"...the most challenging encounter we've ever created." "This is an activity that was designed to be undertaken by a hardcore team that is ready and willing to adapt and improvise to changing battle conditions" If this is your intention with the raid, then I would agree that adding the randomized element helps you accomplish the goal. However, by making this change, I think Bungie has detracted from the overall Destiny experience in three key ways. 1. To be prepared for Atheon, every member of the team now has to have a loadout that makes it possible to handle the Oracles when you get teleported. But thousands of players have carefully crafted a loadout that does not allow for this, and now they have to go back to square one finding and grinding on weapons that they otherwise would have gotten started on much sooner. This is frustrating and annoying, not improving the experience in any positive way. 2. MORE IMPORTANTLY, you have to complete this raid many times in order to get the gear to ascend to level 30. Until now, players without the time and resources to form and train in a dedicated could do this thanks to reddit, destinylfg, destiny tracker, etc. Now a ton of these players, myself included, are potentially going to be left in the cold thanks to this patch. With the path to Level 30 much further from their grasp, many players may stop playing Destiny earlier. Is that what Bungie wants? 3. Thanks to the raid, an amazing movement happened in the Destiny community: raid sherpas. Generous people willing to donate their time to educating beginners in how to get through the raid. This is almost magical in the way in brings together disparate gamers in a positive, uplifting way. With this change, it will be much harder to Sherpa, and be Sherpa'd, and you are robbing the community of an incredibly positive experience in favor exclusivity and elitism.