Raid Matchmaking in Des2ny (Destiny)

by slycrel , Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 20:48 (2954 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I used to think it was ridiculous.

Then in August I played a matchmade 40 person raid group in World of Warcraft. I believe you can also run the raids as a 10 person group.

You had people sign up as tanks and healers, then everyone else was "DPS". A raid leader is chosen (when you sign up you can specify if you're willing to do that or not, I assume someone has to be willing for a raid to form). I didn't even use voice chat, just text chat for a little explanation beforehand and then away we went.

I think people were a little over-geared because it was nearing the end of an expansion. It really wasn't a huge issue. Similar feel to a 5 person matchmade dungeon, with more people randomly dying. heh.

I expect that a well-tuned raid could be matchmade similar to the heroic strike playlist. Look at that playlist, it may as well be a Y1 nightfall for the modifiers and how it works. It doesn't kick to orbit if you wipe, but is the same otherwise, and a pickup group is normal for that.

So yeah, I think it's totally doable. I'm not sure I'd -like- it, the way that raids would work. But we kind of have the community dictating strategies anyway, this would just iterate on them faster. And foster random voice communication.

If they do matchmake it, I hope that they reserve some things for fireteam only. Maybe some challenges or hard mode or somesuch. because it definitely is a better experience. But it's also content that much of the playerbase won't see to completion.