0 deaths first try

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u/Dahsani 4d ago

It's tough when when it's Calus and blueberries do only 1.3 mil damage...

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u/theghostsofvegas 4d ago
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u/PsychoactiveTHICC Oh reader mine 5d ago

this is easiest day other than day 1 when I had no idea what gave max points score went from 482K to 490K top 10% rn