How ANYONE Can Beat GRANDMASTER Excision (Seriously.. Its Easy)

[@MortalSyn]

I went with Fireteam finder. On my second attempt everyone died at plates...except a grav forfeit hunter. Me and 2 others stayed were the only ones to stay to watch on death cam as this hunter SOLO'D THE ENTIRETY OF THE GRANDMASTER MISSION. Legendary blueberry pull. Thank you Milo - you were a true Godslayer.

[@Mark-xk3hh]

Yeah graviton hunter is probably the easiest (although pretty tedious) way of doing this GM. Plates can just be charged ignoring all the enemies staying in invis while 2nd half you just slowly kill the 2 tormentors going in and out of invis. After 3 times you basically win since you get an infinite damage phase

[@gaelmacher8082]

was that a outbreack perfected hunter? if so was the name Captain Perú? (it was me hehe)

[@jatochgaatjeniksaan3307]

​@@gaelmacher8082it wasnt

[@theminingpro]

"find 11 competent teammates" Lets slow down a little bit, this is d2 we're talking about

[@ethanlawrence123]

facts; my raid squad actually found it easier to run with 6-7 of us vs a full squad of 12...just fewer people to eat up rez tokens lol

[@CuteDeadlyBunny]

@@ethanlawrence123It was easy imo because it wasn’t so laggy. Champs were able to be stunned without glitching out. Same for my supers (it was so much fun popping super and it just disappeared)

[@hawkteflon]

"ain't, I'mma head out"

[@porterde08]

“Guardian down”

[@Meme_dad1]

Exactly!!

[@idjit3697]

For me the video ends at step 1. Anyone else? Weird.

[@natcoo8153]

Well I don't care about his tips much but I thing streamers needa do more is how he pointed out the "kill zone" . Many don't get it that Bungie developed areas that make U extremely exposed and it's often the entrance area of rooms.

[@Fuligin]

My clan tried this on the weight of your video and I've gotta say, our first impression of it being super early on in the season at low light level as opposed to now where everyone's at an average of +20 artifact power made all the difference. You gave some really solid tips that helped us scrape through with 0 revives and 10 people, so thanks for that.

[@Spooqi]

Step 1: get 11 competent teammates :)

[@leecummings2949]

Best guide I've seen. Just had 3 goes and finished it on my 3rd go. People need to learn how to not die. It's absolutely the most important thing in it. Thanks for the video Mac. Let's hope more people watch this and help others get through it.

[@sp2rnt419]

If everything goes truly sideways during the final damage phase, Some barrier champs spawn on ground level at the far sides of the arena. Can farm a couple tokens if necessary

[@SumoneAverage]

it’s worth noting that the activity scales per player, you can 100% do it with jus 2-3 friends or even just 10 people (people can’t join once mission starts, and it scales off of how many people since start of activity, if you start with 10 but some leave then it’ll stay scaled to 10) it’s still super hard alone but possible, but generally much funner with 12 people and tons of server issues, definitely fun and adds to the experience

[@Doc_Holliday_UR_No_Daisy]

You are better off with 6 competent teammates and you can bring along 1 carry if needed. The difficulty scales with the number of players and 6-7 can easily survive the witness damage phase without bumping into each other.

[@SirTripps]

The 11 competent teammates is the hardest part

[@utubehokie181]

Nice video Mac. I used this technique with a bunch of random LFG no-mic folks and we made it through first time. Looked like a few Outbreaks in the fireteam.

[@kryptikweeb2861]

Making an example out of "crayon, eaten by titan" is golden😭

[@AtomicPuma9]

Finally got through this with fireteam finder, swapped to this loudout of weapons and well, we wrecked house. I forget just how good Outbreak really is, even in the end game content it slaps for a primary.

[@jonbladecki8933]

When you get to the damage phase, if you’re revive tokens are getting low have a couple teammates focus left and right side. Overload/barrier enemies will constantly spawn giving you a chance to keep going

[@imperialstew6032]

Lowkey might run my ursa build for this, should be able to almost constantly have it up, 40% walking dmg buff shield that blocks incoming damage would be pretty good with 11 outbreaks

[@ColdAscending]

Learn from my mistake - grab the close light lol! Mac's strategy definitely makes this much easier. Best of luck to everyone looking for the Ergo catalyst!

[@stalkholm5227]

YOU CAN SHOOT THE TORMENTOR UMBRELLAS!?!

[@KennethPutt]

Completed this in an LFG at 2am. At least some of them must have watched your video. Got it in the first go. Your video made it so I was an asset rather than a liability.

[@theF0R3N]

Can confirm sometimes he does start doing wave attacks when you need to pull out your ghost, so id suggest a few people stay off the plate during that portion just in case. And the other note he didnt share was there are infinitely spawning champions on left and right during the third damage phase if people are dying or you are low on revives

[@juanjodpr]

11 competent teammates!!! That should be the thumbnail 😂😂. Second thing is the damn lag in the activity

[@benjones9246]

Thank you for showing this great to watch and to understand how its done.

[@TheSupernastee]

can you tell me the purpose of running facet of bravery with a kinetic and solar weapon?

[@mojomanmurph1925]

Sure. It makes it really cool. Welcome.

[@shanemccracken2596]

@MacticsG1 ... I would love to copy the build you used here. The only thing I cant figure out from the video is what perks your exotic class item had. Any chance you recall what it was? Anything you would do differently this season?

[@MoDiMMaS]

TNX alot for this Guid. It was very ease when all 12 member know what to do.

[@cadenheckman4928]

Fantastic guide! Joined a team from the discord and did it first try with this

[@Anthonyx23]

What discord I can’t find any for destiny can you invite me to some plz lol 😂 thanks

[@RETURN_2LIFE]

You didn't show the exotic talents of the Cloack?

[@littleman350]

Finally got this done. I tried telling them to do it this way but they went right and shot toward mid and right at the same time. We finished with 2 revives left and I was the only one that didn't die before boss damage and only did that cause he glitched out and I couldn't tell where he was sending his damage. Also only had 2 people that charged for final stand the rest of us just had our ghost in hand. The 2 that could damage for final were both the only PC players the rest of us were all consoles.

[@mikehobbz223]

Awesome guide! Thanks, Mac!

[@Adamsdown_Boy]

Just an excellent guide as per usual - thanks!

[@kanewilson8624]

Everyone by default needs to have 2 out of the 3 methods to deal with champions AT A MINIMUM (if u have all 3 you are golden and I love you. If you have titans in your 12 man team make sure at least 1 has a bubble, when you spawn it’s GOING to be a Killzone so you NEED to go to the right side as soon as you can. Well can be overpowered by grandmaster damage so a GUARANTEED protection is ALWAYS welcome. The main objective is to take the RIGHT HAND side objective ASAP as it provides the most amount of cover, even from the middle. If you are struggling to to take the right hand side, get some people to flank through mid by going invis or grappling up to the top of the back platform. This will allow you to distract the enemies for long enough that the main capture team can capture the point, remember: enemies will keep respawning and attacking until you get that point cleared, so it’s ALWAYS handy to pull an Iron Banner and bubble the point itself. Once right hand point is cleared, you can move on to mid, it’s recommended that 4 attack from the top platform, 4 attack from the bottom (mid, behind the raised cover) and 4 attack from the right. This way the enemy AI's attention is divided and you can chip down the health off the bigger enemies while picking off the small ones so it doesn’t overwhelm anyone on either side of the strategy. Once everyone has middle ready and covered, take the point. Now with left side, it’s recommended you take your time with it. Split the team into 6 top and 6 bottom and primarily farm the last champion spawn. You will need at LEAST 20 revive tokens minimum for the witness fight to fall back on. Once you feel your team has enough tokens to cover anyone's stupidity you can move on to the last plate. Debuffs are KING at this section as it takes ages to capture, so bubble that point and ALL the enemies will be close quarters, use stasis/strand to delay the enemy as long as possible and bubble/well the point (preferably one protection super at a time to maximise the protection, remember you are out in the open at close range). Have a couple of people on each far left and right hand sides to deal with the Psions that will spawn and attempt to rip your team out of the capture point and into fire. Once the point is captured, it’s time to battle the witness. Stay in back for as long as possible and assign some of the team on HAND DUTY, if the hands aren’t dealt with at all times, they will rip your team apart. Let the two big bosses come to you if they are Tormentor bosses (aggro them by blowing out their shoulder pad), otherwise attack from a distance if they move out of cover (and they will). Remember: They WANT to to come to them and engage in close to mid range combat as their attacks only go so far before dissipating. Saint 14 is the only friendly NPC here, and he is your BEST friend(feel free to kiss him and slap his robot rear end), free instant heals and weapon buffs for everyone. Once the two bosses are dealt with, split into 2 teams of 6 and tackle each side's enemies before collecting the light buffs and dunking them into the statue to get your super (this is the only way to get Super) so once you dunk, you are to use your Super for Add Clear (or for a safe collection outpost if you are a bubble Titan). Also be sure to prioritise champions after the bosses as it never hurts to have more tokens (minimum 4 per damage phase). Once you get enough buffs into the statue, it’s normal statue smashing time until the witness kicks you out. I forgot to mention, always make your you are FULLY restocked before doing the witness damage phase. Speaking of which, if you are unsure and/or uncomfortable with damage(if there are any healing well warlocks in the team, use them here it’s really appreciated but put them at the back of the damage plate just in case anyone gets graze damage). Just DONT DO IT, I’ve seen dozen of team members who don’t understand the Witness' attack patterns die stupid deaths that could have been avoided, so just keep the adds that spawn on either side busy until damage phase is done so people don’t get distracted while attacking the Witness. The Witness will telegraph it’s attack so pay attention to the ground lines, if it’s lines go right, go left out of its range and then go back right immediately after it finishes the first attack as the Witness will attack the left side. Try to stay as far back of the damage plate as you can as you will need to cover more distance if you go mid. The Witness will do this attack pattern 2-3 times per phase before deciding to smack the plate, giving you ample time to achieve damage. Do not use rockets, you are likely to kill yourself with all the required moving around with everyone else. Hip firing machine Guns are best here (in my opinion) as the crit spot is large and you can adjust easily. Now do everything I said for the entire witness fight another 2 times (minimum as the buff only goes up to times 3 and the 3rd time is a infinite damage phase), as I stated be mindful of the adds on either side of the plate and have some people harass them to keep pressure off the main damage dealers. Once it’s final stand time and the witness throws up it's shield, BE CAREFUL, it will do it’s attack pattern at least once more while you are talking to your ghost. Then just Kamehameha to win and that’s that.

[@angelrodriguez9870]

Ah yes the infamous “get competent players” step

[@sandman1008]

To be fair, you don't even need 11 competent teammates. You can still clear it if a couple of them are selling.

[@icantsee88]

Just do it with 6 or 7 guys ,pause. Lot less lag and honestly not that bad...

[@sQuaTsiFieD]

Yep, both times I've completed it 2-3 people got disconnected as well. IMO, this is much more fun to just go into blind and wing it, enjoy the chaos and have fun with it, no strats needed.

[@MacticsG1]

The discord makes finding COMPETENT teammates so easy, trust: discord.gg/mactics

[@AlexEatsCats]

Took me forever to get my clear in, hardest part is the beginning. And some people just dont know what to do, where to go and they go for the rally which is just bait. Funny enough too, all the people that were wasting our tokens had godslayer on. The LFG discord is such a mess with that garbage. Wish cared enough to get that title so i could start leeching like most of the people ive come across with it. 😆

[@theSixPathsOfTrains]

Ill try this agin once they fix the latency on the dam mission. The lag ia so bad...having to kill the same champion 2-3 times, weapons dissappearing or all your weapons or cant fire anything. The worst thang that broke me was we got to halfway of the witness health and the latency got so bad when the witness did his hand attack notning came out no beam, orange light or anything and destroyed most of us. I still hear all the anger and chrssing to this day. Lol but smdh

[@InsomniacSrategies]

Pro tip: include allergy meds in your loadouts 😂 But really getting 11 competent teammates is always the trick

[@cosmicghostrider1596]

Mactics, thank you for this video. i hope to do this with your discord (possibly you for help). Right now, im trying to finish the final shape campaign and get high enough level to do grandmaster nightfall, but I suck at the game (im trying to figure out how to do things)

[@drfeelgood321]

Like I keep getting people who want to be part of the meme... I'm doing my part... I'm doing my part... I didn't do SHIT!... why does everyone else want to be I DIDN'T DO SHIT

[@BPMaverick111]

"Attack the left side hill like your agree at it" Are we saving Private Ryan or something? We a Band of Brothers re-enactment? lol, love it though

[@EtotheFnD]

Mac...i think i am gonna try this today

[@CDrumaholic]

It’s a buggy mess so….. not easy. People can’t load in, die on spawn, everything goes see through. Not worth the hassle.

[@DarthAscension]

Ya I am getting constant DCs and you can’t rejoin.

[@TheGraffiti600rr]

I've done it 3x and never had a super. Bar never fills. Doesn't matter how many kills or orbs picked up. Wondering if I fucking up, this is suppose to happen, it's a bug.

[@MilkyDaad]

​@@TheGraffiti600rr you only get your super after dunking a fracture of light, and it gets taken away before the dps phase

[@mahmer09]

Another great guide. Teaching over here.

[@Steve-Jody]

Discord link again? The best Guide ever ! EVER

[@killajoy923]

ngl i love the discord but i dont get much help in there i looked for 3 weeks for at least for help on dual destiny and nothing

[@deonstoodley2500]

Same happened to me in there with pantheon. Asked for help for an entire week and got nothing

[@killajoy923]

@@deonstoodley2500 yeah i can never find a team in there

[@hatgames2625]

I get teamates but then every single time i play and get 40 minutes into the mission the servers kick half the team or kick me randomly. Then also the game bugs out 30 / 10 times so the ads and boss stop taking damage.....

[@TheDarthcow]

Do you have to have a solar linear fusion? Cuz I no haz

[@Arrow-vu7xc]

For me the video ends when he says grandmaster difficulty

[@ChiefArchabold]

Step 1 get ppl step 2 RAT KING

[@dellyshoppe4]

Does rat king slap?

[@ChiefArchabold]

@@dellyshoppe4 it's a killer with a 9x buff

[@brianilai5923]

we did it with 5 people... its not that hard if every1 was careful and stay together chaining abilities and shooting same targets or threats at the same time. Was real fun... we had 3 warlocks, 1 hunters and 1 titan

[@crazeeeavery4203]

Yeah definitely easy. I just ran it for the first time with a lfg group and got it done first try in a little over 30 min.

[@GrandmaDestiny]

Best guide, Mac

[@Darkoaiz]

Honestly boys peregrine greaves slept on died once and that was during damage and it does like 3/4 of a champs health when everything else does nothing

[@JCLOOTLADY]

Incredible guide. 🥇👏👏

[@rockez09]

The outbreak perfected is what the rat king wishes it could be.

[@TheDarthcow]

9:11 bless you!!

[@icantsee88]

All u need is like 7 or 8 guardians...11 just cause the game slowdown etc

[@MrAndrew0511]

Yo imagine an exotic glaive that gave us the tormentor void attack, nice huh. Wonder when they dropping that?

[@Chimmy4lyfe]

You lost me at exotic glaive

[@jmxarcx117]

Farm Champs key to success

[@JoyBoyMomo]

It literally was first try with the peeps in his discord def recommend shouts out to the guys that made it ez mode

[@vectorfox4782]

Farm Champions and learn to survive. That’s literally all we did.

[@barneliuss]

would love to be able to do it if my teammates wouldn’t keep getting disconnected

[@LiannecarlaSavage]

Cleared it as a group of 7-8 and I spent the entire second phase on a work call without dying other than a slip at the end of damage phase 😂 it's not hard

[@itsnizzy9953]

Literally sat in your discord for 12 hours trying to find a team. Litearlly noone wants to do this LOL.

[@despair-senpai7490]

Had to add this to my skipped content list, I would be the one using up all the revive tokens.

[@MacticsG1]

nah you got it you are better than you think you are

[@despair-senpai7490]

@@MacticsG1 I'm usually worse but thank you for the encouragement, I'll give it a try if I ever develop the confidence.

[@despair-senpai7490]

@@MacticsG1 gave it a try and cleared, doesn't feel like I really contributed but at least it's over.

[@zenwickforever]

what must I do for a carry :/ I cant stand lfgs

[@paultanthony]

Damn - I’m afraid that if I do this and get the catalyst; I’ll have to buy the ornament 😅

[@Necroozis]

What u have in u exotic Claas Item ??? What u pair with tether ?

[@keklolkek2913]

YES a easy guide with only 11 people :)

[@eburb8147]

Can confirm, hopped onto Matics discord and found an group in like 30 minutes. EZ GG, thanks all!

[@misterglass8911]

Fireteam finder is DEAD for this

[@mojomanmurph1925]

Where is the part in which I need the 3/8" socket and pliers? Looks like a crazy way to get rats out of your basement. The weird things you find on KZbin.

[@SirSnorklebum]

Your discord has an update ready.

[@scarecrow3612]

Can void banner shield block witness attack? Anyone know

[@jeramiahrichardson6363]

I know im not the only one who hates this mission with a passion

[@Arrow-vu7xc]

Glad beating this on grandmaster isn’t required to get to level 8 lmao.

[@yol_n]

How ANYONE can beat the EDZ public event

[@MetalOWLD2-lt7io]

did it with randoms through lfg lol 4 dropped during the quest. It was laggy and buggy but we finished haha

[@alondite6670]

bless u my dude

[@ksims6337]

Done and the boss fight you gotta watch the stupid thing witness does

[@jackjohn3190]

Why are the enemies so strong

[@joshuaroman6479]

My clan did this as a 6 man team after beating the raid, and man it felt so cinematic. It was difficult but not impossible, and the flood of tormentors and champs in the boss room meant we never got below 10 rezzes. Granted, we are all used to GM content since most of us have gilded Conqueror a few times, but even so. Some of the most fun I've ever had in this game.

[@heretic5579]

Can’t get a team together. Tried multiple times a week.

[@Chimmy4lyfe]

I did it first try with fireteam finder

[@xthecre8or735]

GOAT

[@Sandercool99]

Yeah I need for sure help with this lol.

[@dreechte]

Yay lets wait not get the caty because im not finding 11 teammates never happening 💀💀

[@theGentlemanCaller73]

"It's easy." "Find eleven competent teammates" I really wish D2 folks would lay off stating everything is "easy" and "insane." Just stop.

[@MacticsG1]

it is easy 1. join discord and get into group 2. spray and pray with outbreak done

[@lliillIIIIIIIIiIiiilllllll]

Competent teammates is definitely the issue. It’s not like the content is that hard. It’s the fact that every game you have 4-5 people that use all the revives and leave after they die.

[@knowingjake]

Bless you.

[@Duddeeesss]

But I can’t find a group! 😞🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Samko3499]

Bless you brother 😂😂😂😂

[@Smellycarl]

We just 7 manned it. Less idiots to waste rez tokens

[@tommysagemar]

Bless you

[@SynysterBrick]

bless you.

[@mattsilliman1237]

Wait…is this the new GM that they were saying would be super hard? Making a GM that requires you to have that many people is ridiculous, you have raids for stuff like this. GM’s are 3 man content, this is disappointing if this is the new GM

[@morellkenmoe1161]

nah that’s the liminality it comes next week

[@d3po607]

no ursa furiosa duo tanking

[@PHDpulls]

Bless ya

[@JoshThompson25]

57 clears. Gm excision aint hard. All done with ingame lfg

[@rileywissink1996]

BLESS YOU LOL

[@briankosmoski4782]

Bless you!! lol

[@ToyotaCorolla-en2mv]

Grandmaster excision runs fucking terribly, cant even kill champs cause the lag was so bad the damage wouldnt update properly before the stun was over