Raiding with randoms now is abysmal, possibly the worst I’ve ever seen

You genuinely had a better time during Eater of Worlds and Spire of Stars. Idk what has caused a mass psychosis of anti-social behavior in the raiding community but man it’s terrible as someone without a raid group.

Literally probably 5-10% of teams use mics anymore. Whether it’s fireteam finder of LFG Discord your experience is going to be pretty terrible. Teams refuse to use mics, and make trivial encounters with proper communication take an hour. It’s worse when you or they are playing on a console and will take 2 business days to type in a short reply or to get someone’s attention.

I’m sure plenty of people will say “Ah man just make your own post and require a mic”. Yeah I do that and still over half the people who join refuse to use a mic and you spend 30 minutes trying to get a team together. Good luck if the raid isn’t popular, even on its featured week if it is a hot raid or dungeon you won’t have much luck.

I know this is also hurt by the decreased population of people playing the game, but man it’s really turned me off from raiding. If you work 8 hours a day and want to come home a do a quick raid 1-3 times a week it’s still hard because you either have no mic “experts” or people that have never done it so you’ll have to teach 3 people how to do VoG everytime.

There are certain raids or dungeons especially you probably would get away with but trying to do garden of salvation with no mics is truly a painful experience. Idk what the solution for Bungie is here, this more of a community facing issue.