History of Living Nightmares

Overview

Living Nightmares is a 5-point Triumph from the Root of Nightmares raid, which arrived with Lightfall. It requires the fireteam to clear every encounter in the raid without any member dying, so one death ruins the attempt and the run has to restart from the first encounter.

How to complete

The raid has four encounters, and each one has a point where a single mistake can wipe the team.

1. Cataclysm: One player links the floating seeds to keep the Field of Light buff up while the rest clear waves of Cabal. Killing the Psions spawns a Tormentor and a Barrier Colossus. Deal with the Tormentor first. Watch the Sweeping Terror debuff: if its timer runs out, the team is wiped.
2. Scission: The team splits across floors to build Light and Darkness seed chains against a timer, and uses launchers to cross the chasm. Keep the chains on schedule, because running out of time is a wipe.
3. Macrocosm: Against Zo'Aurc, Explicator of Planets, the planets must be aligned to the correct sides. Misaligned planets collide and wipe the team. Once they are set, damage the boss through the matching shield plates.
4. Nezarec: Build Light and Darkness node networks, stun Nezarec by shooting his chest when he roams, and deal damage once a beam hits him. Use the refuges to survive his Overwhelming Energy pulses. The pulses come faster once he reaches Final Stand.

Darkness's Refuge shelter zones protect players from Nezarec's wipe mechanic between encounters.

The same no-death clear is the condition for the Opaline Shatter shader.