A current raid roster for the Monument-era sandbox: what each raid teaches, which one to learn first, where the exotic chase lives, and which legacy raids are still playable versus vaulted. Each raid here gets its own deep-dive page; this is the hub that routes you to it. Raids are six-player, non-matchmade, communication-heavy — bring planned roles and shared callouts.
Raid pages rot in five predictable places. Before you copy a strategy, check the claims that age fastest: which raids are even launchable, what the loot does now, which weapons the DPS lists name, whether a cheese still works, and whether the guide quietly assumes a full six-stack you do not have.
Five entries here can't be launched today. On 2026-09-21 Bungie said it is working to bring vaulted raids back, with no dates yet — check the Director before planning a legacy run.
Update 9.7.0 moved legacy raids into the tiered economy. "Exclusive" labels from old articles can be wrong. Trust the live reward preview.
Weapon picks expire faster than mechanics. Bring one boss-damage job, one add-clear engine, one survival loop — swap the names, keep the jobs.
Riven-style skips, damage glitches, and timer cheats can vanish in a hotfix. Learn the legit clear first; treat every shortcut as disposable — the mechanics are what carry over.
Many guides assume a full, coordinated team. If you are LFG or short-handed, prioritize raids with clear role labels and forgiving recovery.
Vault of Glass and Deep Stone Crypt teach raid language with clean, reusable roles.
Root of Nightmares is the gentlest mechanics raid — just teach full-team roles, not two carries.
Vow of the Disciple and Last Wish drill shared-name discipline under pressure.
Salvation's Edge and The Desert Perpetual are advanced; learn the basics first.
Use this as a pre-run scout. Current raids are ordered by the beginner-friendly learning order — Vault of Glass, Deep Stone Crypt, and Root of Nightmares first; Salvation's Edge and The Desert Perpetual last. The five legacy entries below are grouped separately because they are vaulted raids and raid lairs.
Pick by what you actually want out of the night. Every raid name links to its full deep-dive guide.
| I want to... | Run | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Run my first raid ever | Vault of Glass, Deep Stone Crypt | Classic raid grammar (plates, oracles, relics) and clean role buffs with forgiving recovery. |
| Learn callouts the gentle way | Root of Nightmares, Deep Stone Crypt | The easiest mechanics to teach a full team without symbol overload — just resist the "two carries" trap. |
| Practice symbols & coordination | Vow of the Disciple, Last Wish | Dense symbol languages force real callout hygiene: pick names first, call position before description. |
| Take on an endgame capstone | Salvation's Edge, The Desert Perpetual | The hardest current raids. Learn the basics elsewhere first; Desert Perpetual also splits Normal vs Epic. |
| Chase a specific exotic | Vault (Vex Mythoclast), DSC (Eyes of Tomorrow), Root (Conditional Finality), King's Fall (Touch of Malice), Crota's End (Necrochasm), Garden (Divinity), Vow (Collective Obligation), Last Wish (One Thousand Voices), Salvation's Edge (Euphony) | Each headline exotic lives in one raid (The Desert Perpetual has its own as well). Leviathan, Eater of Worlds, and Spire of Stars have no raid exotic; Crown of Sorrow's was Tarrabah, now on the Monument to Lost Lights. |
| Run raid history (legacy) | Leviathan, Eater, Spire, Scourge, Crown | Retrospectives only — these are vaulted raids and raid lairs and cannot be launched unless Bungie reprises them. |
Raids keep remixing the same handful of ideas. Learn the pattern once and most encounters become "this is a symbol-match plus buff-swap," not a wall of new rules. The motifs page is the field manual for that vocabulary — symbols, plates, relics, buffs, dunks, split spaces, timers, and DPS gates — with examples from across the raid and dungeon rosters.
Five verbs cover most of it: Read (identify hidden info), Runner (carry something under pressure), Dunk (deposit it), Cleanse (clear a bad state or unlock a target), and Swap (trade roles, buffs, or positions before a timer wipes you).
Monument of Triumph changed the value math for old raids. The encounter mechanics did not all become new, but the reward model did.
Bungie's Update 9.7.0 moved legacy raids and dungeons into the tiered / featured reward economy. Two raids are featured each week. Featured: Standard encounters and challenges drop Deepsight weapons or Tier 5 armor, hidden chests drop Tier 5 armor on a weekly lockout, and Master adds Adept weapons from challenges. Not featured: Standard gives a chance at Deepsight weapons and Tier 3 armor; Master and challenges still give Deepsight weapons and Tier 5 armor. Feats raise the reward grade (Grade 0: Tier 3; 1: Tier 3+4; 2: Tier 4+5; 3: two Tier 5; 4: Tier 4 + two Tier 5; 5: three Tier 5; Cutthroat Combatants +4, Challenges +3, Shocktroopers +2, Token Limit and Phase Limit +1). Standard mode earns the weekly tiered reward without Feats.
Adversarial rule: never farm an old raid from an old loot article alone. Check the Director, the in-game reward preview, and a current loot table first.
The core raid verbs are stable: symbols, plates, relics, buffs, dunks, splits, timers, DPS gates. Exact DPS picks and god rolls are not. Bring archetype jobs, not a frozen loadout.
Default loadout: one boss-damage plan, one add-clear engine, one survival tool. Swap the names season by season; keep the three jobs filled.
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