Vault of Glass Guide

Drop Table

• 3 plates - 2 players per plate.

• Ad-Clear weapons.
• Linear fusions/Snipers/Xenophage to deal with Cyclops.
• Class and subclass don't matter here.

Map

The goal of this encounter is to raise a spire in the middle of the area.

Players will have to capture 3 plates located around the map. Vex will continuously spawn throughout the encounter. These will mainly be smaller enemies like goblins and hobgoblins. Every 2-3 waves, a void-shielded minotaur named a “Praetorian” will spawn. These Praetorians will target the plates you are trying to capture, and if it reaches your plate, the progress on that plate will be reset. Occasionally, cyclops will spawn in the locations marked on the map. Try to kill them quickly, as they do quite a bit of damage. Once the spire is fully raised, the vault door will open, completing the encounter.

Encounter Triumph:

Break No Plates - Complete the Waking Ruins encounter without losing a single sync plate to the Vex.

Master Difficulty:

• Overload Minotaurs are added.

• 3 confluxes, 2 Players per conflux (left, middle, right).

• Ad-Clear weapons.
• Rockets/Swords for Wyverns.
• Anti-Overload.
• Class and subclass don't matter here either.

The goal of this encounter is to defend confluxes by preventing the Vex from sacrificing themselves on it.

Tips

Encounter Triumph:

Dragon's Den - Complete the confluxes encounter while defeating Wyverns with only Super damage.

Challenge Mode:

Wait For It - During the confluxes encounter, only defeat Wyverns while they're sacrificing.

Master Difficulty:

• Overloads Taken Hobgoblins replace Taken Knights on platforms.
• Arc shields on Light-Eater Knights and the Vessel of Oryx.
• Void shields on Taken Acolytes.

Oracles

The goal of the encounter is to destroy oracles in the correct order.

Encounter Triumph:

Take Cover - Don't defeat any Hobgoblins during the Oracles encounter.

Challenge Mode:

The Only Oracle For You - Complete the Oracle encounter without destroying the same Oracle more than once.

Master Difficulty:

• Overload Minotaurs will spawn among the ads.

The goal of this encounter is to kill the Templar.

The encounter starts by picking up the Aegis shield relic that has spawned where the pool of light was. This summons the Templar in the middle of the room. At this stage, he is shielded, and will be vulnerable to all attacks.

The Aegis shield has a few mechanics:

Shortly after the Templar spawns, a wave of 3 Oracles will be summoned in identical fashion to in the previous encounter (appear 3 times, only damageable on the 3rd time, to be destroyed in the order that they spawn).

Once this wave of oracles is destroyed, the team should wait for the player with the Aegis to have the Aegis's super ready. When the team is ready to do damage, the Aegis holder should aim it at the Templar and use the super to fire a projectile that brings the Templar's shield down, beginning DPS.

When its shield is brought down, the Templar will do 2 things:

1. Detain a random player in a bubble. When this happens, this player should call out that they are detained, and other players will be able to shoot them out of this detain bubble. If the player is detained for too long (~17 seconds), they will die. Freeing the detained player is especially important if the detained player is the relic holder.
2. Plan to teleport to 1 of 4 destinations:

In order to prevent the Templar from teleporting, a player (preferably the relic holder) should look for a beam of light with a ring around it at one of the 4 locations shown in the map above. Standing in this ring turns it from red to blue, indicating that that spot is being blocked. (Note: you must stand in the ring until it disappears; if not, the Templar can teleport if you leave at a bad time.)

Around ~8 seconds after the ring spawns, the Templar will attempt to teleport to the area that the ring is. If the ring is occupied by a guardian, the Templar will be unable to teleport to it, and must remain where it is. This will cause the Templar to “call upon its Minotaurs”. This will cause a decent amount of minotaurs to spawn, but they are little to no threat, especially with a well of radiance.

If the teleport is not blocked, the Templar will teleport to that spot. This will end the DPS phase but not spawn minotaurs.

After a while, oracles will begin to spawn again. These will still be 1 wave of 3 oracles. The team can choose to destroy the oracles as well or continue to damage the Templar. After 6 waves have occurred, the number of Oracles in a wave increases to 5. However, your damage should be more than enough to ever reach this stage.

Whenever the Templar creates a ring to teleport, a random player will be detained. The relic holder may be detained too, so it is important to communicate if this happens so that they may be freed quickly and go to block the teleport.

When the Templar is killed, the encounter ends.

Encounter Triumph:

Tempered Teleport - Complete the Templar encounter while never blocking the Templar's teleport.

Challenge Mode:

Out Of Its Way - Defeat the Templar without allowing it to teleport.

Master Difficulty:

• Overload Minotaurs are added.
• Arc shields on Harpies.

Objective: Reach the exit. If the Gorgons spot you, you die. Don't be "that Guardian" that gets caught...

The Gorgons will trigger "Gorgon's Gaze," which gives the party 10 seconds until they are all instantaneously killed, if it detects a player (including if they are being shot at). Even if the players are successful in eliminating the Gorgon within that time frame, the other Gorgons get stronger and more intelligent, making it incredibly challenging to eliminate them all. All nine Gorgons can be eliminated at once, though typically only two or three will be. Staring at the ground until they pass on will help you escape their stare.

Similar to those in the Garden of Salvation, there are three floating Confluxes in the Labyrinth. To unlock the secret room, you must shoot all three of them. When you do, even if you wipe, the chest door will remain open.

Encounter Triumph:

Too Fast, Two Gorgons - Complete the Gorgons' Labyrinth encounter while defeating 2 or more Gorgons within 3 seconds of each other.

The goal of this encounter is to protect confluxes in two separate areas: Mars and Venus. These areas are accessible via vex portals. The encounter starts when the Vex standing around are attacked.

Killing the Gatekeeper (a Hydra without shields) will drop the Aegis from the Templar encounter. It will also unlock the portals.

Plate Holders

Stand on the plates to open the portals. Waves of vex will spawn near the plates. Every 2-3 waves, an Overload Minotaur will spawn.

A gatekeeper will also spawn on the middle platform once in a while. This gatekeeper will lock the portals and must be killed in order to unlock the portals again.

The Aegis Relic

Pick up the Aegis from the gatekeeper when it dies at the start of the round (future gatekeepers do not spawn any relics) The rules mentioned in the Templar guide regarding the Aegis apply here. Your normal attacks are NOT able to break the Praetorian's shield, so when a player on Mars or Venus calls out that there is a Praetorian on their side, you should enter the corresponding portal and kill the Praetorian. After the first Praetorian is called out, the team can accurately predict where the Aegis should go in order to deal with future Praetorians.

When a player enters a portal while wielding the Aegis, they will receive a debuff called “Teleport destabilised." This prevents the player from using a portal. Thus, after stepping onto Mars or Venus, the player should kill the Praetorian, then drop the relic (dropped by swapping weapons) for the other player who was previously on that side. The former relic holder now protects that side, while the new relic holder leaves it. This will cause them to become teleport-destabilised as well. Thus, the floater will need to pick up the relic and enter the other side when necessary. Rinse and repeat until a new message appears in chat: “A new conflux appears before the Glass Throne."

Final Stand

Once this message appears, the confluxes and enemies on Mars and Venus will despawn. Instead, a conflux will appear in the middle of the original map. Enemies will spawn around the map at 3 spawn points:

Alongside these enemies, Praetorians will spawn as well. Three waves of enemies will spawn, and with each wave, a Praetorian will spawn, in the order shown above.

Following the death of the Praetorians, Wyverns will spawn at the 3 spawn points at the same time.Once the Wyverns are killed, a message appears in chat: “The timestreams stabilise." This marks the end of the encounter.

Encounter Triumph:

Rabid Relic - Complete the Gatekeepers encounter while only using Relic Super damage to defeat Praetorians.

Challenge Mode:

Strangers in Time - During the Gatekeepers encounter, defeat the Wyvern and Praetorian Minotaur enemies within 3 seconds of each other.

Master Difficulty:

• Barrier Hobgoblins are added to the final stand phase. 3 will spawn at the same time, so be wary.

The goal of this encounter is to kill Atheon. The encounter begins when the vex box in the middle is broken. Atheon will spawn in the middle of the map, where the conflux spawned at the end of the previous encounter. This will cause harpies to flood in, alongside harpies that spawn in the sky.

After a while, Atheon will begin randomly teleporting three players to either Venus or Mars. In case you haven't figured it out by now, the Mars and Venus rooms are actually the same as the original room, just textured differently.

The 3 teleported players will spawn at the back of the room. They will have to:

Additionally, while inside, players will receive a debuff called “Marked by the Void." This will continuously make the player's screen darker. This debuff can be removed by being cleansed by the Aegis. In order to be cleansed by the Aegis, the player wielding the Aegis should hold the block button, and players within the field that the Aegis creates will be cleansed of the debuff. However, once you are no longer being cleansed, the debuff will return.

Meanwhile, outside, supplicants will have spawned around the arena. This will not affect mechanics, but can be deadly to your team. Especially on Master difficulty.

Atheon will begin to spawn oracles. He will spawn 3 waves of 3 oracles each. Similarly to the oracles encounter, for each wave, he will show the order twice, then summon the 3 oracles for the players to shoot in the order in which they spawned. However, in this encounter, Atheon will show the order of oracle spawning in the original map, but the oracles that have to be shot will spawn wherever the 3 players were teleported to.

Thus, the players outside should do the following:

The players inside can destroy the oracles in the order that was called out for them once they arrive at the front from where they spawned. Unlike in the Oracles and Templar encounters, shooting the wrong oracle or letting them expire does not mark the team for negation; it will wipe you instead. If the gatekeeper has been killed and the plate stepped on, the portal should open for both the players inside and outside.

After 3 rounds of 3 oracles, a message in chat appears: “Guardians make their own fate." This means 2 things:

Players will see a buff on their screen called “Time's Vengeance." This timer indicates how long they will have the increased ability regeneration as well as how long the damage phase lasts.

At around 15 seconds left on Time's Vengeance, Atheon will attempt to detain a player. This player will have a blue and red vex-like effect around them and a debuff called “Imminent Detain” on their screen, accompanied by a ~4 second timer. Once this timer ends, the player will be detained. Any players who happen to be near the player will be detained as well, so the detainee should make their way away from the team. Common spots to stand when detained include behind the portal and running right up to where Atheon is.

Once the Time's Vengeance timer hits zero, the increased regeneration and damage phase will end, and players will have to rinse and repeat until the boss is killed.

Once the boss is killed, the encounter as well as the entire raid are done.

Tips

This video by Aegis explains how Verity's Brow works and how it increases your team's grenade DPS. It's a guide for Vow of the Disciple, but this part of the video is relevant for grenade DPS phases in general. Granted, you may not be at the grenade throw rate cap due to certain raid mods in Vow not being applicable to this encounter; hence, you can shoot rockets while waiting for your grenade to return.

Encounter Triumph:

Eyes On Atheon - Defeat Atheon without destroying any Supplicants.

Challenge Mode:

Ensemble's Refrain - During the Atheon encounter, destroy no more than one Oracle per Oracle wave.

Master Difficulty:

• Air Superiority is really impactful for this encounter, as all the enemies outside are Harpies or Supplicants.
• Keep your head on a swivel for Supplicants and pay attention to their beeping because you will not have a radar to alert you
• Harpies have Arc shields.
• Barrier Hobgoblins will spawn inside the portal timelines, but you'll most likely be out of their POV and can safely ignore them.
• Atheon deals significantly more damage and can reliably kill you while you stand in a Well.

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