I'm sure spending 8 hours in these two encounters forged the strats in my brain but watching these guides is therapeutic

The Caretaker really pushed my team and I to the limit. Sometimes we'd go ten runs without seeing a single heavy brick. Wells, Reeds & Divinity for the win!

Just beat Rhulk on contest. Truly pushed us to the limit, I think solid raid rating for VOTD.

The Darkness is linked to memory. The Raid asks us to remember symbols. Fitting.

if anyone needs/ wants names for the symbols, the room just before the fist encounter has all of them and if you walk up to one it will show the name of the symbol under you radar.

For caretaker 2 stunning, 2 running, and 2 for ad clear (left and right) worked really consistently with LFG groups for me. It helped to never have the problem where he faces you after his back opens

My team was only able to get through the first encounter, but figuring it out was honestly a blast. I love slowly picking apart encounters on day 1 and making progress

This was my first day 1 raid experience and it was amazing to finally be doing one myself after watching your day 1 streams for years, my team couldn't get past Caretaker after being stuck on him for 10 hours, but it was still such an amazing experience and I'll definitely be doing all future raids on day 1 too. GG's on your 2nd place finish too Datto - I'm super proud of you

You're here to get a guide for a last-minute Contest mode clear. I'm here to listen to Datto's raid guide music. We are not the same.

Even though I already beat the raid it is a tradition to watch all of your guides because my raiding career all started from watching your guides

THE MUSIC IS BACK BABY

Everytime a raid drops I wait for the music every single time I have a smile on my face waiting for the guide with the song in the back ground 😂

I love that you've never changed your raid guide music. It truly brings be back to so many other raids when I hear it

"If Bungie thought the good part of Last Wish was the symbols" lol kinda true, and yet in this raid, I never felt overwhelmed at all. They took the symbol mechanic from last wish and made it 10x better by adding distinction and clarity for each symbol. Overall this raid was fantastic, very fun day one fun. My team was on pace for top 30 until Rhulk.

I'm pumped to hear that background music again. I've been humming it all morning like an idiot lol in anticipation of your guides. Can't wait to give this raid a try after reset. ❤️

Loved watching your run Datto!

This is honestly the best guide I've seen for these two encounters. Most of the guides i've watched have made the raid look a lot more complicated than what it seems.

I take great joy in waiting for these videos for the iconic music tbh

I can’t describe the amount of hype I feel when I here that fking raid guide music play together with the title card. Unbelievable hype.

It’s tradition at this point. Came for the music and stayed for the guide.

Oh, boy. I can't wait to hear J3z's interpretation of the symbol names when he inevitably gets Datto to be his sherpa. Also, love the breakdown; I'll definitely use this for my first try.

I just wanted to say, congrats on the Worlds Second! Thats a fantastic placing, and your consistency across all the raids is truly mindblowing. You do not get the respect you deserve as a player of the game.

I needed to hear that music again. God bless the sweet symphony of Datto’s raid guides.

Datto my man, you´re a PVE warlord and dont let anybody let you think otherwise. We watched your run in a group with some friends here in Santiago and we cheered for you and Mathclass when you killed the final boss. My point is, keep at it. I really enjoy your content and you indirectly taught me how to play this game.

The song....the sooooong.... it's back in my head! Welding itself into the tiny little grooves of my brain!

Best part of a new raid is Dattos banger raid guides.

Just to let you guys know: On Caretaker encounter, you *do not* have to shoot the symbols in the order you picked them up :)

im a simple man. I see a Datto raid guide, I like it, even though I already know all of the mechanics.

You can also prevent the slam attack by having the face shooter quickly shoot his face as soon as the glow starts

Can't wait for you to guide Jez and Danielle through this and have Jez make up new names for the symbols

My team already figured this out, but I really just like the vibe with the music and the explanation

If you’re having trouble remembering room locations just go into the new mission that opened up and explore 😀

i love how you have included live examples which make this the best guid out there!

Jez is gonna have a FIELD DAY making names for the symbols.

Glad you got around to saying Obelisks correctly. Loved watching your run Datto.

as soon as the classic music hit i knew it would be great

Yesssss the raid guide music is back. GG on 2nd place Datto.

Loved the blooper at the end, thanks for the extremely clear video!

Every raid release the one thing i look forward to the most is the background music on Datto's encounter guides

Woo the music is back! Now I'm primed and ready to tackle this raid

Thanks for the guide Datto it really helps me out! Loved watching the run on Vows of the Disciple. I hope you had a lot of fun!

Finally a comprehensible desc of this encounter, thank you bro👌👌👌

Awwwww yeah! Its that time again, raid guides with head bopping music

That synced uhhhhhm @7:07 is legendary

Always an S tier guide. I love the fact you show he POV of different jobs

No.2 in raid completions but No.1 in raid guides with added humor.

id argue that these symbols are much less of a pain to memorize than last wish especially if you've played destiny a good amount. Since these symbols have pictures on them, and are called what the picture relates to, its much easier to identify and differentiate these symbols than 4 different dragon, snake, bird, and fish symbols. If you need to learn them, do the newest "campaign" mission that opened up on the throne world. It literally has you go to the pyramid again, and you get into it the same way as the raid itself so you can learn how to do that as well. Theres literally a room right before the first encounter room that shows you every symbol and what its called.

After all of these years you still have the best guides out there

For the Caretaker encounter: Our team had two symbol runners. We took turns running the room or working ad clear outside and the door for the other runner. Also we had 2 ursa titans to pop bannershields and buff the rest of the team. LFR's, especially sleeper, gave great damage numbers. 2 bannershields will last the entire damage phase and have the benefit of being mobile. Adding ursa means that with a high-ish int (I had 70), we had ursa's every damage phase except the last stand.

Datto: "So no head?" Caretaker: Stunned and devastated

Very good video. I really enjoyed seeing the perspectives of you guys performing each roll. Beating caretaker on contest mode was one of the most satisfying feelings ever

Datto + Raid Guide + This Music is always a relaxing time, even if what's shown on screen is chaos

Do I know how to do the raid from being glued to the stream yesterday? Yes. Am I still gonna watch the guides for the immaculate Datto quality and the crisp background soundtrack? Absolutely!

On the caretaker my team went in looking for specific symbols and most of the time we’d only find 2 and have to go back in. Tgis makes it so much easier. It’s surprising how we did it. Our stun team was on top of things to give us score time.

I've been humming this music earring for this video!

Don't know if anyone said this but can we stop for a second and realise that despite getting flamed (by people with brains like boiled eggs) for getting world 2nd, Datto still gives us this? Datto, my man, you are a fucking legend. You get flamed by people in the D2 community and still make a guide. That shows a lot of integrity, my good sir. Just part of the reason that you're one of the coolest nerds in history.

Very well done. Thanks for being such a standout member of the community.

After finally beating this on contest, listening to the raid music is simply bittersweet. This raid is amazing, i love this expansion man

Aahhh yes, the classic music 🎶 from datto's raid guides is back

The best time of the year, the music is what keeps me going. Oh also datto’s raid guides are okay too LUL

For stunning i would recommend a stasis hunter with the new exotic stasis gauntlets and a grenade build. Have two people on the stun job with the boss between the two. Throw grenade to reduce his damage and face tank his attacks. He usually shoots two beans then slams and shooting his face cancels his slam. With this method you and the other dude can stun him 15+ times before he gets to the plates.

Ahh I've been waiting for the lovely raid music 🎶

Finally took down Rhulk about an hour and a half ago, this has to be my favorite raid, aside from the launch bugs it was absolutely fantastic.

Came for the music and stayed for the music

This is going to be a interesting one to teach people I bet

What a great raid, as always just hearing the background music makes my day

The music has returned!

LETS GO BABY THE MUSIC IS BACK.

this is exactly what I've been waiting for... this is EXACTLY what I've been waiting for

Praise Datto for actually explaining these counters better than LFG guides. Someone just said the first encounter spawned symbols and then something about opening doors. Like no context about why I was killing taken knights or anything.

I like that this year will have two raids and dungeons which means we'll hear the guide tune a lot.

I like how close up the bosses are in Vow and DSC Rhulk especially

My team and I only made it halfway through the Caretaker on day 1, but I'm still really proud we managed to solve the encounters ourselves. Glad to see we didn't miss anything, thanks Datto

You’ll get worlds first for the next one datto I believe in the dream

Awesome job Math Class! Was rooting for you guys the entire time! ❤️

Never stop using that background song, Gunnar Olsen first to last is a banger

Worlds second on completion of the raid but worlds first on the best guide.

Ahhh the Datto guide music, how we have missed you.

Sadly our team fell after about 18 hours total, caretaker had our number despite getting close and making progress. Congrats on your run Datto! Thanks for being great and an awesome dude!

incredible datto, thank you so much man. love you with everything my heart can muster

This was my teams first attempt at a day 1. We got stuck on the first encounter for about 7 hours or so before we finally beat it. Then we hit a wall super late on caretaker and called it there. I’m disappointed we couldn’t get a day 1 clear, but I’m still proud that we managed to clear one encounter on our first attempt at a day 1. I wasn’t sure what to expect between contest and figuring out brand new mechanics so that’s why I’m proud of what we did. I think we can do better next time because we will have a better idea going in of what we need to do for contest. I think what messed us up more than anything was the speed of each encounter. It seemed like you had such a small amount of time to actually execute the thing for the encounter that it was really overwhelming sometimes.

I always enjoy watching your guides on every raid keep up the good work.

I LOVE this raid. This encounter reminded me of vault.

Ah good to hear that music once again. Congrats on 2nd Datto! Your team did great.

Considering I only did one role for each of these fights, it'll be good to know how they work for the others. Also, getting to listen to that smooth music in the background is always a plus.

I was disappointed to not finish for the emblem, but proud that my team was able to figure out encounters with no outside help. Though I have to say that I did not feel very threatened by most enemies apart from a champ catching me off guard or those damn wizards in the dark room. Leg campaign was good warmup.

Great quick guide. Ammo economy was brutal in this fight.

outbreak for caretaker is the best imo, infinite ammo, and you get a 3rd every time you deal dps!

Always know how to put a smile on my face, thank you datto.

honestly my team hasn't gotten past acquisition yet, but god i'm proud of us for finding even a bit of it out. Two players had to leave so we stopped, but I think we did pretty well for our first day one :)

Man, every time I hear "The Caretaker" in Destiny it reminds me of the actual Caretaker responsible for making Everywhere at the End of Time

You can actually cancel the Caretaker’s slam with a stun. If you directly engage him, he’ll do two lightning attacks and then slam. You can preemptively shoot him after the second lightning attack and thus stun him before he even slams. We were able to consistently keep him stunned before he even reached the obelisk, thus helping with damage.

this was my first day 1 experience (my team just finished, not day 1 but still contest) and it was super fun. we had to constantly armor swap for different reasons during the fight and i truly felt challenged for the first time in a raid (that wasnt a specially undermaned raid like a duo vog )

Ayy tho fr good job Datto, always been a strong contender, and needless to say the guides are some of the best around, good luck on the next Ed man 😀

THE MUSIIIIIICCCCCC ITS BACK. RAID DADDO IS HERE IN FULL EFFECT

0:13 gotta love this sound. Good shit

The best guide I've seen 👍

That first encounter looked so confusing when watching someone do it on day 1. But your explanation made things make so much more sense

World's first raid guide right here, let's goooo

For the Caretaker, it's not necessary to run facing back. You can walk back and forth, sometimes, if your reflexes are quick enough, you'll get to shoot its face before he slams.