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Game Director || Raiding Enthusiast || Surrounded by humans smarter than me.

Sep 5, 2020, 5 tweets

There is a tester at Bungie that has the best method for teaching people raid encounters.

They tell people the one sentence description of the fight, then immediately pull.

“This fight we have to go into portals and destroy oracles then we kill the boss.” Okay go!

The first pull is almost always a wipe, but they’ve given everyone in the raid something incredibly valuable..... experience.

So now before the second pull, they can go into detail about the strategy. But the team has context, they can ask smart questions because they’ve seen what’s coming.

This willingness to give people the chance to fail almost always results in the team learning the fight much faster than raid leaders who just start off with a 20 minute monolithic explanation and then expect a flawless first attempt.

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