The Objective, “Slay Riven” in Destiny 2.
Slay Riven is an Objective in the Raid: The Last Wish in Destiny 2.
Contents
Summary[edit]
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Roles[edit]
With Riven
- Caller - Call out what Eyes light up for Riven (and do damage to Riven's Mouth or Tentacle).
- Add Clear - Kill enemies to keep everyone else alive, do damage to Riven's Mouth or Tentacle.
Without Riven
- Symbol Guide - Once the Eye of Riven is defeated and the Taken Guardian is in play, you need to head to the front of the chamber and stand on the plate to call out the location of the Symbol they see.
- Taken Guardian - Once you are taken, go to the back of the chamber (by the archway) and call out the symbol that you see in a line above the Symbol Guide.
- Alternate - Becomes Taken in the second chamber.
Location[edit]
Boss[edit]
Enemies[edit]
Walkthrough[edit]
Phase 1 - Starting the Encounter/Enter the Chambers[edit]
- After rallying, the party needs to head to the elevators scattered around the room, there are 3 on the left and 3 on the right.
- Once the plates activate, you will begin to descend down into Riven's lair itself.
- You will see Riven as you descend, and you will want to make notice of ...
- Once you land on the floor, go to nearby door and head through to the chamber beyond.
- Inside the chamber, start clearing some of the adds, but keep an eye on the back archway inside the chamber.
- Riven will appear in one of the chambers.
- This will determine what you are doing for this phase of the encounter.
The Chamber Without Riven[edit]
- The Guardians in the chamber without Riven have their work cut out for them.
- Watch and wait for the Eye of Riven to spawn into the chamber.
- One of the Guardians needs to grab the Taken Essence and head to the archway in the back of the room.
- They need to look to the opposite side of the room, where they will see a repeating symbol set above the plate the other Guardian is headed to/on.
- Another of the Guardians needs to head to the front of the room and stand on the plate there, causing a number of symbols to appear.
- You need to stay on the plate (until further notice) since the Symbols change each time the plate is stepped on!
- The remaining Guardian is on add clear duty until further notice (aka Phase 2).
- The Taken Guardian needs to go to the location of the Symbol they called out that the Symbol Reader can see.
- The Taken Guardian then needs to cleanse the spot (just like before).
- Listen for the callout from the chamber with Riven, they're tell you what eyes to shoot!
- She will appear in your chamber after they've seen the glowing eyes.
- Riven will have a mass of Taken Energy in her mouth that you will need to blast quickly.
- Once she closes her mouth, you will need to shoot the eyes that were called out from the other chamber.
What the Taken Guardian Sees
What the Symbol Reader can see
When Riven appears in your chamber...
Shoot the Taken Energy!
Shoot the Taken Energy!
Shoot the Eyes!
The Chamber With Riven[edit]
- Your overall goal is to survive.
- Riven has 2 attacks that she will use.
Tentacle
- Riven lashes out with a tentacle.
- The Guardian needs to bait the attack out, then just run away.
- While the tentacle is out, after the attack, the fireteam needs to focus fire on the Tentacle until they cause Riven to Flinch.
Fire
- If Riven opens her mouth and it's glowing, she's going to breath fire.
- Get to cover, dealing with adds as needed, and pop in and out of cover to shoot her mouth.
- Once again, your goal is to cause her to flinch.
After the Flinch
- Once Riven has Flinched, you will see 2 of her Eyes are now glowing.
- You will need to call out which of her two Eyes are glowing for the Firteam in the other chamber.
- Riven will retreat and now you need to do the Without Riven Symbol cleanse.
Tenctacle
Tentacle Flinch
Note these glowing eyes!
Firebreath
Firebreath Damage
Note these glowing eyes!
Phase 2[edit]
- Now head to the back of the chamber and through the doorway.
- This will lead to a powered-up grav lift that will bring you to a different chamber that you will want to rush into.
- Start dealing with adds until Riven appears.
- Everything repeats here, with the chamber without Riven needing to become Taken and cleanse the appropriate symbol and the chamber with Riven needing to Flinch her to get which of her eyes are glowing.
- The room that gets Riven second once again needs to shoot the Taken Energy in her mouth before shooting the Eyes that were called out.
- A Grav Lift will appear in the middle of the Room and the teams need to ride this up to the next level.
Phase 3[edit]
- This will bring you back to the top, the Throne Room where the encounter started.
- Taken appear all over the room and the Fireteam needs to work on thinning them out since Riven will be here shortly.
- Riven will either use her Tentacle attack or her Fire breath, and the fireteam as a whole needs to either shoot the Tentacle or her mouth to cause her to Flinch.
- Once again, her Eyes will glow and you need to note which ones it was.
- After that, she will change to a different spot in the room twice over the course of this phase.
- Each time, Flinch Riven and note which Eyes glowed.
- It's a VERY good idea to have each member of the fireteam call an Eye of Riven as she rotates around the room, so everyone will have THEIR target and no one is doubling up on an Eye.
- The fourth time she appears, you will see Taken Energy in her mouth that the fireteam will need to shoot to disperse.
- Once her mouth closes from the damage, the fireteam needs to shoot the Eyes that previously glowed.
- Only when all 6 eyes have been shot will the encounter go back to Phase 1
Reset[edit]
- Now the fireteam needs to head to the Grav Lifts to return to the Bottom floor to repeat this process.
- This time, as you descend there is a major difference with Riven.
- There are glowing orbs of Taken energy on her body.
- As the fireteam descends, they need to shoot them to do more damage to Riven.
- Each fireteam member will also need to deal with Axion Darts she is launching at them.
- Do damage, destroy the Darts, and head into the chambers to repeat the whole process once again.
Final Stand[edit]
- When Riven reaches this portion of her health, there's work that needs to be done before you can start damaging her again.
- The fireteam is brought into the Ascendant Realm and everyone will need to climb up the twisting architecture and exit the portal at the top.
- The Whole Fireteam will be under the debuff: Ascendant Atrophy, which will eventually kill everyone.
- Hop down onto the walkway in front of you from the rock you land and then follow it up to the left.
- Run up to its end and then turn to the left and jump up onto the floating debris there.
- Go to the end of it and jump to the next section.
- Go to the left-hand end of it and jump upwards onto the next piece.
- Head to about the middle of this one and turn around to find the following piece.
- Jump up onto it and run from there to the next piece of floating debris in front, and just above, you.
- Turn to the right on this arching piece, but be very mindful of the Taken Phalanx.
- Get past them, jumping to the platforms beyond to reach the Taken Strength.
- Claim it to begin the next part.
- Just one fireteam member needs to make it all the way to the top to claim the Orb of Taken Strength, as soon as they grab it, everyone is brought back to Reality and will be face to face with Riven as she makes her Final Stand.
- The fireteam needs to unload into her mouth, targeting the Taken Energy one final time.
- When you manage this, there will be a large blast of energy from her mouth and Riven will collapse.
- You're not done yet Guardians, there's one more step to this fight!
Making the final climb.
The start of Final Stand
This is the go symbol to run into Riven
Claim her Heart[edit]
- The encounter isn't done yet!
- Once again, you are racing the clock to reach a destination: Riven's Heart of Wishes.
- After Riven collapses, the whole fireteam needs to rush into her mouth and head into her body.
- You will get the deadly debuff: Metaphysical Bleed.
- When you reach Riven's Heart of Wishes, the fireteam needs to unload on it.
- When it blows up, the encounter is finally over.
- Take a breather now, you're about to reach the last encounter of the whole raid.
- The encounter triggers when someone grabs the heart, so let it sit for now...
Cheese Method Walkthrough[edit]
- This is the MOST common method for killing Riven, not the method above, which is the intended method.
- This will require a few Well of Radiance or Ward of Dawn.
- Using debuff weapons like Tractor Cannon or debuff supers like Deadfall Tethers are also recommended to enhance your damage and make it easier to hit that one-phase.
- For everything that's as complex as the proper encounter is, these is a MUCH simpler way to complete it, the Cheese.
- Begin the encounter with the Fireteam running into the left-hand chamber.
- Watch the back wall to see if there is a shadow there (it's a bit hard to see, but it can be seen).
- If you don't see it, then run into the hallway you entered from and press against the right-hand side.
- You will get the message Joining Allies with a countdown, and this will take you to the other chamber.
- With the whole fireteam gathered, it's time to get to work reaching damage!
- Drop the Well of Radiance against Riven, and that is the go signal for either the Tractor Cannon or Tether.
- With both those in place, the fireteam goes to town with Swords, Machine Guns
- Only relentless damage will prevent a wipe and ensure victory.
- When that's all done, you will need to go through the same steps as with Normal Riven, being pulled into the Ascendant Realm to reach the Taken Strength to reach her Final Stand before diving into Riven to destroy her Heart of Wishes.
- Destroy the heart and you've defeated Riven with the Cheese!
- Now, you just have the challenge of the Queenswalk!
Objectives[edit]
Slay Riven
