Raiding has really changed for me from what it used to be. Starting with Kings Fall and now WOTM. It seems much harder. It seems like I less feeling like dealing with the hassle of LFG groups. I guess the central issue is you no longer need raid to reach max light. So, for better or worse, I no longer need the raid.
I've raided normal mode I think about 3 times, and pretty much every time we get to Aksis and then fail, sometimes after spending a long time. And this is like what, over a month into ROI and I still have not beaten just NORMAL raid. And I've been well leveled or over leveled. I was probably 390 my last normal raid. So there's a lot less loot motivation, I have to force myself to raid normal mode just for the sake of learning the raid, and I guess I want a Chaos Dogma.
Another demoralizing thing was like week I was watching I think Triplewreck raid on Twitch, here's a great player, with surely a great team, high light, and I was watching them fail hard Aksis several times. And I was just thinking, if these guys are struggling...what chance do I have much less in a LFG group?
So right now I feel like the raid needs to be maid easier since Kings Fall. I felt KF was too hard overall as well.
Yet all that said, I think it's just RNG. I just haven't got into that good LFG squad that just blows through the raid carrying me. If it had happened, I'd probably be in here talking about how the raid is too easy.
It's just weird though, raid used to be central to my Destiny experience and now I just generally tend to find it frustrating and limited. I feel kind of bad about it, like I should force myself to raid more.
Not sure what I will do this week, I feel like I have little chance of beating hard this week, but OTOH at least I could get light level loot. I could continue to try to beat normal before doing hard, but then I'll be getting useless light level drops.
For me I'm proceeding well on leveling, I'm already almost 394 and haven't played that much. Archons Forge is really easy to get Artifact/Shell/Class Item from when they are lagging. For everything else I figure it's best to just pop 3oC and play crucible all day, which is what I enjoy most anyway.
I find it kind of weird when there's a new light level target, you start to become very restricted in your PVE and PVP loadouts for a couple weeks since you want to wear your good stuff as much as possible, which is a bit annoying. I cant even use Shinobu's Vow lately in crucible because it would require swapping out several pieces of gear and knocking down my light. I dont know, just an observation. It'll be nice to hit 400 and start rounding out a varied loadout again.
Nightfall was fun last week though. Very hard on my first run, but then learned the tricks and was much easier/more fun after. Too bad one of my rewards was like, 12 3oC, which I always have like 40-80 anyway. Saw another guy get rewards a Fall 2015 grab bag of emotes or something, haha, that was laughable.
In crucible, I started struggling with Distant Star, went back to Mida and started doing much better again. I give up. I just cant escape Mida.
I love sidearms now, I feel I can really learn to use them and it's fun learning to strategies around them. I never run sniper in crucible anymore. Usually I can take on snipers with my primary with the flinch now anyway. And with sidearms I feel I've finally found a decent close range option for me, so it feels more well rounded.
I got a great roll Grasp a bit ago, I feel this archetype is better than Hawksaw, if I run that though Sidearm seems a bit superfluous as the Grasp is pretty good up close anyway, so I switch to shotgun, the ranges feel more natural that way, Scout/sidearm, Pulse/shotgun.
(at least according to the harsh comments and down votes I got on reddit every time I discussed this design decision)
