Crota's End - HARD Mode differences [SPOILERS!] (Destiny)

by Speedracer513 , Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 11:29 (3838 days ago)

I haven't gone in there myself yet, but from watching various Twitch streams, these are the differences from normal mode:

Overall
- No revives
- Everything is level 33

The Abyss
- More thralls in general
- Cursed thralls are Hallowed (yellow-titled) thralls
- more (and Hallowed) knights

The Bridge
- Knights are Hallowed

Thrall Hallway
- Shriekers respawn after being killed

Deathsinger
- Liturgy starts earlier (the encounter seems to be on a 2 or 2.5 min timer instead of 3 min)

Crota
- No chalice
- Knights in side rooms are Hallowed
- Boomers are Hallowed
- Gatekeeper spawns downstairs after killing the Swordbearer - although he seems to be on a leash, staying near the bottom middle (probably to discourage going downstairs in the puddle room for a more safe area)
- Hallowed wizard spawns on the bridge (or is it in the boomer tower and then moves to the bridge?)

Still waiting for confirmation on who the World's First was, but TripleWRECK's team beat it in about 40 minutes. The IGN team already beat it too, although I'm hearing that they cheesed part of it. Many other groups - including Datto's Primeguard team - still struggling to finish the Crota encounter about an hour and a half in.