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Edited by maxesmagic: 9/14/2017 3:27:28 PM
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Leviathan Raid is frustrating, here's why.

Hey all. My first post in a long time. So basically, I played the raid today. OH BOY, WHERE DO I BEGIN? So firstly, the revive system is complete crap. Really bungie? revive tokens in a raid? Ever stop to think of how soul crushing it is to get so far in an encounter, then wipe because no one can revive a guy? OH, AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON WIPES BECAUSE OF THAT. The 30 second timer that causes a wipe if a teammate is not revived? I legit wanted to smash my xbox after the 27th try at baths, getting to the last rotation, and having someone die in mid. I AM FURIOUS WITH YOU, BUNGIE. I could understand choosing one or the other, between these two mechanics, but BOTH? How is this even remotely fair and balanced? I could do it with a team that is good, but when most of my friends are casual players and my clan is filled with mostly my friends (Reminder, mostly casual players), I have to get a bunch of randoms, and my social anxiety goes on overdrive when I do that. Seriously, my team was decent, but we just couldn't get past garden in the end. I love the visuals of the raid, and the music is good, but the death related mechanics are completely and utterly TRASH. Go back to destiny 1 raid death systems, and it might be less infuriating to do. I just can't enjoy the raid like this, and as my titan is at 295 as of raid launch, I felt like I would be able to handle it. I really did. I was hopeful for this raid, bungie. I was really hopeful. I should have known better. If anyone ever wants to try to run the raid, and will be willing to put up with my anxiety around new people, please feel free to message me. I just need better teammates than my friends, no offense to them. I just want to get things done and I can't do that with the people I play with normally. Again, I don't hate the raid itself. I really enjoyed the visuals, and the mechanics. The only real complaint I have as a long term player is that the death mechanics are too punishing for a normal mode raid. EDIT: All of this is referring to NORMAL MODE MECHANICS. Please relate my post to D1 Normal raids, not hard raids. EDIT 2: Thank you all for your replies. I really want to specifically mention that the raid didn't feel [i]hard[/i] for me, but it felt too punishing for the players who did end up dying. each run, one player at least would die, and I died significantly less than the others on my team. I was frustrated at the time of the original post, causing my phrasing to not be very clear about what I meant. Yes, this raid is a challenge, but I could beat it with a team that actually could coordinate better than my original team. I need to be able to trust my teammates to play well, but both teams I ran with had people I couldn't really trust, as I had played with them before and they were really bad.

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  • Edited by Enate: 9/15/2017 9:17:03 PM
    Honestly I was with a team well above the level and a team I have completed every hard mode with no problem. This raid is a bitch and especially for a normal mode and there is no way around that. That is not a conversation piece or something I am going to argue. Destinies terrible scaling against normal mobs rears its head. Where you just get hit the same no matter your gear level above the requirement. An you can simply die on a whim or some b.s. bugged out enemy which Destiny is famous for. At this point what is the hard raid going to be one shot one kill. It "concerned" them that under half the community finished a raid in D1. Well I guess it didn't bother you that much because I promise you even less are going to complete it now. The weekly raid was something we used to enjoy and could complete in a timely matter. Never did we run into a challenge where we felt like it was full of so much b.s. and low reward that we almost don't want to bother going through it once. The death penalty that was even applied to this b.s. was supposed to be applied to hard mode not normal. However of course they listen to the sweaty try hard forever alone stuck at home with all the time in the world people. Who always complain something isn't hard enough until they literally have no hope of achieving it what so ever.

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