Solo Root of Nightmares - Full Raid [Destiny 2]

Destiny 2 Lightfall - Solo Root of Nightmares Raid Full Completion / Solo All Root of Nightmares Raid Encounters / Solo RoN Full Raid / Solo Destiny 2 Full Raid. This is a compilation video showing the entire Root of Nightmares raid being finished completely solo from the beginning to end. Details and timestamps are below.

Loadouts at the completion of each encounter. Please visit the links for any appropriate credits or further details on the encounters.

00:00 - Load-In & Solo Survive the Onslaught / Cataclysm Encounter
   • Solo Survive the Onslaught / Cataclys...  
This encounter sets up the raid decently well, and is a very straight forward encounter. A good entry point for getting into raid solos.

07:29- Encounter 1 & 2 Transition

10:20 - Solo Enter the Root / Scission Encounter
   • Solo Enter the Root / Scission Encoun...  
Probably the easiest encounter in the raid, but it can be annoying with sword tracking at times. Outside of that, it's a very simple connect the dots memory game.

21:28 - Encounter 2 & 3 Transition

26:19 - Solo Zo'Aurc, Explicator of Planets
   • Solo Zo'Aurc, Explicator of Planets -...  
This was the least fun I've had doing any solo encounter in a long time. It's not hugely difficult, but some challenges just don't feel rewarding to complete, nor fun to do. This was the epitome of that to me.

41:00 - Encounter 3 & 4 Transition

46:27 - Solo Nezarec, Final God of Pain
   • Solo Nezarec, Final God of Pain - Roo...  
Unfortunately, it's another encounter that just ultimately wasn't very fun to complete. It is one you can get very consistently after a bit of practice. But other than it feeling annoying being constantly slowed, booped up and chased around, it's a pretty straight forward fight.

With the encounter details out of the way, here's the answers to the most common questions:

1. Why post this when Solo Flawless is possible?
I just like to have a compilation of all of the raid solo clears, including my first clears, regardless of what else is possible. I also never planned on doing the Solo Flawless this season, which leads into the next question.

2. When Solo Flawless Root of Nightmares?
As I mentioned above, I didn't have any plans to do it this season. As it may already be evident, I'm just extremely burned out from Destiny 2 right now, and I didn't enjoy this raid at all. I've been doing challenges in Destiny for over 7 years now, pretty much non-stop, and it catches up with you. At the start of WQ I felt similar, but that time I had Elden Ring to break things up a little bit, so it wasn't as bad. Lightfall came, and after all of the grinding it caught up with me. So the idea of having to spend any more time doing challenges in this raid right now doesn't seem appealing.

3. Why leave it until so late in the season?
Content-scheduling wise, it doesn't make much sense for me to do these challenges earlier in the season when there's other things to post. I usually leave them until later in the season, as it fills in the gaps when there's nothing else and the game is slowing down. I've also never been one to care about WF or anything like that, my only goal has always been to do what is possible and be consistent with it.

As for my thoughts on the raid being possible to solo: I'm personally not a huge fan of it, but ultimately I'm not too fussed. While I do like the fact you can do solo raid challenges (especially as the identity of the channel), I don't think it should be possible by simply having one person being able to do all of the mechanics and meeting the damage checks. But sometimes maybe a simple raid is nice to have.

For the raid itself, aesthetically they've done extremely well. Gameplay-wise, it felt absolutely awful to me. This was the least enjoyable raid I've done. I'm not sure if that's just due to me being burned out, but I just felt bored and uncomfortable while playing this whole raid (for lack of a better description). That's probably not a reflection of the current state of the game either, just my own feelings. The core gameplay is fine, I'm just finding myself bored by solo challenges recently.

All of that just sounds really negative, and that's not my intention - so I apologise. And to be clear, of course I have no plans to quit or stop, and I will continue to do every single individual raid solo that's possible, as I always have. I'll also revisit the Solo Flawless RoN at a future date too, assuming it's still possible. But right now, I want to take it easy until the new season, and I'm giving myself a bit of a breather to enjoy other games during the next few months too.

Going forward, there's a few big games I'm interested in covering on the channel and playing this year. Remnant 2 being the biggest of those, which I can't wait for. Lies of P I'm also interested in seeing, and hopefully finding some time for Wo Long.

Anyway, thanks for reading the novel to those that did, apologies for the more negative tone, but hopefully the new season ends up being a good one.