Ok, this has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911. Here's why: Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead. Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it. Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12. And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal. Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger? Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova. Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound. I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series: "Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1." And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911

uhh remember the caves from VoG? and im pretty sure calus would fit into your definition of big bad ass aliens... were you just born stupid or is it a choice?

Umm they're bath salts. Thank me later,

That moment you realise that Bungie have actually made us jump through hoops.

[quote]Remember when you used to kill big bad-ass aliens in raids?[/quote] Pepperidge farm remembers!

And at the end kill a prune juice drinking robot for almost no worthwhile loot

The cabal have zero variation unlike vex, Fallen and Hive, so the raid seems like you're just shooting the exact same thing over and over and over (which you are). Couple that with how puzzle-heavy it is and you have a pretty un-exciting raid.

This had me laughing good this morning. Well done, good sir.

I consider myself a casual and I hate the raid. It is not fun at all.

Pepperidge Farms remembers......

I joined some beginner groups to do Leviathan. I did not watch any videos, just read some stuff. Seeing posts about how problematic the dogs could be, somehow I was thinking they must be hard to fight. When I went through the Pleasure Gardens my first time, I was actually shocked to see the dogs did not fight back. In my mind I was WTF?? I prefer playing Prism in there more for the fact I actually get to shoot something that might shoot back at me... TTK did have the right mix of bosses and mechanics/puzzles. Sadly, the thing I like most in Leviathan is when we shoot the cup out of Calus' hand. The sound it makes and the look on his face is hilarious. In Leviathan, there were several things added for artificial difficulty, but just make it more annoying over anything else. Revive tokens for one thing ...

VoG - Templar (just a hydra with a larger shield) and Atheon Crota - just Crota... Deathsinger was a regular wizard with a larger health pool Kings Fall - The exception - 4 proper boss encounters WotM - Vosik and Aksis Leviathan, like Crota’s End, only has 1 big bad alien, but with the exception of KF, there weren’t so many big bad aliens to kill in the other raids anyway... leviathan is a pretty decent raid, not the best we’ve had, but a solid raid... the only thing I dislike about it is the rewards system, but that’s been discussed ad nauseum already

Yeah, now we have to stop a bathing ritual by breaking some big purple beakers, some dogs that wouldn't stand a chance outside of their garden, run an obstacle course and then when you finally think you get to kill this big alien baddie it's just a Robot. Do we decide to shut down the infinite amounts of other robots that we could easily just unhinge and let them fall to the bottom of the treasure room and break? Nope, we go back and do everything again and again and again.

Hmm, I remember reviving team mates a lot and endless waiting for heavy synthetic cool downs, shooting aliens not so much.

Did you not walk through the gorgon maze?

I to miss D1 raids. Especially WOTM, and VoG.