I agree.

For me, the heart of Destiny is the cooperative mode. I rank activities based on how many people I can play with.

Crucible is the exception. I always do better on my own, sadly.

I'd say I have about the same level of success in those scenarios. I don't know if I ALWAYS wipe with randos, but it's frequent enough to seem that way.

Count me in any time you're running those. It's my favorite D2 activity, and as it happens, I'm looking for the prophecy tablet item the strikes award anyway.

That also has been my experience.

Needs to be more strikes soon though. There just aren't enough of them and all too often I get the same one 3 times in a row.

When I'm running with randoms (and we're not talking) though, we almost always wipe once.

Blueberries require me (as I am usually queueing Solo anymore due to shifting to PC with the Titan shoulder charge nerf not impacting PC as harshly) to avoid playing the actual objectives and spend more of my time babysitting them. I found that I actually stopped having wipes once I realized that I am better off playing enemy wrangler than trying to take objectives.

The Pyramidion has the boss I run into the most wipes on. And Savathun's Song has the most mid-strike wipes. But once I started staying out of the thick of it (or spending my time actually taking down enemies instead of speed running which is the popular community choice, apparently) and instead providing cover and area control? Well, I'll just say now I only wipe when I am being spiteful and do it on purpose either to bring people forward to buy more time to complete a challange I was close to that the blueberries were actively impeding my ability to complete.

UpNorth and I ran it 20 times over the weekend. Why would we do this? Well, it started out with it being our favorite Nightfall due to the positive perk of recharging abilities. Hunters, with smoke, are particularly fun because they can go invisible very easily. Also, the Raiden Flux chest piece turns arc striders into the highest DPSers available. There's a couple places where you need to clear enemies (good for arc striders) but most of the strike can be stealthily bypassed by standing on plates and running around enemies (good for night stalkers). It was a fun challenge to see how quickly we could do it. Eventually we just started inviting people on our friend's list. Many people got Rat's King this weekend. Also, lots of people wanted to do it multiple times because of the faction ornaments at stake. With practice our best time was 10:53, which means we had over 50% of the clock left.

Thanks for helping us chase our dumb goals DBO. I had a ridiculous amount of fun this weekend.

It also gave me this clip in which I murder UpNorth. It was me Claude, not you. :-)

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Robot%20Chickens/video/42798029

I really, really like the Strikes in D2. I think they're fantastic.

Honestly, I'd love to see a version of the game that focused on them more. While some complained about the way they were implemented in Curse of Osiris (myself included), I think if the game at large was constructed that way, it might be better off for it.

Imagine a version of Destiny where most mainline story missions are Strikes, and what we have as story missons now are just more Adventures thrown about the map.

I wish the strikes where integrated better, given more context than just jumping into a playlist, and I wish there were a whole lot more of them. I always have fun when I play them, be it with randos or with friends.