Is the Raid too hard? (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Thursday, October 01, 2015, 13:42 (3435 days ago) @ dogcow

I'm hoping the new light system makes hitting 310 not necessary, even for the hard mode raid.

Luke Smith posted (can't remember if it was on Neogaf or Reddit) that 300 is the max level for all content we'll be playing in the near future. Having gear that drops with ratings above 300 is a way to combat the "forever 29" syndrome that plagued vanilla Destiny. With the current system, you can be stuck with sub-300 boots or whatever, and still pull your light level up to 300 with other gear. Going above that is just a bonus.

This and other comments make me wonder what hard mode is going to be. I doubt they're going to just crank up the level of the enemies. I hope they make the encounters more difficult mechanically. Do we even know that we're getting a hard mode? Maybe hard mode is already here & we just need to unlock it somehow from within the raid.

Well, we know we're getting the Raid on Heroic difficulty... because there's an Achievement for it. (They're not calling it 'Hard Mode' or 'hard difficulty' this time, they're calling it 'heroic', at least for the Achievement.)