As a first time Spoiler Free Raider . . . (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Monday, September 28, 2015, 14:15 (3438 days ago) @ cheapLEY

. . . I love it.

The folks here were amazing in guiding me through the Vault of Glass and Crota's End, and they were sure to let me encounter things on my own (jumping puzzle). However, being the only one in the dark so to say, I declined to really try to explore and figure things out on my own.

Even being led through, the Raids are still easily the best experiences in Destiny.

Going through King's Fall with a fully blind group has been a whole other level of amazing. Our group just finished for the evening at the Deathsinger encounter, which we didn't really explore much. It's been a long evening already.

King's Fall seems to hit all the right notes so far. Figuring out how to begin with the Relics is simple but fun. It's a great little warm up, as is the Tombship jumping puzzle. The first real test is the Warpriest, but looking back on it, it's a pretty straight forward encounter.

Golgoroth, however, is when I started to hate my life. We banged our heads against that ogre for hours last night. To the point that I was actually starting to ask myself why the hell I was putting myself through it. Today, we started with a few different ideas, and came up with a solid plan, and finally figured it out. Then we spent a few more attempts actually getting our roles down and hitting our marks. Again, looking back, it's not all that crazy. I was really frustrated at the beginning of the encounter, we thought we knew what we needed to do, but we were still missing key pieces of the puzzle! It's hard to know if you're even on the right track sometimes. But figuring it out is one of the most rewarding videogame experiences I've ever encountered. It's the perfect combination of figuring out the puzzle, then having the skill to execute on what you know.

I still really feel like I missed out by not being able to blind raid the VoG, but King's Fall seems to be at least its equal. I will say that so far I feel like VoG does have the better environment and atmosphere. I think the legend of Praedyth and Kabr add a lot to that raid, and King's Fall is missing a bit in that regard.

Yep. Agree on most counts. I thought VoG was epic. King's Fall redefines that word for me. I'm just stunned by the environments and the mechanics are great. I've got a friend who hated VoG because of the jumping puzzle. Can't imagine him liking King's Fall.