Destiny 2: Become The Root of Nightmares Add Clear God You Knew You Could Be

[@stranger21077]

I truly am enjoying dattos villain arc

[@JesusMyLordAmen]

Truthfully, he deserves it, and I’m all for it

[@boxcar9407]

More like anti hero. He has been coach Datto recently and balances out that good will by verbally evicerating this stupid "community."

[@Coffeecrayon76]

Datto’s villain arc is him fighting thousands of fathers’ with 17 kids who can only play for 5 mins

[@wumpuswoo9946]

From the ashes of Elitist Datto rises a new, more powerful Datto, Evil Datto, the wario Datto, Watto!

[@christianglassel9950]

@@boxcar9407 Criticism balanced with coaching is more than fair and I'm here for it. Most of us game in a vacuum and it can be hard to improve without an outside perspective.

[@BerryFruit]

"Raid, KWTD, I'm ad clear" on an LFG post has become a red flag warning at this point.

[@IceColdKillaTrav]

Still fills up quick as well

[@Gee-bg2rv]

The audacity to say know what to do when they themselves are more than likely incapable of the mechanics lmao

[@BuckShot456789]

I refuse to join these posts. I finally know how to run for 2nd encounter, I'm just slower than shatter and well skaters. Feels good tbh

[@crazygeniusttv]

Well if you're the leader you have the right to do whatever you want and that means be lazy

[@BerryFruit]

@Caleb Freeman and there is nothing with that. Dude, I've been in some groups where the other runner is shatter skating / well skating and half the time they are dying during the run or just somehow slower than me.

[@lars2675]

To add on, if you are add clearing PLEASE equip heavy ammo finder, heavy ammo scout, and a siphon mod

[@lars2675]

If you have a grenade build, you can also equip firepower on your arms instead of a siphon mod, and use something like ashes to assets on your helmet instead

[@OniBlackMage]

This 1000%

[@mysticdispersion2961]

Since I'm usually Div I have to run Special as add clear which sucks but I can't help it

[@Ahnock]

​@@mysticdispersion2961 then run special finisher. if youre running div you should be on a void lmg for more heavy drops for your team. div is only as useful as your teammates being buffed by it, and if youre not doing your part to get the people who arent killing enemies ammo then youre going to be in a rough spot in stuff like master root.

[@umu8912]

No lol

[@Dezekiel_Ferguson]

As a person who always does the mechanic for all 4 encounters in this raid, I approve this message

[@Laeshen]

The mechanics are fun for the half a person who needs to do them

[@jackthompson7546]

Whenever I get to planets I just say I'm most comfortable doing ad clear, I've have so many groups that people literally just couldn't handle it, I would rather solo ad clear that room any day than trust most lfg people to do the job right.. >_> it hurts to say really

[@localprime8868]

@@jackthompson7546 it’s literally so simple it’s mind blowing how people find managing 3 numbers per triangle hard

[@jackthompson7546]

@LocalPrime8 for real, it's like they hear its and easy raid, and think "easy carry to my exotic shotgun"

[@kjax139]

@@jackthompson7546 if I do ad clear, 90% of the time i don’t, in planets I just sit on their spawn and instantly kill everything as sunspot titan. Idk what this plebs are doing dying constantly. I’m having trouble intentionally trying to die

[@Forcer69]

How to be good at ad clear Step 1.) Forbearance Step 2.) repeat Step 1

[@chronic_leuk7463]

How to be good at ad clear: 1) equip gun 2) shoot gun (preferably at enemy) 3) ??? 4) Profit

[@hermitharry15]

Got it so I'll start using my Steady Hands/Turnabout Forbearance in master raids

[@FireSpectre_]

For me it's: Step 1- Kill using Incinerator Snap and gain Sunbracer's effect. Step 2- throws lots of solar Grenades and gain melee energy Step 3- repeat step 1-2

[@ChristoRJ876]

2 is build synergies

[@BotFisherman]

Alternatively, Trinity Ghoul

[@cammycakesgaming]

well said. I'd love a part 2. "the art of the pre-spawn" with something like sunbracers.

[@KoreanMungBeanSproutSalad]

You should do it! I love cammy pve videos, you bring such a cool perspective to them

[@burns0100]

Throwing a perfectly timed fusion grenade onto the floor just as enemies spawn in is one of the best feelings as an add clear master. At the point I lob them across the encounter now to help out the other side with their enemies too lol. Give me all the kills so I look better!

[@Swampratatta]

thanks for teaching us ad clear in the crucible

[@GeremyG]

Elitist Datto died so Unhinged Datto could rise from the ashes.

[@soymalk]

you just copy pasted a tweet

[@Tyler7P7]

Way to copy that tweet

[@GeremyG]

I don’t go on Twitter I’m not mentally ill

[@ExtraordinaryFate]

@@GeremyG Apparently you did though to see this post. Unless it’s just a really really close coincidence

[@brusselseastside3546]

“you just copied a tweet” thank you online janitors for calling out stolen tweets on KZbin. I will take back my laugh now

[@kfactor99]

I like how you pause when looking at the tormentor like, "hmmm looks like a boss. not my job." goes back to killing adds

[@RBF__]

Well I mean he didn’t kill it because he was waiting for the next set of nodes so they’d have more time

[@zElement7]

@@RBF__ no that’s way too much thinking for someone on ad clear

[@expressvpn8433]

@@zElement7 lmao they exposed themselves

[@VallornDeathblade]

I have a friend who uses Sunbracers for ad clear. Day 1 on Planets he single handedly turned the entire arena into a firestorm to keep ads off us. It was great.

[@burns0100]

People tend to forget you can stand in an empowering rift and shoot the boss while he is immune to get starfire to proc and spam fusion grenades too. Most of the time the boss is bullying the guys on add clear so make use of him as a source of damage.

[@SavvyMon4]

@@burns0100 I love to do that too. Pop a witherhoard on his ass and just blow the arena lol

[@JohnNugroho]

@@burns0100 new stuff for me to try on. thank you.

[@hikarisdemon]

@@burns0100 look at this guy shooting instead of plating a wither in him every 5 seconds, pshh

[@burns0100]

@@hikarisdemon I mean I use to but now I have the shotgun lol.

[@LeQuartermaster]

I FEEL THIS DATTO OMG- we think this would be the easiest raid, BUT now LFG is filled with people that KWTD but can only do add clear :/

[@mysticdispersion2961]

I can do 1st 2cd 4th haven't learned 3rd encounter

[@ukemi-]

@@mysticdispersion2961 Best way to learn imo is to jump in feet first and try it out. Just ask your lfg if they can explain it and 9 times out of 10 they’ll tell you how it works. Experience is the best teacher

[@oxsila]

I've started titling my LFGs "Know all roles" and before I start I got through each person individually to see if anyone is unsure about anything. Not looking to kick people who are unsure, just looking to clear up any of their mechanic uncertainty. Because usually, anyone who is unsure, at least knows a decent amount, they just need a bit of clarity.

[@yol_n]

If you are on ad clear you don't really "KWTD". So the LFG is instead filled with snowflakes.

[@jackthompson7546]

One time we had 4 ad clear in planet rooms and they were still dying... I literally didn't get it honestly, someone had to have been trolling

[@ProsphericalYap1]

1:17 FYI, if you got conditional finality and slide into an anti barrier with its barrier up, your stasis shot will freeze them out of it.

[@fysean]

Same with suspend, there’s a small window between the animation/bubble graphic appearing and it actually blocking certain effects

[@Neurofunkyy]

been using this in every activity with barrier champs (outside of grandmasters ofc) and shit does sloinky doinky very good

[@thynameiskingblen4331]

Unhinged datto and elitist datto one after another and honestly I’m all for it

[@yacobe_]

I've been saying this. I can run every encounter so I usually end up doing them. But when I'm on add clear, we tend to get through the raid quicker. RON mechanics are easier than doing amazing add clear (like, deleting adds the second they spawn), people just don't want to learn mechanics.

[@RodWaffle]

i tend to have to do both at the same time

[@yacobe_]

@@RodWaffle too real

[@themaxpanteraschannel9459]

I was genuinely surprise by how MUCH easier Macrocosm master challenge became after swapping places with an add clear: my fireteam was struggling killing ads (yeah, the psion gang...) and the champions, there were always 20 or so enemies on the map at all times. After 20+ tries i decided to swap places with an add clear, and equipped my best CC loadout (arclock + forberance)... we got it after 3 tries, there were almost no enemies and i was both managing the boss and all the adds, from both sides. you don't realize how bad (most) people are at managing priorities and killing ads until you actually try for yourself. A good add clear is an absolute necessity in true end-game content (Master raids/low mans/ecc) and makes the life of your team WAY easier. But of course people think that they can run their double primary triple kinetic targeting loadouts and be fine because "it's just add clear, it's easy!".

[@fallhayv8470]

To be fair, i'd love to learn how to run the balls in the raid, but at this point it feels like I'd be holding our lfg group back by trying to. I got to learn how to do planets, and I tend to bait nezarec at last encounter, but I am just too nervous for the life of me to ask people in lfg if I can try running for once to remember the right pathing I know I will fail a few times, and I don't want to waste people's time :(

[@RodWaffle]

@@fallhayv8470 All good. just watch a guide or look at a spreadsheet and then try you should be fine

[@FalloutPlays]

LFG, KWTD (FR)

[@godofunity2612]

I'd consider adding in Telesto for an ad clear role. It firing delayed explosive bolts makes it a Jack-of-all-Trades for both ads and beefier single targets, on top of auto-reloading all equipped weapons on multikills and a Catalyst to increase mag size from 4 -> 7 for better sustained fire.

[@crshovveride]

I’ve been in lfg groups that join Kwtd and clearly don’t. It’s frustrating to be doing an encounter and have ads almost killing me because my ad clear team isn’t in position to do their only job. Thank you for this Datto. If it changes a few people’s gameplay it’s worth it

[@snapz117]

Datto speaks for the people! Also the “152nd best ad clear” made my stomach hurt from laughter

[@mateominiati5256]

Another option to add. Trace rifles with incandescent. Bit more ammo friendly than a wave frame, and they provide that double special benefit of more ammo drops can pair with subsistence (retraced path) or rewind rounds (acasia's embrace) to redure reload needs. Havent tested volt shot with Path of Least Resistance, and if we ever get a trace with destabilizing rounds, it will be a good thing to have

[@frostyfox1649]

Def agree. Hollow denial is another great trace rifle option. Craft it with lead from gold and replusor brace for a great time. You can get a void overshield even when not on a void subclass. Then double special with this means more heavy bricks, which then gives hollow denial ammo too.

[@JohnNugroho]

Ammit AR2 is my current ad clear primary, 2nd choice to the calus mini tool. I crafted it to have enhanced incandescent and enhanced ambitious assasin.

[@Egalia_1]

My favorite part about people that are “dedicated add clear” is how god awful they are at clearing adds. Seriously

[@BerryFruit]

And then they get upset when you recommend they do something else or change their load out.

[@Ninjippo]

I used to just solo ad clear on caretaker cuz for some reason everyone was absolute trash at it. Then we could have three runners and it made it faster

[@tuxedoterrorwrist]

"Tired of Twitter and Reddit's bullshit" Datto is my new favorite Datto

[@magnifecentredfox77_13]

As a professional add clearer you’ve made great points, recommended great weapons, and even when to look for spawns and mentioning wave frame GL this will be helpful for the blue berries

[@minkernator]

Graviton Lance is low key meta tor this. Void for Bricks from Beyond, Exotic for ammo generation, Void for Volatile Rounds, Anti Barrier for shieldy boys, Great ad clear, All the overshielded enemies means Turnabout giving you a constant shield.

[@frostyfox1649]

I know someone who runs this and they absolutely demolish ads and crap out heavy bricks. We’ll leave planets with about 5 extra heavy bricks on the ground we couldn’t manage to use.

[@RadBrad-ru5qb]

Im so glad you made this video Datto, now when a person doing add clear cant even do that right i have somewhere to direct them to.

[@slowmoocow]

The most easily obtainable waveframe GL is probably Deafening Whisper as it is part of the Dares of Eternity lootpool this week :)

[@elseggs6504]

Its a fantastic addclear too. Good riddance I grinded the boring hunts for ambitious assassin

[@talas2566]

I always try to at least have 1 person who hasn’t done the raid learn some of mechanics, because I believe that learning mechanics will help future raids and encourage players to do more raids

[@Neurofunkyy]

​@@hash8169 me when the specific activity involving mechanics and team communication involves mechanics and team communication 🤯

[@ilyantares]

@@hash8169 don't do raids then?

[@breeze973]

Thank you for this one! I'm always delegated to add-clear because my low skill level, and "shoot things" seems like the most people like to let me do. I also really like to just shoot things, so I'm happy to take the role. My strategy is lacking though, so I really appreciate having more direction so i can be more effective at supporting my team.

[@sebastianturner2458]

I was randomly pulled into RoN a while back by some friends with no experience and only my dungeon loadout, and I gotta say, Strident Whistle (the solar vanguard bow) is shockingly effective - with radiant it can bodyshot most ads in normal mode activities, and that lets you spam out shots as fast as you can draw them, while refreshing radiant and restoration with every kill. Toss in a chill clip riptide and your choice of heavy and you can cut through most things pretty dang quick. So glad I grinded for an incandescent roll, it's really come in handy lately. Even without radiant the scorch cleans up pretty good.

[@j.b.1903]

I can’t wait for next season. As much as I love add-clearing with void/solar/strand, I’m looking forward to bringing arcstrider and whatever busted arc-related mods we get in the artifact into RoN.

[@icarusfluffybottom899]

I mean... you can just use arc. I have a few times this season. Jolt is, unsurprisingly, still incredible. I don't even have anything related to solar unlocked on my artifact, though I still use solar a lot. Don't let the artifact dictate your play. This raid is piss-easy, if you want to take arc, just do it. It's fun.

[@austin5801]

This raid has some of the easiest mechanics to the point where I think your weaker players need to do the mechanics and the stronger players need to be on add clear. 90% of anything that goes south in this raid is due to adds not dying fast enough because your add clear people are dying, costing revives, and the adds not dying are killing the players focusing on the mechanics (that really only applies to master because adds can’t kill players doing mechanics on normal).

[@JJMomoida]

That definitely checks out with my experiences on LFG. I’ve noticed, for example, that the people in two north triangles in Macrocosm can potentially have a hard time switching planets cause the middle zone can be *particularly spicy* if the folks on add clear are being milquetoast about it. Of course, the dudes running from side to side can still make it regardless, but I’ve definitely seen more deaths come from that side of the room.

[@austin5801]

@@JJMomoida that is probably the best example, because especially on master, going from top to top, it’s much more add dense where as the bottom feels generally safe. I’m typically going from top to top so I know that the relentless adds combined with the boss can result in death pretty frequently while transporting planets and that could all be mitigated with better add clear.

[@nightstark7190]

It's really cool that you're doing educational videos for PvE. Destiny is overall so easy people often severely underestimate what you need to know, and there is not a whole lot of content on "PvE Destiny fundamentals".

[@Semicolon42]

Arc Titan + Thunder Clap + Skullfort is a great weaponless add clear method. Ista-gibs red bars and refreshes your melee and heals you. Then you only need your weapon to deal with target that aren't one-shot by the melee, and boss damage.

[@ryanstiehl4247]

Love this build a lot. I’ve seen people run it with double hands on to get their thunder rash in 20 seconds in legend Avalon

[@linnja1]

One two punch shotgun with this makes it even better

[@oshadow8325]

This, and Heavy Handed as well as the bonus super on melee kill is actually pretty damn good for having supers ready, be it Thundercrash for a burst of damage, or Fists of Havoc, which i've been messing with a bit recently.

[@feircy]

That, bonk, suspendy, severance enclosure titans have great neutral game for slaying out

[@CountDravda]

Hard raid content is dead, but rather than bemoan its loss further, Datto is taking it upon himself to improve the community's skill and get us ready for when it comes back. Exactly the right lesson, Datto!

[@tuckerj5789]

We’ve had Elitist Datto. Now we’ve got Peewee Football Coach Datto.

[@christianglassel9950]

This is good stuff. I've been playing D2 for a long time, but I don't have a lot of raid time. Getting tips for how to effectively add clear (they largely reinforce what I was doing) is extremely helpful. With a 6-person raid, there's no room for passengers and I don't want to be an anchor for my fireteam.

[@ExtraordinaryFate]

For Nezerac, just taking out the Colossus quickly, doesn’t matter how you do it, is better than most LFGs. I’ve seen too many times of people focusing on the small enemies and leaving the Colossus up. A lot of it is survivability, which Datto should’ve talked about honestly. Don’t rush in if you can’t heal.

[@feircy]

The amount of people who want to add clear that can't understand the concept of cover or target priority is astounding. My team carried people through contest this time arpund since it was so easy on mechanics and people would just insist on being in the middle of all the adds with a scout rifle or something silly. It baffles me greatly lol

[@DarkPyroZero]

I love you so much Datto, please never change

[@buldor6]

I'm usually the one doing mechanics, but for one of my clears of the master planets challenge I did add clear and made me realize how much work you actually need it put in. (although it probably didn't help that my runners basically just killed their 3 psions and collosus)

[@anjo_abj]

I hate it when the “I’m gonna add clear” people don’t want to do challenge when everyone else wants to like mf you don’t interact with mechanics anyway you don’t get a say

[@manqobashongwe1301]

LITERALLY just got off a horrible raid where I kept letting the team down. My spirits are down and this is what I needed.

[@C6KSystem]

Hope you feel better pal. Get back in there when you are comfortable and conquer that raid.

[@c0n2oo3]

Skill issue

[@nikneo87]

the fact that you have self reflection to understand you could do better already makes you better than 99% of the other d2 players. hope you're able to tweak your build to slay

[@amorfati4927]

There’ll be times like that… you got this!

[@tomz6594]

Learn from the mistakes and learn all aspects of the raid. It takes work and suffering on bad teams, but you don't want the be the guy joining KWTD posts knowing you are a carry.

[@Wofulrumble4893]

With the introduction of Incandescent, voltshot, and volatile rounds I rarely use speial weapons for add clear anymore and use my special as a high damage weapon for harder targets. If you want to create add clear primaries look for weapons with unique trait combinations where usually traits won't be. I have 2 primaries with One For All/dragonfly because they benefit eachother as you can boost dragonfly damage with damage traits. You sacrifice reload speed traits, but if you can get flared magwell and reload masterwork to help with that

[@urazz7739]

Kind of what I do as well. Though I do have some primaries built to hit hard as well, I.E. Rufus' Fury with Rewind Rounds and Target Lock for my strand titan.

[@MCP2002]

Played a Raid with a guy who announced he'd do ad clear because he's not great with mechanics. My initial reaction was ...."oh no". Much to my suprise he was a fucking ad clear God. He killed everything. All the time. It was shocking how well he ad cleared. In all honesty, watching him ad clear was more interesting than the mechanics we were involved with. Lmao

[@BC-ni6hp]

My friends always put me on add clear, not because I don’t know the mechanics, but because they cant even find adds in most raid encounters when I’m on them

[@blackyonbi]

The "B.C" on your name must meant " Big Chad "

[@apray99]

I love being the divinity ad clear person 😭 I got the exotic only a few months after I started playing and never turned back. Divinity is my tool to stay in lfgs bc I'm really bad with a lot of raid mechanics

[@virulenthunter3017]

They're not complex, you should put in the time to learn. It's as easy as making a "looking for a Sherpa" post or find one that's sherpa'ing people. Raid mechanics are pretty fun, and one of the only places where mechanics are actually a thing, I don't understand why you'd just want to keep doing what you can do in patrols and just get carried through the raid while robbing yourself of the fun of actually doing the raid.

[@apray99]

@Virulent Hunter I know, they are very fun. I know how to do some raids completely very well. I've gotten better over time, even, and I'd only just started to play at the start of Season of the Lost. Also willing and able to learn. I just so happen to be in a clan where I'm put in these positions and don't need to worry about it half the time.

[@oxsila]

@@virulenthunter3017 You are right in that raid mechanics aren't that complex usually. The complexity comes from the social aspect. Miscommunication, intolerance, inability to listen, arrogance etc etc etc. I am more than capable of doing raids, but if they are complex enough where people do a bad job of explaining them that leads to toxicity and frustration because "dude the mechanics are easy!". RoN has been a breath of fresh air for this reason. Just enough mechanics to feel like a raid, but not overly complex to breed too much toxicity and elitism

[@KaijuVersus]

We got to the final boss of a div run today it was my first gos as well for div and 3 people said they were too tired so we didn't finish it :(

[@roohni2226]

As a guy who took pride in being an add eater ever since levi but especially sos days, i can say i can see a huge diff when im on mechanics and leaving add clear to new/unexperienced people. Esp when they try to use smth like scout pulse and prospector or something 💀

[@tylermiller8936]

On God. I remember the add clearing double primary days of SoS. That raid was a blast.

[@burns0100]

I have to ask sometimes who's on add clear because the runners somehow end up with most kills then some of the guys we put on add clear. We'll look at their loadouts and see something like a glaive, a sidearm or once I seen a sniper and shotgun. Those guys get replaced real fast.

[@roohni2226]

@@burns0100 idk about you but i use drang when im not using an lmg or forbearance. Even on day 1 kings fall i was spawn killing adds with it. I cant wait for the sidearm buff next season and maybe we get a solar 3 burst. All the latest 3 bursts have been complete ass for pve its sad

[@burns0100]

@@roohni2226 I use calus mini tool on my starfire build and an avalanche machine gun. Both have incandescent so killing groups is easy. Got my build to a stage where one kill and a melee ignites and I get almost a full melee charge back. So I have 100% ability uptime as well as weapons suited for crowd control.

[@roohni2226]

@@burns0100 fair enough, i never liked calus/mida mini tool feel all the way from season 1 so it just feels bad for me

[@DanielMorales-en4wh]

Had a guy demand we know what to do when we joined, he died like 3 times per encounter, we stuck him on ads cause he was the only one who didn’t know the encounter, and had 8 kills ON AD CLEAR in each encounter. He would get upset if our runners weren’t doing it the fastest they could saying “if you didn’t take so long I wouldn’t have died to *insert ad that can be easily dealt with*” end of the raid we were curious what he was running, he was running a random kinetic bow (not a good roll) and a glaive with his “dps” weapon being a random rpg cause apparently he didn’t have a half decent rocket saved, had 120 mobility with 30 res and 10 recov on spectral blade hunter, needless to say everybody besides him laughed hysterically for like 20 min at how he brought us together to essentially carry him through the raid as he complained the whole way

[@SpilcedJeans]

I feel this 1000%. It's so frustrating to be in a team of 6 people and only 2 of them brought their brains with them.

[@wadeslilson4385]

Listening to this while i work out so it sounds like datto is teaching me how to get stronger

[@Zerba-]

Thank you datto for letting me KWTD

[@paulusanimalus8054]

Elitist Datto's takes always give me a smile on my face

[@SQUADupTIME]

another problematic iteration of this is when a player will say “i’ll run div” or “i got gally” as if that disables their ability to perform any sort of actual mechanic during a boss

[@DeontologicalMalaise]

A big part of AD Clear should be to at least be familiar with the mechanics even if you're not comfortable running them. On planets encounter for example, those orange bar solar shield honored centurions have to die for the Colossus to spawn for runners. AD Clears who don't pay attention to this will then force the runners to try and do that, which can be difficult if their build is CQC + DPS, much worse on master. There's similar mechanics in other raids and dungeons aka killing x spawns y enemey.

[@MrLongshotbob]

If I'm add clear on Planets encounter, I use Trinity Ghoul on top of the middle planets and rain lightning like Zeus

[@Sushimarx]

YES I was waiting for this video after your twitter announced it can't wait to watch!

[@kevindiederich4803]

With the recent sidearm buffs Trespasser basically deletes everything in front of you can can potentially one shot or nearly kill every single yellow bar

[@YouDoYouBoo1414]

Loved this one the amount of times I've had "add clear" have less kills then me is shocking

[@mad_incognito]

I want to farm for a deliverance pattern but the dreaded KWTD is making me avoid it. I know more about the raid than most but I don’t want be in the position where I don’t know that part. Since VoD I started to remain in the ad-clear role to avoid issues due to whiping. For anything where I can get away with not having a mic I don’t mind LFG but for Raids you need it and the toxicity is sometimes too much and I am just not in for that. I don’t mind trying for hours but one encounter of toxicity is enough to quit.

[@Gee-bg2rv]

Many LFG’s aren’t toxic unless you’re just incompetent. If you put in the time and watched multiple guides you’ll be fine. Be upfront, “I’ve watched guides, haven’t actually done it but I’m willing to try” some might say it’s okay no worries and might teach you, or others might just say, no you stay on ad clear. Regardless it’ll work out for you lol . After 2-3 tries you should understand the mechanics well enough to confidently say “I know how to do the mechanics”

[@xXImikoXx]

Tell me Datto is frustrated from Raiding with Th3Jez without telling me. 🤣

[@campbellclark2988]

My tips Encounter 1-2 ad clear Void class Witherhoard Hollow Denial Commemoration Goodbye ads Ideally for 3 and 4 you want to switch on Thunderlord and swap Wither for whatever primary special you like. If group insists on rockets, then stick with wither, grab a good legendary RL and make sure you use a few rockets on the adds so that heavy ammo can be picked up for Hollow Denial. Hunter and Titan stay on Void and Warlock switch to Starfire well for 3/4. Never have another issue again

[@zombiebutaliveandnotdead6878]

Haven’t raised in a few years and have been really anxious to do so. I almost did this so I wouldn’t need to use a mic but never though of it this way. I’m glad you said this because this isn’t what I want to do. I always wanted to be an asset or the dude people looked at in the raid for leadership. And I don’t wanna change that

[@Termitater]

If you’re a fan of Hand Cannons and are running a Exotic Heavy or Energy weapon, Fatebringer and Eyasluna are both very viable kinetic slot workhorses. If you need a Legendary Kinetic slot SMG, Extraordinary Rendition is a solid pick. If you want a good Energy slot Special weapon besides what Datto rattled off, Null Composure is a fun pick.

[@TheGamingSpartanA113]

Datto may have said "Elitist Datto" is going away, but in came busting down the door: Tired of Your Shit, Psychologically Unhinged Datto

[@Ex-D-]

Any good solar weapon inside a Well with Ember of Combustion will cause targets to Ignite, spawn Firesprites, create Orbs, and give you a lot of super back especially with Phoenix Protocol. If you need you can swap to Starfire quickly before damage. I suggest Fixed Odds with Killing Tally, Mini-Tool, Drang, Zaouli’s Bane, Sunshot, Ammit AR2, Vex Mythoclast, the BXR, Vision of Confluence, Acasia’s Dejection, and lastly Cartesian Coordinate.

[@kasm7870]

Harsh Language with Destabilizing Rounds can be insane. When you kill an enemy early in the wave, it will apply Volatile to enemies further in the wave. The wave then causes Volatile to detonate.

[@urazz7739]

Funny because add clear is pretty easy and if you are struggling on that then you are pretty bad unless you are drastically under level or on master difficulty. In general, I just go solar with healing grenade for extra survival (unless you are using a grenade build), a primary weapon capable of doing AOE damage like Incandescent, Voltshot, etc., and/or have a wave frame grenade launcher and be decent at using it. On the Planets encounter, I found if you can use a weapon with anti-barrier, you can just plink on through phalanx shields or a wave frame grenade launcher will bypass the phalanx shields. I also tend to stay around the area where the rally flag is placed at and hide behind pillars, this means I'm using more ranged primary weapons (this season I'm using the BXR with incandescent and it can get anti-barrier this season as a choice for the seasonal artifact). On our favorite red pajama wearing Disciple with a dad bod, if I'm not using a super for the boss, then I use an add clearing super immediately to clear out the adds and the colossi in the beginning of the fight. The main threat to the runners in the form of adds is the Colossus on that side, so best take it out ASAP. The main threat from them is their missile barrage that blinds people and that can be devastating for runners.

[@LeJunny]

there were a few encounters where I had to step in and take total control of ad clear, first CP was Master Caretaker week 1 of challenge, that was one of the most important roles to have a good ad clearer because 3 Champions spawned per side on each floor. Second was Master Nez challenge because everyone had to get nodes

[@jyapp4489]

One of the few instances where I am actually enjoying Elitist Datto, as add clear roles are areas I genuinely know I need a bit of improvement on.

[@pandacrafty]

brigand's law just runs over planets now too. enemies spawn close enough to each other to all voltshot chain so you can just run in a circle from spawn to spawn wiping everything.

[@OthersideSparrow]

My favorite was when Master Nezarec challenge was up. The post would be "Master Nez Challenge KWTD Im Ad clear" Like no, my guy, EVERYONE is doing mechanics with challenge lmao

[@steveh7508]

suspend is amazing in second for lifting gold enemies , and holding nezz adds in place for wave nade eating them in one shot

[@CalixtoErico]

I’m here for Datto going wild.

[@Fanatator]

Reminds me of crown of sorrow. You really had learn the rotations of spawning enemies and be efficient at taking them out cause that directly influenced the time you had for dps and general safety time. With cycling partner damage you also had to be prepared to deal with thralls AND beefy knights.

[@zacinnc78]

key takeaway message here is :AS THEY SPAWN! also abuse those volatile rounds guys its so free on the artifact this season

[@MrSecondchancebro]

1:40 and I can tell this is gonna be one of the greatest Datto videos ever.

[@aeloswindrunner]

Not done RoN yet, but when I've done vog and we've had 3 people on oracles and 3 people on ad clear, I've recently been using gyrfalcons, void machine gun and graviton lance. Good for clearing stuff well

[@jakpote88]

thks for the guide! this is the only role i wasnt able to do

[@officialzackk]

Excellent vid bc I normally go for ad clear most times and having a good partner is crucial so gonna send this to them

[@crashka5860]

Got my first clear of this today, everyone in my group did mechanics for at least one encounter. I was on a fire bolt splendour bonk titan with a thunderlord and ikelos smg so I could run double arc weapon surge. I was so aggressive my runner didn’t even notice the adds until our third attempt

[@jimcubbage5619]

Unless you were a runner on the opening couple days of the raid, no LFG group has the tolerance for you to learn. All you are allowed to do is ad clear. DSC, it was fun to learn new roles as they could be saved, someone could pick-up operator, or scanner. But in RoN, the whole battle depends on you having people who know the mechanics and can do them well, that learning is not an option.

[@Dyndase-29]

FYI, using Soul drinker (Vow weapon) heals you when you reload after hitting enemies helps a lot.

[@howardschneider4549]

I love this thank you and I agree incorporate your subclass where it can be of use to help the team and you.

[@omegapex]

I'm normally doing mechanics but whenever I do find myself on ad-clear this season I've got a wavesplitter build ready to go, really keeps those heavy bricks raining on planets with the endless supply of orange-bars

[@lukemckoy9732]

So many people need to see this…..

[@Camyar335]

Me after running planets, killing the most ads and getting 2nd highest damage: easy peasy savathussy

[@sasuras6542]

fighting lion and volatile rounds are good for ad clear right now because it does ungodly amounts of damage to red bars

[@kylezafiris4238]

Risk runner is also an easy ad clear exotic that pretty much everyone has. The arc chain will clean up the psions very quickly.

[@cestlavie5063]

Cabal don't tend to use Arc damage that often, don't they?

[@kylezafiris4238]

@@cestlavie5063 Yeah I think they mostly use soar, but you can self-damage with arc grenade if you want to get the chain going. Not the best option but it is an easy one.

[@JustAJauneArc]

Two unsung heroes of monster add clear capabilities: •Sweet Business: If you're a Titan with Actium War Rig, you literally have 30 (28 if because of spool up) seconds of 900 RPM fire. It does INSANE damage to red bar enemies. •Prometheus Lens: This is really only a big deal if you have the catalyst where it gains incandescent. Incandescent on a trace rifle that scorches and reloads on kill means you spend a LOT of time killing groups of enemies and no time at all reloading because of it. I would recommend a kinetic that has shoot to loot to grab bricks and orbs, and rock 1x solar surge to have space for 2 solar reserve mods for more ammo + more ammo on pickup.

[@petexn7573]

On my master nez kill for rank 11 my group already had runners so I got to finally just be delegated to add clear. I run a void gyrfalcon Hunter. I have conditional finality and a lot of game sense. The final tally on the kill was me with more kills than the next 3 people combined as I emptied the right side and managed the center with near instant champ kills. I love getting moments to just cut loose instead of doing all the work like groups often force me to do by never volunteering to do any mechanic ever

[@burns0100]

The same run I got my shotgun to drop I think we carried two people for their first run ever meanwhile I was on add clear with them, I was on right, the other two mid and left and I ended up with 200+ kills to their 50 and literally didn't remember who was on add clear because the runners had more kills then them lol. Finished tops dps and top kills and felt so good when the shotgun dropped only for me that run. Screamed out "I earned this bitch!" when it happened.

[@HisFlynessSTU2]

It feels good having a guide encouraging better gunskill in Destiny again

[@Taitou25]

I do mechanics as opposed to add clear, and this is still genuinely helpful for me. I appreciate learning how to more efficiently obliterate adds!

[@halfdollar50c]

suggestion, use dead messenger. It one shots all red bars in the master raid, and also creates heavy ammo this season since its void. I've been using it over my forbearance

[@jackthompson7546]

Dead messenger can actually be swapped elements :)

[@dankerbell]

@@jackthompson7546 he probably knows since it starts out as arc when you spawn

[@dankerbell]

he mentions it

[@jackthompson7546]

@Dankerbell, Ruriko's Chosen oh? For me it always starts as void :O

[@TheBen69]

If the team is struggling a little I try my best to Sherpa. And I put on forbearance with arblest to throw some grenade the ad clears way between swapping planets.

[@donkulator]

When my team did master scission, I did ad clear mainly because I knew I could kill everything. I main arc hunter with liars handshake and my side never had more than a few ads alive, and I spawn killed the barrier champs when they appeared. Never got any thanks for it but I know how important my job was

[@catz_ee]

Another thing to make note of is that add clear people are in fact also backup mechanics people. At the very least have tangential knowledge of what needs to happen, and what that going wrong looks like/how to fix it.

[@kai0318]

I already had the Wave Frame GL and Machine Gun parts of this vid down, also the Nez positionning to an extent, but the Planets add clearing I clearly didn't understand the assignment as I was mainly hanging back near the flag picking off Psions with DMT trying not to die because I didn't want to weigh others down. In both my clears it worked out, but still I should try being a bit more aggressive next time.

[@urazz7739]

I was using the BXR pulse rifle with incandescent and anti-barrier from the seasonal artifact myself. Anti-barrier rounds also allows you to pierce phalanx shields as an added bonus and incandescent is crazy good on this fight as well.

[@ClideGeardenaweseomeness]

You're using DMT in pve?

[@kai0318]

@@ClideGeardenaweseomeness This thing is just plain fun to use in general, especially if you've got the catalyst which removes accuracy dropoff from hip-firing. Will one-shot nearly every red bar in Normal mode Root long as your cursor is close enough to their heads. Not optimal? Most likely, but I'm having a blast.

[@BronanaGaming]

Thanks for the vid 😁 there is actually so many people who can’t add clear properly

[@ivanperez6201]

I 100% agree with this. People are saying "I'll do add clear" and then kill a couple of adds and then you spend then entire raid reviving them. I have OCD when it comes to this game. When I tell you I'll do add clear, I put on whatever weapon & mod is best suited to murder and destroy everything that red or orange bar..... everything. If there is something around you that is stopping you from completing a mechanic it will die, if it's shooting at you from a far... it will die. That's the commitment you need to have and most players have that... except the speed runners (I've learnt to appreciate them as you can learn a lot by watching someone cheese their way through life). If you are on add clear, you have to reach down deep and become that homicidal mass murderer you know you can be.

[@mythicdrakefox]

I just want to say I got the title. I never kicked anyone I just moved them into a different roll if it wasn't working out. Sure I had to carry a lot but I never felt the need to kick. I truly believe anyone can do this raid.

[@KoreanMungBeanSproutSalad]

The fundamental issue with this video is that the people who are willing to learn how to ad clear well are not the same people who call ad clear at every encounter

[@Obahar]

As someone who has only tried each raid once (sans Last Wish, of which I've not bothered with past the Wishing Wall) just before the DCV took most everything away, I might actually do this raid more often because it's so mechanic-light. Not a single raid's mechanics have been fun or interesting to me, despite how good our Sherpas were in making the experience bearable. I just find it kind of lame that these mechanics seem to only be in place as a way to make players feel like they need 6 people per group. If I could solo raids, I would much prefer that I think. But I'm not giving myself an aneurysm juggling a bunch of random ass mechanics so as to make an enemy vulnerable that, in any other activity, would not have this random immunity until we did something as pedantic as killing a specific Psion according to the symbols another player told you of, or by throwing balls at several ships. For that reason, dungeons will always be the superior PvE content to me, as they're fun in a group and just as fun a challenge alone. But hey, easy loot is easy loot. I'll adclear for an hour or two per week to get some modern raid loot- I might even look into soloing some of the stuff, as it doesn't seem quite as frustrating as some other raid solos are.

[@catz_ee]

I was on add clear for day one planets and I simply threw on tarrabah and path of burning steps and went to town. The other person who didn't have a mechanics related job barely had any enemies to deal with because that build makes contest mode orange bars look like edz dregs.

[@thestokes91]

It was really interesting doing Master RON, normally we have some of the lesser skilled players on the team on ad clear, but in RON we had to have the best on ad clear or else we just got overwhelmed. These LFG'ers that want to be carried thinking ad clear in master RON is easy are getting rude awakenings I think.