Tips and Shortcuts

• Start of the strike
• Damage the boss to make them go away
• Hunter can invis past everything and into the hallway of the first encounter room to despawn all trash out front. Still able to get platinum
• Ferry Ride
• After jumping through the green portal at the end, hop up one platform to have an easier shot at killing the thrall on the ferry
• Swamp
• Have an invis hunter go ahead, sticking to the right edge of the arena as much as possible.
• Other folks stay at the end of the ferry ride and stay alive until things despawn

Boss Room

Principles

• always stay moving
• kill all trash before damaging boss
• use heavy and supers to burn barriers and hive knights immediately, these are the hardest parts of the boss fight

100% to 66% boss health

• thrall and cursed thrall spawn initially
• damage boss to 80%
• more thrall spawn
• damage boss to 66%

66% to 33% boss health

• 2 sword knights, 10 cursed thrall, 1 hive guardian spawn
• hive guardian always jumps from central platform to upper balconies
• burn the hive guardian and crush ghost
• then kill 1 of 2 sword knights, all thrall, then other sword knight
• boss returns with 2 barrier knights and acolytes
• burn acolytes and 1 barrier
• use supers and heavy to burn
• DPS boss to 50%, helmet comes off and running speed increases
• more acolytes and 2 barrier knights
• burn acolytes and 1 barrier
• damage boss to 33%

33% boss health to end

• 2 sword knights, 10 cursed thrall, 1 hive guardian
• follow same order as above, guardian, 1 knight, thrall, last knight
• boss returns with 8 thrall
• kill thrall
• damage boss to 25%
• 2 barrier knights and acolytes
• damage boss to 10%
• thrall spawns