+1 (Destiny)

by Pyromancy , discovering fire every week, Friday, September 29, 2017, 02:37 (2452 days ago) @ Chappy

How can someone who is truly blind decide that they can write the official unofficial strategy guide for idiots after only 1 or 2 runs through the raid?

Running the raid blind and figuring out how all the mechanics fit together isn't just fun (it is), but it means that you have a much more detailed understanding of what needs to be be done and the consequences of every action. You know what works, what doesn't work, and how things interact and progress. Spend a few hours banging your collective heads against a challenge and you REALLY get to know that challenge. I'd posit that the best guides are written by those who ran it blind, rather than someone that started with a youtube video or someone else's written description.

Note that while the mechanics are static (barring challenges), strategies do evolve over time. When I did King's Fall Golgoroth for the first time, my group hit every orb and did damage from every pool for our first few runs - it was only later that we came across and adopted the single pool strategy. There's already some debate over two different approaches to one of this raid's encounters. I'd be curious to know how your blind team solves that one :)

-Chappy

Hmmm, this raid does seem somewhat more straightforward than some of the others in the past.

Ah, maybe I came up with the questions in the first place because I started taking raids much more seriously in D1 once the completion nodes in books were added, and Hard mode and Challenges were emphasized. Strategies had to be ironed out or revised.

I agree with you on all accounts. (unsure why things had to be defined)
I'll go further. I'd posit that the best guides (people) compose their strategy after they have tried other methods and completed more than 2 runs? (direct this back to my realization that this raid is more straightforward than some others?)

I've been wondering for a long time about how and at what point a strategy for a raid becomes "The Strategy".

[learning->mastery rhetorical] At what point does someone who truly went in blind become completely un-blind and able to know that they have their best method discovered plus transmit that knowledge to others?

The proliferation of raid related data and strategies amongst the community(ies) fascinates me. It gives me this mental image of tree roots or dendrite cells. It really does intrigue me.

Imagine that some of the first "raids" may have been 'prehistoric' hunting parties. Important information, maybe even strategy, was possibly carved or drawn onto cave walls for others to see.