I've been around the forum for months now and have been helping people with raids on a weekly basis. But WOW! i never realised that people still act douchey towards new raider! I think this is where all the initial Raid experience/opinion of the player comes from, have a bad experience and the player will be put off but the activity and not want to come back. I was very fortunate to how found a couple of great raider back in november who help me and a friend through our first VoG ever. That's the experience that has stuck with me and i can.t raid enough, they weren't the kind of people to "do everything and move along" type but rather explained in detail every stage of the raid and we did it in 1hr40 min back then, some of the advice given to us then is still practiced today and works wonders. A couple of things i would advise you though (I don't know your age and i don't mean to offend anyone but that's how it is unfortunately) 1) AVOID the squeakers, my god they are annoying! Imagine yourself as the swordbearer on Crota HM and you have a high pitched voice piercing your ear drum tell you how many hits and how to swings that sword, lets not forget that i have around 50 completion, so i am full aware of how to run the sword, and he has about 3. All i ask is that if you are not swordbearing, be a quiet ledge monkey and listen to the swordbearer's request for rockets 2) Try and be part of the same fireteam that runs raids every week, my fireteam consist of 4 so every week we will either invite 2 other friend of we will find new/inexperienced players from the forum and help them through. An example was when we helped a partially deaf person through raids (VoG NM and HM, Crota NM and HM too). Like you she felt victimised because she had no experience, but then how could she have experience when everyone kept kickinig her out just because of a disability. Needless to say that her faith in humanity has been restored and we will keep helping her until she is fully happy with the raid.