Destiny 2: DROWNDROWNDROWN - Vow of the Disciple

The Objective, “DROWNDROWNDROWN” in Destiny 2.

DROWNDROWNDROWN is an Objective in the Raid Vow of the Disciple in Destiny 2.

Summary[edit]

The Upended is alive. You have no more tasks ahead. Lie down and embrace the darkness beyond your final days.

Walkthrough[edit]

The time has arrived to take on the final boss of the Raid, Vow of the Disciple.
Use the rally point for a Rally Flag.

Beginning[edit]

Approach Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness to begin the encounter itself.
Immediately, toward the top of the arena, you will see Rhulk manifest a large Darkness Shard.
The Fireteam will start to gain Pervading Darkness during this time, so be focused.
This will also create a Darkness barrier toward the top of the second set of stairs (from the rally point).
- Be careful not to dodge into it, since this can launch you over the edge with its rebound.

Forces and Glyphs[edit]

Immediately the fireteam needs to shoot and break the shard above Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness.
When the Shard is destroyed, the person who got the destructive blow will get Leeching Force.
This Guardian needs to go stand on the Symbol in the middle of the section that they are on.
This will cause 2 more Large Darkness Shards to appear to be destroyed.
The Guardians who destroy the Shards will also get Leeching Force.
After that, The Guardians will Leeching Force will wait to wait for Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness to unleash a Tri-Beam attack.
Those Guardians with Leeching Force will want to leap into the beam to change the Leeching Force into Emanating Force.
Once they have Emanating Force, they now can pass through the Force Barrier and reach the Glyph Pillars on the next landing.
Deposit the Emanating Force into the Glyph Pillar to have the Force Barrier recede, allowing more access to the arena..
After a few deposits, a Glyphkeeper and Resonant Glyphkeeper will appear.
As usual, destroy them.
2 sets of Symbols will appear, 1 visible to most of the Fireteam, and 1 visible to just those with Leeching or Emanating Force.
Once again, find the matching Symbol between the two sets.
During this time, you will need to quickly deal with a Lacerated Abomination.
If no one has Leeching Force or Emanating Force, you will be in trouble.
Thankfully, after depositing the Charge into the Gylph Pillars to complete the objective, another Large Shard will appear in the back of the arena.
A Guardian needs to break this, call over those who are handling the Pillars and share/transfer the Leeching Force buff to them using the Symbol embedded on the starting landing.
Each subsequent time with the Emanating Force, the fireteam will have 4 Guardians empowered with it to dunk into the 4 Glyph Pillars that have the appropriate symbols.
The Force Wall will recede, giving more and more access to the Arena itself.
Eventually, you will clear the path all the way to the stairs, which will bring you to the beginning of the Boss Damage Phase.

Boss Damage Phase[edit]

Going up the stairs, you will come face to face with Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness.
He has 2 attacks that you will need to worry about.
The first is a melee, telegraphed with orange waves moving along the ground, before he charges forward, damaging all Guardians along his path.
Avoid this attack by running away from it, because of his height, Rhulk can hit along a wide area.
Second is a tri-beam attack, which does heavy damage.
Now, to start the process to damage him, you need to wait for him to do his charge attack.
He will set down his weapon, which becomes a twisting mass of Darkness.
Start shooting this weapon, slowing down as it gets close to "destruction."
Eventually, it will give the Leeching Force buff to the person who "destroys" it.
If someone else gets Leeching Force, defer to the most recently acquired one, because that will cause a new symbol to appear.
Depositing the Charge into the wrong Glyph Pillar will kill the Guardian in question.
This will cause a Symbol the rest of the Fireteam can see to appear on one of the Glyph Pillars around the arena (L1, R1, L2 R2).
The rest of the fireteam needs to tell the Buffed Guardian where to go.
The Guardian with Leeching Force needs to jump into one of the beams from Rhulk to gain the Emanating Force and then go to the called out Glyph Pillar and deposit the charge into it.
This will cause a Weak Spot to appear on Rhulk.
Time for the Fireteam to start hitting that spot.
Go through a few of these Weak Points to begin the proper damage phase.
Rhulk weill turn grey, signaling the beginning of this proper phase.
Rhulk will be vulnerable all over and then it is truly time to blast away with everything.
- You will only have 3 damage phases before he enrages
High damage weapons, damaging supers, put it all down fast.
Once you cross into the final segment of his health, that is when the Final Stand begins.

Final Stand[edit]

Rhulk will just be in his damage phase, and moving around a lot.
Throughout this, the whole fireteam will be building stacks of Pervading Darkness.
This debuff reaches 10, the fireteam wipes and you are back to square one of the fight.
Unload everything, quickly and accurately to finish off the final boss.

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