Details about those raid videos. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 14:01 (3780 days ago) @ narcogen

This is one of the only things I really do feel like I've missed out on with Destiny, and it's a reason why I like End of Crota better than the Vault of Glass. Given timezones and whatnot, it's challenging to schedule a full fire team I can get in on. Secondly, I wanted the podcast episodes to be a "first run" for as many people as possible. This was communicated to our regulars, but for one reason or another, it usually ended up that I was the only one left who hadn't already done a raid by the time the scheduled recording day arrived.

To Narc: If you can get a fireteam going for the next raid when it's available if it's plausible at level 32, I would love to do a virgin run. I'm prepared to wait a week or two before doing any research to get that experience to be utterly bewildered. If you're looking for a group of 5 people you can trust to keep themselves insulated for a short time, I'll be in it.

To Cody or anybody else wondering about discovering those raid mechanics: It's remarkable how close those runs WERE to first runs. In Vault, we went in largely blind, and I'd done it once with a PUG, but didn't really know what I was doing. This explains the 7 hour run that took over two days for Vault of Glass. I had to leave for Chicago that night and took my Xbox with me so we could finish, and we did. It was a huge commitment.

I'd soloed a huge portion of Crota's End by that point because I had a friend who was interested, so I understood the things required to get by certain sections, but I did not really understand how they worked. We had never gotten to Crota. It took us hours and hours to get that right. While we were coached, we still had to learn and figure out how it really worked. It was mind numbingly difficult to get done and very frustrating and time consuming.

Compare that to the half hour runs with no wipes we're used to now and it really puts it into perspective. Those runs were basically fresh. I know it doesn't really matter, it's just some background info.