This might be a long rant, but I'm having an epiphany at the moment about my experience and expectations with this game. After realizing what I was doing in this game every day, I feel like it's pointless. Allow me to explain. I want to rank my character up to 32. The only way I can do that is to do the raid, and potentially get raid gear. Probably WEEKS of doing the SAME MISSION over and over every week. Oh and by the way, I need 21 radiant shards PER ITEM to level up the gear. In simple terms, the grind is way too damn excruciating! And why do we have all the faction vendors handing out all the 33 light gear when it's POINTLESS TO GET. I'm gong to be wasting my shards to level up that gear in order to do a raid at level 31 for weeks to POTENTIALLY get raid gear or shards! Next is the bounties. It amazes me how repetitive and ridiculous these things are. Every day I don't have fun with these at all! It's just an excuse to do the same stuff that I had been doing! All to rank up my vanguard and crucible in order to get to level 31 with the gear without even doing vault of glass! All these people did the raid SO MUCH to level up, and here it all is, free right here in the tower! I'm glad I didn't run the raid every week, because now I certainly don't need the gear! I also don't know why they could not include INTERESTING boss fights in the strikes and story (what story?). I LOVE how in the Crotas end raid, the boss negated all health regen. BRILLIANT I tell you! Why can't that be implemented in the strikes?? Have say, the nexus strike boss negate all supers, or the Cerberus vae III boss make everyone move super slow. At least that wouldn't just make them re skinned bullet spunges! Don't even get me started on the RNG. If there's one thing a game should not do, it's make the player feel like what they are doing is not worth it. Why should I work hard to fight enemies in a strike when I know I'm not guaranteed half decent loot? Why should I try to carry my team in the crucible when the guy at the bottom gets an exotic? Why TRY?? Often when I log onto this game now, I don't want to do anything in it because my effort often times does not pay off. Everything in this is a chore, not fun, just addicting like a DRUG. Just my opinion. I feel like I'm wasting my time with pointless missions like in patrol mode that tell me to "kill enemies in the area." Oh great, you mean what I can do at any given time? Killing enemies is labeled as something slightly important now? This was a long rant I know, and if you enjoy destiny, I'm happy you found a game you enjoyed. For myself, I will probably keep playing, but not out of fun like games like halo reach or skyrim was. If you read the whole thing, thank you and I hope I have gotten my points across.