Throttle the loot, of course, but please make explore mode raids a thing. Only low stat armor, weapons cannot drop with deep sight or have resonators used on them, and of course the exotic and adepts cannot drop. But even that level of challenge and loot would be a Godsend for so many players who can't experience raids for whatever reason.
I personally don't need an explore mode to earn raid loot, but a matchmade explore mode would make raiding a lot more palatable for a lot people who don't have many friends, have a hard time with more difficult challenges, or don't want to run difficult raids when they're subject to bad rng and only want a single item. Accessibility gets a huge boost, while the actually good loot that top players want is still exclusive to master mode, or just normal mode if you only want the crafted versions.
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I think explore mode is a bad idea for raids. Raids are *intended* to be played with other people- the community certainly has enough experienced ppl who teach. There’s specific ways that things are done, certain call-outs that need to be learned, and your life sometimes depends on a teammate’s actions. A person isnt gonna learn any of that while wandering around solo in explore mode… if the end goal is to eventually play the activity with 5 other ppl, then why not just learn from other ppl in the first place? I’m afraid that explore mode is actually gonna create bad habits, like not knowing what “shared fate” is, or more ppl joining teams & not use mics, or replying to “experience requested” posts when they’ve only done explore mode.