Found in the dark corners of time (Destiny)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Monday, October 04, 2021, 00:33 (928 days ago)

The Vault of Glass raid will forever be intermingled in my mind with the “Good Times™” here at DBO. It was the first activity in which I got to play alongside you all. It was the host of the Flawless raider saga that saw us play nearly every other night for three weeks or so, as we bashed our heads against a buggy, herculean task, and eventually emerged triumphant.

I really, really like VoG. It is a substantial part of why I got to meet people here, and kept playing Destiny after the first few weeks. I like it so much that I have spent a cumulative 9 days doing nothing but that raid, during which I’ve killed Atheon 166 times.

Members of DBO, some familiar, and some whose names I’ve known for years and yet never played with, answered my call and ran me through Destiny 2’s VoG on Saturday. But also Sunday.

I live in New Zealand, time zones are complicated.

This is the first time I’ve been “coached” through a whole raid. I have new sympathy for people who experience raids this way- it’s way too much information to digest and process in a short time, and I froze up a couple times when I had a role to play, causing a wipe. In my books, that’s just another reason I enjoy blind raiding- you organically figure out the mechanics by repetition, and by the time you beat it you’ve got the details locked down.

Speaking of, figuring out the gatekeeper mechanics must have been a pain, what with the constant swapping of who has the relic and all.

Some short takeaways from the run:

• It was fun!
  
• If it had been my call, I would have kept the raid as close to D1’s as humanly possible. The oracle killing order requirement seems like change for the sake of change, and the Gatekeeper encounter is wildly different. I know that the Destiny raiding community is way more experienced now than in 2014, but c’mon. That encounter was already A-tier.
  
• I’m happy I was still able to run the relic and navigate the gorgon maze using my D1 knowledge.
  
• WHY DID THEY CHANGE THE BUTTON BINDINGS ON THE RELIC???
  
• Atheon seems to borrow a bit too much from Leviathan and Last Wish now. Why would you retroactively add the “communicate a pattern back to your fireteam” bit in? That’s not novel or interesting. Stop it. Bad Bungie. Bad!
  
• My first two drops were Found Verdict and the Titan Gloves, the exact same rewards as my first run through D1 VoG. Coincidence?

So, yeah. Vault of Glass. Still a great time! I wanna do it again next week.

Oh, and I will never get tired of watching Claude fly across the room into Atheon: