In Destiny, a player has soloed the raid Crota’s End while using the No Land Beyond, which is generally considered the weakest exotic weapon in Destiny. The wild challenge was intended as a slap in the face to all those snobs who believe that you need the Gjallarhorn or the Icebreaker to be “raid-ready”.
Have you ever heard someone say, “I can do it with my left hand and blindfolded?” A Guardian has now completed the raid “Crota’s End” in Destiny in a similar fashion. He accepted a challenge that imposed the toughest handicaps imaginable. Playing the 6-man raid solo wasn’t enough. He had to further handicap himself.
No Land Beyond is considered the weakest exotic weapon; this Guardian used it to solo Crota
This week, Xur had the exotic sniper rifle “No Land Beyond,” which we have also introduced. It is considered the weakest exotic weapon in Destiny at the moment.
On reddit, during the general discussion about how bad the weapon is and what a sadist Xur is, someone then issued the challenge of what it would be like if one could solo the raid with it.
He set exact rules. The NLB had to remain equipped as the primary weapon at all times (thereby no other exotic weapons were allowed) and the weapon had to be used for every kill shot on bosses. Additionally, “cheeses,” i.e. exploits that simplified the raid, were excluded and strictly prohibited.
The “bounty” giver wanted to make it clear that the elitist behavior of some players, who only raid with perfectly equipped people, is nonsense and that in Destiny skill is more important than equipment.
Challenge Accepted!
“Challenge accepted,” said XThreeDoG and set out to conquer the raid “Crota’s End” alone.
In the past week, other Guardians had already achieved this, mostly with extremely powerful weapons like Gjallarhorn or the Icebreaker.
The NLB Guardian summarized his adventures in Crota’s End in five videos, which you can watch here:
Oh yes: In the videos, you only see the successful attempts. The many, many hours of fails and frustration are not shown. It’s not as easy as “with your left hand and blindfolded.”
And while watching, you can see that the Guardian takes full advantage of his character’s abilities and works with skills and grenades wherever possible. He plays around the disadvantages and limitations of the No Land Beyond.
This challenge once again shows (as do the solo runs in the weekly nightfall strike) that group tasks in Destiny run quite differently than in MMOs. It is often possible to “avoid being hit” and thus fully regenerate health. This is not possible in other games.
By the way: Another challenge has also been issued. With the Husk of the Pit, the pea shooter that will become the Necrochasm, someone should try that. We can probably wait a little longer for someone to achieve that.
That must be the guy, by the way, if someone wants to check out the gear. He plays as a Warlock on Xbox – and yes… he doesn’t have the Gjallarhorn anyway.
