The Oryx fight is a more complicated version of the Deathsingers. You do have a new advantage: you can pick your relic jumper. This is fantastic, because if you have a good one - disko did like 20 in a row last night, I feel like - you can compartmentalize tasks and just get things done.

The mechanic is as follows: you activate the plates counter-clockwise, like we were doing.

Relic jumper grabs relic.

People on plates need to kill their Light Eating Ogres. It's important for two reasons. First, you need the black balls of light (what a stupid phrase - black ball of light, that is black... anyway). Second, the Ogre beams are brutal and basically just snipe people out of the air on their way to the next phase. Any death is an insta-wipe.

Best method of ogre killing seems to be sniping and then primary. You are directly responsible mostly for the Ogre ACROSS from you, rather than next to you. Your teammate ACROSS from you is responsible for the Ogre next to you. The Ogres DO NOT spawn simultaneously, so you can work together obviously, but the guy with the great sniper angle should be critting the Ogre across from him very easily.

Meanwhile, your relic jumper will call out that they have the relic. As soon as they have the relic, everyone leaves their platform and congregates in the middle. A Titan should always drop Weapons of Light in the exact middle so that we can boost our DPS.

There will be a Knight with a bubble shield. Everyone should help the relic holder kill this Knight - relic jumper should just shotgun or sword this Knight to make this fast - and this will steal the bubble. This bubble will save our lives during all the light explosions, and prevent adds from hurting us. Big deal.

If we time this properly, Oryx will now be slapping his platform a second time. This is our hint that he's about to open his chest. When his chest opens, everyone blasts the open spot. It's a DPS test, with a twist: if he doesn't take damage from ALL SIX PEOPLE, it doesn't matter how much you do (I am pretty sure about this, not positive, but it seemed to happen multiple times where we were rocking him with 5 and still wiped). So there can be no deaths before this phase. Any death is an insta-wipe because you are either ACTUALLY, or at least practically, barred from completing this part.

If everyone shoots him and does decent damage, he will stagger backwards.

At the moment he staggers backwards, the 4 platform people will each SPRINT to the black ball by their platform, and stand in it until they get the detonation message. This is the part we were doing backwards, for which I take responsibility. We were doing the right thing, but too early and thus out of sequence. The balls damage him by detonating, but not until after he staggers.

The second the platformers get the detonation message, they will SPRINT back to the relic jumper's bubble, in order to survive the massive detonation. I think you have something like ten seconds for this whole thing, and 5 of those seconds are taken up soaking up your black ball of light, so this is a tight squeeze.

Note, though, that dying to the explosion because you didn't quite get back to the bubble isn't a big deal. We'll have a chance to res you without any loss, so at THIS part a death is sort of fine, maybe even sort of useful given the next run around for no reason task.

There is now a moment where it is possible to do additional DPS from within the bubble, so take the opportunity to continue blasting him for a couple seconds.

Now there will be a huge light explosion. Once the massive detonation goes off, the relic holder will lose the bubble. The platformers should retreat to their platform again, and literally - this is so dumb, but it's right - run ring-around-the-rosie at their platform. You're just making sure you're constantly moving because there's a really weird like, chase-y set of explosions that sort of track you. You just have to be moving, and if you intersect with someone else, you'll take damage. So just run a circle around your platform. It's dumb. Do it.

The relic holder should just sprint up and back along the middle straight line, so he doesn't intersect with anyone.

The sixth person should run ring-around-the-rosie at the stairs at the entrance. Just be moving and you'll live. If you die, you stopped sprinting. Don't do that (I guarantee someone will die due to Destiny's annoying sprint glitch).

Once you get through two phases of this, there is a new mechanic:

He will move to the far end of the level, and open a black portal. It will suck one person into another dimension, to fight a Shade of Oryx. He will swoop around in the smoke-y ether, and you have to kill him. As the fight goes on, more and more people will be sucked in. This is another DPS test, and it's functionally A LOT like the Darkblade strike.

Note that the people OUTSIDE the portal should be killing the adds that are rushing into the portal. It's really hard to clear the adds inside the portal and also DPS the Shade. This part, honestly, is easy if everyone just commits to shooting the Shade.

Kill the Shade, and everyone will be teleported back out.

Everyone retreats to their jobs at their platforms or relic jumping, etc., and you do another phase of platforms -> ogres -> knight -> DPS Oryx's chest -> stand in black balls -> run back to bubble -> explosion.

Then he'll suck you into a second identical Shade fight.

Once you complete the Shade fight a second time, he will be at the front again, nearly dead. This is another DPS opportunity. This is when you kill him by unloading into his chest while he heaves.