When they first changed it to what we have now I was excited because coming from WoW it felt more like what I already knew. But after I realized that the drops are not at a set light level, like all 310 from normal KF and all 320 from hard, I gave up on trying to become 320. To me it's just not worth the grind. In my opinion Bungie should have given all activities a set level that gear would drop at. For PvE they should have made all drops from the normal strike playlist 275, all drops from vanguard heroics 295, all drops from normal KF 310, all drops from hard KF 320, and each boss have specific loot in their loot table (that could already be in place, I don't raid enough to know). Also all drops for Nightfall should be anywhere from 305-315. I don't play Trials so I don't really know how the loot system works for that but for regular Crucible they should have made gear drop at 275 from the normal playlist and 295 from the daily and weekly playlists. Also, and I have felt like this since launch, I think they should have created separate gear sets for PvE and PvE with different perks that are more suited to their respective activity. For instance, in WoW you can go into PvP in your raid gear but you won't do as well as somebody with full PvP gear because PvP gear makes you deal more damage to players and take less damage from players. Likewise, you can go into a raid with full PvP gear but you won't do as much DPS as someone in full raid gear because the PvP gear sacrifices some useful PvE stats to make room for the PvP stats. In my opinion if there was a system like this in place the game would be more enjoyable because at you would know what level gear would drop at from each activity and you could gear up your characters more efficiently rather than grinding through the raid every week just to get a couple 300 ghost shells. And in PvP you would actually see a variety of weapons rather than just the best weapons that you picked up in PvE. Sorry for the wall of text. And sorry if some of it doesn't make sense, I'm not the best at communicating what I'm thinking in my head. I realize that not every idea in this comment is perfect but I feel like it would at least be a good starting point.

I'll be honest. I like both. Year 1 seemed to allow more customization but year 2 gives me a reason to play longer.

i prefer how 310 to 311 is a noticeable increase in damage output and resistance.. whereas previously the same difference would only occur at 310 to 320 for example..

I don't think people are remembering how brutally hard it was to level up year 1. It was 100% dependent of RNG.

Y2 seems to be less grindy. Which I personally like as I seem to have trouble finding a team that can hold it together through oryx. It also is allowing me to run the raid on my main(Titan) and share the items that would otherwise be useless for my Titan. So if I can only run the raid once or twice that week I'm fine with that. [b][u]Example:[/u][/b] My Titan has 318 arms. I get 313. Instead of sharding them and getting nothing out of that part of the raid for a whole week I can infuse them into my hunter's or warlock's gear. Also being able to take a shit 316 raid HC and putting it into something I use is far better than grinding for EL.

The sad thing is 70% said year one which makes me wonder how many people voted because from the beginning the light level system was complained about in this game. Infusion is overall a superior system compared to the old. There's a reason the name forever 29 exist it's because your ONLY way to level 30 was by playing VOG and then you had to beat one specific part hoping you would get that one drop on that character alone. This is why having more than one type of character was scoffed at by many because it increased your chances of reaching max level significantly than using one only. However this also meant you only had one chance per week to get a good drop so there were a lot of players who did not and would not reach level 30 until The Dark below was released. This created a environment where unless you had friend who didn't mind you playing you were excluded from raids with level 30 players because the jump in power was noticeable in VOG. With The Dark Below(TDB) you could buy level 31 gear from vendors that way all you had to do now is grind crota to reach level 32 the difference here was not only did you need he raid gear, but it was slightly harder to get the material to upgrade your new raid gear. Which is what started the Eris bounty abuse to reach rank 4-5. HoW introduced the Etheric light, and this for many ruined the games diversity because now our highly coveted VOG weapons were able to come out the vault and do max dmg resulting in everything released afterwards to be regarded inferior and not worth playing for aside from a few weapons. This created a very stagnant world aside from the fact that Etheric light was easy to get. This is why infusion is superior, because it makes use of common things not things you only can receive from raids once a week though it requires you still to use raid level gear to reach the highest levels you still can be competitive in pve and pvp without being max level in the game. The reason legendary engrams are so insignificant is because the game gives them to you more frequent and because of infusion being that you can now buy them and it's guaranteed for doing weekly heroics. However this is not a bad thing for the game being that they made dumb decisions in regard to other things in the game.

until we can be 420 light y1 light levels #danklordskeletor #ayylmao