Destiny 2 finally lets me cosplay the boss with its new Vow of the Disciple raid

polygon.com:

With its latest raid, Vow of the Disciple, Destiny2: The Witch Queen finally does something that other loot games have been doing for decades: it actually lets me loot the boss’ weapon.

Rhulk, Disciple of The Witness and final boss of The Witch Queen’s raid, is beloved for a lot of reasons (notably, he steps on people, which has spawned a host of debaucherous memes). However, I love Rhulk for the giant glowing glaive that he carries into battle. Because when he dies, he leaves the glaive behind for some lucky players.

I was one of those lucky players during Vow of the Disciple’s opening weekend, when it was still extremely difficult to complete due to Bungie’s Contest Mode modifier. And for the first time in my near-decade playing Destiny, I decided to make a scene. I popped on my new raid gear, displaying Rhulk’s massive weapon on my back as I just stood in the square and flexed. I scrolled through my phone to pass the time, and whenever I’d look back at my monitor, a new Guardian was standing nearby, gawking at the unfamiliar item hanging off of my back. It’s the most shameless I’ve ever been about a Destiny accomplishment, and it made me feel great — I was one of only a few hundred players who could cosplay as the new raid boss.

Destiny has a long history of Guardians turning bosses into guns. In The Taken King’s King’s Fall raid, players used various pieces of the boss to create the Touch of Malice scout rifle. But building something new out of the broken pieces isn’t as exciting as picking up the wholly-intact property of your fallen foe and using it to beat its ass again the following week.

World of Warcraft has understood this thrill since its early years. Illidan Stormrage dropped his warglaives (a different