We're All Good Friends Here...Are We? (Destiny)

by DEEP_NNN, Sunday, January 07, 2018, 06:17 (2594 days ago) @ Morpheus

Our Raid group/s is made up of old people who've been playing together online since 2005 in Halo 2.

Destiny Raids have been both very wearing and rewarding for our older group. We lost one friend to the front door of the Vault of Glass. That's when we broke into smaller groups and added young people for awhile.

Later in Destiny 1 and feeling more capable, we again formed Raid teams of just old people. Raids took a long time but we thrashed our way through them.

Now raiding in D2 and another few years older, we are thoroughly challenged. While some of us can hold our own in a firefight, few of us can take up the slack from someone else.

Our egos all but disappear during a Raid since each of us is overwhelmed most of the time. Sometimes we have to stop and throw encouraging words to a member whose confidence is fading.

We laugh, yell, scream, cry for attention just like any Raid team. We get cranky and impatient with members who are under performing but in the end, it's almost always because of being overwhelmed.

Future Raids may be pricing themselves out of our reach. Some of us will Raid with younger people but we will never feel quite as fulfilled as when we could do it as a uniquely older group.