Prison of Elders is a Randomly-Generated Raid (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, May 06, 2015, 18:55 (3284 days ago) @ DreadPirateWes

Look at the individual raid mechanics. They're pretty stupid easy. We clear Crota in 30 minutes, Atheon in an hour on casual play now. Once you get the mechanics, it's easy. This will continue to be difficult despite understanding the mechanics of the raid.

They should have just called the Prison a raid because it's really no different than VoG or Crota. You shoot lots of stuff, you stand in certain places, you shoot specific stuff... that's what we do. Forming the spire, defending the confluxes... that's just endless enemies coming at you for a time. The Templar is just a big boss to kill with some little orbs to shoot every once and a while. Atheon splits us up and teleports us to different places to kill more stuff. There will be a big boss at the end of the lvl 35 arena and there will be a mechanic to kill it. It's a raid!

That's a pretty reductionist way to describe a raid :)

"You shoot stuff... it's a raid!" ;p

Joking aside, I don't think it is fair to say that PoE is a similar experience to a raid at all. Both raids provide something of a journey for the player, plus they require fairly complex formations and strategies to get through. PoE is more of a gauntlet experience. By the looks of things, it doesn't have anywhere near the complexity or intricacy of a raid, which is fine.