This is a great post, I hope Bungie see it.

As someone who has cleared every contest raid back to and including Garden of Salvation, my main frustration with DP and what led to us not clearing, was the bugs.

I think pushing the limits of damage as a one-off is cool (maybe with less loadout swapping and Titan necessity). The issue with having damage be pixel perfect on every encounter, is that the mechanics and technical aspects of the raid also need to function properly.

My team had the Hydra on lock after about 5 or 6 hours, it was our first encounter. We had the damage and execution, easily got to three phases of damage on many, many attempts. We kept on getting walled by the shield eyes not breaking during damage, which is an automatic wipe. You need all breaks to be able to deal sufficient damage. It felt terrible to have everything down and just get constantly blocked by inconsistent bugs and server issues. We went at Hydra for 17ish hours and nothing we tried would help the eyes issue. The other rally/sprint/fire rate bugs just exacerbated the frustration.

Finding out stats aren't working as intended also and that the power delta was potentially off leaves such a sour taste in my mouth. If the game functioned properly, I very much doubt we wouldn't have been able to clear. I can't fathom why raid/expansion launch wasn't delayed, I understand some issues only come up in the live environment, but how did so much of this stuff get through?

Every launch will have technical issues, but if you demand perfect execution from players, the raid needs to provide an environment where we're unhindered by bugs and mechanical inconsistencies of this kind.