Destiny: World's First Competition

Destiny's World's First Competition

On June 4th, 2019 at 7PM Eastern, a new raid will open its doors to welcome the hardcore raiding community as part of Destiny's annual pass schedule.

The World's First race is a competition to see who can beat the raid first blind; without the use of guides, video help, or any hand-holding, the race is the most challenging activity that Destiny has to offer with only a hand full of teams being able to accomplish this feat on the first day. It's something that Bungie holds near and dear to their hearts and takes it very serious. Winners of the World's First race get a shoutout on their official Twitter, and a real life raid belt that goes along with the title. Have a look at the Twitter post here!

With that said, the Destiny Division raid squads are looking to once more represent Tactical Gaming at the highest levels of competition as they gear up for another formidable World's First race. They are no strangers to these competitions, as they have competed in several races before, claiming several TOP 1% placements in Spire of Stars, Eater of Worlds Prestige, and Spire of Stars Prestige and earning a spot in the coveted Roll of Honor. 

Today, we have an interview with representatives of the Destiny Division for each respective brigade: PC, PS4, and Xbox. Below is the interview we conducted with them to see how they are preparing for the raid: 

Sarge: How is your team preparing for the World's First race on June 4th?

Harkarnan: With only a week into my time at Tactical Gaming. I've been nicknamed spreadsheet boy due to the fact that we have a spreadsheet for our World's First Preparation before I even joined the clan. This includes all of the information on what we can do before the Day like complete bounties and pinnacle weapons, the exotics we need to bring and the plan on the day for the inital grind. We also have three practices away from normal squad practice.

TG HotPhoenix 3: Our team has compiled a list of objectives to complete both in the coming weeks ahead of the upcoming raid and the afternoon before it drops. There are certain things we've identified as essential like certain mods you can only get from the reckoning called minor resist, major resist and boss resist. These mods give you a 15% resistance to the suggested enemy type. So we are spending a lot of time grinding for these as added insurance as it should help with going into this event possibly underleveled. We have also identified Outbreak Perfected and its catalyst as an essential item for raiding with Nerfs to weapons like whisper and sleeper upcoming we've made the quest for this new weapon an essential task to complete each week. We've also started going back to the previous prestige raids like Leviathan to get used to the challenge and mechanic heavy encounters as this will likely be full of those if we're heading back to that dreaded ship.

JaiyoHD: Our team is doing multiple things to prepare prior to the raid being released on the 4th of June. Bungie has decided to release this raid a little differently compared to the other raids that they have released in the past. Usually the new DLC is released on the Tuesday and the new raid is then released on the Friday after. This time however Bungie has decided to release the raid 6 hours after the DLC has been dropped. This means that we only have six hours to get as many powerful drops as possible on three different characters meaning that a lot of us are getting things done now to save up as much time, for example completing Exotic quests so that we can just hand them in, or completing 8 bounties for the Dreaming City and not handing them in, or making sure that we have 6 ballistic logs. These are just a couple of examples of things that we are all doing to prep for the World’s First race.

Sarge: What inspired you to compete in the World's First race?

Harkarnan: As a hardcore Raider with over 300 completions, the World's First race has always been an event I look forward too, even if I can't participate. Not only for the fact that you complete this hard challenge on the first day it comes out but it tests your skill as a gamer both physically and mentally, working out all of the puzzles and mechanics and then trying to execute them while being underleveled.

TG HotPhoenix 3: Well I've been involved in 2 previous worlds first runs. For last wish and Scourge of the Past and when it comes to Destiny, raiding is my thing. I love going into them fighting hordes of enemies, figuring out puzzles, and doing that all with a team of people. Whether it be teaching, learning, for sweet sweet loot, or just to kick it with my buddies and decimate the legions of darkness. Take all that and add the fact that nobody has seen what you're seeing, there's no video to watch, there's no IGN article to outline what you need to do when you get lost. It's challenge in its purest form, and that my good sir is my bread and butter, that's why it was simply a no brainer for me and my guys. I mean that and the leather raid jackets.

JaiyoHD: This is exactly the kind of stuff that me and my team strive to compete in as we are all competitive raiders. These World’s First races are the most competitive events for raiders and we want to show that we are some of the best raiders that there are and that we can compete at this high level.

Sarge: Have you competed before in these races? If so, what was the biggest challenge you faced?

Harkarnan: Yes I have, back in Forsaken and Black Armory with Last Wish and Scourge of the Past. The biggest challenge for me is that it can be a long day, people start to get irritated and it can cause friction between squad members. It takes a certain mentality to be able to do the raid on the first day and if you are not persistent or you have not done the preparation beforehand, it can become a struggle.

TG HotPhoenix 3: I have and honestly the biggest challenge was light level for us, for Last Wish and Scourge, we dropped in at least 30 levels under light. This time it's different. With the new season starting the new max light level will be 750. (From 700) While the new raid will drop with a recommended light of 715 with each encounter raising in light level after that. We'll also have 7 hours to grind new levels before the event begins. So I don't see that being a problem this time. With that being said however Bungie is not known for making things easy, so I look forward to the challenges they throw at us. I think this raid will be very mechanic heavy knowing all of that and to that we say BRING IT ON!

JaiyoHD: Yes I have competed in one of these races before back in May of 2018, when Spire of Stars was released. The biggest challenge that we faced and that we will probably face again for this raid, is figuring out what we have to do to get past the encounters. The second challenge that we will face for this raid is maximising the power level we have in the short time we have prior to the raid being released which is 6 hours.

Sarge: Thank you gentlemen for your time, and the effort you're constantly putting in to represent Tactical Gaming and to Become Legend.

Below is the annual pass calendar for Destiny 2. An updated version specific to Season of Opulence will be released the Thursday before the raid drops. 

Thank you to @Sarge for this great interview and information. On another note, thanks to @JaiyoHD, @TG HotPhoenix 3 and @Harkarnan#2202 for taking part in this interview.

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