Destiny 2 and Part 1 together feature 10 raids. Since the very first of them will soon be relaunched, we want to know from you: Which one is the best? For this, MeinMMO takes a nostalgic look back at all raid adventures since 2014 and also the notoriously rare exotics from them.
This raid is returning soon: 2020 brings back the first raid in Destiny’s history. Soon you will be able to experience the Glass Chamber in Destiny 2 in a new light thanks to the controversial Content Vault.
Many veterans still celebrate this raid today and fondly remember their first steps as guardians. In this article, we want to hit you hard with the nostalgia club and take the return of the raid as an opportunity to take a look back at all raids from Destiny 1 and 2.
In the end, you, the readers of MeinMMO, shall decide which of the 10 raids is the best of all.
All 10 raids from Destiny 1 and Part 2 at a glance
Before you can vote, we will briefly introduce all the raids that the guardians have experienced since 2014. As is fitting for a raid adventure, the special exotics from the endgame activities are also involved, for which you need a lot of patience and loot luck or have to master wicked puzzles.
1. The Glass Chamber
The Glass Chamber opened its doors on Venus in 2014 and instantly captivated the guardians. Many shooter players had never played a raid before. Here, you had to defeat tough bosses like the time-controlling Atheon, search for mysterious chests, listen to singing oracles, and shoot your way through different epochs.
This Exotic is available: Vex Mythoclast is obtainable with a lot of luck after defeating Atheon. In Year 1 of Destiny, the few lucky owners ripped the game balance apart and even today the fusion rifle-automatic weapon hybrid evokes bad and good memories among veterans, depending on which side of the barrel you were on.
2. Crota’s End:
Crota’s End came with the expansion “Darkness Awaits” at the turn of the year 2014/2015 to Destiny. The raid takes the guardians to the moon, where the sword-wielder and Schargott Crota challenges the guardians to a duel – his defeat comes quickly, but triggers significant events.
The raid is regarded by veterans more as a long strike and has produced a plethora of absurd challenges: Crota had to endure the shame of being danced to death or being humiliated by a drum set.
This Exotic is available: Necrochasm is an automatic rifle that guardians craft from an inconspicuous gray weapon. In its final form, the weapon fires very quickly, has deep magazine pockets, and turns your victims into bombs that detonate like the Hive thrall itself.
3. King’s Fall
In the raid King’s Fall, the motto is “everything is bigger.” The expansion Taken King brought the furious father of Oryx, who turns out to be a gigantic adversary that smashes players to bits out of revenge.
In King’s Fall, there are also larger puzzles, more boss fights, and simply a bit more of everything than guardians had seen in a raid until then (and for many years to come).
This Exotic is available: Malice Touch is a slightly different scout rifle that slowly consumes its bearer. The shooter exchanges health for unlimited ammunition and bonus damage. The Malice is powered by a very rare ingredient: Oryx’s dark heart.
4. Wrath of the Machine
Since 2016, guardians can face a literal roller coaster ride in the raid Wrath of the Machine. Everything here is geared towards nonstop action. Players run away from siege engines, repair siege engines under constant fire, must hide from nanobots in safe spaces, and in the end try to ride the boss Aksis like a rabid Robo-goat.
This Exotic is available: Outbreak Prime spits out nasty nanobots that seek their targets and multiply wildly. The pulse rifle was hidden behind tricky puzzles, where you even had to prove your math skills.
The weapon has an even nastier new edition in Destiny 2 as Perfected Outbreak.
5. Leviathan
In the first raid from Destiny 2, guardians explore a massive spaceship that devours planets: the Leviathan. At the end, the decadent Emperor Calus is awaiting the guardians, casually seated with a good drop of wine in hand, wanting to convince himself of their strength.
The raid places a strong focus on mechanics and lets players run competitively in a circus arena. Later, the Leviathan was expanded with two smaller raid wings in the following DLCs:
This Exotic is available: Legend of Acrius, an extremely powerful and heavy shotgun that also deals extremely heavy damage per shot. Instead of a normal shotgun spread, you let out a washed-out arc storm from the barrel.
6. Last Wish
In 2018, the raid Last Wish premiered and took over King’s Fall as the largest raid. The guardians delve into the heart of the whimsical Dreaming City to uncover the secret of an ancient curse and must ultimately prove themselves as true knights, as they must slay the last dragon in the universe.
This Exotic is available: Thousand Voices was crafted from the bones of a dragon and can breathe fire accordingly. Anything hit by the solar ray has a chance to explode after a few moments, leaving only widespread destruction behind.
This exotic was just as rare as it is powerful. Some guardians after 100 raid completions still didn’t have Thousand Voices and always picked the “wrong” chest.
7. Scourge of the Past
In 2018, the Fallen attempted to loot the vaults of the Black Armory. In the raid Scourge of the Past, the guardians interrupt the brazen robbery. Good map-reading skills are a must, and both tank excursions and a hot Sparrow chase provide variety.
This Exotic is available: The grenade launcher Anarchy fires sticky grenades that shock enemies. The special thing is that you can chain multiple grenades together, creating shock traps. Or shoot multiple shock charges at enemies that continuously take arc damage while you have already moved on.
Since the introduction of the exotic kiosk, Anarchy is probably at the top of most wish lists.
8. Crown of Sorrow:
The raid Crown of Sorrow takes guardians back to the Leviathan in 2019. This time, however, it goes beyond pomp and grandeur into the long-sealed depths, where Calus has bred a monster: Gahlran. He is meant to wear the eponymous crown, but things go horribly wrong, and you have to deal with dreadful Hive rituals.
This Exotic is available: Tarrabah is an otherwise inconspicuous and extremely rare submachine gun. However, once the weapon has dealt enough damage, it transforms into a real beast and craves for more – so feed Tarrabah to permanently use the unleashed monster in pocket size.
9. Garden of Salvation:
The Garden of Salvation made a big return to Destiny 1 in 2019. The guardians entered the Black Garden again after a long time and had to prevent the Vex from conquering it, just like in 2014. Against the picturesque backdrop, players hop over treetops, dirty their feet in Radiolara liquid and find deep in the heart of the raid the Darkness as Veil statue.
This Exotic is available: Divinity deals hardly any damage, but it is one of the best and most used exotics in the game. The trace rifle weakens enemies so that your whole team deals more damage and significantly enlarges the critical hit box – in almost every raid or high-level trial, the question still arises: “Who plays Divinity?”
You can get Divinity as a quest reward. But only if you play through the raid in one go with a lot of additional puzzles.
10. Deep Stone Crypt
Since the end of 2020, guardians have been able to enter the Deep Stone Crypt. Here, variety is key: from the frozen surface of Europe to sterile laboratory complexes and high up into the weightless silence of space. This is garnished by the crash of a space station and a reunion with an old acquaintance who can now fly and rain meteorites.
This Exotic is available: Eyes of Tomorrow awaits with plenty of loot luck in a chest after the final boss Taniks. The rocket launcher has 6 eyes that ensure that your salvo of 6 rockets aggressively seeks their targets. If you have killed enough enemies with your explosions, the damage of the next salvo skyrockets and practically shatters everything in the game.
Now it’s your turn!
This is how the voting works: You now have exactly one vote to decide which raid is the best in Destiny history. So choose wisely from the list below.
Thank you for your participation and have fun voting:
Please feel free to let us and the other readers know in the comments why you made your decision and whether it was a close call.
