I'm not pissed. This was just a realization that all of the Dead Orbit armor I have is upgraded to the point that I need the Shards to go any farther. Shortly after Tuesday I'll have the final piece of the set (Fatekiller Hood helmet). A couple trips around Mars and Venus and that helmet will also be upgraded to the point that I will need shards to get any farther. I had hit a "wall" on the side of upgrading and couldn't go any farther. Then the Queens Wrath stuff came along with the promise of the wall being able to be finally crawled over. I don't need the Queen's armor, my Dead Orbit gear is better in just about every way. Plus, the classic black & white color scheme looks much better to me than dressing up as the Queens court jester. So, from an aesthetic view as well as functionally, there was/is no reason to wear the armor. It was only good for the materials it could give me to finally advance beyond level 26, and to finally sport some maxed out Dead Orbit gear. Now they've taken any hope of progress and replaced it with a higher wall. Advancement has been slowed to worse than a crawl now. Bungie has nerfed gaining Shards to the point that they're nigh impossible to get, but there's an overabundance of ways to get Ascendant Energy. You know; that crafting material that has zero uses? So no, I'm not pissed at all. Really really, I'm not. Just resolute that there's less than zero reasons for me to go through the hour or three that it takes to fulfill her bounties, another couple hours to get through her missions; all just to get copy after copy of equipment I have no use for. I was able to break them down into something I could actually use. Now? Queen's event is worthless to me. I won't really get started on the loot cave. You guys created an MMOFPS. You like to call it something else, but you created an MMO nonetheless. With that, farming is part of MMO's. Always has been, always will be. There's an advancement wall in place. It's there simply by the design of the level advancement for progressing beyond level 20. But with this new hot fix (1.0.1.5), that advancement wall more resembles the Berlin Wall than ever before. (For those of you too young, the Berlin Wall was a very bad thing...) I know you probably won't comment in this thread, Bungie. You guys are very much starting to become as bad as Blizzard in the lack of communication with your fans. A troubling change I've noticed since your company "emerged from the darkness". But you don't have to comment. Just realize that with every other MMO that has nerfed too much, too fast out fo knee-jerk reactions; changes like these [u]will[/u] cause your player base to plummet. If you're going to have a gear-focused advancement mechanic in place as one of the core elements of the game, then you must accept that Farming is part of that. I'll keep playing for the time being, there's an armor set that I want to get all the pieces for and to upgrade. But after that... well, that depends on you, Bungie. It's entirely on your shoulders.