Having done the Raid I would argue that going in without a group of cohesive players who can communicate effectively with each other would be very stupid. MY raid team was composed of three people who had multiple completions and three Vault Virgins - we all knew each other from the clan and all played to gether previously It still took around 4 hours and required considerable patience and support for all, from all. Yes, it is not impossible for strangers, but it would be a very lucky mix. No great skill or competence is required to get to level 26 in this game, and judging from the some of people I have done match made strikes with it would take a long time for the right group of strangers to finally find each other. A statistical freak, I would say.

Watch a raid and you'll see why. Callouts, deciding roles, who does what, make sure you can pickup where you left off, prevent ditchers. I agree for weeklies though. All that needs is an explanation of the modifiers.

Basically.. what SilverMERK and all the other dumbasses like Bungie are saying. If you want to experience this whole game... You have to pretend to like their version of Facebook. Because they decided that it'd be a good idea to force people to have to use online gaming as a social tool. I don't care if you people want to use it as such. But it's pretty -blam!-ing idiotic to force it. And lose players and potential customers because of it. And all you have accomplished from it... is to destroy what #Gaming once was. You may as well turn #gaming into #MM. Only, good luck sorting through thousands of threads with no real way to filter what the hell your looking at since... well, just -blam!-ing look at it. I mean hell, even a ....god forbid. SERVER BROWSER to find raid matches....