Thoughts On Contest Crota?

[Federal]

I finished Day 1 Ron, and attempted Day 1 Crota. Personally, ads didn't feel that bad (maybe cause I was playing in -20 content a lot already), and mechanics most of the time felt ok-ish.

Lanterns took like 3 hours, took a bit to figure out how to make bridge but once we did it, we got it.

Bridge took 2 hours, I was just doing plates and keeping ads at bay

We got past Ir Yut, took 5 hours cause of how you could not mess up at all, and cause she kept moving during damage making it annoying, but we were getting her half way in 1 phase. I did like how you had to hit the damage, otherwise you would wipe.

We got to Crota, but realised it'd be too hard, and we were all drained. I tried again for a few hours, and never even got to damage once. The rotation has to be perfect, as 2 swords 90% of the time would not cut it, and cause you need to stop Oversoul.

I think this is how ads should feel during Day 1, but Elites/Majors need to be tuned down slightly, mostly because they have way too much health. Bosses should not have shields tied to doing dps (Crota should have has 2 shields, a mini one that when broken should have another shield, that when broken by weapons starts damage. Similar to GotD.) Also mechanics need to be more forgiving, 1 mess up at any point should not be an instant wipe.

Overall, I think the Day 1 was slightly too difficult for a multitude of reasons, but in terms of ads, and damage (for 1st boss at least), it should stay the same.

[MazeOfTorment]

The difficulty is what i want from a day 1 tbh. I enjoyed my suffering, lol.

[Jack of Blades]

Even when contest mode is over I'm not touching this raid.

[Verios44]

Originally posted by Atlas:

Even when contest mode is over I'm not touching this raid.

Why not? Bit of an extreme viewpoint.

[Verios44]

I sadly could not participate in day 1. I traveled on Friday and still away on a trip for a week. Ah well, timing sucks when they put the raid on a holiday weekend.

[Jagdtiger]

I found it to be very enjoyable, ended up spending 35 hours total in there over the time and it took me 7 hours to get to crota with my first team, 10 hours to do crota with my 7th team and 7 hours to do full challenge run with my 8th, ended up placing something like 4000th team. Not a good placement but it was my first successful reprised raid full challenge clear so i'm happy, even if it was because of 48 hours. Difficulty was perfect, and crota was particularly cruel with his stringent damage requirement and impressive lethality

[DCR]

Seems very pointless to me to have a "contest" mode when quite regulary someone in NF or other match made pve activities, will, from the very start, just go 100% super all the time.
Game needs bug fixing and patches more then anything else.

[The dog]

horrible. one of the worst experiences in this game I have had.

[Kylito]

Didn't get to attempt it for very long but from what I've heard and watched it was really good, aside from the bug stopping people from getting the emblem, and disabled gear messing with balance a bit.

[ShinoAishi]

one of the worst experiences iv EVER had in destiny almost 40 hours and couldn't finish 30 of which were on crota at this point fck necrocasm i will never be touching this putrid muck they call a raid ever again

[Mastodon_2]

Originally posted by ShinoAishi:

one of the worst experiences iv EVER had in destiny almost 40 hours and couldn't finish 30 of which were on crota at this point fck necrocasm i will never be touching this putrid muck they call a raid ever again

You should go back and try it now that contest mode has been disabled, it is way, way easier. I tried with an LFG team and we couldn't get past the lanterns with 7 hours of trying, this evening we were passed the lanterns in 20 minutes (including teaching new players how to do the mechanics) and over the bridge in about 45 once we figured out the "Enlighten everyone before crossing" strategy.

We stalled at Ir Yut as some of our guys had to go, but we were getting to damage on her easy too. The ads just present virtually no threat now contest is disabled, if you have a halfway decent build. The only thing to need to think about is mechanics and boss DPS.

[Horn]

I don't know about Contest, I was too busy and generally didn't want to break my sleep schedule. But with Contest gone, this raid and Bungie as a whole can have my respect. Taking the easiest and most boring raid from D1, bringing it to D2 and turning it into an actual raid is quite an effort. Encaunters are diverse, almost all players will have to do something, give callouts to allies, exotic is finally not tied to stupid rng, there is no 10 minute running between encaunters, the raid has beautiful armor. This raid has succeeded where the RoN failed.

Its only downside is the weapons. Worst auto rifle archetype, worst handcannon archetype, some boring shotgun and pulse rifle. The only thing that more or less stands out is the machine gun, which has the Bait and Switch perk.

[Jagdtiger]

Originally posted by Kylito:

Didn't get to attempt it for very long but from what I've heard and watched it was really good, aside from the bug stopping people from getting the emblem, and disabled gear messing with balance a bit.

Yeah i didn't get the emblem ;-; bungie pls fix
at least its on my rr tho and not like i'd wear the emblem for long anyway

[Verios44]

Originally posted by Horn:

I don't know about Contest, I was too busy and generally didn't want to break my sleep schedule. But with Contest gone, this raid and Bungie as a whole can have my respect. Taking the easiest and most boring raid from D1, bringing it to D2 and turning it into an actual raid is quite an effort. Encaunters are diverse, almost all players will have to do something, give callouts to allies, exotic is finally not tied to stupid rng, there is no 10 minute running between encaunters, the raid has beautiful armor. This raid has succeeded where the RoN failed.

Its only downside is the weapons. Worst auto rifle archetype, worst handcannon archetype, some boring shotgun and pulse rifle. The only thing that more or less stands out is the machine gun, which has the Bait and Switch perk.

Im looking forward to doing crota on a flawless run. It will actually feel like a challenge. I have not played the raid yet, cant for a few more days, BUT the chalice and enlighten mechanics really uplifted this raid.

[Kylito]

Originally posted by Jagdtiger:

Originally posted by Kylito:

Didn't get to attempt it for very long but from what I've heard and watched it was really good, aside from the bug stopping people from getting the emblem, and disabled gear messing with balance a bit.

Yeah i didn't get the emblem ;-; bungie pls fix
at least its on my rr tho and not like i'd wear the emblem for long anyway

Do you have any other Contest emblems or is this your 1st? Because with VoTD there was a similar issue where some people had to wait months to get it, but everyone did get them in time.

[Jagdtiger]

Originally posted by Kylito:

Originally posted by Jagdtiger:

Yeah i didn't get the emblem ;-; bungie pls fix
at least its on my rr tho and not like i'd wear the emblem for long anyway

Do you have any other Contest emblems or is this your 1st? Because with VoTD there was a similar issue where some people had to wait months to get it, but everyone did get them in time.

I heard about the vow situation from our 6th who had it happen to him. Seems this one affects more people so it might get fixed sooner, at least that would be nice. I wasn't here for vow and started doing day 1s with KF