Taken from the official Destiny Expansion II page just released with the trailer: [quote]Expand your Destiny adventure with a wealth of weapons, armor, and gear to earn in new story missions, three new competitive multiplayer maps, and a new cooperative Strike. Expansion II introduces a new competitive elimination mode in the Crucible and an [b]all-new arena activity – The Prison of Elders.[/b] The Reef is open. Join the Awoken and hunt down the Fallen rising against us.[/quote] As you can see, they specifically chose not to use the word "Raid". This is not an accident. Discuss... Edit: We all know that the datamined files said that the new raid was going to be called "The Arena". What I am saying is that I think they chose their words very carefully because "The Arena" will become something different than the other raids. They do not want it to be referred to as a raid anymore. Something has changed since the initial datamined temporary placeholders that everyone has seen. Edit 2: Seems like there is a lot of division between players who would like to see a new "horde" based game mode, and are excited about the potential change, and players who simply want a classic raid and will be disappointed if there isn't one. Edit 3: Just to be clear, this is all speculation. But it is interesting that the word "Raid" was purposefully no where to be found in the description of House of Wolves. Words can be very important to selling a product, and Bungie wouldn't have left out a major selling point like "Raid" unless it was intentional. Edit 4: Planet Destiny just uploaded a trailer discussion video that brings up this same speculation. He begins talking about it around minute marker 1:45. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b609DPkjM9M Edit 5: So it is official... no raid. I knew it! Edit 6: For anyone just now reading this post: This was posted in the short time between the release of the HoW trailer and before Urk's blog post detailing the expansion. It is no longer speculation that there is no raid in HoW.