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This "2 Man Marathon Challenge" required us to 2 man every 2 mannable raid boss in Destiny 2. Not only that, but we had to complete each one back-to-back, without any wipes or restarts. If at any point we failed any of the bosses, we had to start all the way back at boss one! This demanded lots of focus and attention to detail over the course of the entire challenge.
Chevy and I have a decent amount of experience 2 manning bosses together. This took us around three days worth of attempts. The first day was spent smoothing out strats for Morgeth, Riven, Insurrection Prime, and Dogs. Kalli, Calus, and Argos are extremely easy bosses to 2 man, so we didn't even practice those. The final two days were spent going for legit attempts, where we finally snagged the full marathon completion yesterday :) Prior to this video, we had multiple runs reach the third boss and one run to the fourth boss (where we sadly failed dogs and had to start over lmao).
On the very last boss, Argos, my game froze!!! I had to quickly ALT + F4 and reboot my game while Chevy completed a solo break and did solo damage lol. Thank god I had a veteran Argos soloer as my teammate. I've included a picture-in-picture of both of our Twitch Highlights, so you can see the single continuous feed from both of our POVs. We did this live while streaming. I'll include the Twitch Highlight and VOD down below.
I'm going to VERY briefly explain any key strategies used for each fight. These have all been 2 manned by us, and many others, a handful of times before; therefore, I'm not going to go into full detail about each move we make.
Morgeth: The big thing here was forcing which player Morgeth "grabs." We forced Chevy's grab on the first by the delaying of my second strength pickup. The second grab we still believe to be RNG, however, we had a backup plan if he had grabbed me. Chevy would have let me die and I would have used my super to shield block and collect all four strengths again. Shielding blocking allows you to collect over two strengths.
Riven: Nothing much to say here other than cluster bomb rockets and Merciless is still the strat. I also have to execute a tricky solo cleanse, which requires me to jump on and off the window plate, locating my symbol as they rotate (right before they disappear - look closely, you have about .25 seconds).
Insurrection Prime: We didn't change much here either, other than forcing a three phase kill instead of a four phase kill. We did this by moving up close and getting empowering melees. With the Whisper ammo nerf, we also ran double snipers for the stuns. Each stun adds 15 seconds to the fight, however, each stun is available every 25-30 seconds... so choose wisely!
Dogs: We pushed this encounter to use all phases if needed. You only need one phase, however, we didn't want to take risks with scatter grenade RNG or any BS that might happen. The spot I'm standing at can hit all but two spores. The strat was to get x8 on the first phase and wound, then prime each dog the next two rounds, then kill on the fourth and final round.
Calus: This is an extremely easy 2 man and we just hopped right in. What the solo person sees in the void determines which symbol to punch in the throne. Sun = punch Dog. Axes = punch Cup. Cup (with a DING sound) = punch Axes. Cup (with no sound) = punch Sun.
Kalli: Once again, it's almost impossible to fail this 2 man unless both players die to something stupid. We just made sure to kill the three Knights that we needed, then DPS time with Whisper.
Argos: We left the easiest of them all for last. Chevy was WF to solo Argos on a Warlock and was the first to solo Argos on a Hunter in four shield breaks. I have about 5 or 6 random Warlock solos under my belt. So we are both very comfortable with the encounter. No tricks here - we just planted, broke, and shot him with Whisper in a Well. No tricks except for my freaking game freezing up!!! I honestly couldn't believe it, but THANK GOD it happened on Argos and not something like Calus :) The DC doesn't invalidate the run in any way. No one wiped, Chevy kept moving, and I joined back and we still won. Was just really unfortunate but ended up added some SPICE to the marathon run.
Hope you all enjoy the full and completed run. Pretty sweet accomplishment here and I challenge others to try. Grab your bestest and give 'er a shot!
Gladd and Chevy
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