Lock behind the DLC (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, December 07, 2017, 22:52 (2621 days ago) @ Kahzgul

I’m genuinely curious as to why this had to be done. Dark Below didn’t lock you out of Hard mode VoG.

Hard mode VoG was also obsolete for progression when Dark Below came out. And the redone Heroics for all the old raids require Rise of Iron in Destiny 1.

I'm gonna guess it's either a raid stays in the latest progression but it gets DLC-required as part of keeping it around, or a raid becomes obsolete to play for progression and everyone can play it.. but good luck finding anyone that wants to?

By the end of D1, a raid was both. You could pick vanilla normal mode, vanilla hard mode, or current xpac tier hard mode. IN D2, it's a step backwards, apparently.

It kind of gives me the feeling that Bungie doesn't think the Raid Lair will be enough for the endgame, or else they wouldn't mind people moving on from Leviathan.