Probably not a popular opinion but... (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Friday, July 25, 2014, 01:24 (3785 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The prospect of this is actually intriguing, given then you would be guaranteed chat with your fellow raiders. I'm imagining tons of planning and communication will be a must.

This is what raids in WoW are generally like*, requiring a coordinated group of raiders, each with specialist roles, geared up appropriately and with the necessary communication tools (not to mention organisation and discipline; there's no guarantee you'll win each encounter on your first go, so part of a raid leader's role is to ensure people stay focused and don't lose it when they don't succeed). Based on what we've seen it would seem likely Bungie will be doing something similar for Raids in Destiny, although the team size is probably smaller (6 or 8 I'm guessing?).

*They have, in recent years, added a matchmaking mode for raiding called ‘LFR, as in Looking For Raid’ where you can be thrown into a group of randoms. The lack of guaranteed communication (other than text) means that the difficulty level has to be quite substantially reduced compared to the normal difficulty of the raid, and the rewards are also reduced in quality; nonetheless it still lets players experience the content.