I checked the difficulty of the Kings Fall raid last night. It hasn't changed, I'm guessing only the light of the loot drops has increased.

Looking back at it now, I don't know why we thought they'd be changing the difficulty of the Kings Fall raid. They've never increased the difficulty of any others, why would they change that now? Especially when they have PoE that's end-game.

I checked the difficulty of the Kings Fall raid last night. It hasn't changed, I'm guessing only the light of the loot drops has increased.

Looking back at it now, I don't know why we thought they'd be changing the difficulty of the Kings Fall raid. They've never increased the difficulty of any others, why would they change that now? Especially when they have PoE that's end-game.

I thought they said that it would take effect a little later than this patch? or am I thinking of something else?

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https://twitter.com/Cozmo23/status/719936987172614145

I haven't seen anything about it being patched in later.

Edit: Either way we can get higher level drops now according to Cosmo.

https://twitter.com/Cozmo23/status/719936987172614145

That's for rewards, no?
On one of their streams ( IIRC) they said that even higher light stuff (and difficulty, presumably) would be patched in after release...

https://twitter.com/Cozmo23/status/719936987172614145

That's for rewards, no?
On one of their streams ( IIRC) they said that even higher light stuff (and difficulty, presumably) would be patched in after release...

I think that was in regards to the raid drops being 330 vs 335.

But I agree that I thought the difficulty would be increased (since they used that word in the update page on Bnet).

Difficulty was unchanged, but the reduction in Sniper and Machine Gun ammo is quite noticeable. Hopefully it's offset in the future by increased damage at higher light level.

Other thoughts:

• Bungie says the drop rates were improved, but Shards-only drops still happen.
  
• Challenge mode seems to guarantee an extra drop 5 light levels higher than your current LL (not a 330 or 335 drop).
  
• Moldering shards matter - it's an extra drop of an item that matches or improves your current LL.
  
• Recent raid events have focused on challenge mode only. With the new leveling system it probably makes sense to do a single full run (5 drops, all of different items) instead of 3 challenge runs (3 drops of a specific item pair).

Recent raid events have focused on challenge mode only. With the new leveling system it probably makes sense to do a single full run (5 drops, all of different items) instead of 3 challenge runs (3 drops of a specific item pair).

I miss full raid runs.

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