I'd like to know how many people have attempted hard mode raid with the recent changes, did you pass, and lvl of characters in raid? Easy is a joke and the platforms were never necessary so if you used them there iono. Part of reason being you can reach 29 with "effort" gear as I'll call it meanin your 3 Lvls over the encounter (more potential dmg dealt and less taken) problem is and why this is resorted to in hard is purely how the encounter became "harder" Dmg output increased, spawn density increased on the npc side and no re spawn. Add that in with avg people being 29 and taking 15% dmg reduction and 15% increase dmg taken in think is roughly how the numbers go? Now keep nerfing the guns you have us to get through because your pvp scheme is broken, I.e. Atheons epilogue (less dmg, more kick = fail) That is my main beef with the changes. We as a community, love it or hate it, have cleared all the content bungie made available because they didn't account for how much people would actually play the game. So to increase the time taken to "clear" the game they nerf items and tweak encounters.... Sad and dangerous path they are taking for the life of an mmo(lite) style game