To me it's pretty obvious there was some last minute rearranging.
There was probably a raid with skolas as the boss.
PoE probably had a rotating cast as the final bosses to keep things fresh and replayable.
Reasons why I think this
1. If the skolas fight in PoE had always been that way it never would have made it out of the beta!! The burns made this fight near impossible mechanics wise so players burned skolas down with concentrated sniper and rocket fire. However take his original 270,000 hp with 6 guardians in a raid with no burns and it makes more sense.
2. PoE is already boring!! The armour and weapons you get from it suck! The lack of cps is short sighted and stupid. BUT if there had been a raid pve players wod have had something else to focus on and replay and poe would be a side activity which is really where it belongs.
3 treasure keys farming obviously not well thought out can you imagine farming these if we hadn't found the glitch to get each chest multiple times?? NO
4 have you noticed trials gives true endgame rewards while poe dosent??
5 to get the maximum rewards from crota or atheon you just had to play hard mode and you were done for the week on each character so well assume an average run taking about 50 minutes (45 for ce 60 for vog depending on group skill/cohesion) now to get the maximum rewards from poe you have to grind your ass off!! 32 takes about 20-40 minutes 34 takes about 20-40 minutes and now 35 can eat up hours at a time!! Not to mention to get the most rewards you have to do the aforementioned key farming!!
The way I see It there was going to be a raid to be the main focus of pve and PoE was going to be a side attraction, but when bungie saw their preorder numbers swell as a result of a "leaked" picture promising a raid with HoW they decided to pull that content and sell it again later.
Thanks for teaching me a lesson I'm never ever preordering a damn game again!!
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And if you read all the leaked info, you would see that nothing was pulled from House Of Wolves. The raid from HOW was ALWAYS Prison Of Elders. POE was originally called "Reef Raid" and then "The Arena" in leaked or datamined info. What they changed was they decided to stop referring to it as a Raid, and started calling it something more honest.
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Then why did they say they pulled a raid due to how tdb was received?? [quote]House of Wolves will not have a Raid activity. We didn't make this decision lightly. Our team has been humbled by the reception of Raids in Destiny and we are creating a new Raid for a release later this year.[/quote] Aka bullshit were cutting content again