I agree with the loot drops. For the current hardest endgame content the rewards are terrible I honestly think that for a raid/nightfall level activity we should be rewarded accordingly. Yes we technically can get the elder cipher for a guaranteed exotic but those exotics are somewhat underwhelming and lackluster compared to thorn, red death, gally, and icebreaker (tried to get both good pve and pvp exotics) (I'm still gonna get queen breakers bow and Lord of wolves regardless.) As for difficulty I don't find it terrible. There is alot to worry about but with the right plan going in any team shouldn't have too much trouble with skolas.. I ran the fight with a guy on my friends list and one of his friends (his friend only spoke Spanish and I am very limited in my Spanish language skills). That said it took us 3 attempts to get our chemistry together and find a niche that allowed us to down him. We had a lot of deaths and the fight was rather long but it is manageable for pug teams.