The DLC That Revived Destiny (Was it Bad?) - Destiny
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The DLC That Revived Destiny (Was it Bad?) - Destiny is about the house of wolves dlc! One that really had everyone by the grip who I knew played it back in 2015, but the thing is, it was really the health of Destiny in a nutshell on display! House of Wolves was the second DLC for Destiny, released on May 19, 2015. House of Wolves involved hunting members of the eponymous Fallen House who have betrayed the Queen of the Reef. There were Story missions like A Kell Rising-Ishtar Sink, Venus The Silent Fang-Cosmodrome, Earth The Ruling House-Cosmodrome, Earth Wolves' Gambit-Ishtar Sink, Venus Queen's Ransom-Ishtar Sink, Venus!
Quests like The Archon-Slayer-Ocean of Storms, Moon
1 Strike like The Shadow Thief-Ocean of Storms, Moon. Prison of Elders-The Reef, Asteroid Belt Crucible maps Black Shield-Firebase Thuria, Phobos Thieves' Den-Ishtar Sink, Venus The Timekeeper(PlayStation exclusive)-Meridian Bay, Mars Widow's Court-European Dead Zone, Earth Social spaces The Lighthouse-Caloris Spires, Mercury Vestian Outpost-The Reef, Asteroid Belt Locations Dusk Warren-Ocean of Storms, Moon Gateway-Cosmodrome, Earth King's Watch-Cosmodrome, Earth The Terminus-Ishtar Sink, Venus Traitor's Ketch-Ocean of Storms, Moon Activities Trials of Osiris-Crucible event Vanguard Dragon-Level 28 Strike playlist Miscellaneous New Weapon class-the Sidearm
Petra Venj-Vestian Outpost vendor with new quests, Bounties, and rewards Variks, the Loyal-Vestian Outpost vendor with new rewards
Brother Vance-Vestian Outpost vendor with new rewards
The Speaker can exchange various Materials
Banshee-44 can reforge any House of Wolves Legendary weapons
Various Exotic Weapons and Armor
Maximum Light Level increase to 34
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Intro: 00:00
The House of Critics: 04:37
Prison of Elders: 16:52
Exotics: 23:01
Trials of Osi Rizz: 24:49
Verdict: 28:47
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Better hope the real skolas doesn’t get recycled next. Bros gonna be stasis kell to replace eramis, then get bodied and forgotten.
I highly doubt it, and if he does he’d probably be a Scorn Boss.
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For me, this is when Destiny really took off. I have a friend who only started in D2, and he has no idea why I randomly bring up “Skolas! The Kell of Kells”.
Bro challenged me in the old ways. I’ve not forgotten.
These new ways blow ngl
House of wolves ruled in my opinion, one aspect I liked was how we actually got to fight the big bad outside the "raid" (A major issue I had with dark below was how we didnt even fight crota outside the raid)
I honestly wish they would add prison of elders to the legacy content because of how fun it was
Gotta be honest, I don’t think PoE aged as well as people remember it. The looting was great, but its repetitive and even the seasonal events we get now have more depth than it.
@@rainyboi6383 Tbh gotta agree. I loved it only because instead of 1 legendary every like 20 strikes I got one every like 5 Prison runs. However aside from that I never really liked the activity itself and after I got decent gear I pretty much never touched it again.
My fondest memories of this dlc were all the in Prison of Elders. My first Skolas clear was the best as well. It was pre-nerf and none of my lfg had Gjallarhorn. We all used Red Death and the full fight took roughly 30 minutes. We wiped what mustve been about 18 or 19 times before we got the final run. I'll always cherish that memory.
Honestly, even though I like Prison of Elders, it still sucks that they scrapped a raid for it. Personally, I’d say they’re 3 for 3 on Fallen raids, it could’ve been 4 for 4.
Having bungie make a new raid instead of the prison of elders would have probably been a better decision but at the time bungie was still testing things out and seeing what the players like/dislike.
There’s 3 fallen raids? I only recall Wrath and Scourge. What am I missing
@@Sodaextreme1 Deep Stone Crypt
Deep Stone Crypt. God damnit
One could definitely argue PoE was a progenitor to Dungeons, which are essentially 3 man raids. Also right when it came out Skolas WAS pretty tough
Prison of elders was the best pve activity that bungie has ever made. It was extremely replayable and incredibly fun and challenging
House of Wolves is when Destiny sunk it's foul hooks into me. I remember spending hours in the cosmodrome farming keys with friends. Just trying to scrape together enough drops to get to endgame content. Almost a decade later I'm still playing Destiny.
I think one of the main reasons I liked House of Wolves is that it introduced new enemy variants for the shanks.
I replayed House of Wolves less than a week ago on a new character, and I must say I actually enjoyed the story quite a lot
Evan, that door at 7:50, that was actually where you had to go to trigger the cutscene where you first meet Mara in the vanilla campaign if you played it for the first time after this expansion dropped.
I remember in the Dark below having the sparrow clip glitch help put you in the new room that was gonna be in House of wolves with the fallen around the travaller. there also was an extra dead ghost. I miss dead ghosts
I walked 12 miles home from a friends house to play House of Wolves. One of my all time favorite DLCs in Destiny. No horde mode in Destiny 2, not even the Menagerie, has surpassed Prison of Elders.
Prison was ight just some basic ads with not to bad mechanics except soklos which was pretty good
@@SlongestKongest It was the perfect balance between our power level at the time and the difficulty of the activity
And here we are with onslaught and i think it has it beat 😊
What’s cool about the ruling house was the kings were gonna betray the wolves but before they were gonna do it the guardians intervened.
And then the Kell of kings were unceremoniously offed in a forsaken lore tab.
@@AxisChurchDevotee I hated that this low key hyped up villain was killed off in a lore tab and we didn’t even get to see what he looked like
@@lucasbosier6808 Same as Quria tbh. Awesome lore and buildup, only for it to mean nothing.
@@AxisChurchDevotee at least we got to see quria, that boss model was sick
@@AxisChurchDevotee If they didn't kill off the House of Kings they would've worked really well in Beyond Light.
Prison of Elders was my favorite activity in D1 and yes, Skolas was tough i loved it!!
I remember back then we had a stack of 6 for raiding. And 3 of us played day and night to lvl up and they went to try to defeating Skolas. Me and my friend went to do other stuff and we talked about those 3 like:
- You know these 3 are trying Skolas right now?
- Again? I heard they've been there for full day yesterday and still didn't do it.
- Yep. So, do you think they will do it this time?
- Maybe. I just want to lvl up and do it myself.
- Me too. I just got Ghally from first clear of prison on my hunter. Just need to upgrade it.
And after some time i checked my friend list and saw those 3 with emblems - They did it!
one minor detail that you didnt mention was that Skolas was pulling fallen from the past to fight you in the final fight and is implied that that is part of the reason that the house of wolves didnt help the fallen at twilight gap. Its a fun lore detail for lore junkies like me.
5 treasure keys from one chest before it dropped was funny asf
Oh my god i am SO HERE for when evan talks about CoD zombies. Especially up to Black Ops 3
House of wolves is special to me as its the DLC that finally got me to actually play destiny as I got it for Christmas but never really got into it. Seeing the house of wolves trailer and hearing my friends talk about it motivated me to level up so I could play the new DLC with them, I quickly became addicted fell in love with the story and I never looked back. Also hearing Mara say "They will feel my wrath" send chills down my spine every time.
I like how the Prison of Elders acted as a way for the inmates to maybe earn their freedom in the court of combat. Overall the whole thing was such a blast. Each arena was super unique and the lore included was so interesting.
Good times man, I loved doing the rotating weekly poe bosses
fun fact: skolas prison of elders counts as a raid, thus you can do raid achievements inside of it.
Some of my fondest memories came from house of wolfs
I think darkbelow deserved the criticism. The forever 29 just turned to forever 31, while it did have a lot of exotics, most of them were bad. That version of dragons breath just fired solar grenades, TTK reworked it with napalm.
I played through TDB and grinded crota. Destiny players at the time played through much worse in vanilla Destiny, but it was most definitely not an expansion worth remembering.
I think the big deal at the time was that some people find out that Destiny vanilla was an unfinished product with a ton of coding hidden in the final product and that Dark Below just finally opened up the *real* game. And then House of Wolves opened up the areas that was talked about before Destiny was released.
However, i had a lot of fun, a lot of great memories
Great video as always.
Btw it wasn't just Vestian Dynasty. All sidearms in D1 had intrinsic anti barrier rounds. It was one of the only reasons I liked them.
I have so many memories of trials and house of wolves back then. Sitting on the top left of skolas’ room to pop a titan bubble, celestial and using heavy synthesis to blast him down on solar burn week as fast as possible. Then trials oh trials. I miss those trials days. 30+ flawless runs and i dont even have a fraction of that in D2 cause you cant really make friends easy in D2 at all. The game had so much more passion in D1 imo now its kinda souless
Love the vids Evan ❤
House Of Wolves was the origin of, “must have Gjallarhorn.” It’s because of Skolas on Solar Burn day. That’s when it started.
Sorry, my friend. It started long before that. At the very least, during The Dark Below because of it being so good at taking down Crota's shield. Arguably before that even because it was the best DPS by far for Atheon too. People did not take like 9 months to realize how good Gally was.
Skolas was the second boss to be nerfed iirc, they nerfed Valus Ta'aurc's health in April 2015
I remember me being a squeaker and my older friend freaking out over the fallen going into the vault and trying to run away using vex tech. We should’ve let skolas just leave.
I remember my first prison of elders. It was the strike version not one the three challenge version and at the end I opened the massive chest in the middle and it gave me Icebreaker of all things I was excited but really confused that a strike gave me an exotic
You get a like simply because I heard the Metal Gear Solid theme during your plug about your other channel. Man of culture.
This DLC will always be special to me cuz my first ever prison of elders run I got Gjallarhorn for the first time. I’ll never forget it. And my friend I ran it with got Truth. We aren’t on speaking terms anymore
Poe was cool.
Bungle the 1st precision frame sidearm in d2 to be craftable needs to be vestian dynasty.
OG Skolas running around the room in circles switching buffs was peak destiny , solar burn and 9 ghorn shots worked too tho
Man I want the house of wolves weapons back. They look real nice
Alot of people didn't come back for house of wolves but let me tell you. Prior to taken king. This dlc gave me many memories and got me on board to even wait for taken king. It is a forgotten bright point on the franchises history. Sucks they scrapped the raid for it. Was also the first time the narrative showed coherent chops.
I can't believe you didn't mention Variks Voice actor being Klaus from American dad.
I need those speaker emblems... stat!
Beating week 1 skolas is by far the most accomplished I have ever felt in this game and him being nerfed was such a massive disappointment
His difficulty is what made it all the more sweeter when he finally goes down.
I missed the look of all the fallen houses and getting class items that were from each house
ngl i wish bungie would add prison of elders to legacy content - it was so much fun
9:04 This line makes a lot more sense and hits home if you'd served in the military.
the problems with the dark below were things like lagging out during the raid that was so awesome when it was new
08:39 Wasn't the House of Exiles formed in Sol by fallen exiled from the other houses?
I really enjoyed my time playing through these DLC.
Not knowing who Chicken Boo is was not the sudden realization of my age I needed today.
One thing people forget is this was a pre bloom Era on handcanons. That's why they felt so great.
The adept auto was the single greatest, coolest, funnest, strongest, most OP weapon I ever used. I ran it on everything and only took it off when they ripped it from my cold dead hands
Prison of Elders was amazing, loved it.
Great video
dregs promise is my favourite destiny 1 exotic and you can't change my mind
Ah yes, House of Wolves. The day this dlc launched, my family was on a trip to Ocean City, Maryland, so we had to set our xbox up in a hotel room using an ipad as a source of internet. Crazy stuff.
6:33 yo…. Is this where the Scorn came from?
Houses existed before the Whirlwind
There lore bits about how some houses (I believe House Stone) chose to stay behind and fight for Riis even after the Traveler left
Prison, and especially Challenge, is and will remain my favorite solo player experience in either d1 or 2
I loved HOW, but I'm partial to the fallen anyway.
Opinion as to why you killing the captains stopped them from joining Skolas. Because we showed up, that was the wolves giving the join us pitch meeting and by showing up we showed that they were already in conflict as opposed to planning so it showed the (also because of use) weakened house of devils and house of kings that the attention that wolves already had was to much for them to commit to. you join forces before the war not during it. but thats just my thoughts Id love to hear others
Run on sentence.
We now know that the Fallen have splicers that could travel the Vex network- that sort of retcons the HoW plot
Lol love this, but you and I remember house of wolves verrry differently lol.
My most fondly remembered “era” of destiny was the age of triumph after rise of iron. All raids bumped up to, what was it, 390 light? All had unique armor with effects. And introduced challenge modes. Idk, d1 just felt at its best to me then.
Man I miss those days 😢!
I wish they would go back to this the rewards the way u got them I remember getting ghorn,icebreaker@freaking out and my fireteam friends getting pissed I miss it
i remember the Pirson of Elder almost gave me mine PTSD lol
I love how u have basically 3 what are all now exotics equipped at the same time. I know I know but they are became exotics and thunder lord in D1 just felt right. Going back like this makes me really hate destiny 2. Yeah it might be better but when it was a simpler time it was so big the world just oozed w mystery and hell I used to love doing material farms for hours idk just wish I could go back
I loved the animaniacs reference
Is no one going to talk about the fact that the Prison Of Elder's symbol is the same as the Dungeon symbol.
It’s crazy knowing how many times I played through these missions on different characters doing daily’s and what not and never noticed things like there being 3 different captains from different houses at the end of that mission and that fallen were actually spawning using vex tech, also prison of elders was goated, great vid
I was 9 years old when destiny came out and I thought it was the greatest game ever made. I felt the same about every dlc that came out for the game up until destiny 2. House of Wolves held a special place in my heart. It was the dlc I was most hyped for. I’m not sure why but there was a certain aesthetic about it I just loved. When I first played house of wolves I loved every bit of it, especially Prison of Elders. I also loved all the new armor sets. I was a titan main and their armor was awesome.
Was one of my fav DLCs from D1
Poor Taniks, with no house.
House of Wolves is still my favourite game state ever.
House of Wolves PvP man. It was so good. Everything was overpowered- so EVERYTHING was viable. The Red Death, the only counter to a 2-tapping thorn was my go to. Sure it was annoying to get 2 tapped - but everyone had the possibility of 2 tapping. No insane god roll RNG needed. Get one of the 4 2 tapping weapons and you're set. I will always look fondly on PvP during House of Wolves...
I love how Evan gets off track by looking up what the hell a chicken boo was. Even I had no idea what a chicken boo was until I watched this video.
Even knowing who Chicken Boo is the analogy made no sense
I dont mean to be that person and might be very wrong but I think that valus taarc was the first boss to get nerfed not skolas (his health was so high people would leave to save the time) love the video btw ❤
House of wolves was 1 of my favorites u really had to have communication to get it done
One of the best in my opinion
I started in HoW, so I don't have a reference for how the game was before. But this expansion is what made me fall in love with Destiny
I still haven’t been to the light house wym
Under HoW i had my best Destiny experience!
Of course D1 had it's glaring problems. Remember the final round glitch with thorn? But that's where i fell in love. I remember finally logging in to D2 for the first time. and my horror at how drastically they changed it. Call it rose tinted glasses. But there's a definitive difference in quality between D1 and D2. It doesn't matter how many bells and whistle they tack on. It's a cadaver still being used for medical research.
Ok Evan you did not just say Khepri’s Sting was better than the Ram lol
The Ram is arguably the best exotic in Destiny history
Skolas is the best Fallen villain in all of Destiny. My mind cannot be changed.
The same goes for Oryx and Ghaul for their respective species for example.
None of the newer villains, namely after Forsaken, came quite close.
😂 for those who don't know Chicken Boo was a character from Animaniacs. A chicken that always tried to walk around dressing up to look like a human that fooled others into believing he was. Animaniacs was gold back then
Favorite dlc still!
We need the prison of elders in Destiny 2, it was the best thing in all of Destiny.
i had every triumph and spent 3 months just trying to beat skolas and never did. truly tragic
Go back and do it. It became trivial when TTK dropped because that's when swords, and obviously sword-blocking, were introduced. Blocking with a sword completely negated the debuff mechanic with Skolas. When that time got low, just pull out the sword and block, then go about your business when it drops off.
@@Xn2th3blue i played every destiny year, the issue was it didn’t matter because you can’t finish the year 1 triumph after kings fall released
Remember folks:
Disable those mines or, death!
I had gally with solar burn it was mad easy lol
I miss prison of elders. Wish it would come back in some form.
Bro is playing with TheradBrad…. Hell yea
House of wolves is when i started destiny. Now i cant leave it. Help pls.
I really miss OG Destiny 😩
Does Evan reply to comments?
Honestly me and my friend still miss playing PoE it was just perfect and felt good with the rewards
Anyone know the song at 25:00 ?
I know it’s D1 trials music but I can’t find the soundtrack
All year 1 legendary weapons that had random rolls could be rerolled not just house of wolves weapons.
I loved prison of elders and wish theyd give us a reworked version. (Not the strike lol).
I did injoy solo gliching my way to crota an an i did beat scolas on the third week with the truth 🚀
House Of Wolves is fucking GOATED for no other reason than Dreg’s Promise my beloved ❤