Raids in a game

Hello everyone hows it going? Hope everyone had a fun and safe new year and to commemorate the first blog post of the year I wanted to talk about Raids. Now if your into online games like world of warcraft and final fantasy 14 then you know that games similar to this style offer end game content, and by that I mean content that unlocks after you complete the story of the game this is where most people have fun and meet others to play with if they haven’t already made there friends along the way.

But what is raid? They differ from game to game in style and appearance but deep down there all the same, A raid is a special end game area where that hardest monsters and bosses reside as well as the best loot in the game, a raid is made of many rooms and each room having it’s own mechanic to progress or it’s own boss fight to open up the door.

Raids not only vary in size and difficulty but as well as how many players can enter the raid at one time for instance many of wow’s old raids had 20 people going in and working together to defeat the bosses. In final fantasy 14 when I played and reached the end game areas raids were made of 8 players total until a new raid was brought in which the name eludes me that had a player cap of 24 I think it was then theres games like destiny where end game raids are fought in 6 man teams. Now I’m not sure for wow since I never made it that far but in final fantasy almost everyone got to do raids simply for 1 reason and that was match making which thankfully helped out many players who were either socially awkward or were solo players. I cant speak for wow but I know destiny doesnt have match making and it has been a feature that many in the community have wanted and I cant blame them as not everyone is great at meeting new people and making friends.

I’ve done my fair share or raids in final fantasy and destiny and yes there time consuming and make you work to figure out the next step but I feel that if final fantasy can make an awesome match making system to do raids then I feel other companies should do the same cause there is no better learning experience then actually going out to do a raid, I mean yes you could go watch a video but I feel that watching a video and actually experiencing the raid leave different impacts on you as it’s easier to learn from your mistakes then it is to copy what someone else does down to the second. The one thing I loved in final fantasy was you hit the lvl cap you had the best gear equipped and went and did the raid you didnt need to worry about if you did enough damage for the simple fact everyone knew that as long as the Tank had the bosses full attention you let loose on him in destiny it’s not like that for the simple fact that as new weapons are discovered and brought into the game the meta keeps changing but that I feel is a handy cap and forces players to demand that others have this or that and I feel that isn’t fair.

I understand though why some systems work better for one raid and not another but I feel if companies worked on a match making system that could detect and match veteran raiders with newer raiders it would be a win win for everyone I personally have a very hard time meeting new people making friends and even tho it hasn’t gotten easier I do my best but I’m sure others are worse and I do hope that one day raids will be made easier to access for everyone thank you all and have a great day