Tonight marks the 3rd night in a row I haven’t been able to clear a NORMAL Crotas end raid. Some shit I keep seeing:
- Refusing to do mechanics or not wanting the “responsibility” of the chalice or sword. IMO you should not be raiding or doing dungeons if you’re not willing to do mechanics. This is not limited to Crota. I think RoN and DSC got too many people used to doing ad clear as a role. Which is not really a role IMO.
- Forgetting their role mid fight. In many groups I join we’re in the middle of an encounter and I hear “what am I doing again?”. Or someone dies suddenly from chalice overflow or another debuff. Like it’s fine once or twice but it just keeps happening. Eventually someone has to now direct this person while also doing their own role.
- Bad ad clear. We are so stupid powerful in this game and there are multiple ways to clear an entire room of bad guys in a split second. I shouldn’t have to run to the other side of the room to help you kill stuff.
- Bad builds and bad build knowledge. Look, I get we’re not trying to min/max our efficiency here but when we’ve been stuck on Ir Yut for an hour because we can’t clear second damage phase it’s time to stop fucking around and put on Cuirass. Also, if someone says put on Cuirass you should know to put on T crash.
- Taking your time in the first crota encounter. If you can eager edge your way through everything then cool. If you eager edge me into a pit or pendulum or if you repeatedly eager edge to your death then you need to fucking stop. You’re not going for world’s first anymore. Fucking stop.
This isn’t limited to just Crota either I was having similar shit on RoN:
- People demanding to do ad clear in RoN and then sucking at it.
- People not being able to stay alive on totems in Kings Fall. People not being able to stay alive in general. Like ad clear, we have so many options for survival. You can also build into it.
- People thinking they can do a raid without a mic. If you’re on PC and can type fast okay but not acceptable on console.
- People unable or unwilling to learn different callouts. I’ve learned maybe 4 different versions of the planet room in RoN. It got to the point where I would tell teams “you tell me how you do it and I’ll figure it out”. Half the time I would just look across at the other dude and see where he left from.
I’m probably complaining to the wrong people here but is anyone else experiencing this?
Imo because alot of those players no longer play.
Yeah I noticed last night on the app that everyone was doing master. Maybe once all the challenges rotate it’ll get better but who knows.
I was thinking the same thing. Anecdotally, I used to LFG just about every week. Now I only play a couple times a month when my clan can all get together to raid. I’ve definitely noticed my skill slipping
My main complaint about Crota with regards to LFG is the first encounter. I understand wanting to rush through it, but you can’t just Eager’s Edge way out ahead if the group isn’t with you. You’re just making it more difficult by not sticking with everyone else.
Yes. Monday night I gave up after 3 groups scuffed the first encounter by eager edging into too many deaths or the dude with the chalice is rushing ahead or falling behind due to eager edge.
I feel like the encounter is nearly impossible to fail if you just go lamp to lamp and take it slow.
Honestly I’ve stopped trying to do raids via LFG because of stuff like this, but most importantly - assholes in general. Which sucks because a lot of my friends haven’t been around to do any.
But I’d rather not do a raid than have a shitty experience.
Lots of things went downhill since Lightfall.
Was trying to do master crota last week (before i seen that funny glitch), and there was a warlock running strand and double primary. They were running two auto rifles at fucking crota. There was another LFG warlock who was trying to keep us safe with well tho, so he was cool. I think the main reason LFG has went downhill so much is because of RoN being basically ad clear.
I joined a sherpa run for Crota, and it was me and 4 racists and the other poor LFG-er, didn’t last long in that group.
Honestly I feel racism has been on the rise in lfg recently too. Really off putting from what is otherwise a game that is hard to put down.
People who LFG are generally doing it for a reason, and 85% of the time that reason becomes very apparent once you party up. If they’re in the LFG queue there’s a good chance they’re either very hard to get along with, don’t know what they’re doing and/or are just not very pleasant people.
People who are better and more dedicated to the game tend to have clans/groups external to the game that allow them to party up when they want to.
I don’t raid or do group activities at all since I’m the exact type of player you’re talking about. If I wanted to do group activities I’d have to LFG, and then I’d just be dead weight.
