How do I complete the Destroyer of Destiny achievement?

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The Destroyer of Destiny requires that you destroy all 4 Activated Pillars in the Royal Crypt at once. This can obviously only be done when going to face the Skeleton King.

The pillars are placed a fairly good distance apart and all of the AOE or AOE-like attacks that I have tried with either the Monk or Demon Hunter have failed to destroy all 4 pillars. Replaying the section from when the Templar joins up to the pillars is getting tedious and I'm really at a loss.

What character/attack/strategy should I use? Is this something where you need a 4-player co-op to achieve it or something (exact timing on this would be bananas)?

Wolf · Accepted Answer

Monk's Seven-Sided Strike right in the middle:

kharneth · Answer

I did it as a Wizard using Disintegrate with the Chaos Nexus rune. Just stood in the middle and fired the beam in a random direction, Chaos Nexus did the rest. I was lvl 37 at the time, with about 660 dps.

Answered by kharneth on July 23, 2021

Ajin · Answer

Use Rain of Vengeance as a Demon Hunter

Crimsomrider · Answer

I managed to do it with Demon HUnter by using STRAFE with throwing knives perk. Just before Leoric finished his speech, I started the ability and did it. Good luck :)

Sxisto · Answer

Just use rain of vengeance without any rune, that should do it!

Sebben · Answer

Spike trap with bandolier worked. Place before any of them "come alive".

kalina · Answer

I used the wizard 'Wave of Force' ability with the 'Force Affinity' rune, stood between all four, waited for them to activate and killed them all down by using Wave of Force once.

Demon Hunter can use Rain of Vengeance to achieve this equally as straight forward.

bloop · Answer

For Witch Doctors, your Locust Swarm ability should do the trick. Just keep casting it as the pillars activate and they should die pretty much instantly.

Xein · Answer

Demon Hunter - Place 3 Caltrops with Jagged Spikes rune on 3 of the pillars. Use Vault with Trail of Cinders Rune on 4th. When all 4 pillars become active they get destroyed at the same time ^_^

MrMarmelade · Answer

If you're a Witch doctor, use the lumbering cold rune for Zombie charger from the center.

John Suit · Answer

Although the Crusader is not an ideal class to achieve this, I was able to complete it with my Crusader.
It was easy after coordinating the timing of two skills: Condemn and Bombardment. I used the Shattering Explosion rune for Condemn and the Impactful Bombardment rune for Bombardment to increase radius to 20 and 18 yards just to have the widest AoE. Unfortunately the 20 yard radius of Condemn is still not enough to get all 4 pillars with just this one skill.
I moved myself to be within range of the lower two pillars and left my cursor between the upper two pillars, cast Condemn, then a quick 3 seconds later I cast Bombardment. Hit all four pillars at the same time.
You'd think having the rune to make Condemn instant would help, but it just makes it more challenging.

How do I complete the Destroyer of Destiny achievement?

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Monk's Seven-Sided Strike right in the middle:

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