As far as finding a raid party goes. Just tell them you've done it before Then mute your mic as you watch YouTube videos. Fake it till you make it.

I don't think my comment needs any introduction, because I'm sure you knew this was coming. [b]Here we go:[/b] 1: [quote]You purposefully neglect to add matchmaking for endgame activities, and no one in your community is willing to help. [/quote] Matchmaking in Destiny has always been a big gripe for the community. It's hard to skill-matchmake for a loot game when there are a lot of RNG factors involved, on top of communication issues. Despite what people may think, at some point there is a margin where players who don't talk vs those who do, will lose. This goes for both PvE and PvP activities, but is mainly focused on PvP matchmaking. Mechanics can get you so far, and sometimes you need a team who can play with you rather than compete against you. But mechanics are a big part, so the majority of players won't see that margin unless they watch streamers or play really well. On the PvE side, it's gotten to the point of no return for Nightfalls, Raids, etc... Bungie have indirectly and directly acknowledged their lack of desire to implement matchmaking for endgame. If players want to find others, LFG's exist and Bungie will hear no more of the matter, apparently. Sucks IMO, but it is what it is. 2: [quote]my post with be met with a chorus of “Bye Felicias” and “See you at Resets” and “Git Guds” that betray the toxicity of your community. People here will relish my purported “tears” rather than looking introspectively at their own toxic, awful, and utterly unhelpful behavior.[/quote] If you're looking on the forums for a non-toxic/helpful environment, you're gonna have a hard time finding it. People here are coming from the game to express their discontent, and they'll find ways to divert it to others like yourself. If you make a post that does not contain aggressive criticism toward Bungie, and say "I'm leaving" you're gonna get bashed. It's what I've noticed since I started on the forums a few months back. 3: [quote]Your community doesn’t care. You don’t care. You are perfectly happy with virtually no one enjoying the content you claim is the best in the game. This never happened in D1.[/quote] Yes it did. You, like many other people, had a unique experience. As long as the Destiny franchise has existed, people find ways to exclude others. D1 was less team-focused, so endgame activities were feasibly completed by a smaller team, allowing for easier carries and clutches. D2 throws that in the garbage can, so if you're worse than your teammates by a noticeable margin, it'll show and you'll get discarded quickly. This creates the elitist attitude you see frequently. There are even elitists among the elitists, if you can picture that. I had [b]five[/b] different raid groups all relate to having raided with one exceptional player who was also exceptionally aggressive, and tolerated nothing short of perfection from teammates. 4: [quote]Your fans don’t help because of the way you’ve designed the game. There is zero incentive for your players to help others complete the raid. What’s more, they choose not to help because it serves to exclude those who haven’t completed the raid. They have tied their identity and self worth to having completed the raid, so they don’t help. Your stupid fans are happy about this state of affairs because they somehow conflate “hardcore” and “grinding” and “gamer” with making the endgame content nigh inaccessible. You have to “earn” random rewards in order to “earn” the right to access a service you paid for.[/quote] [i]This is what really irks me[/i]. You claim to know the mindset of thousands of different people because of you've spent a some time getting upset at a select group of other players behavior, and then go on a forum to insult people because now you're mad. That's hypocrisy if I've ever seen it. I don't owe you anything, and neither does Bungie. I paid my $60 for the same game with mechanics that have existed all the way back in D1. You didn't get a reward for helping people then, and you still don't now. I still did though. But not everyone want to spend too much time, and [b]raids take really -blam!-ing long when your team doesn't know what they're doing[/b]. [u]People still don't watch guide videos beforehand, they still don't gear-up, they still don't ask questions when they don't understand something[/u]. It's really -blam!-ing frustrating to hear "you're toxic" after a 5-6 hour attempt repeating the same thing over and over again and leaving. So you grow thick skin and stop being so tolerant. 50 tries turns to 5, 5 hours turns to 50 minutes, and "experience" turns to completions. You know what you paid for, because it's the same thing with a new coat of paint every damn DLC. You grind for gear for a few weeks, practice with it and get comfortable, then take on the harder content for better stuff. Don't accuse me or anyone else of being uncaring when I have an assortment of players who are not skilled enough at gameplay or mechanics lining up to call me a prick because I want people who are at my skill tier to play with. I went into raids with full assortment of knowledge beyond even what those with completions had, both in D1 and D2. If I had to have someone teach me too many mechanics in the raid, I wasn't doing a raid. I was learning from a guide that was readily available to me, or teaching myself and others like I did on day 1 of The Whisper. Now while the better half of this is me berating you for your opinions, I do hope that you bother to read this at all. This may not be the game for you, and that's understandable. But it's unfair to resort to ad hominem attacks because of it.

I do agree about the community. Having come from warframe on pc where text chat is very active, even in just strike activities, to destiny 2 where no one chats at all since I started playing forsaken when it released, even clan chat is pretty much non existent. For a game that is all about it’s community Destiny is very lacking in this department. There are obviously good people here but unfortunately it’s the bad ones that are vocal. It’s a bit like being in a big city, you’re surrounded by people but feel so alone. (Heavy I know)

I have to agree with what you’ve said. I will say not the entire community is toxic. There are certain people who live on these forums always being toxic and providing 0 constructive feedback. The list of known issues is a game from a AAA developer is just unacceptable in my opinion. With the pages of issues and the excessive time to address issues they should be some low level indie game developer. Pvp in this game is complete trash. There is very little skill used a large chuck of players run around with point and shoot. For a game that wants so much Pvp involved it should be standard to have dedicated servers but Bungie is greedy. The rewards and gambling with your time leaves people with bad RNG feeling burnt out and unmotivated after a period of time due to receiving little to no rewards for their investment. I could go on and on with the issues. I’m still playing since I have the annual pass to get my $ worth. I will mostly only do things I enjoy in the game. As for clans I am an admin it’s difficult to be helping everyone because most of fireteam limits and playing the game with friends. If I helped everyone I wouldn’t get my own stuff done. When joining a clan those new members also need to reach out and communicate with other members. Set up times to do activities. I see people join our clan and leave a few hours later because people didn’t drop what they were doing to help instantly. People have to at least have some patience and put forth effort themselves. I can guarantee this I will never purchase another product from Bungie after this annual pass is over since I own it. There will be a zero Bungie tolerance in my household because they burnt their bridges with D1 and D2. All out of chances.

Dude, you didn't even scratch the service on what's wrong with this entire game and not even I can come close to explaining what's actually wrong and I'm good at it lol. Yeah, yeah I know. " I'm a troll" but you guys that say that make it way too easy lol. This is what you get when a stupid "community summit" is formed with a bunch of sellouts. Not hard to get streamers to be puppets when Activision showers them with gifts. The company doesn't even put the effort into creating updates to fix the overwhelming issues in the game and if they change something it takes an entire year or more so they can use it as bait to sell the next big thing. I can't believe how barebone the loot system is in this entire game 4 years later especially when it comes to the vendors. 14 months into the game people and when you look at D1 inventory for the vendors it's like they were robbed in D2, selling what's left before they go out of business. [spoiler]The number of things rigged in this game with cheap mechanics that Gambit alone has a huge list and that is just one event. The lag in this entire game Clans are a joke, they are only good for power engrams knowing most clans just invite you and you never hear from them again. Guided games is a joke. They still refuse to add optional matchmaking to Nightfall even though that said they attempted to add it in D1 but never heard anything about it again. Majority of the bounties in this game is for nothing but material as if there isn't enough of it as it is that I'm like, umm, where is the loot? PvP is a mess and the nerfing Bungie said they wouldn't be doing is starting up. Matchmaking for PvP? LMFAO, need I say more?[/spoiler] The only thing keeping me playing this game at this point is to level up my Guardians, and to check out the new raid. As far as incentive goes Bungie literally killed that in D2. This is supposed to be a loot and shoot and it's half of what it should be 4 years later into the game. Bungie had 3 years to work on this and they are not even close to where the game should be that it's turned into a get me by with little effort or no real effort at all creating decent content. The only thing this game has going for it at this point is dreaming city and that will only last so long without a decent loot system to give games something to chase other than a waste of time grinding for bounties.

According to my PSN, around only 12% of all registered D2 owners have completed the Forsaken campaign on PS4. I'd wager a small fraction of those players actually raid. And an even smaller fraction of those players are people willing to raid with anyone. PlayStation usually has higher playerbase than other systems. So Xbox and PC may be lower, I can't really say. The endgame is only for the hardcore and elite only. It's no wonder why it's hard to raid when nobody is buying expansion lol. That being said. You just gotta learn to make friends, man. Friendgame is endgame in the Destiny Franchise.

Let’s also mention that all the new supers that where advertised as part of the Forsaken DLC. Hey guys we got 9 new supers coming in the DLC but we aren’t going to tell you that you only get to choose one at first. And when you want to get the other two there will be absolutely nothing in the game clearly outlining what needs to be done in order to get them. And should you find out what needs to be done it will be locked behind an activity that requires a fireteam to do oh and to make things even more awesome for you guys we will make the drop for your new super complete RNG. Hey you did 4 top tier Blind Well along with making it heroic aww shucks to bad well maybe next time. I literally did 3 Tier 1, 8 tier 2 & about 4 Tier 3 Blind Well events before it dropped. I get it these things should be earned but instead of locking it behind secrecy like how you did with the XP throttling that you got caught doing just be upfront with it. The fact that they are locked behind RNG on some baked Court Of Oryx event should show you EXACTLY how lazy the greedy ***holes at Bungie really are. This game has gone downhill. Hey thanks for all the hundreds of dollars you guys spent on our games over the years to pay you back we will give you bounties to get bright dust just to show you how generous we here at Bungie can be.

Bye Feleicia. See you next week after you git gud. :P Damn, now hat I have that off my chest... Your complaint lies with the community itself. If I were capable, I'd be more than willing to spend the time to help you in the Raid. That's the type of thing I enjoy if I am capable of doing so. If you were to look at how many Raid completions I have, you'd understand that we are in the same boat though. If you think you are being met with toxic players while trying to get into the Raid... I would be willing to bet the toxicity level would go up a thousand percent if they actually attempted matchmaking for the Raid. As much as I would like to run it, no way would I attempt it with a bunch of randoms through mm. That is just asking for a bad time. Now... I am on an extended business trip and my internet is pretty crappy. I will be back home a few days prior to Christmas though. At that point, I will be around for a month or so. I have a guy I play with pretty regularly who has yet to attempt a Raid run. I would be more than happy to try and get something set up at some point. My knowledge of the Raid is only from 4 screens set up in my living room to watch the entirety of the first completed run. I watched multiple teams from the moment it dropped until the completion was confirmed and The Corrupted was open for me to jump into. In other words, I at least understand the basics of each section. I know things have changed, so I need to watch some vids, but... Take a break from the game for a while (if you need) and think about the offer. Hell, I wouldn't necessarily expect to make a completion on the first try, but I would expect to have a lot of fun in the process. If you truly feel that you are finished and ready to move on... Enjoy whatever game you decide to play. :)

It’s worth nothing that Rise of Iron strikes normally dropped gear capped at 365- only [b]35 from the level cap[/b]. In addition heroic bosses could drop strike specific gear and exotics at higher light levels. [b]you were raid ready[/b]. Destiny 2 currently only drops gear at 500 from Normal sources. That’s a 100 power level difference. Not within end game range. TLDR- the end game is much slower in D2 compared with D1.

We can't even get matchmaking for Nightfalls. Do they not understand that solo players like myself would grind tje hell out of nightfalls if they did this? There would be a significant spike in participation.