Sorry, but that is not my experience in game. My very first run of menagerie, we did not complete many of the challenges, but we completed it. My next run, with two buddies and three randoms, we completed the first couple of challenges, as well as the whole activity. As time goes on, people learn what needs to be done. Sometimes they will do it correctly, sometimes they won't. The idea that people trying for the same gear or triumphs you and I want, aren't going to try and pick up the mechanics is wrong. They do. Oh, and to your last point. If I as a solo player, wanted whisper, or outbreak, or some other piece of gear that is virtually impossible solo, I ABSOLUTELY would take some failures along with the possibility of success, to obtain something that I would have ZERO chance otherwise.

you claim it's not your experience then detail how you've failed. one fail is a kick to orbit in heroic, not a tra la la along to the end. if you are willing to beat your head against a wall for hours at a time with people who are the cause of your failures that's your option to play with whom you choose.

Are you suggesting that you and your team complete everything first time through? If so, kudos to you. Whenever new content comes out, everything from public events, to Gambit, to forges, to strikes, to whatever. Success rate is hit or miss. How about now? When was the last time you failed a forge? Blind Well? Escalation Protocol? Yes, those things are "simpler" in essence, but the same in principle. A strike or a nightfall are just a series of mechanics strung together. A raid is an even more intricate version of that. Hell, consider it from the other perspective. i as a solo player, initiate a Raid, or a Heroic activity. I am inviting people to join me in my ATTEMPT. Win or lose, I get the experience. And just like anything else, I, ME, understand that I am not going to always get the best people. But that is true of anything. yet matchmade teams still win in Crucible. They still win at Gambit, Prime, Reckoning, they still succeed in the vast majority of content in the game. No mics required. Just rolling the dice on team mates, and sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. Match made Raids, Comp, Lairs, Nightfall, Menagerie, etc. Would have NO impact on people who play with a team. It would be no different, other than the ridiculous convenience of doing it in game, from going to LFG and joining randos. There isn't any downside to something like this, especially if you could close your own fireteam and do it with less people if you didn't want a random. Hell, just let the people on mic and coordinating boot players for sucking, or not communicating. Would be no different than LFG now, EXCEPT it would be in game.

failed Blind Well this week, failed a forge last week, EP several times doing flashpoint. just because others are around you does not mena they will participate, help, or even know what is happening. I'm not sure what lollipop and gum drop world you live in where the random gamers know what to do and are ready to help and communicate. by and large that is not how it works. it's been explained ad nauseam how matchmaking will indeed effect high level activities, the nerf to forges was a prime example of what would happen to everything. if you want a team so badly find a clan, friends, LFG or something. you want to do it bad enough you will.

Gotta agree here. Surprising the number of Blind Well players this week who don’t know passing an orb twice devastates the heroic boss’s shield in a single orb. Heck, I played with a group yesterday who apparently didn’t even know you had to break the shield. They were throwing supers, heavy, grenades at a boss who was clearly shielded.