Hard mode Raid takes cooperation and skill. You don't catch a lucky break and fight a bunch of morons in the raid. I know it comes down to RNG but, I got more respect for a level 30 out of the hard raid. But at the same time, I don't really care that much, 30 is 30, and it's basically just luck. Edit: crucible does take skill and cooperation as well, but it's just kind of...different. Hard mode is predictably hard, whereas some crucible games are excruciatingly painful to die through (lol I've got some skirmish games like that...) and others that you make people rage quit on.