Tips for solo master Nightmare Hunt: Crota time trial?
I've been trying to get the Harbinger seal since I never got it before, and I'm having a lot of trouble with Crota. I haven't had much trouble with any of the other nightmare hunt time trials, but the fact that you can only use the Hive swords to damage the boss is taking up a lot of time (on my last attempt I got to Crota ~3 minutes in and still couldn't kill him in time).
Is there a trick to doing more damage with the swords? Or is it just down to luck and hoping Crota doesn't bodyblock the swordbearer knight/the sword pickup?
I'm using Lament w/ Strongholds, which somewhat slows down the ad clear, but I haven't been able to reliably stay alive otherwise.
Edit: managed to get the time trial done solo, but I think I mostly just got lucky. The only thing I changed was swapping to Ember of Empyrean for sustaining thr Restoration ×2 effect and skipping over every ad that I didn't need to kill prior to the boss fight (I think you only need to kill the Nightmare enemies + champions to remove the progression barrier)