a top-tier pve exotic plenty of people are posting on lfg normally i would shy away like the plague but i say now is the time to do it okay you fired up the raid you can do the whole thing if you want but if i were you i would save all the time in the world and simply punch in the code on the wish wall that teleports your entire team directly to the riven encounter just go to the wish wall right off the bat and shoot each tile one at a time until you've matched every icon to the icon i'm showing you right here and then when you're done you have someone step on the plate and the floor to activate the wish okay now you're at the riven boss encounter so let's talk loadout recommendations if you're watching today's video you probably don't have the NUMBER_TOKENk voices so your best bet for a rhythm one phase would be to go ham on a different fusion rifle after testing a fair number of weapons with my buddies i can give a strong recommendation to the following the merciless exotic fusion or cartesian coordinate with vorpal weapon we'll get to how the encounter mechanics work in a minute but the dps game plan is pretty straightforward drop a titan bubble in the back for more weapon damage warlock well goes up front to guarantee you won't die if you're getting shot and then unload fusion rifle shots into riven's mouth until victory obviously you want someone on your team to be running particle deconstruction and also if possible focusing lens it's on your artifact for the entire season and you can run it together with particle deconstruction here's the game plan there you want to have maybe one person on your team with stasis and have them throw a quick dustfield nade at riven's paw right when the dps face begins anyone standing in the warlock's radian well with focusing lens turned on will get an additional NUMBER_TOKEN damage because the mod counts dealing damage while in a radiant well as light damage with all the damage you're putting out riven should go down again merciless worked out just fine for my team so if you're all on point with that should be easy breezy null composure can work as a backup but ideally you should try to get a vorpal weapon cartesian coordinate if you don't have one go to the prismatic recaster at the helm open up the season of splicer loot pool and go for the shock trooper umbral engram there's a NUMBER_TOKEN shot of getting a cartesian coordinate out of that get one with vorpal weapon and you're good to go because when my group put that on we absolutely nuked riven if you got a threaded needle linear fusion rifle with vorpal weapon that can also do big damage for sure but ultimately me and the boys landed on either merciless or the vorpal cartesian i've seen other videos that show people being able to hit riven from behind with a wave grenade launcher like the deafening whisper i don't know if that still works right now we don't have access to the breach and clear armor mod anymore i tried it with the guys and it immediately seemed to be way less consistent than
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