News filtered through recently that Crota’s End, Destiny power leveling’s newest raid, will finally receive its hard mode difficulty this week. It’s arrival will give Guardians the chance to unlock a range of new weapons and other loot unavailable before, but comes with added challenges and a higher difficulty setting.
We can assume the updated hard mode will bring notable changes to the raid, such differences we saw between the normal and hard modes for Vault of Glass. Unfortunately, apart from the Level 33 rise we don’t know exactly how Bungie plan to spruce up the Hellmouth and make our journey to Crota that little bit more treacherous.
We can speculate however, try hit that dark mysterious nail on the head.
Crota’s End – Traverse the Abyss
Getting past the persistent and determined Thrall army isn’t an easy task on normal, so we shudder at the though of traversing the abyss on hard mode.
Bungie could have implemented small tweaks to already existing objects, making it more difficult. For example, the lamps you and your fellow Guardians run towards to negate the ‘Weight of Darkness’ buff could burn out quicker, making the journey to the next lamp even slower. Another addition could be the Weight of Darkness buff being increased. It currently stand at X10, but some players have experienced a glitch that raises it to X20, maybe a sign of what’s to come.
What about the bridge, will it take longer to form once you step foot on the circle? Most likely, having you shout profanity at the screen in the hope it will complete faster. At the moment it’s rather easy to complete this area of the section by simply jumping on a rock to evade Thralls and downing one ogre, so the addition of more gun related enemies won’t come as a surprise.