The best public estimate is that day 1 teams spent “many hours” on Verity, with Salvation’s Edge taking about 19 hours total on day one before the raid was cleared. A Reddit discussion from a later recap says Parabellum cleared the raid after about 12.5 hours from their VOD , and that Verity itself took them around 6 hours.

What that means

  • Verity was the main time sink in the day 1 race, not a quick mid-raid stop.
  • The encounter was widely described as one of the most complex puzzle fights Bungie has made.
  • So the short answer is: roughly 6 hours for a top team to pass Verity, and many hours overall across the day 1 race.

Context

The overall day 1 Salvation’s Edge clear set a new longest-day-one record at the time, beating Last Wish’s previous mark. That lines up with why Verity got so much attention: it was the encounter that slowed teams down the most.

TL;DR: Verity took elite day 1 teams about 6 hours in at least one documented case, and the full day 1 raid race lasted about 19 hours.