Kingsfall by far. Had the most thought put into it with challenges and lore etc

VOG - most fun raid with great weapons CE - easiest and cheesiest KF - best mechanics worst guns (except the MG) Wrath - good mechanics with the best weapons Leviathan - stupid mechanics with lackluster loot My favorite is probably Kings Fall with VoG a close second

At first I put King's fall.. But all things considered, with the exotic chest setup and vastly cooler weapons.... I changed to VOG. Just the most pure fun experience in Destiny so far, overall. Some of my favorite memories: Getting Vex to drop, the best primary in the game at the time, from an actual bad ass boss. Bungie needs to remember how awesome those moments are, and build back in. Sitting on the ledge shooting oracles with Ice Breaker. It's the simple things we love, and probably can do it infinitely without it getting old, honestly. Opening the Vault; and the whole sequence and progression of the raid. Really fun. Thrall maze in CE. Super fun setup, and always entertaining just to go back and do solo. Glass room and boss encounter versus Crota was awesome I think. Never got old taking him down with rockets etc. I loved the jumping maze in kings fall. Felt like being in space mountain. I loved all the multiple cool bosses of KF; killing bosses is what it's all about, then getting drops. They were great bosses. Big ass Oryx. Super cool. I was like... we gotta kill that..?! I loved the POE setup. It was a good break from norm. Thought it was really cool with the gladiator style holding area and entrance; voices used for announcing shit were awesome. Aksis was kinda blah to me.. I like the zambonie as a boss. And I loved the puzzle to get Prime, but otherwise I thought it was dull. Calus sitting like a true OG waiting for us was cool.. but otherwise this last raid isn't very memorable, or fun to replay. Don't like chest setup at all.

Okay, here's my thoughts on the whole matter. In my opinion, the next raid needs the Following. When we arrive, we should have to "Open" the raid to us, Al La Vault of Glass. I enjoyed the split mechanic of building the spire, and attempting to open the path to allow us inside the raid. It was cool that, you could potentially have randoms step in and help to open the area with you and your raid team. As we enter, I would like to see something similar to the Crota's End Gauntlet. Where we will have to Infiltrate the raid, in order to get deeper inside. All while under the threat of a seen, or unseen force, trying to kill us. When we arrive, we reach our first boss. Using watered down mechanics that will be used for the final boss. So, for example, if we are required to step on plates, like the Priest for King's Fall, that would be great, as it could carry forward to the final encounter. After defeating that boss, we receive a "puzzle" a team based time killer of sorts. We be that Jump puzzle, levers with adds to defeat, etc, just something to either intellectually or mobility wise, stimulate us. We reach the second boss, which will be a team based mechanic. Like a well oiled machine, this boss will test our ability to work together to beat it. While not necessarily hard, it will require the group to work together, and what we learn would help us in the final encounter. Now, similar to Gorgon's Maze, a stealth based puzzle would be great, avoiding enemies would pose a challenge before the Final Encounter. We navigate around his Guards, etc, where we will encounter a sort of Mini Boss, prior to being granted access to the Boss Room. Once we reach the boss room, we are provided with a wonderful challenge. A three or four phase boss. The first phase will use elements of the first boss's mechanics, allowing us to weaken the Final Boss, using said mechanics. The Second Phase will introduce the Mechanics of the Second boss we fought. The Third Phase would be a new mechanic to overcome, something unique to the Final Boss. This is where you would attempt to learn the new mechanic. Finally, the end phase would be finding a way to turn that mechanic against him, defeating him once and for all. For example, lets say I changed the Leviathan's Calus Fight to introduce this concept. We begin Calus like the Bathes, which require us to stand on the four plates within his room, with a mild variation. We fight a few hordes of enemies while defending our plate, in order to receive one of the prisms, attached to the chain. As the chain descends, the four players must rotate their plates, in order to avoid a debuff that kills you, should you stay on the plate too long. Once the prism is available, another player will grab it, and blast Calus with it, initializing phase 2. Phase 2 uses the Prism in a similar way the templar is used. Calus will teleport to a plate. The players will then need to kill adds while Calus attacks them. Periodically, Calus will launch a blast at the players, and the Prism Holder would need to absorb the blast. Once three are absorbed, all players jump to a plate, and the prism player fires it at Calus. Calus can then be damaged, and the players start a damage phase, getting him to phase three. This is where Calus will teleport the players to a Gauntlet. Players will have to collect the shattered pieces of the prism, in order to rebuild it, to defeat the boss. Once the gauntlet is complete, the players will be teleported back to the throne room, and blast Calus once again to start another Damage Phase. Once Calus is at 1/4 health, then he introduces his own challenge. Which would be the boss fight as we know it. Except it is only one phase. Three people are teleported, and run a gauntlet. At each gauntlet checkpoint, Psions will spawn in the throne room, and we need to punch one, to teleport a person out of the throne room. Once we kill three Psions, we would do the standard Calus Plates, we all stand on one, damage him, he "destroys" the plate, we progress to the next one etc. Then comes the "final big bang attack" where he raises his hands, and its simply a DPS check. Then we are done.

1. Wrath of the Machine 2. Vault of Glass 3. King's Fall 4. Leviathan 5. Crota's End

VoG and KF were my favorites. I liked the way they incorporated the Touch of Malice quest line and calcified fragments into the raid. Wish I could have done Wrath though and it looks like I won't ever get to do Leviathan.

Personal Opinion 1. Vault of Glass 2. Kings Fall 3. Wrath of the Machine 4. Crotas End 5. Leviathan

VoG just because the ability to carry a 6 man fireteam with 3 people. Made Sherpa runs as well as casual friends be able to enjoy the experience without it being mechanic heavily driven.

Vault of glass, I’m biased because Vex are badass

Skolas's Revenge.

[b]1[/b]. King's Fall [b]2[/b]. Crota's End [b]3[/b]. Vault of Glass & Wrath of the Machine [b]4[/b]. Leviathan King's Fall was the very first raid that I went through from start to finish. I enjoyed the mechanics of it and the fact that it has three bosses with different mechanics to take them down. For me, I found it fun. It can be frustrating at times, but still, I loved it. I also love the 390 raid gear. Got everything but the boots for my Hunter. The shaders are cool as well. Crota's End is enjoyable and funny if you go through it with the right people. The glitches can be entertaining as well ( [i]looking at you Crota[/i] ). The raid may feel like a strike, but it's a simple enough raid to go through for a laugh. For Vault of Glass and Wrath of the Machine they are kind of a tie for me. In VOG I feel as if it drags on quite a bit in the middle; with the Oracles and the Hydra. That part of it kind of made me lose interest in it. Once the 390 one came out, I only went through it to get the boots for my Hunter ( [i]the vex leg is cool[/i] ). Whereas for Wrath of the Machine, I don't really know what to say about this one. I don't mind going through it, but there is just something about it that I'm not too sure on. The weapons were good but to me, the gear was just horrible. Leviathan raid; nope. Sod it.

Why is lecithin up here?

This is a really hard decision, i actually love the setup and mechanics of the leviathan. The fact that it has kind of broken the standard of one boss fight after another with maybe a jumping puzzle in between, is pretty awesome. I mean there isnt even a boring boss like golgeroth who just acted as a door to ensure your team had high enough DPS. You can get all the way up to calos with a somewhat under leveled team that just works really well together (which is also what can make it a nightmare for random teams even if they are high levels). That being said it also feels like on of the least rewarding raids to date, mainly because the majority of your gear will come from handing in coins rather than from raid chests, and the gear doenst feel all that special. They have no perks, or even a guaranty of legendary mods, and even stat wise they arent great (for titans they are for some reason agility based). Vault of glass will always feel like at least one of the best raids, it felt well setup, and again didnt have a lot of just one boss room after the other. It also helps that it has some nostalgia linked to it since it was the first raid, and i had a ton of fun running with my friends and even met some new friends, who i still play with today, while doing it. The gear also felt rewarding to get, even though at times it was a little to aggravating to get. The wrath of the machine would probably fall about third. It again felt like a well put together raid, and there was something about that final boss section that just felt so great to do, especially if you had a team to do it with. It really felt like it was the product of them getting the formula for the raids of that style figured out.

Kings fall would have taken first if it wasn't for Oryx and the shitty loot from the raid. I would have to say the best raid is VoG but my personal favorite was WotM.

I would rank then exactly how the percentages are. 1. VOG 2. KF (very close 2nd) 3. WOTM 4. CE 5. That super weak D2 raid (can't even say it's name out loud, although the underbelly gives it a slight boost)

Crota because I could play through it and earn gear to progress solo.

I loved VoG, carrying noobs was so fun. Hero moments during oracles (since back then oracles were very long and punishing). It was just an all around fun raid with excellent weapons. I liked Croats End even tho most didnt. I remember the heavy ammo synth shortage and a lot of people “requiring” ghorn, but that made my pickup groups that much more fun. I’d tell ppl they didn’t need ghorn and didn’t need to even be 31-32 to roll with us. Was so much fun for such a small raid. Skolas, tho not a raid, was not something I experienced. I had taken a break by this point until TTK came out. Kings Fall, mannn I lovvvved this raid. It got shit for being too long, but I lovvvved it. I love long raids, dark and ominous story behind it, and an ancient evil god bent on taking our light. The ONLY thing I didn’t care for was the oryx fight almost eliminating hero moments, and having no do’s check means no matter how good you are at the encounter it will always take the same amount of time. Wrath was also unique, it had outside sections and was the first fallen experience. Tho I didn’t like that it had only two bosses, I loved most the gear and weapons from this raid. Then we come to leviathan. Wtf is this shit? A gameshow? It’s a shell of other raid encounters, has shit loot, and has no checkpoints so you always have to do the stupid door section each try. I hate this raid, idk wtf bungie was thinking. How do you go from wrath to this garbage???

I might be the minority but I actually enjoyed playing Trials: Skolas. I get it's not the most complicated but the enemy count and getting tasks done was hard enough for some on getting the first the of triumph completed.