Solo Grandmaster Nightfall w/ -99 Power Handicap [Destiny 2 Episode Revenant]

Destiny 2 Episode Revenant - Solo GM Nightfall w/ -99 Power The Lightblade Completion on a Hunter / Solo -99 Max Power Level Handicap Grandmaster The Lightblade Solo / Max Difficulty Grandmaster Destiny Nightfall Solo The Lightblade / The Lightblade Grandmaster Solo / Solo GM The Lightblade / Solo Gilded Conqueror. Just a video of a solo completion of the Grandmaster Nightfall The Ordeal this week in The Lightblade, going in at 1951 for a -99 power deficit. Details below.

00:00 - Loadout & Load-in
00:30 - Beginning
02:12 - First Room
14:15 - Ferry
18:59 - Swamp
21:01 - Unstop Room
24:36 - Scorn vs Hive
31:00 - Boss Fight Phase 1
34:18 - Hive Guardian Phase 1
41:03 - Boss Fight Phase 2
44:40 - Hive Guardian Phase 2
58:42 - Boss Fight Phase 3
1:01:40 - Completion

Welcome to the world's longest, and probably most boring to watch, Solo GM The Lightblade. I got inspiration from the video ‪@Chablo91‬ posted yesterday (    • Grandmaster Nightfall's | There Is NO...   ), showing that we can now load into GMs with a -99 handicap. The GM enemies are at 2050, and the lowest possible power you can go in with is 1951 where you're still able to deal damage. Previously you'd be only able to load in with a max of -40, so I'm not too sure if it was TFS or this season that allowed for higher handicaps. Either way, considering I'd previously done other max handicaps, 0 resilience and 0 mod runs before, it was fitting to do the -99 run.

A couple of things about this run:
First, surprisingly you can actually take at least two hits from many of the attacks. I was expecting everything to be a 1 hit at -99, but the majority of the attacks you'll survive at least one hit.

Second, I skipped the majority of the champions. As you probably tell from the beginning, it takes at least 1-2 minutes to defeat a single barrier champion, and that's making use of multiple Anarchy shots. I knew on the boss fight itself it was going to be pretty unrealistic to be able to focus on a champion for that long to be able to clear them out for platinum without taking splash damage back, so I opted to skip the majority of them in the beginning to save some more time. Even if I had infinite anarchy ammo I still feel like it'd be unrealistic for this specific GM.

Third, I used pretty much every cheese or skip imaginable. The damage you deal at -99 is pretty much pitiful, and again in this strike specifically the boss fight would be a nightmare to do legit at this much of a handicap. While it's entirely possible, there's far too many inconsistencies at this handicap, and it'd make the run even longer than it already is.

Fourth, this strike is both very good for the -99 handicap run, but also very bad. Solely for a completion, a majority of the strike can be either skipped or cheesed. But the Hive Guardians are a menace to deal with during the boss, especially so before the final phase. If not for those it'd obviously be very easy to do. I do think there's other strikes in the line up that will be possible to do platinum at -99, but for a single completion and ignoring champions, this one isn't too bad either.

Lastly, this isn't a "true" -99 handicap, as two of the weapons are still 2010. I think if scaling is still as it was before, it means they're doing more damage than they otherwise would if everything is at -99, but the damage taken is as it should be. I think the damage I deal is bad enough as it is, so I don't think that should be too much of a problem. But it's pretty much impossible to get an exact set of everything at 1951 (or 1937 considering the +14 artifact). Maybe customisable difficulty will allow for "true" runs like this.

Anyway, all of that being said, it's obviously not all that impressive or difficult considering the approach. It's mostly just a test of patience, having a gear set that allows you to get to 1951, and not getting too greedy. This attempt was unfortunately by far the worst entrance area I've done, about 5 minutes slower than usual. And I also sped up a few sections where I was just doing nothing but firing the scout rifle endlessly, to make it less tedious to watch.

PC setup:
Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL, Corsair AX1600i, MSI PG Z790 Carbon Wifi, i9-13900k, Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X 24G, 64GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 CL32, 5x Arctic P14 PWM, 2x Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD 2TB, 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SSD

Keybindings, settings and setup can be seen here:    • UPDATED: Keybinds / Settings / Setup ...  

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