King's Fall thoughts (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Sunday, October 11, 2015, 21:00 (3427 days ago) @ petetheduck

Yesterday, I had 2 runs of King's Fall and both were under 1 hour 30 minutes. This feels like a really good amount of time investment for a Raid, and it has been fun to go back and replay. Rewards are pretty weak--I don't actually like any of the Raid weapons so far. Still no Ghost.

Each encounter is very mechanic heavy, so when you have a new player or someone changing roles, there can be a little trouble there. It is fun to change up roles, though.

I've only ran the Raid twice, and didn't change roles, so I'm eager to do that! I only got to do the jumping once during Deathsingers.

I've found it to be a very different experience with a different classes. Primary Warlock, but I got my Hunter Raid-worthy and that poor little guy is so weak. The jumping puzzles themselves weren't bad because I've held on to my Year 1 Bones of Eao and swapped them out as needed, but while I had ease with the jumping on my Warlock during Deathsingers, doing Relic for Oryx as a Hunter was a bit of a challenge, getting that second jump just right to deal with the varying distance on the platforms.

The Hunter jump does make it difficult, but one in our party (SteelGaribaldi or Red Robber, can't recall which) realized that the entire puzzle is possible with no double jumps, except the one towards the end where you have to jump up onto another ship.

Bring on hard mode!

I am eager for Hard Mode. But the time I started playing Destiny and actually did any raiding, I was at 34, so overleveled for both previous hard mode raids.

All indications point to there not being a a Hard Mode in the traditional sense of just making shit higher level with no revives, but to them actually changing things and making it a unique experience, which could be amazing.