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I absolutely love this part of the campaign, it is by far my favorite stretch of the Halo road so to speak. There are so many different ways you can approach that end battle starting at the point after you take out the shade/flood/covies (an AR funfest taking out all of these foes!) before the cache cave.
All of this stuff on legendary of course:
If you want to test your skills, try taking out everything after that point with ONLY AR and PP's. There is alot of AR ammo laying around, as well as PP's, if you make sure that you collect them before you engage the rocket launcher flood. After that, the final bowl battle, with AR and PP's to take out everything including the wraiths is an absolute blast and a real test of your skills.
There are 2 health packs waiting for you when you start to take abuse, as long as the frozen pond camo elites do not ruin your day (tip, do not get lower than 2 health blips or you will have a bad hair day going back to get healthy if you have not already taken out all 3 of those elites). This is where the AR comes in so handy as it is a great weapon up close and mid range to help dispatch those pests.
Taking the wraiths and shade out are best done with the PP's, You will need as close to a 100 charge PP to start with and you can use the cover nearest the cliff wall/doorway to do most of the sniping of the shade and near wraith. The second wraith, behind the trees will move around alot if you get the AI in the right mood, so it is a choice between that same sniping spot or moving to the other side of the bowl and taking shots from between the huge boulder and the cliff wall. The harder part of that position is that it is easier for the wraith to get its plasma shots into that corner and you can die horribly, many times. I strongly suggest that you take out a few jackals near the shade as you do this, you will need their PP's!
When you run low on PP ammo, the best thing to do is to send a frag slightly beyond any jackal that you have killed. If you are lucky, one or more of their plasma pistols will come flying your direction and you can scoop them up to continue your sniping. If you cannot, then the only option is to make your way back to the health cache area and pick up some from previously killed jackals and grunts (you better have handled as many of them as you could before you got the next checkpoint or you will find a mostly barren landscape from the game sanitizer!)
I save the AR for when the elites (visible and Camo) get nosy and make their way to my hidey-hole, that tends to change their mind, and leave me with a supply of plasmas to toss around as well.
A great place to get a good view is the initial sloped sided boulder just beyond the frozen pond. You can get up on it and see everything, but it is VERY exposed. You can do alot of sniping from it, but you will take alot of fire in return. It is more difficult to position yourself just right to be able to fire and not get hit much, but the out in the open wraith occasionally can lob shots close enough to ruin your day.
Try to take out the elites with grenade tosses, many targets, many grenades, lucky shots do occur. The Grunts that are smart enough to stay out of the shade I tend to take out with short bursts from the AR, saving whatever PP I have left for the annoying Jackals. When everybody but the Hunters is mopped up, it's on to the Hunters, which die by MELEE ONLY of course. That dance with 2 Hunters, while meleeing is quite the ballet!
Enjoy the show!