I want to preface this with the fact that i'm a 1500hr player and Destiny is basically the ONLY game I play and love and my complaints have been stated a zillion times already this week. I'm strictly posting in the hopes that Bungie reads this along with the countless other posts, good and bad. I'm not slinging venom or hate, i'm not telling you how YOU should feel or that you should feel like I do. I'm simply talking and stimulating conversation. As a long time player and a primarily PVE player (but i enjoy both), this does NOT feel like the game I've came to love, enjoy, forge friendships with and have countless HOLY CRAP moments with over the past 3 years. As a matter of fact, as it stands right now, I don't see how a holy crap moment is even remotely possible with current load out changes and ability charge rates. I feel like my only options now are to just shoot things. I don't feel like a guardian.... I feel more like Joe Dirt and I don't wanna be Joe Dirt! My major problem is that I feel like these changes have all been made in name of "balance". How does one quantify balance in a game with two game modes that are so vastly different? What is the companies mindset with NEEDING "balance" in two different game modes? Maybe it's just me, but I can't think of a single person who gets a raid weapon with raid perks and says "wow, I hope i can use this "extra fallen damage" perk weapon in the crucible" or vice versa. Bottom line, SEPARATE THEM. If i'm playing PVP, I want PVP based loot with PVP perks. I want those PVP weapons to be worthless in PVE. If i'm playing PVE, I want PVE weapons with PVE perks and i want THOSE weapons to be equally worthless in PVP. Too many supers in PVP? Sure, keep cool downs slow in PVP. No problem, the community would like it! Supers too slow in PVE? Boost them! Not once have I used an ability in PVP and thought to myself "wow, that's not the same as PVE". I don't care because I don't relate to the two AT ALL! It's quite the opposite actually, and from what I've been reading on the forums, the community pretty much agrees. They're mostly happy with PVP changes and VERY UNHAPPY with how it affected PVE. As a community, we wouldn't care if the balancing is different because we understand they're two different entities. IMO... Bottom line, separating the modes and balancing them accordingly makes the most sense to me and would get this closer to a game I would enjoy ALL aspects of. I'll see you in D2 and hopefully this game will become what we ALL want, regardless of game mode! EDIT: Listen, I just wanted to thank everyone for all of the opinions and for remaining civil throughout the many conversations in this post. Passionate sometimes, but civil for the most part! The post got fairly large and I believe that's representative of how we feel as a whole for the most part. It also shows how great of a community that we are and that many if us have similar hopes for the future of Destiny! Here's to hoping they're listening and everything happens that makes everyone happy! That's what matters in the end! I'd fight the darkness (assuming it still exists) with any if you guys and gals any time!