Everything you've said is true. Here is my personal experience. SCENARIO 1 Struggling with Atheon on Hard & 1 man short. After sending out a flurry of invites, a friend joins. Thank God, a sixth man. But as soon as he spawns in the game, we defeat Atheon......... and BOOM!!...... He is rewarded with the Vex Mythoclast while the others that had struggled for the past 4 hrs enjoy their 7th piece of precious, oh so precious Chatterwhite. SCENARIO 2 A friend of mine has faithfully played this terribly assembled game week after week; completing bounties, daily stories, nightfall and weekly strikes. He finishes the Raid on both Normal & Hard every week but has somehow only managed to receive only one piece of Legendary Raid Gauntlets for his Hunter. So he optimistically creates another character, another [i][b]HUNTER[/b][/i], to try and increase his odds for obtaining Hunter specific gear. But playing Destiny is indeed a gamble, and luck has not favored this particular friend of mine. As he prays for a Raid Chest Plate, Raid Boots, Raid Helmet, HELL I'm sure he'd be happy with just a Raid Cloak at this point, he receives Ascendant Energy at the end of his dice roll. He rolls the dice again with his other Hunter..... Ascendant Shards. Don't get me wrong, he does get SOME awesome stuff. He's got the Timebreaker Sparrow, which is pretty sweet. And precious, oh so precious Chatterwhite. I honestly don't know if he'll continue playing this game if he gambles in the VoG again this week with his TWO hunters only to be disappointed again. A number of people purchased Destiny because of it's potential to become Legend. Bungie created this game because they saw the potential for this game to become Legend. Bungie HAS the OPPORTUNITY to make this game Legend.. They have to make very careful decisions as they move towards achieving that status. Sadly their past slew of decisions have been in the completely opposite direction.