I am a middle of the road player in terms of hours put in. I no longer have the time to play games for countless hours, but I play enough and am committed enough to learn and teach every raid encounter, to gather every weapon best for each encounter, and to check off all the weeklies every week. I consider myself slightly higher than average in ability and equipment but some may say my ability is better than that. And I enjoy playing some content in groups and others solo.
As I get on these forums and I see a lot of complaints about content, PvE, raids, divinity, sherpas and more. This is an open letter aimed to the new players, the players who don’t think they are good enough to clear a raid, or think they don’t have friends. It’s to hopeful players considering trying a raid but not sure what to do. And to all the people afraid of LFG and the horror stories found in these forums.
Raiding is fun! Or I should say, raiding can be fun. Raiding is fun with your friends or with an LFG group if you and your group communicate, lighten up but take the encounters seriously enough to progress, and if you are sociable. As a Sherpa and avid Raider, I’ll tell you the percentage of us kicking people for not having the right guns is far smaller than the percentage that don’t care. We’ll figure it out.
You’re not going to be able to raid 20 levels below the recommended light usually so level up. Look up good weapons to have and go seek them out. But the biggest two things are this: HAVE A MIC. and BE SOCIABLE.
If you don’t have a mic, or refuse to use one, you simply shouldn’t expect to be completing a raid. And if you are an obnoxious, loud person; if you rage into your mic or get frustrated easily, if you’re pretentious, -blam!- or a downer; and if you can’t tell when to be playful/silly, serious/focused, then raiding will be particularly difficult for you to enjoy.
Most seasoned raiders don’t care that you don’t know the raid (unless our goal for the moment is to get a quick clear because that’s all the time we have that day). We don’t care if you watched a video or what guns you have or what class you use. We don’t care about anything except:
1) do you have a mic, and on that mic are you chill person who can be both fun and focus when necessary?
2) are you listening to instructions and do you communicate clearly?
3) are you nice/pleasant?
So you check all these boxes? Great! One last thing: raiding might not be an activity you enjoy for many reasons and it all just boils down to preference and personality. Some raiders love every raid, some of us dislike some more than others, and some people just don’t enjoy aspects intrinsic of raiding. For instance, if you don’t like mechanic heavy encounters, you won’t like Deep Stone Crypt. If you don’t have DPS and want raiding to be handed to you, you won’t enjoy Kings Fall. You might decide it’s monotonous, repetitive or boring in your opinion. And that’s fine!
Raiding, PVE, PVP, Trials—it shouldn’t be for EVERYONE. I for example don’t particularly enjoy pvp but I don’t say it’s -blam!- so I hate everyone who talks about it. I accept that it’s not what I find fun. And I go do a raid instead. I know I am not good enough at pvp to win trials matches regularly. I don’t ask for trials to get easier or dumbed down. And I discourage people from asking that raids be made easier.
I believe most players even with “low skill” or whatever can be carried through if they do the above things. Will you ever find it easy? Maybe. Will you be able to complete it with five other “low skill” people? No, probably not. And that’s ok! It’s not supposed to be easy.
That being said, I write low skill in quotations because I think it’s pretentious to actually label a player that. We all sucked at raids at some point.
What I don’t want is for you to get in these forums or in game and be discouraged or be dissuaded from trying. Despite what forum crybabies say, there are people who will help. Divinity will be nerfed and that’s Ok because we were clearing raids before divinity and the sherpas will find the best ways to clear raids even after divinity. So the meta changes again. No worries! Raiding will still be fun and you can and will learn; and if you don’t find it fun, that’s ok!
So grab your mic, practice your social cues, and listen. See you in there guardians!
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