Destiny: The Dark Below – Raid Guide

Destiny: Crota’s End Raid Walkthrough

Traverse the Abyss

To first start off the Raid, you’ll need to go to the Crota’s End raid in orbit. First you’ll need to stand in the glowing circle until the bridge is built up. Head across the bridge, then jump into the abyss to begin the raid.

As soon as you land you will be attacked by a lot of enemies. Fight them and keep following the lights. Be careful with these though, as getting too close to the lights or standing still near them for too long will make them explode.

Keep following the lights and make sure you avoid the holes in the ground, they cannot be jumped over, and so it’s best to simply run around them. Towards the end of this passage you will come across a circle light.

Stand in it and wait for the bridge to get constructed. Hold this line. For such places your Defender Titans will be life-savers, so make sure they step up their game and use the Barrier in the best possible way. Once the bridge is constructed, move onwards to get to the next stage of the raid.

Killing Annihilator Totems,Crossing the Bridge and Gatekeepers

Next you’ll have to take care of the Annihilator Totems. These need to stay blue, or else they will kill the entire team. You will need to position two players inside of each of the front totems and wait for the Sword Bearer to appear.

Note: that you can only leave the totem for no more than 10 seconds before it explodes and kills your whole team.

Once the Sword Bearer spawns, have one of your teammates kill it (preferably a Hunter) and grab the sword that it drops. You can then send one of your teammates or yourself into the center circle to construct the bridge.

For the next part, the Titan in your team should take the lead as you’ll have to fight a Gatekeeper. These enemies can only be damaged by the sword one of your teammates just picked up. Have a Titan in your squad blind the Gatekeeper with a grenade, and then have the sword wielding take him out.

Note: that the sword only has a small duration, so you have to act fast. If you fail, another Sword Bearer will spawn at the back, and its sword can be used to defeat another Gatekeeper. You’ll need to repeat these steps until your entire team is across this bridge.

Once all the players have crossed, a Hallowed Ogre and Wizard will spawn. Kill them together, staying near the annihilator totems. There are 5 totems in total the last person on the front side will be fine as long as the others are kept up on the back side.

Killing Wizards, Ir Yut and The Deathsinger

Here there will be a timer here that will initiate after you kill the two wizards and Ir Yut, then the Deathsinger appears. This is basically your stage 3 boss. You have 3 minutes for this fight after you start doing damage to the Deathsinger, as they will trigger their Litugy of Ruin.

Note: There are quite a few level 32 add enemies here that can be difficult to handle.

The tough challenge comes not from the Deathsinger, but the adds and the time limit. Once the shrieker and wizards are taken care of, ready your heavy weapons to deal with the Deathsinger.

Blind grenades work fairly well here to temporarily disable the additional enemies, so you can focus more on the Deathsinger. She tends to take a lot of damage when her barrier is down, so when you do go for her, make sure it is focused fire to do the most damage possible.

Killing Crota Final Boss
Finally, get the party to stand near the crystal, which will get Crota to spawn. In order to defeat him, you need to kill a Sword Bearer that spawns with him, grab his sword, and then attack him.

Note: that you cannot regenerate health in this stage, so it’s best to give the Chalice of Light to the player who will be using the Sword Bearer’s sword.

You can’t directly attack Crota after getting the sword. Have your team shoot him until he drops on his knees. At this point the sword wielding player needs to rush in and attack Crota.

The sword will last for around 45 seconds, and then a new Sword Bearer will spawn, at which time Crota will be immune to damage. Every time a player dies, an Oversoul will spawn. This is a green glowing orb up above. You need to get rid of it by shooting it.

At this moment Ogres and Hive Boomers will start to spawn as well, so make sure you watch for them. Keep it up and pass on the Chalice to whoever needs it the most (but leaving it for the sword wielder for the most), and eventually you will defeat Crota.  Congratulations!