Nezarec Cheese Spot + FULL Pantheon Week 4 Guide! (Destiny 2)

ALTERNATE NAZAREC STRATEGIES: There’s a unique strat you can use on Nezarec if you have 4 Marksman Golden Gun Hunters + a Divinity. The Hunters Equip Star-Eater Scales, and when you Div Nezarec (in the middle of the map), have the Hunters pop goldie & hit Nezarec with 3 shots. They should each produce 2 Orbs of Power per hit, and with 4 Hunters total, this will be a HUGE orb printing strat. The hunters can then dodge with Powerful Attraction, pick up all the nearby orbs, RE-GET their golden gun, rinse & repeat! If you do this, have the hunters UN-EQUIP Argent Ordnance from the Artifact, and Remove Weapon Surge Armor Mods from your leg armor (this will conflict with the strat). REGARDING THE ROOT/LEDGE BY SPAWN: Despite this being a cheesy spot, it's by no means free. You have to bait Nezarec over there before damage begins - and very often, he'll just F off (or not approach the ledge entirely), meaning you won't get a clear shot or you'll flat out waste your damage phase. If you wanna use that spot, I recommend dealing damage to Nezarec WHILE he approaches you at the ledge, then when he gets too close - back off the ledge onto the root, and finish DPS there. Or y'know, mobile/moving damage in the middle of the map & just play safe. ADDITIONAL STRAT FOR RHULK: If you're having trouble with Rockets on Rhulk because he's so mobile - apparently Divinity / 5 Sleepers is an easy 2 phase with Solar Surge

I cannot believe Riven was not the final boss in this awesome Pantheon event that has reinvigorated so many D2 player's interest in the game. And what a perfect thematic end it would have been to this pre-Final Shape storyline that culminated in the RIVEN themed Season of the Wish and all the events that it revealed.

Props to you for maintaining the running "graphic design is my passion" joke every week of this raid! Makes me laugh every time!

For making refuge during Nezarec fight, what I have seen done is that side lane ad clear people grab the buff with the runners at encounter start and run to the opposite side to make both light and dark refuge at R1 and L1 respectively. It gives the runners one less thing to worry about.

If you haven't done Riven legit before, it's worth it just for the music and spectacle alone. This fight is absolutely peak Destiny.

If it took fallout almost 7 hours to clear this I can't imagine what the average lfg clear time will be

had to go wayyy back in the archives for that riven guide hahaha

btw when you are a nezarec runner, you dont HAVE to shoot the orb. if you are on the plate, you can look down and melee the plate itself, and you'll get or deposit the buff. a good thing to remember, especially if you are getting flinched while running

what sucks is i know i can absolutely do this. the hard part is finding people in lfg that are also competent enough and patient enough to not quit right away

Big tip that's probably already been mentioned, but you can proc shot caller while they are still immune (i.e care taker, planets and oryx)

For the refuge part, you can have add clearers start with the runner and criss-cross to their opposing second node when the runner activates it. The refuge zone will last until Nezarec does his wipe attack. I don't know if they patch this awhile ago but it made the encounter more smoother.

My team learned how to do riven legit because of pantheon.. boy what great experience I was missing out..

finally a "real" guide :-) I've watched a ton of them but none explained it like you did (with clear images and placements) thanks 🙂

BONUS TIP: If you get the refuge bug, where Nezi’s shoulders don’t break. You can ether go to orbit to reset it, or pop one shoulder while he is up top, get agro, let him come down, then shoot the other. It works.

This is a nice video, this is the way

Edit: I didn't get him there before damage phase started and it didn't work at all

U also DO NOT NEED TO get play time u get enough to get the points without it we 3 phased and got it

One thing I like mentioning for running on nez: plate order will ALWAYS look like (1 -> 2 or 3 -> 3 or 2 -> 4 or 5 -> 5 or 4 -> 6). This is actually great for people who are less experienced because it means there is only ever at most 2 plates they need to check.

Re-learning Riven was a trip.

Sleeper + Div absolutely cooks rhulk btw