I'm going to try and make this a weekly thing but who knows. Last week, I did a Reimagining of Vault of Glass (I'll link the post at the bottom in case you weren't one of the 12 people that saw it). This week, I'm doing one for Crota's End. This one has less overall changes (since I think CE is pretty good as is in terms of atmosphere and lore but it's also too short for me to do a whole lot without expanding it significantly) but I did add a whole new Encounter since I felt that CE suffers from its short length for me to just ignore that aspect completely. So here we go: Crota's End is Destiny's second and shortest Raid. It was buggy as hell and shorter than some modern day Strikes, but it had one advantage over VoG: Plot. We had a tangible reason to end Crota, both because of the threat of his return would never end unless we killed him in his Throne World, and because Eris Morn wanted some very understandable revenge. So I'm not gonna touch up this one as much as I will the other Raids, since I think it succeeds in that regard quite well. But it really lacks significance because you're going through places and slaying a God that killed thousands upon thousands of fellow Guardians. Crota's threat really isn't established ingame so that's what I wanted to focus on: setting up a sort of revenge plot for the player as well as Eris. Making Crota the monster he's supposed to be. 1. The Abyss. The only part of Crota's End that doesn't take place in Crota's Throne World, the Abyss is honestly the hardest portion of the Raid. And it's one of the best Raid Encounters in Destiny IMO. But you're going through an area where thousands of Guardians died trying to do what you're doing: slaying Crota. The bone piles are a Hive mainstay but they really don't evoke any fear or emotion or a sense of loss. So my suggestion is this: Guardian bodies. Put a ridiculous amount of Guardian bodies and equipment and armor all throughout the Abyss. And I don't mean just a few here and there. I want players to be unable to walk two feet without seeing a Guardian impaled on the ground with a Sword, or a Titan Helmet mounted atop a pointed rod or spear, or a Hunter cloak draped across a boulder. Show the player just how many others failed and give them a sense of urgency and loss. Prove that Crota is the threat he's supposed to be. 2. A new boss. Oh, you thought I was just gonna add another running portion or something simple like that? No. CE's bosses are honestly it's weakest aspect. Crota is good, but Ir Yût is a glorified wizard with a time limit. She's not a Raid Boss on the scale of Vosik or Templar, she's a miniboss like the Vex Gatekeepers or Oryx's Daughters. Now, the placement of this new boss would be right after the bridge is completed, but before the door is opened to the Shrieker Sprint. Instead of the Door opening after all 10 Gatekeepers are slain, anyone who died is revived and teleported to a room like the Shade's Domain in King's Fall. The boss himself is an Ultra Knight with a Boomer, with a similar design to Sardok, Eye of Oryx. I don't have a working name for the boss (I'm pretty crap at coming up with good names for anything I make), but his title would be something like Visage of Oryx or something similar. Lore-wise, he would basically be Crota's babysitter sent by Oryx to monitor him and protect him if need be. That doesn't break any of the lore and it honestly makes more sense to do that since we knew Oryx was Crota's father when TDB was released and none of that is really reflected ingame until TTK. His mechanics would be as follows: in the room (which is similar in design to the Darkblade's Cell, including the lighting) 3 Hallowed Ogres will spawn with the Visage. If you get too close to the Visage, he will "Siphon Your Light" and instantly kill you. He has a shield that prevents him from being damaged. In order to remove his shield and damage him, you must kill the Ogres. One of them will randomly drop an effect to the player that kills it called "Scent of the Abomination." What this will allow the affected player to do is get close to the Visage without being killed, and then perform an action (don't have a name for this but it would be something along the lines of "Sever Oryx's Connection" which is providing the Visage with his shield) on the Visage which then removes his shield, allowing the players to damage him. The player that removed the shield will be blinded and made invulnerable during this time. After the damage cycle ends, the Visage will teleport away and the players will have to fight a few waves of Thrall and a few sword Knights. The blindness and invulnerability will be removed from the affected player at this time as well. Once the ads are killed, the Visage and his Ogres will respawn and you rinse and repeat until he's dead. Once he's defeated, players are then teleported to the room at the beginning of the Shrieker Sprint. 3. Crota's Death. Pretty simple this one. When Crota dies, you now see his soul leave his body and disintegrate. While this is happening, he now screams "Father!" Eris says in TTK that Crota called out to Oryx as he died, and I think that showing that ingame would be a really nice tie-in and lead up to TTK. So that's pretty much it. Not as many changes as VoG, but the gameplay change is pretty significant and I won't be changing anything to that degree again until I get to Wrath of the Machine. I'd love to here your thoughts and suggestions below. Vault of Glass: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/224350741/0/0