time =/= difficulty (Destiny)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 14:41 (3838 days ago) @ Speedracer513

If normal mode Crota takes about half an hour even when you run through it with ease, how much harder could it have been if it took you about the same amount of time on hard?

Not necessarily. Some parts won't take LONGER on hard mode, when you manage to complete them. It'll just be less likely that you make it in the first place.

Think of the abyss section as an example. The enemies there are now higher level, giving you a higher chance of being killed. However, theoretically if you're doing it as fast as possible, you should be moving the whole time from one lamp to the next. You're not walking slower on hard mode. The jacked-up enemies make it less likely that you'll finish without incident, but assuming you DO finish, it's likely because you went fast and hit all the lamps with the ideal timing. If anything, I expect the average completion speed to be higher (keeping in mind that I'm only counting the runs which DO succeed in that average) because players who fall behind now are much more likely to be killed.