As someone who finally reached 400 power last week, trying to grind tier fours feels pointless. I shouldn’t have to be at night on minus 50 power to get my gear. I sat down to play my favorite game today, but got knocked out in every activity I tried going for this new tier of loot. What was the purpose of grinding this far if I can’t even enjoy the spoils of it? For the first time in a long while it feels like my time has been utterly wasted in this game. I can’t even progress to a higher level unless I get a higher tier, which I can’t do without higher tier weapons/armor, which I can’t get unless I’m playing -blam!- difficult activities, which I can’t complete because everything being a massive bullet sponge is the developer’s answer to difficulty. Honestly just lower the power band modifiers on these detrimental modifiers, or let that be a separate toggle. Let me make the game more difficult for myself by adding in an insane number of banes and other things, not by making everything just horrifically large on top of that. Mythic tier difficulty was not what we were asking for when we said we wanted more challenge. Difficulty should be a knife’s edge, I should be able to hit as hard as I’m getting hit. That is what’s fun. That is what’s engaging. The fact the only way I can get any meaningful loot in the endgame is to play crucible just feels depressing.