This is not a comprehensive list. It is meant for us all to discuss and add to it. #1. If you load up a raid group, try to finish with that raid group. Needlessly booting weak links can be explained to someone. It can be bluntly told to them. But if a player gets booted due to an error code at the end of the raid and it was there first disconnect? Bring said player back in before going to Destinylfg.com to bring in a brand new player. I recently had a raid group not understand the importance of this and I left the raid group so they could reinvite said player back. It's not right and its definitely not fair for someone to be removed for something outside of their control most of the time. #2. If a player is not performing at a given area, rotate them. Don't tell them to go back to the same area. If they continue performing badly? Explain to them it is nothing personal, but they aren't ready for this raid group. Raiding is about chemistry. Not the callouts, not the dialogue before it, and not about missing 100% of the time. It's about understanding what needs to be done and having a results oriented approach to it. Ten years of raiding taught me that so take the lesson while you can. #3. Do not purposely remove people based on weapon damage or armor class. This most recent Iron Banner, patrolling damage types, and weapon statistics indicate damage in Destiny is about windowed opportunities. Not about having the best guns. Perk skill tree's, weapon statistics and capabilities, ect. are all about giving you a chance to perform well in a raid. As a 31 Crota HM completer, the possibility to complete a raid is built on the precedent of teamwork. Teamwork requires, again, understanding of the roles and subclass disciplines to accomplish. As you may or may not know, there are some 32's in the game which have never completed VoG. Explain to them the complexity. Explain what they must do. Literally stand them, in a spot, and tell them to shoot in a direction. Why? Back to point #2: Windowed opportunities. You work as a team? You might win as one. You don't work as a team? Good luck winning by lone wolf strategy. #4. Work with a strategy in mind, but don't expect everything to go smoothly. As any raider can tell you, picking up on brand new things takes a special kind of mind to do in a single run. IT is difficult to pick up life experience lessons when those traits have not been instilled to a person you don't know. Have a backup strategy. Have a backup, backup, and backup strategy too. If anything else? You'll learn the true lesson of any MMO, raid, ect. game: There's always seven ways to do any given task or accomplishment. #5. Do not make the mistake of labeling a player as bad or terrible. People your entire life will do this for you when you fail or mess up. You don't find success in any such train of thought. You find it by being mentally competitive towards finding solutions to situations. Not accountability. Solutions will get you with a raid completion under your belt. Accountability will leave others going, "Why would I raid with that person again?" Add your own down below.