The main reason why lfg has become even worse is because ppl like me don't play destiny anymore. Now ur stuck with the y3 players. It won't get any better.

Ok, so I am looking at the stats for all three of your characters: [quote]1) After getting spammed with game invites (no text or party invites) while doing my business in the tower, I join two randoms. They're both 375ish and load up the nightfall, great.[/quote] Everyone I see you teamed up with "a few days ago" on Dust Palace was 400 LL. [quote]I stay and decide to help (carry) them through.[/quote] Most of the people you played with did significantly better than you kill wise. [quote]1 guy tries but dies constantly, the other does nothing the entire nightfall. He slowly walks his guy forward so he doesn't get sent back to orbit.[/quote] Most of these other players had a better K/D than you (9.4 k/d on a strike, bro? For shame...) [quote]2) Following that nightfall I decide to go for a fresh VoG run. Despite correctly posting for a fresh run this group invites me to Gorgons maze. Thanks guys![/quote] Yes...your group, but you let them hijack it...well done. But no, you are right: it is better to do something you do not want to do, and then come here and complain. [quote]3)I decide to try and knock out an Oryx checkpoint to get the warlock helm. I join a bunch of randoms.[/quote] So...you chose to join randoms. In a group that probably did not have any "raid requirements" as your wonderful post seems to attempt (poorly) to illustrate the dangers of... Cool. [quote]You know where this is going.[/quote] You complaining about the choices you actively made? Yeah, I get the sense that is exactly where we are going. [quote]3 ppl demand to run middle and refuse to take a plate, the other 2 demand we don't use the "counter clockwise" strat because it's to confusing. This leaves me as runner on my warlock... fine I'll run, no problem. We try about 4 times and literally never get all three people on their plates, unreal if you ask me. I quit.[/quote] So, a lack of leadership, mixed with no real cohesive cooperation were your downfall. On a raid that the others have obviously done to an extent to get to where they were...i.e. [b]not new players[/b]. Cool. This does absolutely nothing for your argument considering these players knew the strats and just decided not to use them and thus were not "new", but still, cool I guess... [quote]2+ hours with nothing accomplished.[/quote] Didn't you do a Nightfall? [quote]This is why we have LFG requirements.[/quote] So let me get this straight: You claimed to help "low light guardians", although everyone you played with was if not 400 well above 390, posted a VoG fresh run which you allowed to get taken over by others, and joined a Oyrx CP where obviously no real cooperation was taking place, and all 3 of those wonderful incidents are your absolute evidence as to why some asshat in the LFG section can say something to the extent of: [i]Need Swordbearer for Crota Must be 400 LL Must have Gally with 5k confirmed kills Must have 100+ confirmed raid completions Must have All Hard Mode emblems[/i] Yeah bro, your day fully proves that LFG needs raid requirements...smh...

I never had to use LFG and I must say you guys are not selling it! I wonder though, why is it that anyone relies on LFG for regular raiding? I get it if you just want to get it done once to cross it off the bucket list, but if your plan is to grind all four raids till you get all the loot, why not at least try to build a regular raid team? It takes a bit of time and involvement, but that's what I did and it was the most rewarding thing I've done in Destiny.

Yeah that's why as soon as I got a regular group to run with, despite them all being very "special" people, I've barely run with randoms. Though I've done it a few times if I'm really bored and the times I have they tend to try and keep getting me back because I know what I'm doing.

For the 1000th time people, we can see your recent games, in fact, we can see everything, what you have played and who you have played with. So please stop these fake stories.

Fake, lies, bullshit, did I mention lies?

And your post is the reason we have stat tracking. 1) lowest kills in night falls. Good job carrying there. 2) You somehow got 100+ kills in 45 minutes of standing at a wall waiting for your team to do the Gorgon challenge. Not to mention only 6 total people joined that raid. Pretty weird for a team you joined at Gorgons after they've spent hours failing it. 3) Cant disprove your Oryx fail, but since you lied about the first two I'll assume your ass got kicked for being too bad and you angrily decided to make up this story here.

As previously stated, your story is full of holes and your own doing. But the much more clear, concise and true facts for why LFG posts have requirements are: 1) People are jaded at this point in the game. Myself included. I don't want to spend hours trying to do a raid encounter because someone hasn't done it before and doesn't know what they're doing. 2) There is no excuse for not knowing how to do an encounter. YouTube is your friend. A max 20 minute video will show you EVERYTHING you need to know about how to do an encounter and how to do it well. 3) Hardly anyone plays this damn game anymore, so when you actually manage to find a group for a raid, you're praying that people have half a clue. The worst is when someone claims to fit the criteria and blatantly doesn't. That's where tangible requirements like "All raid emblems" come into play.

I think requirements are fine; it's just when the context is negative, douche baggy, or over the top (must prove with emblem, etc.). One of my pet peeves is when someone takes an LFG spot but then takes forever to actually join. I don't mind helping someone out but don't make me sit and wait while you finish something up. Complete what you are doing then go find an LFG to join. I rarely don't accept a team, unless it is a slow joiner and they get kicked. Willing to give something a couple of runs before reassessing.

Can't wait for someone to come in and justify why LFG requirements are stupid and how bad players will never experience end game because they're trash. I don't think people understand that if you're unable to learn mechanics or fight during a certain event, you don't deserve rewards, and you're damn lucky if someone is nice and patient enough to do it all for you.

I asked show emblems and check his completions. He checks mine and says nothing.