Today is a day many hold dear to them the launch of a raid and of course everyone wants to get their feet wet. there was alot of speculation and debate amongst the community on what hard mode would change and I will tell you now its not much.... Lamp run now has all level 33 thrall and more explodes level 33 knights and level 33 ogres Bridge now has all level 33 enemies including the gate keepers on the other side as well as level 33 wizards and ogres on the other side most of the enemies here will have a yellow health bar Shrekier run has level 33 enemies not much changed Death singer has level 33 enemies including omnighoul .... who would have guessed Now here come the fun part ! Croat Bungie's new overlord of death and despair that was cheesed for a good month and a half now has Chalice removed Speed spawning boomer knights Replaced bridge knight with a wizard Gate keeper now spawns in the center area under the room you use to activate Crota which can still be only killed by a sword bearer, it takes around 5 hits or else it lingers Edit: when crota''s health hits below 25% auto enrage is enabled this is another and tryst to attack you later. ogres still spawn and we have to deal with all this while killing Crota in the 9 minute time limit till enrage hits. This raid has just made some gear mandatory aka Red death Suros Insurmountable skullfort Apotheosis veil Etc... Why is it this way you ask because, but hurt bungie wanted to put everyone at a disadvantage. My team had no trouble getting to Crota that's fine we do fine on normal every week. But Croat himself is inherently changed too much, bungie did not only throw the book they threw the library at us. Not only did they throw the library, they also ignored the bugs blatantly hindering the community in this raid. Examples of which are heavy ammo loss upon death, sword disappearing after killing the sword bearer, and ammo packs not awarding ammo upon opening one. the problems are rising and its starting to take its toll I will finish this raid with my team and I will get rewards as I have only received shards from the whole thing...... I only hope it gets better from here on out because this..... this is a disgrace a slap in the face for alot of the Community. I understand the hard raid has to be hard, but it also has to have a set way to beat it without having to repeat the same tactic over and over until the stars align and you get a perfect run... What are your thoughts on this I'm open to discussion. edit 1/25/2015 we finally finished it after about 87 runs and a crap ton of bugs/glitches the feeling of winning is great but the reward of nothing still sucks. but the shader was worth the work none the less i still want bungie to address these issues for people to have at least a fighting chance, and hopefully not to be screwed on loot like I was