Disclaimer: Court of Oryx looks great and this is really what prison of elders should have been: a patrol area where you can set up encounters instead of a prolonged strike. With that being said this is what I'm afraid will happen: I run solo and meet a fireteam and a couple other randoms in the court. The fireteam, who has a lot of runes, has a member put the first rune in so he can get the best rewards. Close to the end of the encounter the other two position themselves close to the door so they can bum rush the statues so they can get their runes in. Rinse, repeat, the fireteam gets to place infinite runes while the randoms get inferior rewards. If a random does get a rune in in between these rotations the fireteam of dicks will sit down outside the room or quit out, leaving the random to try and do this tier 2 boss by themselves. Even worse if the tier 3 bosses require more than three people to complete in a reasonable amount of time then dick fireteams quitting out becomes a huge issue. Second problem I see is that you have a group that is ready to do a tier 3 encounter and a random quickly throws in a tier one rune. The fireteam isn't interested in doing this and sits down/quits out because they don't care for the lesser rewards/don't want to waste synths. If you want a social experience to work out, saying that the person who is the first to do X will get the better reward will only turn people into assholes and I'm afraid that these kinds of stories will become commonplace. It's actually kind of hilarious because I would rip on destiny for not really having any kind of mmo elements but random players interfering/griefing you is a staple in the mmo genre, so I take back everything I said. The other main problem I see is that no proximity chat means that randoms can directly screw up any strategy you may have. Trying to kite the Knights? Nope this jackass supers and knocks one away. Need to weaken the wizards? Not if this guy nukes one. And that's just incompetence, imagine when trolls enter the fray. Can someone at bungie please acknowledge that these kinds of antisocial behaviors have been forecasted and that the Court of Oryx has been designed to dissuade this kind of behavior? Because bosses are hard enough, fighting randoms may be too much. Instead of commenting on every instance of this I'll put it in my post body and hope people read it: "Just enter with a full fireteam": you can only have a fireteam of three. The court holds nine. Basic math says that you can have a total of six players that you cannot communicate with and you'll have eight total people rushing to get their rune in. "Just leave the room and come back/orbit out and come back" First orbiting out and coming back will be a pain. If you've seen the stream it's quite the hike to get there. Second this is going to be a systemic problem because of the guaranteed better rewards for the first person to hold square. Third it directly contributes to the problem of quitting out if you don't get your way. As long as people show up that you cannot communicate with you will likely be competing against them, not playing with them.