VOW OF THE DISCIPLE RAID GUIDE
Will be updated as raid progresses. Feel free to post any corrections and
or stuff we missed/not on here yet. SPOILS ARE BELOW.
3-6-22: Caretaker should be much clearer now. We are working on
exhibition. We know it's not good atm. Just wasn't able to get the eyeballs we needed to get it it
perfect like the rest.
3-6-22: updated 1st encounter
3-6-22: exhibition should now be good.
RAID REQUIREMENTS:
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Must complete Witch Queen Campaign
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Minimum recommended power level: 1530
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Final Boss power level: 1550
Hidden chests:
From u/ StrikingMechanism :
"found secret chest on the escort mission. there were 3 cruxs hidden during the escort. and right before
you get to the pyramid if you are facing the pyramid on the escort the building to your right behind you
has the chest. if you get close to the crux you get an indicator
I got a mod siphoned glyphkeeper (killing a glyphkeeper grands some
grenade, class and super energy."
RAID ENCOUNTERS:
OPENING:
When you load into the raid, defeat the aspect of Savathun and the ads.
Get on your sparrow and make your way to the payload. Every checkpoint three yellow bar abominations
spawn (Knowledge Bearers). You get a debuff (Pervading Darkness) if you're far from the payload. It
chokes your vision at 7 stack, blinds at 8, probably kills at 10. Killing all abominations stops the
stacks of darkness from growing and spawns some orange founts on the ground (3-5). Pick up the founts
(no more than 3 per person) and dunk them on the payload. Picking up a fount gives Heightened Knowledge
(1), Brimming Knowledge (2), Overflowing Knowledge (3). Dunking all of them also clears stacks of
darkness. After you grab them all and bring them back to the payload, the payload will continue moving
to the next area.The faster you grab the sticks, the faster the encounter progresses. In the next area
more knowledge barrers will spawn and more orange glowing sticks will spawn. Do the same thing as you
did in the last area, get to the payload, then continue on to the next area. Continue this process till
you get to the end.
AQUISITION:
Encounter 1 / Acquisition:
Click here for image of symbols used in this encounter from
Montague(Images), Ashnaxx(callouts), Fireteam Ragnarök image: https://imgur.com/a/anFBVBX
Click here for map of room by realcoolio: https://imgur.com/a/RRhUSdN
Enemies spawn from around the room’s sides, and attack 3 obelisks in the
middle. Don't let them. Don’t shoot the obelisks yourself. Shooting them fills them up. When the
obelisks fill, you wipe. They also fill naturally. There's a totem near each obelisk with three hexagons
on. Shooting the crux above the obelisk turns it orange, allowing you to see glyphs on the totem.
Killing one add reveals the first glyph. The second glyph is revealed after killing the screeb wave. The
third symbol appears once somebody enters the room designated by the middle glyph.
One side of the large room has a Traveler glyph, the other has a Pyramid.
Top glyph on the totem is always one of these, showing the side where the Disciple's Compass spawns. The
Compass is a Taken Knight that hides around the perimeter. Killing the Compass reveals the middle
symbol, which corresponds to a door around the perimeter. Shooting the crux in the middle toggles the
doors (same one you started the encounter with). Inside the room are two Glyph Keepers. There are also
glyphs on each side of the room - Light is left and Darkness is right. The bottom glyph on the totem
shows which side Glyph Keeper you’re supposed to kill. Killing a glyph keeper spawns another glyph in
the air above it.
Killing all of the correct Glyph Keepers gives chat log “The obelisk
awaits your offering” and glyphs appear on the obelisk. One obelisk has the glyphs from all three
correct Glyph Keepers, not necessarily on the same side. Shoot those three glyphs on that obelisk only.
There is no specific order, but you have to be very fast - they have to be shot almost sumultaneously.
This is easier with several people shooting at the same time. There is a wave animation, you’ll have to
shoot all three between waves. If you do it correctly, the chat log shows “The obelisk accepts your
offering”.
If you shoot the wrong glyph on the obelisk you get a chat log: “The
obelisk rejects your offering”. You get several wrong attempts before the obelisk fills and wipes you.
If you shoot the correct symbols (= not immediately getting the rejection message) and it’s not
registering the acceptance message, keep shooting those symbols until it does.
There are 3 full phases of glyphs, one phase per obelisk. Rinse and
repeat till you complete the encounter.
COLLECTION:
The Caretaker. !< >!Fireteam Ragnarök Ragnarök Tactic:
3 roles, Seekers, ad clear, and stunners
Ad-clear clears ads, Stunners focus on keeping the boss stunned, and the
seekers enter the dark room to find sigils. We sent in 1 person at the time, who grabs 3 sigils and gets
out. Door can only be opened from outside so keep one seeker near the door to let them out.
Once Seeker 1 comes out with 3 or less sigils (depending on time and ease
of finding), seeker 2 enters, and seeker 1 and 3 enters the sigil in the obelisk. You can have several
people shooting the obelisk-sigil at once, but only one seeker worth of sigils at a time (there will be
a message saying who's sigils it is if several people are carrying sigils)
A failure to shoot the correct ones/too slow will remove your buff and
the seeker have to go grab more.
9 Successful Sigils starts DPS phase. Don't stress, time is plentiful if
you've got a good boss stunner team.
DPS is done on the three plates surrounding the obelisk, which will glow
yellow when active. The first plate is whichever is closest to the path the boss picked (left or right),
2nd is the middle one, and last is the 3rd, opposite 1. Uncertain if plates are Calus-esque (Buff runs
out after standing on it) but we believe that the plates were time based, activating on queue and not
characters standing on it.
Deal damage, and after DPS phase stairs fall down to the next floor,
Rinse and repeat for 3 floors.
Last Stand drops another staircase to the attic, where its instantly a
DPS phase, with 3 plates before wipe. The plates are in a line going straight at the boss, who will be
walking away!
Our Damage tactic was 2 Divs and rest LFRs, with Snipers/slugs and
Outbreak for damage if you ran out of ammo.
1 Div could handle 2 plates easy, maybe a 3rd, We had a special ammo
finisher preparing green drops to refill them. But 2 divs in case div 1 ran out!
We ran 2 wells, 1 banner titan, 1 tether hunter, 1 Voidlock, and 1
warlock focused on getting special ammo finishers.
EXHIBITION:
Map: Credit to Sandzz7: https://imgur.com/a/ZhIQSWU
FireTeam Ragnarök strat: The encounter comes with sections, divided into
Ante-chamber and full chamber.
In the Antechamber, you've got pedestals with various kinds of
relics.
First Antechamber only holds a pyramid Splinter, holding it lets you
shoot a constant beam of yellowish energy. (you can also use grenade) in Antechamber 2, you get the
Aegis from VoG, and in Antechamber 3, you get a taken eye as in riven.
The encounter holds a wipe timer, but doing tactics extends it
(Depositing relics into altars reset the timer to 1 min 15 sec, killing the knights extends the time
(uncertain about amount)
It starts with ante-chamber one. Picking up the relic starts the
encounter 2 Glyphkeepers Spawn in each side of the room (one Taken one Scorn) as well as a shielded
knight. killing the glyphkeepers reveals 3 sigils, but only the relic holder can see the takens, and non
relic holders see the scorns. You need to communicate and find the one sigil in common. To kill
the knight, you need to shoot it with the splinter relic to remove the shield. After all adds are
dead, sigils alight on the door to the next room, you need to find which sigil is shown in both
glyphkeepers reveal, and shoot that one on the door.
Next room tells you to deposit Splinter, which spawns the Aegis, pick up
both to continue. Room 2 adds the growing darkness debuff, but it stacks slowly and can be cleansed by
Aegis quickly. The room is split in two, with adds existing and spawning in. Kill adds until
Glyphkeepers spawn (More difficult adds give more progress to glyphkeepers). After both glyphkeepers are
dead, a knight spawns to extend the time. This room requires you to kill 2 of each glyphkeeper, with set
spawn locations and remember the 2 glyphs in common. Input the 2 glyphs to proceed to antechamber 3.
In Room 3, you've got the same tactics as room 2, but now there are
invuln. taken blights that makes enemies undamageable. Cleanse (Grenade button) with the taken eye next
to them to remove it. Move to the next room and exchange all your artifacts.
In room 4 you will do everything you did in room 3. It is a bit more of a
jumping puzzle. Ads and glyph keepers will spawn on the left and right then in the middle sections(see
map for spots). Just use the same tactics you used for room the previous room. After you wil enter a
room to deposit your relics and be done.
JUMPING PUZZLE IN
DOMINION:
In this encounter, follow the platforms going up and a group of ads will
spawn. Find the group of ads with a Disciple’s Centurion, kill it, and more platforms will spawn. Follow
the platforms to the final boss encounter.
RHULK, DISCIPLE OF THE WITNESS(in
progress):
Glyph phase
Walk forward to start the encounter. You will start on a massive symbol
that will change glyphs as you stand on it, starting with Gift. There is an area you can’t walk into
where the boss is. This area is ringed in a large orange bubble which will prevent you from advancing.
Someone will get a buff called Leeching Force.
The first thing that happens is a darkness pillar spawns above the boss.
This will give you Pervading Darkness stacks, which will wipe you at 10x. You want to break it as fast
as possible. This clears Pervading Darkness and starts the glyph phase.
After breaking it, you can spawn in two others by standing on the glyph
on the floor. These do not stack Pervading Darkness. If someone stands inside along with whoever has
Leeching Force and breaks one of the smaller darkness pillars, they will get the Leeching Force buff.
Have two people stand on the glyph along with the Leeching Force person, and break one each. They will
both get Leech, and the person that originally had it loses theirs After breaking the darkness pillar,
mobs start spawning along with two Glyph Keepers. Kill the Keepers to reveal three glyphs on top of the
closest pillars on the left and on the right.
In the middle of the arena there are smaller totems that will also have
sets of symbols along their sides. You will want to label the totems L1, L2, L3 (1 is close, 2 middle, 3
back) and similarly R1-R3 for the right side. Periodically, the Disciple shoots lasers from the back of
the arena. Whoever holds the Leeching Force should jump into a laser, which will give them a buff called
Emanating Force. This person will then be able to move forward into the orange bubble and will be your
glyph depositor.
As that is happening, have both side teams read the glyphs from their
respective pillars. One totem will have glyphs that match the pillar on its side. Which pillar has glyph
over it changes with each dunk, switching sides and moving towards the back. Have the people with the
emanating force buff go to those totems and deposit their Emanating Force. Dunk one side at a time, and
remember to share Leeching Force between each dunk. You can dunk the final two at the same time. Every
few dunks will spawn a Lacerated Abomination, and the boss teleports forward for a moment and shrinks
the bubble. When the boss teleports back, another darkness pillar appears above him and starts stacking
Pervading Darkness again. Break it as before.
At this point, another team member gets the Leeching Force buff. Share it
like previously. Rinse and repeat. After you dunk the final totem, the boss spins his glaive and
retreats into the area behind him, and you can follow. If you do not manage to dunk all the totems in
time, the third darkness pillar to spawn is immune to damage and will wipe you.
DPS Phase
Run up the stairs to enter the boss arena. In this phase the boss will
dash across the arena trying to hurt you. There will also be totems in the corners of the arena just
like from the previous fight that will have symbols. These are always the same (see table below). During
this fight the boss will do a swinging glaive attack, he will drop his glaive, turning it into a crux
which you can shoot to reveal symbols you will need to match to deposit into the mini pillars. He will
also have crit spots you need to hit.
Run into the arena to start the fight. In each corner is a totem,
arranged as in the table below. The boss drops down on the floor and starts his attack rotation. He will
first rush, then send beams in every direction around him. After a few rotations he will drop his glaive
and turn it into a darkness pillar. One person must break the pillar, which will give them Leeching
Light. Those who do not have Leeching can see which glyph to dunk at. The person with Leeching should
get hit by one laser from the attack rotation and dunk in the correct corner. This will reveal a crit
spot on the boss, which must be broken. Repeat this until you have dunked four times. Breaking the 4th
crit spot starts DPS. The boss will grab his glaive and walk around with it. Deal damage to him while
avoiding his attacks. He will keep doing his rotation occasionally, avoid attacks as usual. After a
while of this he becomes immune. Return back to the glyph in the floor at the start. Glyph phase
restarts, and you fight your way back to the arena. Rinse and repeat until final stand.
FINAL STAND:
The boss starts using his rotation continuously and you start stacking
Pervading Darkness. If it reaches 10 before you kill the boss, you wipe.
Triumphs
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Vow of the Disciple: Complete the “Vow of the Disciple” Raid
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Master Difficulty Vow of the Disciple: Complete the “Vow of the
Disciple” Raid on master difficulty.
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Day at the Pyramid: Complete the “Vow of the Disciple” Raid
within the 1st 24 hours of release.
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Risen from the Deep: Complete all encounters in the “Vow of the
Disciple” raid without any member of your fireteam dying.
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Clan Fieldtrip: Complete Vow of the Disciple with a full clan
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Dark Charge: Complete Vow of the Disciple with a full team of arc
subclasses.
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Dark Abyss: Complete Vow of the Disciple with a full team of void
subclasses.
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Dark Flame: Complete Vow of the Disciple with a full team of
solar subclasses.
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Dark Chill: Complete Vow of the Disciple with a full team of
stasis subclasses.
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Swift Destruction:
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On My Go: Only kill Abated Adherents when they started attacking
an obelisk in Acquisition.
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Base Information:
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Handle With Care: Defeat The Caretaker while having every member
of your fireteam stun at least once per floor.
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Defenses Down:Glyph to Glyph: Kill each set of Glyphkeepers in
Exhibition within 5 seconds of each other.
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Looping Catalyst:
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Symmetrical Energy: Any energy deposit in Dominion must be
accompanied by another deposit within 5 seconds.
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Pyramid Conqueror: Complete all encounter challenges on master
difficulty.
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“Vow of the Disciple” Lore book unlocks: Unlock the “Vow of the
Disciple” lore book.
CREDITS:
Lemonous, Tech Artist, Nyxara, Gerbsnail, Montague, Phillip, Fireteam
Ragnarök , Nev, Ashnaxx, Realcoolioman, Xi Ro, Sandzz7
