Nezarec Cheese Spot + FULL Pantheon Week 4 Guide! (Destiny 2) 

ALTERNATE NAZAREC STRATEGIES: There’s a unique strat you can use on Nezarec if you have 4 Marksman Golden Gun Hunters + a Divinity. The Hunters Equip Star-Eater Scales, and when you Div Nezarec (in the middle of the map), have the Hunters pop goldie & hit Nezarec with 3 shots. They should each produce 2 Orbs of Power per hit, and with 4 Hunters total, this will be a HUGE orb printing strat. The hunters can then dodge with Powerful Attraction, pick up all the nearby orbs, RE-GET their golden gun, rinse & repeat! If you do this, have the hunters UN-EQUIP Argent Ordnance from the Artifact, and Remove Weapon Surge Armor Mods from your leg armor (this will conflict with the strat). REGARDING THE ROOT/LEDGE BY SPAWN: Despite this being a cheesy spot, it's by no means free. You have to bait Nezarec over there before damage begins - and very often, he'll just F off (or not approach the ledge entirely), meaning you won't get a clear shot or you'll flat out waste your damage phase. If you wanna use that spot, I recommend dealing damage to Nezarec WHILE he approaches you at the ledge, then when he gets too close - back off the ledge onto the root, and finish DPS there. Or y'know, mobile/moving damage in the middle of the map & just play safe. ADDITIONAL STRAT FOR RHULK: If you're having trouble with Rockets on Rhulk because he's so mobile - apparently Divinity / 5 Sleepers is an easy 2 phase with Solar Surge

I cannot believe Riven was not the final boss in this awesome Pantheon event that has reinvigorated so many D2 player's interest in the game. And what a perfect thematic end it would have been to this pre-Final Shape storyline that culminated in the RIVEN themed Season of the Wish and all the events that it revealed.

Props to you for maintaining the running "graphic design is my passion" joke every week of this raid! Makes me laugh every time!

For making refuge during Nezarec fight, what I have seen done is that side lane ad clear people grab the buff with the runners at encounter start and run to the opposite side to make both light and dark refuge at R1 and L1 respectively. It gives the runners one less thing to worry about.

If you haven't done Riven legit before, it's worth it just for the music and spectacle alone. This fight is absolutely peak Destiny.

If it took fallout almost 7 hours to clear this I can't imagine what the average lfg clear time will be

had to go wayyy back in the archives for that riven guide hahaha

btw when you are a nezarec runner, you dont HAVE to shoot the orb. if you are on the plate, you can look down and melee the plate itself, and you'll get or deposit the buff. a good thing to remember, especially if you are getting flinched while running

what sucks is i know i can absolutely do this. the hard part is finding people in lfg that are also competent enough and patient enough to not quit right away

Big tip that's probably already been mentioned, but you can proc shot caller while they are still immune (i.e care taker, planets and oryx)

For the refuge part, you can have add clearers start with the runner and criss-cross to their opposing second node when the runner activates it. The refuge zone will last until Nezarec does his wipe attack. I don't know if they patch this awhile ago but it made the encounter more smoother.

My team learned how to do riven legit because of pantheon.. boy what great experience I was missing out..

finally a "real" guide :-) I've watched a ton of them but none explained it like you did (with clear images and placements) thanks 🙂

BONUS TIP: If you get the refuge bug, where Nezi’s shoulders don’t break. You can ether go to orbit to reset it, or pop one shoulder while he is up top, get agro, let him come down, then shoot the other. It works.

This is a nice video, this is the way

Edit: I didn't get him there before damage phase started and it didn't work at all

U also DO NOT NEED TO get play time u get enough to get the points without it we 3 phased and got it

One thing I like mentioning for running on nez: plate order will ALWAYS look like (1 -> 2 or 3 -> 3 or 2 -> 4 or 5 -> 5 or 4 -> 6). This is actually great for people who are less experienced because it means there is only ever at most 2 plates they need to check.

Re-learning Riven was a trip.

Sleeper + Div absolutely cooks rhulk btw

as great as I've seen Pantheon be and how cool it'd be to get the title. I simply don't have enough motivation to go out and do it.

Just a tip for nezarec. My team always just gets both refuges so they're both up the whole encounter. That way no one has to scramble to get refuge and it's just up, avoiding any wipe scenario where someone can't get refuge up fast enough or forgets or something.

Sleeper Simulant with Div is also very good for Rhulk/Nez.

Additional strat for Nez : use lament on his platform and smoke him. Chain wells on his stage and he falls over, hard two phase, brain dead three phase

We went to the far back left root thiny with 1k and 2 phased him, at final stand we just used Outbreak with Rewind Rounds and we did it in less than an hour

Cry Mutany with Demo Vorpal selected is also super solid for most of the Pantheon. Not as good as the others but it is consistent and probably one of the best Solar GLs.

I'm just gonna worry about one encounter a day. Lol. LFGs are terrible. If I can't find a solid team and clear an encounter in one go, great I'll keep going. But after last week. I'm not holding my breath

My team used sleeper of all things for Nez. Actual sleeper option 😅

Do u know if final boss checkpoint will award bonus completion points if we can’t get the time trial?

Layout A is floor 2 of Tree side

Hey, I was in stream for this

After about 24hrs straight of doing Nexarec, finally got it. The key was having non-dogshit teammates who can survive and not complain/quit over every little thing. Throughout the number of final-stands we got, and the subsequent losers who rage-quit, we found the far-back-left spot on the spire to be a good DPS spot (which I was very reluctant on for awhile), needed to absolutely destroy 1st DPS to well over half health, combined Rockets/Sleepers/Div/GL's and we had too many runs where we had little-to-no ammo to make it through final-stand, so we all added a 3rd hotswap running Touch of Malice/Malfeasants and it just killed it for us! Touch was actually awesome for primary damage. Utilizing shot-caller 100% the play, can even pop it off the tormentor if you do the spot we used. Solar> Strand for sure. Left/Right Ad-clear was our best hunters popping golden guns ASAP to kill colossus', since you always get it back by DPS (very important). Gaze/Mid Ad-clear were making refuge at the start then continuing on, but generally skipping first refuge and having fast runners was best. Absolute hell but worth the title.

It’s honestly crazy how much harder week 4 is. I finally found an LFG where we all demolished week 3 and we’re glazing each other finally thinking “This is it, this is the team.” just to get take 3 hours to clear Golgorath and someone having to go after an hour of Caretaker.

So we can’t cheese riven anymore?

we used mountaintop jumping to get our add clear people across fast enough to actually kill the adds and the shielded dude before the buff ran out. 10/10 would recommend trying it, mountaintop being useful both for getting over to him and killing him practically feels intended

Is there any teams who are consistent with week 4?Ive neen stuck at Oryx lol

Bro i forgot how freaking mechanic heavy Riven was

Welp I can't see myself getting past this week lol

Is there something stopping you from shooting the spot the the holder needs to go to cleanse

Best weapon for Primary: Vex Mythoclast for eyes and mouth/tentacles by holding R and using your charges. Additionally when falling you have to shoot to her body sections. Pretty much we one phase her with GL’s.

I’m cool with only elite players getting this title/ emblem. I feel like this is very deserving to those who can do these raids and I can accept I won’t be able to do the toughest pantheon

is the rhulk cheese still working

What was that melee symbol he had during the Riven encounter? I haven't seen that before.

I just cant find a team for Pantheon. Probably not getting God slayer

We made it to naz in 2 hrs but it was already late asf and all went to bed

If i were bungie i would stealth patch that root to make it intangible for the nez fight

Time to find an lfg group that will stay once I tell them the only one I don't know how to do is rhulks 💀

Are the surges going to change with the next weekly reset?

Fallout , sleeper creams nezerac aswell

Does rhulk cheese still work

much better cheese spot is standing where he spawns in on the platform, nez just stand still below you for the whole dps phase

I dont have that rocket or that GL this sucks my dmg is trash lol

Ill tap out of week 4. I only have 50 full riad clears, i dont know riven legit either

Whisper is the way on oryx no matter what. It did better week 3 arc surge than running arc weapons.

The pre-solar 3.0 for riven legit lol

What to use if I don't have apex or Cataphract?

almost forgot this was pantheon my brain hurts i saw a kingsfall weapon drop at the nezzy fight

Hey, do we know if the title will still be obtainable tomorrow? We're probably going to get everything -but- Rhulk done by tonight.

We actually defeated Nez without a cheese spot, just straight up fight him in middle lane, I fell proud of that! :D

So here is the thing if you can go at the back left part of the map you can jump on some beaches and nez just stands there and can get a very good dps phase

The eye call outs is hard i can see many people calling out the wrong thing

Bungie is currently crying about the Nezarec cheese spot

Yeah i’ll just stick to farming the raid for CF Shotgun……

Have they fixed Riven for pantheon??

Do you have to two phase him for plat score @Fallout Plays

Does the Riven cheese still work on the pantheon?

Stage is way better for Nez. That cheese spot sucks sometimes cause Nez likes to be an idiot and not come over there.

There's in fact is a chat on console

Pantheon is so easy! LoL

I lost a run at final stand because nez decided to jump off the map, and he went immune teleporting back on the map then we got the wipe screen without anyone actually dying. Bungie, fix your damn raids.

kinda not related to pantheon, has anyone got the twitch emblem from week 4? got mine but doesn’t show up when i restart the game

This riven fallout just makes it unnecessarily complex 😂 who came up with this ?

Did riven get patched?

I see yters are still disrespecting the strand rocket from season of the witch.

Did they patch the cheese for Riven in Pantheon?

Alternate nez strat, lament

Also, we always had 3 people start under the buff on both sides. The runners shoot to start and do what they normally do. Ad clear runs across to the opposite side and nukes the collosus, and the last 2 crisscross as well and activate the L2 and R2, making both refuges right at the start. That way both are there the entire phase and no one has to stop what they're doing to set it up. Just get the callout and when it's time, go take a quick dip then go back to what you were doing. Makes it so easy and stress free.

If anyones down to run it today or tomorrow lmk. Im a Rank 11 and can swap to any class we need. Just please know what you’re doing

why do u have limited primary ammo

How do you do riven unlegit?

14:13 for nez cheese spot

Much better spot on the left side of the map :)

Anyone wanna help me out finish the Rhulk fight from last week? Please I can’t find a decent team

Imagine having to look at an image everytime you want to do riven. It’s so stupid

OMG DEAD MANS TALE FOR FINAL STAND

Not having cataphract is making me hurt like a bitch 🙃

Please actually make sure the light runner gets there safely instead of ditching em with dozens of ads and a Tormentor in the area...

Nezarec was pretty tubby in that graphic. Man, he let himself go.

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH THIS DAMNED WEEK 4?!?!?!?!

You’re calling Riven a pervert?

lol hentai attack …. Perfect

Think I’ll just do some patrols

Cant cheese riven, but can cheese the roided up chicken

Mannnnnn, was looking forward to seeing Nezarec bring pain to fireteams who are too used to standing-in-place dps. I hope bungie makes that spot Out of Bounds just to spite players

Deadman’s Tale for DPS is so unfathomably based

full hentai is WILD💀

Not happening

Just do discord stream

oh god no, not legit riven noooo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The two words I fear, "riven" and "legit" lol