So i was with a group running hard raid last night. We'd beaten the first 3 cp's pretty quickly but, like most, we struggled on crota. We were using the middle strategy stun-locking the boomers (shoutout to our boomer duty guy, he did fantastic). The more we did this, the more we got comfortable and before no time, we were able to drop crota down to ~55~60% health on the first sword. BUT, the biggest problem we faced was the unpredictability of the damn swordbearer. 90% of the time when popped out of the gate he would run far left under the left boomer tower. This happened way too much and it was causing more wipes than i can count because the timing on the cycles has to be perfect before crota moves. Our team was perfectly in-sinc. We could handle everything almost flawlessly every time. The main problem was the mother-blam!-ing swordbearer. I dont know if we need to adopt a different strategy or what, because we could have easily beated hard mode if the damn swordbearer wouldnt always run away like a -blam!-ing coward. /end rant