Team Kermit's Blind raid needs your help. *SP* (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Monday, September 28, 2015, 21:35 (3439 days ago) @ Kermit

I still think there's one piece of that puzzle missing that will either unlock some kind of secret, or just make the encounter doable with less than 5 people.

That would be really amazing.

Seriously, though, thanks for last night! You handled it incredibly well. As much as I love helping folks out to accomplish things, I'm not sure I could participate in that encounter and watch five others stumble around for hours like you did. You were great!

I want to apologize to you, cheapLEY. I'm pretty sure you suggested we're missing something with the adds, and I started pontificating based on my narrow vision as the add guy (and even misremembered knights!).

Hey, it's all good. I trusted you, and agreed with you from what my limited perspective offered as well. Whatever we were doing made the adds seem basically constant, so we missed it.

Disciple deftly steered us in the direction of discovering the secret without giving away the secret.

Again, Disciple was absolutely perfect. His experience with a fill-in sound absolutely awful. I probably wouldn't react well in that situation had I been put into it, to the point of probably just dropping out if he wouldn't stop after a few warnings about it.

It's easy to just start fighting and not be methodical. Ideally, we

• identify the elements--enemies, buffs, debuffs, etc.
  
• experiment to identify their characteristics--when do they start and stop. How do they affect each other.
  
• Formulate a strategy.
  
• Iterate and adjust

I think we were doing a good job of discovering mechanics, buffs, and stuff like that. We just missed that one. We had some good strategies going based on what we knew, but without that key piece of information, it would have been total brute force to get through, and I don't know about you guys, but I'm definitely not skilled enough to execute like that.

Disciple reminded all of us that it's worthwhile just to focus on a few of these at a time.

Another observation I got from watching streams of ourselves and others. Sometimes it's easy to jump in without really noticing or remembering what the stated objective is on the screen.

I still haven't really checked out much of my stream, other than just a few minutes scrolling through. I might watch some of that later tonight before bed if I have a chance. I'm bummed it doesn't have our chatter after the first night, just my dumb voice with no one else.

Thanks for playing with us, Disciple.

Yes, absolutely!