Confused by the Archon Forge (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Saturday, September 24, 2016, 17:44 (3074 days ago) @ BeardFade

Just presented my first offering, recommended light was 320 I'm 347, I was just watching it unfold from my perch not realizing I can be locked out of my own event? Said it was too dangerous? What the heck? And my offering is just gone even though I didn't get to use it?

Did this happen to anyone else?

The arena locks shortly after the offering is used. If you don't get in, you have to sit it out unless you use a splicer key.

When it says it's too dangerous, this means everyone inside has died and nobody is left in the arena. This means if you are doing it solo you can't die at all.

Using your offering consumes it even if you fail (or don't enter!) the event.

It's a bad system.