<I'll preface this by saying that really isn't much. Dark Below, Warmind, and CoO all had shit stories. While I personally feel that Dark Below is the worst DLC due to how little it added and how short it was compared to literally everything else, Warmind takes the cake for worst story and CoO takes worst implementation. So, is there anything wrong their premise? Curse of Osiris, despite its name, was mainly about the Vex. The Vex were gathering on Mercury, the start of a grand plan by the Infinite Forest's mind, Panoptes. Its goal was to find a future suitable for the Vex, one without Light and Dark... and it did, and found a plan to go with it. Were we to ignore the Vex surge, then we'd probably end up seeing a lot more Vex on every installation and possibly even on Earth. Panoptes also had a seemingly unique ability to see the Light, another reason why it was deadly. The worst part is that the Dark Future the Vex have isn't even gone, it just updated to coincide with the total loss of the plan Panoptes had. The actual "curse" of Osiris was explained in lore tabs, which leads me to how poorly the concept was implemented into the game. It's bad, that's all. Warmind was straight forward and a little TOO simple. Rasputin's getting his shit together, and the Warsats falling melted the ice around him, which defrosted a banished Hive sect. To prevent Rasputin's destruction, we had to stop the Hive. While Xol and Nokris could've been a threat, the goal was to DESTROY Rasputin, not hack him. That means the Hive don't want our shit. We wouldn't have gotten Seraph-armored Knights or anything crazy like that. Not to mention, everything in that story is weak according to old grimoire and even new lore. Xol was the weakest Worm God, Nokris was smart but wasn't physically powerful like Crota or Oryx. Rasputin has constant issues with alien races minus the Cabal and Vex, which either says a lot about our enemies or a lot about Rasputin. While the Dark Future in CoO wasn't stopped entirely, nobody really benefit from the story all the way. The Vex kept a potential future, but lost Panoptes. We got the Infinite Forest, but the Dark Future (whether Vex controlled or Darkness controlled) still exists. Warmind ends on a high note, but realistically the enemies benefit more from the DLC than we did. Ana Bray's back... doing nothing. Meanwhile, the Grasp of Nokris decided calling Aunt Savathun was a good idea and GUESS WHAT? SHE RESPONDED. We got Rasputin... and if anyone's read the grimoire or read between the lines for this story, they'd realize that doesn't do much. Panoptes knew shit, and that made him a threat that could've been along the lines of Oryx and Ghaul. Xol ran away because Yul would eat him for power. Osiris, while not being all we hyped him up to be, was/is still trying to figure shit out, even helping with the Dreaming City situation by indirectly confirming Quria's role in it. Bray, also not being all we hyped her up to be, is supposedly looking through Rasputin's data, but hasn't really said anything about it except for the side quests, which I'll get to in a bit. Curse of Osiris either should've been longer or had more Osiris in it. It was one of its biggest flaws. He was in the title ffs. It should've been longer because that could've given the time to EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON. Warmind's biggest issue was the retconning. It's kind of funny how one of the best aspects of Warmind (Nokris and Xol) worked because it wasn't a retcon, just news we didn't see coming because we had no info on either. Other than that, it was filled with pointless retcons (Warminds=Subminds, giving all Warminds except Rasputin a demotion for no reason), and stupid ones (Ana not dying because a Captain shoved her off a cliff). Also, Rasputin's nearly useless in our current situation. The only thing he's good for is data analyzing, giving a detailed analysis on the Dreaming City scenario and also confirming that Medusa doesn't exist. Everything else... well... - He couldn't stop the Fallen from entering his facilities on Earth and other facilities on Mars even after the Array activated and brought him back together. - He couldn't stop the Grasp of Nokris, prompting him to flash freeze the entire region. - He couldn't stop them AGAIN when the reawakened. - Couldn't stop the Taken from entering his bunker on Earth. - Couldn't stop the Hive from nearly ripping him apart one time. You COULD say that he wasn't at full power, well let me review his background. He couldn't stop the Deep. I mean, of course, it's ridiculously powerful. No, I mean he couldn't even HURT it. [quote]Consider IT the power Titanomach world-ender and consider what IT means. I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive?[/quote] Warmind confirmed that "Aurora Knives" were a legitimate weapon for Rasputin's arsenal. Here he confirms that he fired upon it and it did jack shit. He then said "-blam!- this" and shut himself down, the part we all know about. Now here we are, with the VALKYRIE being Rasputin's flagship weapon, at least according to Ana Bray. Even in game it's useful against ONE enemy... the Heroic Warsat Ogre. Everywhere else it's pitiful. A waste. You're better off using any other weapon. Now, the side quests. Warmind didn't really have a major world quest, so I'll consider it the way the first part went. Curse of Osiris's side quest was the Saint-14 one. The Perfect Paradox quest was easily one of the best things about Curse of Osiris. While finding out that Saint-14 is dead was a bit disappointing, the weapon's own lore tab confirms that we may see him again. Don't get me wrong, he's dead, but time travel is the only way things can escalate on the Vex side of things. Also, the notion that Saint killed so many Vex that they built a tomb out of respect is pretty kickass. Warmind's side quest was about arming humans with Warmind tech. From an old protocol we all know and love, and a familiar railgun/linear fusion rifle, we spent a few weeks grinding to get this damn tab out of our map. While that protocol works a LOT better with Guardians around, if the old Rasputin arsenal was anything to go by, then it's not really going to do much. We're essentially just getting more guns that were considered powerful by humans (hey Black Armory what's up?) but were ultimately ineffective against the Darkness. Need I remind you that it's stronger now? Just note that I'm not talking about gameplay for any of this. I think the gameplay makes Warmind and CoO rather even in terms of how bad they are. Warmind's gameplay was stronger than CoO (two tokens and a blue), but its story was so bad it dragged it down. Just trying to say that our outcome of CoO, while merely delaying inevitability, didn't immediately -blam!- us over like our outcome with Warmind did. You think the necromancy game is over with? Let me just say that Dul Incaru's fatesmiths come back from the dead pretty well.>