Randal the vandal, LoL. I forgot about that little fella, V V funny!

You are comparing him mostly with raid bosses. He is not a raid boss. The D1 vanilla equivalent of Ghaul in terms of the final enemy you face is the three big minotaurs in the Black Garden. TDB equivalent is the shard of Crota's soul. HoW equivalent is Skolas on the floating Vex platforms. Not to be confused with Skolas in PoE, which was VERY tough. The TTK equivalent is Oryx when not in his throne realm. (He flies around occasionally attacking while you kill Taken in a small room surrounded by fog, that one.) ROI equivalent is those animated suits of armor. But yes. Ghaul is weak, and it's also true that if we hadn't fought him, the Traveler could have just destroyed him anyway. If you're feeling generous, you could say that the Traveler was testing us and we pass the test. But the reality is just that Bungie didn't think that part through, or didn't think we would. I completed the campaign three times, as probably most on this board have. The first time, I didn't know what to expect, so I was careful. The second and third times, I was reckless and foolhardy because I knew how weak he was, and he STILL didn't kill me. His supers look cool but are ineffective. Then again, the equivalent final campaign boss fights have never really been that difficult, so why start now? I could see this being pretty difficult with the right LL or modifiers.

Skolas wasnt feared by the nine, he was intentionally set loose by the nine to get the queen to start working with guardians and to basically be prepared for Oryx's arrival. his threat was real, trying to gain control of all of the scattered fallen houses, but at most that would put him just under gary in terms of threat; he would have a significant army, but lack Ghaul's instant-check move of taking the traveler and cutting off our light. also, unless im missing a key grimoire card, Atheon can only manipulate time-space WITHIN the vault at will, and otherwise interacts with the outside time-space fabric as normally as any other vex does, as abnormal as their natural interaction is.... Aksis' threat was imminent, but not immediate; once (or rather, IF) he gains complete control of SIVA, THEN he would be able to pose a very serious threat to the city. Oryx, and in turn all of the Hive, pose the greatest threat to the traveler because they are his antithesis. they posses the most direct means of counteracting and destroying it and its guardians permanently, unlike the cabal at first, who noted our resurrection ability, and their lack of a counter. Ghaul, on the other hand, is more than a posed threat, as he not only DID cut us off from the traveler for a time, but permanently killed guardians in mass as a result, as well as shaking our foundation. remember when Oryx first arrived and everybody was surprised there werent taken running around the city? remember how Ghaul captured the city and had his red legion occupying it? basically, Ghaul is like Oryx, if Oryx was focused on taking the traveler, and NOT instead of getting revenge for Crota, and being distracted by the awoken and cabal.

Considering D2 is a hot pile, why is this shocking?

Perhaps you're focusing on the wrong thing that was wrong with the storytelling

Don’t forget- [b][i][u]KEKSIS, THE BETRAYED![/u][/i][/b] https://youtu.be/MtX8FsF_KX0

Raid boss > Strike boss > Campaign boss /tread.

Valid Te arc or rockets mcdickface is the baddest mf boss to ever be coded in destiny. That mofo would launch a thousand rockets at you for poking an eyelash out from cover. Crota was a bitch who got thrown from the throne dimension for opening a tare in space and getting that ass waxed by the vex The vex are quite literally the adversary we should fear the most. Oryx was okay I guess. Although his and the hives brutality had him destroy his entire fleet to get rid of the awoken flies that were buzzing around. Gaul commanded, or overthrew the cabal emperor and commanded a massive fleet l. I don’t believe he brought even a fraction of his military power to earth. Unlike the others he managed to take the light from all guardians and wreck us. His downfall was his overconfidence. Skolas was a little bitch with an automatic rocket launching machine gun. If it wasn’t for his swarm of cannon fodder we’d have swept the floor with his ass no problem. Taniks was more a badass than skolas captured ass fighting beyond thunderdome style. Aksis was trapped in a -blam!-ing room like the queen of the zenomorphs from alien. Utterly useless.

well ghaul was a galaxy conquerer, red legion had never been defeated, he had just gotten the light for the first time so he was noob pleb and he was easy because the community are plebs as well and would complaim the final story boss is too op

Randal is obviously harder than most bosses, bungo could have made him a Captain to give some light to him...

He was about to be the strongest, but then just as he turned into a god... boof! Traveler took him out in one hit. Well, that was a bit of a cop-out.

Can we please add Taniks to the list? I feel as* if he comes out as a sort of "semi-OP boss". [spoiler]Excluding any modifiers...[/spoiler] Even Taniks post-The Dawning could've overcome Ghaul. Taniks is (well, was) a beast.

Because he is the most human. Enemies in destiny should not have an hour of monologues in the campaign. They took our voice and gave it to the turtle.

Physically speaking, Ghaul is not really strong when compared to the other enemies. Really and truly, only the Hive and Fallen have really threatened our existence. If the Vex could seriously damage us, then they would have done so already. And the Vex have yet to launch their first offensive against us - The Vault of Glass was a campaign that began with Osiris and Kabr. The found it, and sought to destroy it. We only came in and finished the job. But what have the Vex instigated? Nothing. Their first offensive will be in Curse of Osiris. The Cabal, for all their military might and firepower, are just like people. So of course, he isn't going to be very strong individually. His danger is the threat he posed on the life of the City and the Traveller. Not because he was strong, but because he was the one who got to us. None of the others managed to get to us like he did. In that way, he has proven himself, but only that.

Agree Guall was all hat and no cattle.