Essentially the most important and time consuming end-game activity for any Guardian wanting to reach the highest light level, Raids have been a focal point as far as Bungie's concerned. Since Destiny launched last year, the developer has added and tweaked two of these challenges, one in the core game, and one in The Dark Below, the title's first add-on.
As such, it may come as a surprise that the release's next 'expansion', House of Wolves, won't feature a Raid. Instead, the DLC will boast a three-player, 'cooperative arena' named Prison of Elders - an activity which is all about "variety, replayability, and skill", according to Bungie.
What do you make of this? Are you tried of grinding through Raids with five other people? Are you up for something new? Mow down the Fallen in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net, via gamespot.com]
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Literally the only thing I was looking forward to was a new raid to try and figure out with friends in awkward but hilarious fashion
@wobrussell Hopefully this 'arena battle' will be a good replacement. I don't think Bungie would have decided against having a Raid without putting a lot of thought into this. Who knows, might even be better!
@ShogunRok
Actually Raids bring something different to the game. Its more of a puzzle and take some strategies and team work to complete. This is why a lot of Destiny players like doing Raid. It take team work which we all know lacks in most if not all FPS games.
It's dead Jim.
@Kayoss They do, but not everyone has the time/the patience to do them on a regular basis. To me, this sounds like Bungie is experimenting with something that's a challenge, but is a little bit more accessible, perhaps? I'm sure we'll hear more soon.
@Kayoss high five! Yeah, the 3 player co op sounds like skirmish crucible mode, let's wait and see.
@ShogunRok did they mention if its PvP or PvE...
Clearly their take on COD's Zombies, doh. Could be fun though.
I'm down for it. I've never had anyone to do raids with, so this is good news for me.
Well I'm okay with that havnt done the second raid yet. so it looks like we have more people on here to join. See u in may people.
@ShogunRok Well it better by a strong polished game mode, Raid's are pretty much the only thing keeping Destiny above water these days.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi It mentions 'cooperative' so I guess we'd assume that it's a three-player co-op wave survival type thing? I'm interested anyway.
@ShogunRok If it doesn't have matchmaking it wont be any better than Raids as far as time goes.
Usually it's not the actual Raid but getting a 6 man team in, which isn't always easy.
I've sat for nearly two hours on more than one occasion to have a guy turn up, wait 20 mins and leave as we still need a 6th man.
On top of that, there's no "replay" currency, like every other MMO, so most folk who have done said Raid have no reason to redo it.
a co-op arena sounds way better to me than a raid which I've never bothered trying
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