Everybody needs inspiration, Bungie included. In this topic, we'll showcase the best community designed raids. So let your creative, tactical, hellbent ideas loose and see how you compare to the others. The most well received will be linked here in the OP. Bounce simple ideas or go into great detail with your own. Update: We now have thirty raids at the time of this posting that have been given some extraneous thought and consideration by their authors, with more on the way! Keep your ideas flowing! Best raids: These are what you the readers have seemed to take a liking to! 1. [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/132007952/0/0/1]Killerfoxe's Asteroid Raid[/url] 2. [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/132065662/0/0/1]Jarron White - Charlemagne's Vault[/url] 3. ------------------------------------------------ My addition: [spoiler]The Cabal Airforce: [i]The cabal are planning a devastating new armada that could isolate guardians from returning to Mars. If this happens, their forces will magnify beyond our control, and they will come for Earth next. We must not let this happen.[/i] Phase 1: The guardians spawn in the Valus Ta'aurc boss room. An alarm sounds, unleashing a wave of phalanx and psions. Once overcome, the far gate opens, leading the guardians deep into the cabal's great war machine Upon entering a series of intermingling hallways, another alarm sounds. Lights flash and machinery begins whirring. Swiftly, the guardians must work together to find access points while fighting off waves of enemies. These access points must be hacked, or else autoturrets will spawn in various locations, shooting anything that moves and will kill the guardians almost instantly. Once this challenge is overcome, another door opens, leading into another long corridor. Phase 2: Everything seems calm. There is no opposition as the guardians run down the hall. A large room can be seen in the distance, but as they pass a certain point, the cabal destroy the floor to the next area. It's too far to jump, and they team must either split up and make their way around, or stick together and find one single point to enter in. Upon entering the room, a large glass case containing a heavyweight monstrosity lifts from the floor. Valus Ora'ag: Valus Ora'ag will stand in the center of the room and shoot at guardians from all directions. He can simultaneously fire his gatling gun and homing missles if guardians are spread too far. At 25% health the glass case will surround him, and tubes will emerge somewhere from within the room. They connect to the case and he will regenerate health. Find the tubes, destroy them. They can be cut from the the glass, but will not be destroyed. Or if one can find their origin, and cut it off there, they it will be destroyed. After he regains his health or is stopped from doing so, the casing retreats, and he will stomp, sending out a massive shockwave that will deminish 67 damage. This can be dodged by jumping. This happens again at 50% health, with double the tubes, and finishes with 2 shockwaves for 144 damage if both hit. Again at 75% health, with 3 shockwaves. This will kill you if all 3 hit. Weight of darkness prevents double jumping and jet packs. Once all three stops are passed and Ora'ag is dead, guardians can continue. Phase 3: Guardians take the upward flight of stairs at the end of the room. It leads to a room full of preserved hive in fluid-filled canisters. The canisters break, and 2 waves of thrall, knights, and wizards must be stopped. At the end of the hall is another panel which must be hacked before a massive autoturret comes online and kills the entire party. Once succeeded. another door can be passed. The pre-boss room. Guardians are now high up inside the tank, and come into a room with 10 large tubes along the side. At the end of the room the door opens to the hangar bay. Guardians need to fight off enemies and prevent pilots from getting into their jets. This will entail several minutes of enemies and majors. If successful, the airforce will be diminished. `but, to the guardians' dismay, half will escape and take off in their jets. Guardians return to the tube room where they are now opened and any one of them can be entered. Each guardian picks his or her own respective tube and it will take you to a randomly selected room. Each room has its own micro-relic that will assist in the next battle. - The Great Ward - Binds to your super. When used it will immobilize all guardians, but put them in a protective case where they can pop syntheses and heal. - Sword of Darkness - You know it from the Swarm Princes and Crota's End - Scorch Cannon - You know this one as well from the House of Wolves DLC - EMP pulse shield - Binds to your super. Has a faster than normal recharge and can short circuit enemy equipment and low flying jets. - Shockwave Generator - Binds to your super. A slightly less powerful than Ora'ag's shockwave. Average recharge rate. - Rage Amplifier - Binds to your super. All guardians within 5 meters receive a slight damage boost and a significant boost to fire rate and reload speed. - Flame Trap - Binds to your Heavy Weapon. Reduces your max heavy ammo to 6. Sets up a trap that engulfs enemies in powerful flames when stepped on. - Cloud Distorter - Binds to super. Creates a massive cloud to conceal all guardians. Enemies may focus aggression on it. Guardians will be blinded, too. Use carefully. - Captain's Teleporter - Binds to your super. Allows the user to teleport horizontally like fallen captains. Super fast recharge rate. - Light distorter - Binds to your super. Turns you invisible. Faster than average recharge rate. Phase 4: Whichever relic you happened to be given is what you're stuck with. Battle plans must be changed appropriately depending on the loadout given. The doors to the rooms open and guardians are regrouped. They now walk to an elevator which, when all are present, will raise them to the very top of the great war tank. The jets can be seen flying overhead. All the jets need to be taken out as soon as possible. Guardians are now facing the task of fending off waves of enemies who come from similar elevators and doorways onto the battlefield. At the same time, they have to take down jets from overhead. If successful in the hangar part, only 15 or so will be present. If the hangar part is failed entirely, 30 or so will have to be destroyed. The jets will fly in 2 patterns. Coordinated in formations. This gives them plenty of firepower and makes them dangerous to be under. The other is sporadic and could be anywhere. This makes them harder to target, but guardians are safer from them. Enemies will keep spawning on the guardians level until one ship remains. When the second to last ship is destroyed enemies despawn. Marik, the Guardian Hunter: The last part of the boss fight. The final jet swoops in and drops Marik down to the guardians. The jet flies off and crashes in the distance. Marik brandishes a large loadout and is a fast-moving, larger than average psion. In his journeys, he's mastered the weapons and talents of the guardians. Immediately at the beginning of the fight, he will disable all supers. Guardians must now work together to defeat Marik. He has 4 styles of fighting: - He runs around like normal with a fusion rifle that has a rapid charge time. - He'll kneel down and charge forward, leaving an enormous arc wave in the wake of his path. He will use a shotgun on those in front of him. - He'll jump up onto a pillar or ledge, pull out a machine gun, and blink from ledge to ledge while shooting. - He'll hover into the air with a sniper rifle and pick off guardians. Once defeated, guardians retrieve their rewards and Marik can be looted for one additional reward. The guardians have successfully defeated the cabal's rising airforce and can overlook the great scenery of mars until they return to orbit. [/spoiler] Edit 1: You guys have some awesome ideas! Your creativity got us trending! We'll see what raids make it to the top tomorrow afternoon! Edit 2: This thread keeps getting bigger! I'm reading everything you guys put down. It seems the community trends want to see a fallen or cabal raid most of all. With another vex raid close behind that. Keep them coming guys and gals! I've put up a few at the top slots that seem to be favored by others browsing the thread. I'll keep adding others as they get publicly criticized. Keep on top of your game guys, and hope you don't get kicked from your slots! Edit 3: Rogue or Taken Guardians also seem to be a popular trend. Edit 4: Okay, so these are being produced faster than I have time to manage. I had no idea there were so many creative minds here. I'm doing my best to read through everyone's work, but if I happen to miss yours, I sincerely apologize for it.