they actually made most of the raid easier - it took me 1 hour with a group who has either only done the raid twice or not at all - it was me and 1 other veteran running it with them - we got to aetheon and the only "difficult" part about it was not everyone knows the roles in the portal - its not harder lol not in the least bit - find better people to run with - i'll be finishing aetheon real quick today and then busting through hard mode like everyone other week - stop crying