The only thing annoying about the new exotic mission is the last boss just spamming their gun non-stop and having to get on the platforms without getting melted.

I'm enjoying it

Tried the legendary version a couple timed today and oh boy do I hate it now. The timer is the main challenge, even for one Catalyst the mechanics take a while. Plus using fireteam finder with randos the coordination isn’t always great, if any, and some mechanics do require you to pay attention to each other to not waste time. The base version is ok, but the legendary is a bit of a pain. I gave up for now, tired of sweating everything.

The mission wasn't too bad. Kinda enjoyed it. But that last boss room, I hope i never see him again. That was the most brutal and unfair b.s. I've experienced. He has an infinite amount of bullets with no cool down or reload, Platforms that disappear, ads shooting you from every single direction and worse of it all? You have to hold on that button to interact with that device that feels forever to activate. Why couldn't they just put those things behind the pillars?

I personally enjoyed the exotic mission, my only issue with it is the final boss during his final quarter of health. I did it solo so I’ll speak on that. It’s absurdly difficult to do much when the boss straight up deletes. Bungie needs to at the very least add a long reload time on that boss so players can actually get on the platforms and change the enemy spawns. If it was hard on normal, I hate to see what that would look like on actual hard with a timer on top of that. I think the damage is fine, whatever we can always take cover but not having a reload means we cant almost never reach the platform without getting deleted. I know hunters can easily just go invis but titans and warlocks can barely do that without messing around with their builds.

The mission was great....until the final encounter. Getting to the platform to summon the adds I needed and back off alive was VERY difficult. Even when I had 8 stacks of Frost Armor, the boss obliterated me most of the time. And the fact that the platform starts to disappear when you get on it just made it worse. I'm never going solo in that mission again.

I thought on balance it was good: -As jumping puzzles go, this one was just fine; I still hate that Bungie think that jumping puzzles need to be everywhere in a looter shooter, but at least this one isn't too bad if you know where the traps (and the apparently mandatory Taken Phalanx waiting for you on a ledge over a void) are. I like that there are shortcuts, and that we aren't loadout locked so crutching on Strand/Heat Rises doesn't hamstring the combat. -I loved the puzzles, especially the Pendulum. -The final boss fight is a problem; specifically the final quarter, and many other commenters before me have highlighted the issue (or been toxic -blam!- with the typical 'gIt GuD' useless additions that [i]should[/i] be earning them forum timeouts....). Now, maybe it's because I am pretty decent at PvE in this game, but it didn't take me too long to get through that phase even on Solo Legendary (but I think part of that is because the game is slapping Solo operative on us in places, and this might be one of them); I found the play was Sniper Resist + 2x Solar Resists on my chest armour, and then going straight to the switch platform from whichever side is closer to the switch I need, but it was still turbo-unfun. I did a Timed Catalyst run with 2 randoms off one of the LFG Discords (because the in-game LFG is still an insult to LFG systems everywhere), and that made it [b]so[/b] much less unfun, simply by there being 2 other targets for the boss to focus.

I thought it was fine, confusing to navigate because the areas are very samey so its alot of trial and error to figure out where to go rather than intuiting it. I got stuck in the hallway once you climbed the structure because I didnt look right and not the obvious symbols that seem to show where to go. (Screw you bungie). The encounter before though, was interesting being a balancing act of getting each orb to being in relatively the same state but intuiting that was entirely guess work. The boss just sucked specifically when your going on the platforms where he has a hitscan weapon it takes 4 seconds to switch the room and you only get 3.5 seconds on the thing itself and that's if your able to activate it properly as it was hyper sensitive and he just doesn't stop shooting you. Like the ideas but execution was pretty bad

I thought it was really cool, especially the flipping of the world after the first encounter. The jumping puzzle was long but not really difficult. And encounter 1 was a cakewalk once you figured out how to spawn each relic type. The main boss was the only frustration point solo with a few issues surrounding the enemy respawn mechanic. - The boss deals a lot of damage, which is okay except for the lack of cover going up to the platforms. - The platforms don’t last long enough for the interaction time required to spawn the 2nd side. A lot of this could be fixed by just making the darkness interactables quicker

For once I can disagree....the Praxsis Blade Exotic mission was super fun. Me and a teammate went in and had no clue this was the Exotic mission until we realized there was nothing telling us where to go and we just had to figure it out and finding the passage ways and then figuring out the mechanics of it all. Sure it took awhile but getting the lightsaber at the end was totally worth it and not using a Content Creator Guide to do was even better.

I didn't think it was that bad, but some people have a really hard time navigating in the Ascendant Plane. There are a lot of complaints from people getting lost in the Shattered Throne, or during that Season where we were constantly going into that space and Bungie seemingly hasn't done anything about it. The only real sticking point is the final boss, and only because he does a metric ton of damage. If you can't get out of his LoS or react a fraction too slow, it's over.

Why? It takes 20 minutes?

Agree

I enjoyed it up until the final boss fight. I've solo'd it a few times now.

The new mission is fun and easy AF. I did it on a gummy solo last night.

I really hope you're not bítching about the new mission.. because it's literally one of, if not the easiest we've ever had. Destiny might not be for you chief..

Git gud.