I love menagerie, it’s a great way to earn weapons, choose what you want, and gives stuff to grind. Only problem is blackout. The mode is phenomenal when this isn’t the modifier. It makes the whole experience not fun, and makes me want to stop playing menagerie until reset. It works in strikes because they are lower light and include a variety of enemies in fairly large arena’s. Menagerie is mostly consisting of hive, and the rooms are fairly small. At the current, most of the encounters include melee based activities that consist of sword knights, tons of thrall, DarkBlades, ogres etc. And all of these are in small spaces. Now this works in something like strikes or nightfalls because it’s not an endgame activity. Light is lower, and you can survive a few attacks. But this is an endgame activity that specifically involves smaller areas, melee based enemies, and melee based goals. For example, The Riposte. I’m 730 right now, and even at the beginning with only 720 knights, I’m getting 1 shot. And dozens of thrall spawn constantly while being attacked by knights. 2-3 thrall could ruin a run in the span of 2 seconds or less. Especially when arc burn is on like the day of this post. Getting one shot by nearly everything in very confined spaces sucks. Meaning just because the algorithm has decided to give blackout, it could ruin a run for a triumph or weapon. TL;DR Blackout works for strikes, doesn’t work for menagerie.