01 / HYDRA
Epoptes, Lord of Quanta
Dismantle both side-room Lenses, then keep the central boss vulnerable.
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Maps & diagrams
Encounter sequence
Open the rooms
Kill both Time’s Magistrate Cyclopses. The side readers take their plates together, gain Temporality, and enter with their helpers.
Exchange eyes
Stand in the Lens’s projected light to hold your timer. Read your display; the opposite reader shoots that position on their own shield. Agree on six clock positions before pulling. Pause after three eyes until middle confirms readiness; the fourth advances the mechanic.
Resolve the triangle
Kill the next Cyclopses. Middle readers take the available buffs and enter Epoptes’s light. Each calls the unlit triangle position to their own side room. That side reader shoots the corresponding floating sphere above their Lens, facing from the doorway. Each middle reader also destroys the other two positions on their central display, leaving the other middle reader’s called position untouched.
Finish the Lenses
Kill the new Cyclopses and refresh side buffs after collapse. Cross-call the remaining outer eyes, then destroy each Lens’s center eye. Return to middle and break the central shield eyes to open damage.
Extend damage
Watch the feed for the two selected players. Both follow their shield’s light, destroy its six outer eyes, then its center. Everyone will take a turn across three pairs. Repeat the encounter loop if Epoptes survives.
If the attempt breaks down
- Eyes return. Check the opposite reader’s call before firing again.
- Damage becomes immune. The selected pair must reach and follow their projected light.
Optional challenge: Encounter Challenges feat
- No Guardian may destroy two consecutive outer Lens eyes during the mechanic. Assign two shooters to each Lens and alternate.
- Only when the fireteam leader selects the Encounter Challenges feat before launch; a mistake wipes the team.
Challenge references: Vaexil · Normal-mode guide · Destinypedia · raid overview and walkthrough
Loot from this encounter
Weapons
Opaque HourglassCombat Bow
Armor
Random drops, not guaranteed. Full loot table
Mechanics references: Shacknews · raid walkthrough · Destinypedia · raid overview and walkthrough · RaidSecrets · encounter research
Route to the next boss, with the secret chest
The numbers mark where the glyphs can appear. Four of them, chosen at random, must be activated to open the secret chest, one of the three for the Ternary Gifts triumph.
Glyph key for the secret chest route maps
