I’m going to say it here right now, if this is implemented the way it was described you are going to put the final nail in the coffin of your game!

Looks like this is a great move 👍

New leveling grind sounds interesting!! I was a big fan of activities being difficult until you gained some levels then things got easier. Please though, if trials is to be a big part of reaching max level can we just go back to elimination with revive orbs. Keep it 4v4 that’s fine , but the thing that made trials so popular was elimination. The whole strategy of getting an enemy down then either guarding or baiting the orb was a game within the game. Now with snipers in their current state, this might open the door for some spectacular revive opps.

So... for these new "end game" changes... will trials and raids have new gear, or just the same looking gear with higher light?

This week at bungie we’re bummed people aren’t raiding enough or doing trials enough so we made it so progression will be incredibly hard unless you do the “raid” or trials

What do you think about MULTIPLE CLANS Coz. How about we can be part of 3 clans with only on primary clan that gets rep and rewards. This would be great for pve and pvp only clans and players that like to do both. A lot of players have long time friends in their clan that are just not playing at the moment and will be back for the dlc drops. It would be awesome if we had other clans to chose from depending on who’s still playing without having to leave that original.

Lol BUNGIE WE WANT INCENTIVE TO PLAY CONTENT "Ok, raids and trials are now the best way to rank up. Not doing them will slow your progression." BUNGO WTF I ONLY WANTED TO PLAY BY MYSELF NOW HOW AM I GONNA LEVEL UP "...."

This week at Bungie we unveiled a completely arbitrary progression system we will install via post launch patch to replace the one we left out of the game at launch. It is our hope that this progression throttle will hold back solo players as well as drive the existing player base into a bad grind of already released content as we surge forth strictly adhering to the completely inadequate D1 release schedule... IF THIS IS THE PLAN... I'll meet you halfway-- Can we please have raid matchmaking? Stiffer quitting penalties? and turn TRIALS OF THE NINE INTO A SOLO QUE ONLY PLAYLIST? Now all Guardians are on even footing. See, I took your incredibly biased system and I made it viable. Let's see who's whining now? Now. I'll challenge the entirety of this Community to a race to Max power. From every Bungie employee to Summiteers to friends,

So, you're walling off the PvE endgame behind a power level requirement that can only be surmounted by playing the endgame? But hey! Trials rewards gear up to max Light [i]and is not Light level enabled.[/i] This will be the first Destiny release since vanilla I haven't pre-ordered. If I start seeing people tell others they need to grind Trials if they want to find a raid group, I'm done. You have carved up every bit of potential this franchise had and burned it on the alter of Trials. And I'm burned out waiting for you to course correct. I don't want to play Trials. And I don't want to run the same strikes I've run hundreds of times now a few hundred more times, either. I just want to play the raids and the occasional prestige Nightfall. You've taken my whole reason for playing and locked it behind an insufferable grind (almost exactly the same as the last time I did it), and made it even harder for me to introduce new players to the content so I could build up a roster of people to play with. Do you not remember "forever 29"? Do you not remember the complaints about the original infusion system in Taken King? I remember interviews where you talked specifically about learning this lesson. How can we be back to this again? Hope truly is the cruelest emotion.

You Bungie idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Penalize solo players??????? if this penalizing leveling system goes into effect Bungie needs to reimburse/refund solo players the revenue they spent on Destiny 2....

i feel like the majority of complaints when it comes to power and progression revolved around the fact that power level is just a number and doesn't really mean much besides being a gate you have to reach in order to play the next level of content, and not this simple minded "i hit the level cap too easily, i want to be slowed down." if every enemy is scaled to your level there is no feeling of your power progressing, this shouldn't be hard to get bungie. also the fact that your power level means nothing in trials or iron banner is stupid. this is yet another example of bungie hearing what they want to hear and making changes no one really asked for.

We really need better ways to match make/ get groups together. MHW has just released their first "raid" style boss with multiple objectives needed to actually beat the boss. Simple objectives yes, but the ease of joining a quest is ridiculous. I recently did a raid in Tera that had auto match making, no head ache or stress to join a team. If we're going to make raiding be one of the highest rewarding game modes in the game, it needs to be more accessible. I know this has been brought up before during D1 but matchmaking really needs to be a thing or at least have a monster hunter style hall where people can post missions and people can join. They should also have the option to have join requests needing to be approved or not. This way people can view players before allowing them to join. Lastly I'd like it if we had simpler raids or activities. One reason I enjoyed my time raiding in tera and the raid style boss in monster hunter is the simplicity of the mission: stay alive and be able to kill efficiently. Saves the headache of explaining mechanics and such when all i want to do is just kill but still get solid rewards. PoE was kind of that style with bosses and simple objectives but it'd be nice if it was expanded on. Really surprised it didn't have matchmaking either. Now I'm not saying there shouldnt be raids with puzzles to solve, but I'd really would love to have activities where the goal isnt too complex. The main draw of doing harder activities should be the rewards themselves honestly, not the fact that higher light levels would be easier to acheive by doing them solely. Best example i can give was age of triumph in D1. I could hit max light from raiding but i didnt need to do a specific raid that i may have found more challenging for me, I preferred just doing VoG because it was easier for me yet the reason I'd do wrath of the machine was because of the rewards exclusive to that raid. Sorry for the wall, 4am and kinda just incoherently rambling. In short I'd really would like destiny to be focused on the loot rather than the level, unless its borderlands where my character and gameplay choiced grow the stronger i become. If i want to do a harder mission I'll do it for the rewards, not so my character level won't have a hard time increasing if i dont. Age of triumph allowed me to hit max so I'd have that freedom to have a somewhat easier time attempting the harder missions if i wanted to, due to feeling jealous because i didn't have a certain set of gear. Plus it no doubt allowed other people to try as well without being denied because they're having a hard time reaching a better light level.

Not liking what I'm hearing about progression in Season 3. It officially happened, the hard-core have helped Bungie put the final nail in the Destiny 2 coffin with all their complaing about the lack of "grind". There's a "good" grind, and then there's a "bad" grind, we are getting the later. We all wanted more "meaningful" things to grind for ( weapons and armour ), Bungie's solution, make Destiny 2 more tedious to play.

sad part is they are basically penalizing anyone that choose not to raid or play PVP (trials)by slowing their progression. I personally don't mind it being harder, but a meaningless grind is just that meaningless. If I don't have something to grind for that actually IS powerful then there is no point in doing the grind. If I do difficult content I expect the reward to be equal to the difficulty of said content. Also the drop rate of ammo is sketchy at best. I did 3 strikes and ran out of ammo each time. One I had no ammo for any of my weapons. I had to use my super to kill some low mobs to get ammo. Either increase drop rate of ammo or give us back synths.

a boring grind loop is a very bad idea FIRST you should address the "boring" and than increase the grind.

Because I have to play by myself I'm getting penalized. The people that I made friends with have all left the game. I come back every now and then with high hopes, but it's just over for me with this game. Yet another kick in the sacc. No hope for solo players.