Are you supposed to ignore the adds in boss fights?
Are the strike boss fights designed so that you are supposed to clear all the adds then focus on the boss, or will adds continue to spawn so that you can't ever really get ahead?
It's hard to tell since most of the people in queue want to rush the bosses. Traditional MMO experience tells me that the group would want to gain some breathing room first by eliminating other threats.
Best Answer
The strikes are most definitely not designed to require the adds to be killed first. In every single strike the boss can both be damage and killed without killing a single add.
However, most guardians do not have the gear or are not aware of the technique to kill these bosses without paying attention to the adds.
In general, the adds will come in waves based on the life percent of the boss so that if the encounter is harder on the players they are not overwhelmed. It also means if you are more advanced you are also dealing with a now very large group of adds if the boss is taking a lot of damage.
The easy advice, kill all the things.
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If you have the ammo, go for the boss. When you start to run low on ammo kill adds, or use a synth. If it's the undying mind, kill adds then work on the boss, same with the darkblade and shield brothers.
I hope this helped.
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