Destiny‘s Vault of Glass raid is easily the most challenging, interesting part of the game. The bar for entry is awfully steep — you need a coordinated team of six players, all level 26 or higher — but as it turns out, a fair number of players have cleared it.
A group of us completed the Vault of Glass last weekend, and since then I spoke with lead designer Luke Smith to get more insight into how Bungie put it together. (I’ll have more from our interview on Kotaku soon.) After our conversation, Bungie sent along some up-to-date numbers on how many players had attempted and completed the Vault of glass.
Since the Vault of Glass launched in mid-September:
- 1,970,807 players have attempted the raid on normal difficulty.
- Of those nearly two million players, 472,082 have defeated the final boss and finished the raid. Including us:
- Meanwhile, 202,729 of those players have re-attempted the raid on its harder, level-30 difficulty setting.
- 36,181 have completed it on hard. Good work, folks.
Finishing the raid, even on normal difficulty, is no small feat. It took our high-level, coordinated team a ton of time to figure out how to beat the final boss, in particular. Then again, just this week the raid was completed, astonishingly, by just two people.
The Vault of Glass would doubtless be a lot easier if you read a walkthrough beforehand — more than half of our time was spent simply figuring out what we were supposed to do in each section. That said, if you haven’t beaten the raid and want to help that 472,000 grow, I’d recommend playing without reading a guide. It’s a much more rewarding way to go.
I thought I’d poll our readers to see how many of you have finished. One note: By “partway through” I mean that you’ve at least gotten the doors to the raid open and gone underground. Vote here:
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8 responses to “Almost A Half Million People Have Completed Destiny’s Raid”
Hit 24 last night, just behind my 26 and 27 mates. Will probably attempt this in the next week 🙂
Oh you bet I did. Seven hours on yhe last boss alone.
Is this like a strike mission or do I need to get a team together for this mission on
PS4 I’m on level 25 spend most on my time running around lost as f@*k in this game lol
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Sleep is overrated anyway 😛
People have found out how to skip the Templar, and now they figured out how to beat the final boss in only 2 minutes with 2 people. So expect this number to grow rapidly, now we have people cheating there way through
If Dark Souls has taught me anything, it is that cheesing is not cheating. It’s just better strategy.
As Eddie Guerro would say, “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’!”.
Managed to finish it first go last nite. Lots of coaching from people who had already completed it.
Yeah my first playthrough we finished it too, but I had a couple of 10th timers in our group who new exactly what to do. Was a bit of a bummer as I would have liked to have tried to figure it out from scratch, but unfortunately I don’t know that many ppl on PSN
Our crew finished it on our second week, only taking a few hours. It was especially satisfying because we hadn’t looked up any guides. We did take on board a few things we’d heard from friends, but most of that turned out to be wrong.
Third week was roughly one hour. We ended up gearing up one of the level-lagging members enough to quality for hard mode. (Which is still too beasty for us at the moment. That ‘no rezzing’ restriction is a game-changer.)
I’d say we’ve pretty much got it on farm, now.