The Hardest Raid Ever Made - Destiny 2

[@evanf1997]

What do you think of spite of stars? Also, come watch a stream man, would love to talk to ya ❤️ Twitch.tv/evanf1997

[@eclypsegames8753]

Spire of Stars reminds me of why I never want to try cocaine.

[@danconti5984]

he's not even a dominus....he's just....a big black and red Valus....

[@sambauer4094]

after farming for the raid catalyst, spire has become one of my favorite year one raids, locked loadouts for he prestige raids still suck though

[@shyshytheguy9042]

worst raid

[@samw4251]

I just recently finished spire for the first time a month ago. My group thought it was hard, but thought crown of sorrows was harder. Also do you plan on going in raid order still or will you do crown of sorrow next to finish the Leviathan raid lairs?

[@marcosramirez2278]

I love how Val Ca'our begins to kneel a little and his arms go limp if he wins on final stand, like he looks genuinely tired after defeating you. Just another way bungie made this boss more alive than other bosses

[@Azrael_Equinox]

I didn't even notice.

[@aceoflegend124blargh4]

Dude just 1v6’d a guardian fireteam, he’s probably the most exhausted he’s ever been in his life

[@DummyBoyRay]

I wanna know who asked please tell me

[@somebody7205]

Meanwhile random red bars start teabagging like crazy

[@SoupyBnuy]

@@DummyBoyRay nobody asked for you to comment on this a year later, yet here we are

[@vladislavivanov2334]

The fact that we have Xol, one Of most unique models, as a strike boss, and a fancy centurion as raid boss never stopped to bother me.

[@kasai7272]

I agree, they could have made an awesome raid for xol.

[@notthatinnocent86]

I thought Xol was the Leviathan from Fundament, but now I know it was another creature entirely. When I heard the first raid in D2 was the Leviathan I thought itd be about the Worm gods

[@souldanny.]

Imagine fighting multiple at the same time in a raid. That'd be dope.

[@angrytoaster4805]

Val Ca’uor May be one of the most annoying raid encounters, but you cant deny how damn good the music is

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

The Prestige Armor Ornaments, I admit, is entirely why I wanted to do this Raid, got the Emote first.

[@wellbornthrower596]

Agreed, and as annoying as he maybe it’s still pretty damn satisfying to beat every time.

[@ivanhvk8042]

Destiny music in general is good

[@KoPT01]

Here’s a link. My favorite part is 15:37 to 17:03. It has the D2 main theme, the D1 “Guardian” motif, the “Be Brave” motif, and an original movement, all in that short period of time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPSo5KFgqhpfdU

[@DragonKnight90001]

No argument there

[@OfficialRedTeamReview]

Completed it once. Never again.

[@seero8305]

Don’t blame ya. Terrible rewards and boring encounters

[@fieldrook1613]

@Darkness you can farm the first encounter over and over, I believe. Makes actually want to do it.

[@kittbennett]

@@fieldrook1613 Catalysts aren't farmable

[@joshc1460]

@@kittbennett now they because they r getting rid of leviathan

[@bradee_ns8932]

Exactly what i said 😂

[@Forcer69]

“It’s just a raid lair. Easy 20 minute adventure.”

[@BotFisherman]

"In and out. Come on"

[@nubbieeee]

#forcerhasspoken

[@Febo2310]

Me, after completing it for the first time: *Well, that was a fucking lie*

[@captain_mario15]

“It will be fun they said”

[@Antrixous]

The forcer has now became the forced

[@Glueeater26]

I always love to think that final boss music is just calus going OFF on a church organ

[@mannana7784]

I like that picture

[@dova3050]

It's actually Grimm's Theme from hollow knight and Evan edited it in because streamers keep their music low so they can hear each other

[@gepardos8752]

Hollow knight music is perfect for this encounter.

[@Al-cf9qi]

I'd pay someone to draw that

[@chezfry]

Lot of hollow knight music, you've got mantis lords, you've got the radiances theme and you've got troupe master grimms theme.

[@Ehroar]

I forgot just how close our first final stand was even with a player disconnect. That would have made for a sick story, adding yet another clutch to what was a very unfortunate day it terms of internet for us. As usual great video evan

[@ArctiicChilled]

the fact that this has 200 likes and not a single reply will forever confuse me, i know this is offtopic but why does that happen

[@shaneh1872]

That is still a fucking brilliant run tho. Congrats

[@ArctiicChilled]

@@shaneh1872 i agree

[@InTheWillows]

Hi Ehroar

[@darthball2723]

Took me and a group of people who know what they were doing took us 3-4 hours to complete

[@ProfessorHeavy1]

Salvation's Edge: "lol. lmao."

[@AlpineStarsRacing1988]

Salvations Edge is not hard at all. It sounds like you are just pure trash at the game and have no idea how to grasp the mechanics behind it, so yeah it's really a skill issue for you.

[@hehegonads7651]

Day 1 of Spire of Stars is actual psychological torture.

[@toastermkii7836]

It’s annoying not hard

[@darthhero]

I like how this Raid broke my friendship with other clanmates.

[@goodordeals6606]

Yeah I got a week one attempted day 1, got that sucked so much. It's basically just timing and mechanics, but it was so hard then

[@Trxyverse_]

i cant even imagine garden of salvation day 1

[@anoia7783]

@iAm Portz oh yes 6 hours and 40 mins took the spire 5 hours was the boss only and the only 2 reasons last wish took so long was vault and discovering mechanics of riven

[@ryanroncancio7889]

I actually like having story missions as strikes. When was the last time I killed Ghaul? Years ago. When was the last time I killed Xol? Last week.

[@xXJLNINJAXx]

When was the last time you killed Xol now?

[@herbertherbertson2670]

@@xXJLNINJAXx at least a year and a week

[@feIIas]

God, I miss the Ghaul fight. Such a striking backdrop after a great lead up to the final fight. Working with your fellow guardians to fight through the city is something that was always my favorite thing to do.

[@daichiden6388]

@@feIIas too bad bungie decided to completely remove red war, I always thought it was a cool vanilla campaign,Ghaul was not a memorable vilain but damn,the fight was fire

[@evilsheepling8169]

Destiny Community: “This is the hardest raid of my life!” Bungie: “The hardest raid of your life so far.”

[@SpaghettiTop]

With how stasis is looking to change the game, I think your comment has much more power than people realize

[@VanquisherVIII]

One word Garden

[@sonder006]

@@VanquisherVIII garden is easy af

[@shebdjsnwddjdnbssjbdbdbejd5589]

@@VanquisherVIII The only hard encounter in garden is 4th. And the 4th can still be easy if everyone is focused and knows what they’re doing. I think you meant to say Kings Fall

[@Ghoats]

Giga Olive after day 1 no raid is hard if ur not playing with morons

[@furen4962]

"We heard that Eater was super easy, so we stacked 15 mechanics onto each other with a bunch of enemies for the final encounter of our new raid. Have fun!"

[@223Drone]

Riven Of A Thousand Voices: I'm basically a deceptive dragon that can grant wishes no one can be tougher than me. Val Ca'uor: Observe

[@Z0X777]

I wouldn't say she grunted wishes. It was more of a shriek.

[@ohhkennny766]

riven was literally a wish slut lol and guardians used to actually get wishes from riven ALOT like ALOT until everyone was like "wtf is happening to me why am i not op anymore" then they basically just decided to decimate the Ahamkara race when they noticed riven was actually a power slut too and was taking a tiny eensy 5% bit of light commission ontop of the wishes and the guardians didnt like losing power so yeah now there are no more Ahamkara and riven be getting her ass farmed 24/7 lol

[@xironheadx-4590]

@@ohhkennny766 so in other words the guardians killed the ahamkaras cause they didn't like being weakend by their own greed so instead of changing that they just started blasting

[@hazeltree7738]

​@@xironheadx-4590 Plus y'know the tiny detail of some evil force using the Ahamkaras to fuck over the world

[@DaveyKTech]

I'll say this much, finishing this on prestige mode felt like a massive accomplishment and considering my first ever clear was prestige, it made the regular run feel not quite as rough as it maybe would have otherwise. Nice video as always.

[@kingofearls3752]

I agree with all of this. Spire of stars with LFG. Crazy thing is, EVERYONE STAYED, even after 2 and a half hours of failing the boss. We completed it though, and I made a few friends from it aswell. God I won’t be doing it again though lol

[@monkelover9945]

Same bro we were in the boss fight for five hours it was a great time

[@unabalazura]

I need to do it again for MMXX rip me

[@dylanbarendse6127]

Same took us 5 hours and everyone in the lfg stayed for an emote😂

[@whyarewehere3893]

Lmao I've stuck around in longer raids just to help out

[@whyarewehere3893]

@@unabalazura it's easy now

[@PARTY_GORDO]

Me who's never beaten a single raid: definetly crotas end.. I think

[@DannyJ-420]

😂

[@yslw7]

Luckily for you , that raid is soloable!

[@JoelHernandez-tz3vk]

I only have a single Scourge of the Past. Which to my knowledge it's the easiest D2 raid.

[@joshuauntch]

@@JoelHernandez-tz3vk be proud, it's only the 3rd easiest. It goes EoW, Leviathan, then SoTP. You can argue leviathan and sotp but that's my opinion. Also spire is actually as easy aswell the hardest part of the raid (after being above light level) was getting a team to do it cause everyone hated the raid.

[@JoelHernandez-tz3vk]

@@joshuauntch Meanwhile my nephew got VERY screwed it seems. He has about 300 total raid clears so far in D2, yet he ONLY owns DIvinity which is quest based rather than luck based.

[@webbmerriam6984]

"Which raid do you think is the hardest?" Any of them, so long as my team is involved.

[@CyclopsTyphoon]

At least you have a team, so you CAN try.

[@Storse]

@@CyclopsTyphoon lfg

[@randomgamer4458]

@@Storse But why go through torture when you could just never do it

[@Storse]

@@randomgamer4458damn

[@tako864]

Spire of stars is by far my most favorite raid because of that difficulty. To this day, the music, the boss, and everything about it makes this raid worth the lack of loot for having fun. This raid has been the only raid since last wish day one, to still make my heart race upon getting a successful damage phase with only an auto, a shotgun, and a sword on prestige. Prestige just adding to that difficulty when its the right loadout and modifiers. I really hope they bring back this raid at a later date with actual loot, fixed bugs, and maybe even a new encounter of sorts.

[@grenada9752]

i feel bad for the guys who didnt get worlds first because the ball got stuck in the enviroment

[@khaleda.135]

Didn't someone throw it in there though?

[@llt7919]

@@khaleda.135 yeah they missed the boss and it perfectly went through the holes and got stuck

[@Caztiana]

Fun part is bungie fixed that spot now & you can get the ball out now.

[@GradietPanda12345]

Castiana Sahal ok. That’s not the point

[@thepublicpotato3887]

Esoterickk

[@raiu6438]

You know, it really sets the mood for the final stand when Grimm''s theme starts playing. Really sets the stage for the amount of difficulty.

[@grimm3995]

True

[@cosmo9925]

Spire is actually one of my favorite raids, it’s challenging, but it’s pretty satisfying when you beat it. In my quest to collect all the ugly armor before it gets vaulted, I ended up guiding a lot of new players through it and it was kinda fun to teach and guide them through the fight and hear how happy they were over the mic when they beat it for the first time and got the emote. It’s a shame it’s getting vaulted, maybe they’ll bring the whole leviathan back in a few years and hopefully give the raids new and better loot.

[@Lava91point0]

Does it drop 2.0 versions of the raid gear? That would be the only reason to do these raids at this point, otherwise, why bother ???

[@siffumetsu271]

Wish I was able to get you then lol I never found a group to help me run it

[@cehaem2]

I hated it. It's boring. First encounter is a joke, the jump 'n run is obnoxious, 3rd and 4th encounters use the same mechanics and the boss fight is stupid incl. the orbs dropping after the last stand....

[@koko92153]

Who’s here after Salvations Edge?

[@silverthehero1295]

“The loot is abysmal.” This coming from someone who flaunts his chunky clown armor.

[@elongatedalbatross9318]

O-okay...? That literally doesn't change the fact the loot in SoS fucking sucks lol

[@Spriggan_2802]

@@elongatedalbatross9318 have u ever considered it was a joke

[@Storse]

@@elongatedalbatross9318 have ya ever considered that he was joking

[@tylerarnold3971]

@@elongatedalbatross9318 you ever considered that that guy was making a joke?

[@extrnalsorce4974]

@@elongatedalbatross9318 did it ever cross your mind that he was joking?

[@TeKnoVKNG23]

Warmind was actually one of my favorite DLCs just for the fact you had all the Mars secrets to find after the campaign was over. Getting Polaris Lance was awesome after all the looking around. This also can't be the hardest raid...I've seen Jez complete it, lmao.

[@Blanktester685]

he beat it when it was much easier lol, this was one of the hardest day 1s ever

[@imcursed6100]

Is it just me that feels really bad for esoterrick, man woulda got worlds first if not for that ball bug

[@richardrojas8706]

To me he got it

[@thebananas6483]

I don't. It only happened because someone on the team missed him with the ball to begin with. Someone failed; they suffered for it.

[@legion903rd9]

People trying the raid for the first time: “This will be easy!!!” People who did it already: “IT. IS. NOT!!!!!!!”

[@nubbieeee]

Is how to hunter : Step 1 : Jump. Step 2 : Profit

[@nubbieeee]

@The Exocast thank you

[@uzername1nvalid]

I played this for the very first time a few weeks ago and I loved it. Played with 5 other players I know, but only one had a full completion (which was a loooong time ago). We figured it out and had a blast; so much fun, but then again, we're all rolling with the meta, so I can imagine how difficult this was at launch/shortly after launch.

[@treeninja8924]

Me: oh yeah new raid vid can’t wait Mantis Lords Theme: yo Me: OH MY GO-

[@keegan5778]

Was wondering why that sounded so familiar

[@rubenguitron-martinez3218]

I knew it

[@another_random_ace8820]

I have PTSD from that boss fight.

[@hanzoshimada6655]

@@another_random_ace8820 mantis lords was easy and sisters of battle was kinda hard wdym

[@another_random_ace8820]

@@hanzoshimada6655 Dont know why but it took me a week to defeat mantis lords, but I was also able to defeat soul master on my second try and lost kin on my third.

[@witherhoard5333]

Seeing how destiny has aged story wise i appreciate these locations and stories so much more. I wont ever complain about dlc story anymore because i now know small stories can lead to grand adventures

[@NicholasJScott]

I normally don't get anxiety attacks, but those final stand kills are so stressful looking

[@ultramagnus1859]

They FEEL even more stressful, Jesus fuck, gave me the shakes afterwards

[@rudeoff]

I've seen and taught countless good raiders how to complete SoS. This was one of my favorite raids, probably because of how difficult it was for most people.

[@mulliganlounge6912]

I personally love spire of stars... WHEN I GET A GOOD FIRETEAM. Spire is one of the worst and most painful raids to run when your fireteam is full of idiots and one guy who lies of running spire in a kwtd lfg. The loot in spire is pretty eh, but the sidearm is pretty fun to use though. I really wish more people would run spire since I always have a super fun time when ever I’m in a good fireteam. Edit: I forgot to mention I love the concept of spire, leviathan was like a game show where you prove to calus your worthy of his weapons and respect, eater felt more like a test to prove your worthy of being a shadow, and spire felt like it was your first mission for calus.

[@sqrungle]

it really is a fun raid but when you have to teach people or learn it it just is not fun.

[@mulliganlounge6912]

@@sqrungle it’s a damn shame that teaching spire is so bad that no one is will to join and create a fireteam for teaching, and I fell like spire would be way more popular if spire wasn’t so pain to teach. But I also like how difficult spire is, the loot while not good is more of a symbol of you or someone betting the hardest raid in destiny.

[@mulliganlounge6912]

@@sqrungle whipping to cost so much more with noobs than with people who kwtd, when I’m play with people who kwtd and are good, whipping cost a few extra minutes, but when you wipe with noobs, it cost you far more since you probably spent a lot of time getting to where you where and it doesn’t help that spire is so glitchy.

[@methos4866]

@@mulliganlounge6912 Eh the raid really isn't THAT difficult, especially nowadays. It's just that some people go full smooth brain panic mode as soon as they need to do a mechanic. The amount of people including my clan that go full retard as soon as they get the ball is simply baffling. I personally think it's the second most fun raid in D2, Last Wish with legit Riven being first. Nobody ever wants to those just for fun though.

[@imnotyourshadow]

Doing this raid was hell for MMXX, I put a Kwtd post up as in “I’m not waiting around for you to watch the 15 minute datto guide on the boss” and I get people who say I did this raid 2 years ago once and don’t remember any of the encounters

[@TheProstateMan]

Statue Garden gave me the “Raises a Toast” emote on our first run through. I always remember that encounter fondly

[@Hypercane_]

I agree, I've never liked story missions turning into strikes. It feels like I'm being shorted content that could have been there. I also don't like old D1 strikes coming back into the game, unless there's a story reason which makes it feel less cheap

[@blakeerenhouse943]

Xol: a literal Hive WORM GOD that even Rasputin couldn’t handle and has the assistance of Nokris, a hive necromancer. Threatens to destroy Mars Us: *by ourselves* haha, gun go brrrrrrrrr Scourge boss: Just a fucking mech that goes boom. Just wants some black armory weapons Us: *in a 6 man fire team with jobs set to each individual to make sure we don’t die* now this is an avengers level threat.

[@alejandrotellez2962]

@@blakeerenhouse943 Dude, the scourge boss has a nuke. It's definitely not just some mech.

[@blakeerenhouse943]

@@alejandrotellez2962 Because big bomb>A literal fucking God

[@gamer65688]

@@blakeerenhouse943 tbf a nuke makes a *really* big boom

[@margaritaguildpublishing1700]

Some of the D1 strikes are amazing.

[@azuraug8693]

I come back to this video every time I'm reminded I spent an hour and a half with my clan just on the last encounter. It makes me feel better

[@forthark7407]

Spire of stars is like a kick in the nuts, painful to watch and even more so to feel for yourself.

[@elijaharsenault]

An excellent analogy.

[@Sweetace2211]

I remember this time in D1 when my clan was trying to do the Aksis challenge in WoTM. We were stuck at the boss for 12 HOURS, A bunch of people left and had to be substituted in and out. And in the end we STILL didn't even beat it. Even AFTER we gave up on the challenge and tried to do it normally on hard mode

[@V1K1Ng147]

Took me and my LFG squad 8 hours to beat Final boss. Now that's called a world's first.

[@androski5247]

23:03 Troupe Master Grimm electric guitar made that moment so hype.

[@Maalaboy]

Evan mispelling Ana Bae's name is the funniest thing ever.

[@andyflores8102]

Ana bae😏

[@MR_BRONZO]

Ana bae😏

[@blobfish_plays6548]

Ana bae😏

[@jaydenlee3982]

Ana bae😏

[@shugoo7599]

Ana bae😏

[@Lahgic]

Spire was a trip for sure on day 1. I’m just glad to say my team got to damage phase on the boss considering how low light we were

[@datboi-jz5gc]

Seeing the flames turn red and your screen it just makes my anxiety wanna fight

[@c0mplex564]

“Calus is our boy” little did we know…

[@zcasualty9941]

Spire of stars gives me Vietnam flashbacks

[@SonicAngel2020]

I love this lair, every encounter is fun and the final boss is just a riot. Figuring this one out was really hard but I loved every minute of it. Great vid as always Evan, I love these raid vids, you don't disappoint! Even the bloopers are great on this one. GG man, great work once more.

[@TheMcK777]

Ah, Spire. How I will somehow miss you.

[@Gga86591]

i went through all the raids recently as they were going away, with four first time and two people know whats going on, the last part took about two hours. Thanks to those two guys who were so patient with everything.

[@curseofavarice4607]

I love the video Evan. I don't know how you put up with the hundreds of hours that you have to analyze these clips to make these videos but I respect it.

[@Joseph-bj4en]

how is your comment from an hour ago when the video came out a minute ago

[@chckxn]

???? Wait 1 hour ago

[@pastherolink7181]

@@player_api Yeah what the hell

[@lightyb.9811]

He has no time to explain why he has no Time to explain

[@nubbieeee]

@@lightyb.9811 lmao nice reference

[@benm6893]

Me and my clan decided to do something stupid. We decided to carry as many people through spire as we could. We only recently stopped with over 100 carries.

[@aznjay94]

I have to disagree evan. The hardest raid is teaching newbies SoS.

[@thatoneguy2274]

wrong, the hardest raid is being sherpa'd through your first SoS by someone who thinks yelling at people to be better is the correct method of teaching mechanics.

[@Spike2276]

This

[@marcelerystick7416]

teaching isnt that bad, id say teaching crown is worse

[@mateominiati5256]

Yep. That's why I would only allow a max of 2 noobs on the team. 3 could derail everything too much for the others to make it up. This is the raid I have attempted the most and completed the least I would say.

[@joemamacornflakes4353]

Think ya mean teaching crown

[@konos6030]

mate i love that at the start where u talk about the hardest raid riven music plays in background

[@CoolEliteSquad]

I think this is one of my favorite raids because of visuals, mechanics, and how precise you and your fireteam had to be with the timing on the last encounter. Sure it was hard but man I fell in love with the difficulty.

[@CastilloBass]

Gonna have to give away this raids title now

[@whosmyth1c]

@ people saying that the title is a lie He meant that as in the raid can’t be done with 3 people and the other 3 get carried like every other raid, it’s the most mechanic heavy raid where 5/6 people have to do their assigned job

[@mrlunar62]

Gahlran is tougher since everyone has to do something. This raid boss is not even that tough. I’ve done it with 5 guys not know what to do and only me knowing

[@whosmyth1c]

@@mrlunar62 with that logic literally none of them are tough they are all free as fuck

[@strangegreenthing]

@@mrlunar62 spire boss is so much harder than ghalran its sad i beat ghalran in my first ever crown with 4 people now know what to do in an hour. It took me 5 hours to beat spire boss with 4 people who knew what to do and 2 who didnt

[@pumpkin-luck9597]

Can wait for the second hardest raid video on salvations edge 😭

[@incognitomode9365]

I love all these videos you make, they bring back a bunch of memories from D1 and D2

[@gchompm823]

Very nice touch with the music, hardest raid paired with the hardest bosses’ themes in gaming history.

[@andrewbeez8119]

“Now for that part that i said i was gonna get to”. *gets interrupted by wells fargo ad*

[@newlifelens]

whisper and outbrake runs are so much fun. when i was bored i used to carry lfg blueberries all the time. those are the golden days.

[@chckxn]

Ooooh so this is what sweat was watching on stream

[@omegasauce6172]

“Spite of Stars... The Biggest Pain in my Ass to grind an Emote for.”

[@NateFigs]

One of the hardest things about this raid was all the insane bugs that caused you to wipe on the regular

[@alexfrye8542]

The radiance's theme used to represent val co'uor is way to fitting

[@_Harvestman_]

I gotta be honest. These essays have done more to teach me how to do the raids than any other video. This is better than the kackis tutorials for getting me to understand how to play the raids

[@bobbybattalio6154]

No matter your feelings about our game at a certain time, there is no game that’s as pretty or ascetically beautiful. Turn the hud off, and there’s a screenshot every frame.

[@bamboozle_mcdoozle1231]

Warframe But I will agree that Destiny has some of the most beautiful environments in a game. But, warframe has slightly better screenshot frame potential.

[@LeadCodpiece]

@@bamboozle_mcdoozle1231 emm hell no

[@bnashtay2278]

@@bamboozle_mcdoozle1231 HELL NO the trailers sure, but the game itself? If you can afford high graphics it’s STILL no where near as beautiful as destiny

[@xXJLNINJAXx]

@@LeadCodpiece uh, fucking easily, tf you mean no?

[@xXJLNINJAXx]

@@bnashtay2278 "no where near" dude. destiny 2 is a joke. You'd have a point if you were referring to d1, but adding more pretty colors a beautiful game does not make.

[@housespider]

having a final stand ball fly out of bounds was quite possibly one of the most aggravating things in destiny raid history

[@xiidioiix7782]

Take a shot every time he says ‘ball’

[@Alovon]

Honestly on a sidenote about Warmind using the final story mission as a strike...honestly I don't mind it and sort of think if done well it can give some further replayability/incentive to the finale of the story? It could be because I am used to MMORPGs like the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with a free trail that lets you play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward Expansion for free with no restrictions on playtime....(Yeah I had to make the joke) But giving a bigger "Boss" presence and bigger breath to add to the scale of a finale in a story helps it a lot IMHO. Yeah FFXIV has their "Trial" encounter type (Pretty much imagine a standalone raid boss in a unique instance to itself), which it usually caps the expansion with, but that Trial is preceded by a gautlet of a dungeon taking you physically to the spot where the fight against the final boss of the expansion takes place. And unless Bungie decides to do that sort of thing (would be 100% down for that, would give more raid-like encounters and help players ease-in to the mechanics of raid bosses for proper raids), making it so the final boss is within a grand Dungeon/Strike like encounter would help give that sort of scale to the finale of the story. EX: Red Wars' Finale...But if it were designed as a Strike/Dungeon. You'd start in the city in the middle of the conflict, the Journey OST playing in the background as you'd make your way to the route to get onto Ghaul's flagship, fighting through waves of enemies while parkouring through the city. You'd encounter your first major roadblock with the first boss of the instance, say Ghaul's 3rd in command (2nd being the Consul). You beat him with him having his own encounter (Maybe him operating one of the big ships we see in The Arm's Dealer strike?), and then proceed into Ghaul's flagship and then face off against Lightbearer Ghaul, the fight being built around trying to jam/deactivate the light-filtering machinery on the arena to knock Ghaul out of his super(s). Then after beating Ghaul, he'd transform into his Light-Avatar form in a hail-marry by overlaoding the arena, it leading to an Oryx or War-Machine like encounter where you are on the sides of the Traveler's cage and have to break it before Ghaul can kill you, and maybe even the Traveler, the encounter clearing with you weakening the cage enough for the Travler to break itself free. That sort of gameplay storytelling is very difficult to make for a solo-instance without being very handholdy, which is a thing that limits boss design for the single-player focused campaign missions. Heck, I would be a bit sad if the FInale of the Light/Dark Saga in D2 was in a standard story mission as it'd underplay the heck out of The Witness. Although that does give me the idea of having a 6-man encounter against the Witness to weaken him, followed by a 1 on 1 final showdown ala FFXIV's trend lately of having a Trial followed by a Solo-instnace.

[@RandomUser7777777]

I miss this raid. This one and Leviathan. The other sunset raids don’t make me as sad (though scrounge is way good) but man, I miss them and hope they will come back soon because 2 D1 raids have so why not bring these guys back? I loved the look of the Levi gear and would like to see some random rolls and adepts (with the prestige look/glow)

[@druidbybirth7696]

Spire, my bread and butter. i joined D2 in jan 2020, first raid was spire and then got my 5 man flawless in feb 2020. over 200 sherpas. this raid is love.

[@Jakepotatoaim]

The starting mission is the hardest raid

[@Damercenary]

That's cause we r getting raided(assuming red war)

[@voidwalker9939]

@Sylis TM probably the walking simulator XD

[@angelnieves6548]

Warmind will always be on of my favorite expansions getting things like sleeper, Polaris and whisper was one of the greatest feeling I’ve ever had in Destiny combined with the story of warmind I thoroughly enjoyed it

[@ShreddedNerd]

When you described the content in Warmind it made me realise just how pitiful the current seasons are for 2/3rds of the cost.

[@MasterJunior93]

Because Bungie was preparing for Beyond Light, all the Leviathan raids, Black Armory, and other questlines associated with Titan, Io, Mercury, Mars, and the Leviathan were gonna get vaulted anyway, so there was no point in fixing any potential game breaking or RNG abusive bugs. However because the Moment of Triumph 2020 requires ALL 5 RAIDS to be complete during Season of Arrivals, that means everyone that wants the triumph have to revisit these raids, bugs and all. Yes, that means reliving the pain everyone went through just to complete them once, and Bungie didn't even bother to at least fix them one more time so they could be doable and not a fucking nightmare. This was on Bungie, not the community. Leviathan is what i consider to be the most perfectly balanced raid. The scenery and atmosphere are gorgeous, everyone was given a task, and even though there was a challenge, all the clues were there. Eater of Worlds is practically brain dead, except for the boss, but after a few run, Argus becomes easy. Spire of Stars is broken as fuck and you have to pray the game doesn't decide to just kill you all of a sudden. Crown of Sorrow was doable, but also confusing because of the blessed/nonblessed polarity requirement. Hell, i needed a gamer who was also a teacher for 10 years break it down for me. Next round, i understood and stepped up. Scourge of the Past has excellent atmosphere, but also easy to get lost in. Plus ads are abusive, especially snipers. However the best pay off was Insurrection Prime, which was basically Destiny's version of a Metal Gear!!! SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT IT!!

[@themellonman9886]

I must admit, Val Ca'uor is personally one of my favourite raid bosses. Everything about him seems spot on even his name is cool.

[@OreoOreoOreoOreo575]

Just thinking these raids could come back by light fall most likely with even harder difficulty is gonna be crazy man

[@YodasHondaCivic]

Xol Should've had his own raid hes a worm god hes in direct commune with the darkness, granted hes the weakest wormgod but still BRUH

[@fatebringerinfected799]

Yup u are right

[@Lawrentz82]

I was so disappointed with that strike..Xol's battle should have been so much harder

[@Bigdaddy93413]

Xol saw the shit Oryx was pulling and said “I’m gonna do that”. Xol basically chose to die to feed on the light.

[@chezfry]

Ah yes the mantis lords theme from hollow knight, a fellow man of culture.

[@xrstevenson]

*hardest raid in Destiny* Me: *does the prestige first and never doing it normally*

[@meikl777]

Well thats a fucking lie because you had to do normal to even play prestige ...

[@SadFace_]

@@meikl777 if he did it after year 1(I think after Shadowkeep?) you can play prestige before normal

[@meikl777]

@@SadFace_ oh they changed it right? Well overleveled with all the good weapons makes it easier i guess 😅

[@SadFace_]

@@meikl777 yeah they changed it to allow newer players to hop into prestige without needing to do normal(to Sherpa prestige). Makes it slightly easier, but it’s still harder than normal

[@meikl777]

@@SadFace_ i mean it really depends if u get a nice loadout with that melee/weapon buff its super easy

[@JWolfiez]

That boss room was HELL ON EARTH. I finished one time for Age of Triumph and never touched it again. I can imagine Prestige being like having to go through an apocalypse just to get to damage

[@nicholas7203]

It’s hard because everyone has to do something so no getting carried. Everyone must perform their role perfectly

[@DetectiveWarden]

The Raid where you start to realize how bad your teammates actually are.

[@Derankii]

Man watching your vids TODAY, months after content was vaulted. Really makes me regret being shy and not going on LFGs back then. I missed out on a lot of things because I was too shy

[@charleskettering2998]

imagine disconnecting in real life "mr washington we must fight these red co-......george disconnected again didnt he......GOD DAMMIT"

[@GeneralJigg]

You get literal chills watching these clears

[@sambauer4094]

Not counting Oryx for lore reasons, Val Ca'uor is the first female raid boss

[@Naper675]

????

[@skully1562]

Before Oryx was The Taken King he (she) was one of the pre-speices of hive and was one of the three royal sisters

[@Ace.On.YouTube]

This actually isn’t true. Calus has a line of dialogue in this raid that refers to Ca’uor as ‘him’. Also Destinypedia has him listed as ‘male’.

[@mattanderson7973]

Loved this raid. Didn't get into it until it was going to be sunset. Ran it at least once weekly for the Sleeper Catalyst at this point. Trolling new people with the explosive charges and the red plates was always a blast.

[@alphalupiehahaha6034]

“The hardest raids are the ones we lost along the way” -Idk 14 yr old or some thing.

[@misfortune1698]

I love how much grimm's theme fit so well

[@babyyodaforpresident5373]

Dude, the Spire Of Stars, in my opinion... isnt that hard when you all got wardcliff coil on for the boss fight

[@meikl777]

With people that know every encounter very well and know what to do what happens all the time aka carry their own weight i agree with u But i never had this experience, there was always a fresh player, someone who did it the first time, someone who isnt that great of a player so always doing the job of 2-3 people makes it hard 😅 loved it tho, most of the time it was friends i helped and it also proved myself worthy of carrying some dudes

[@janetsnakehole5238]

“Calus is our boy” aged like milk

[@itstoothless8249]

Spire of Stars: how to make something difficult, but fun. Crown of Sorrow: How to make something difficult, and so annoying that you want to bash your skull in.

[@dinkydoodle8325]

Crown isn't that difficult

[@gannonjones7614]

Switch those 2 around, and you've got something

[@dannop8795]

I'd like to see video of the raid designers watching the teams take on their creation.

[@theforestapp]

if only they knew you can cook the final stand orbs for more damage

[@therealspree1962]

Me waiting for the vow of disciple raid video that I spent 17 hours in

[@moro708]

Deep Stone Crypt: EXISTS Ressurected Taniks and Atrax-1: are you sure about that?

[@DragonSlayrr142]

There is a reason i only have like 2 clears on normal and 1 on prestige, prestige was for catty and i hated doing val because of how buggy the balls were and bungie never fixing them completely

[@Tayuro]

rewatching this 4 years later

[@zeronetwork594]

The boss theme is just so good, the remix of guardian in it is 👌