It's frustrating that you can't ask for something like this, without someone with an elitist attitude coming in with the cliche "you don't want to work for anything" post. It's a thoughtless argument. I do think MW cores should be removed from infusion, but I do realize that infusing was definitely too simple during most of year one. Honestly, I thought it was perfect that week before forsaken dropped. I love the idea of adding planetary mats to the infusion cost. Even raising the legendary shard cost is fine. For that week, when I was picking up chests, completing patrols and doing pubs, I felt like there was finally value to harvesting this stuff. It wasn't difficult to harvest that stuff, but it took time and added value to that passive task/mats, which basically were worthless before. Then when forsaken dropped they added MW cores to the infusion cost, and planetary mats pretty much went back to where they were before. If infusion costs 10 mats and 3 MW cores, it doesn't really matter if you've saved up 400 mats. You'd only be able to use so many before you run out of cores. For a week I liked farming up mats, now I don't really care. Now, I'm not looking for things to be easy here. But I don't think something as simple as infusion warrants a grind like this. I like that Bungie added a cost to it, but I think they overshot. This to me is the number 1 thing that needs to be changed after Forsaken dropped. Solutions: Folks have talked a lot about making MW cores more obtainable, but I actually think that's a bad idea. Where they're at now is perfect for grinding towards masterworking items. That I think is what we should be saving MW cores for, not infusion. If we make them more obtainable for infusion, we in turn make them more obtainable for masterworking, and that undermines that grind. I think removing MW cores from infusion is the easiest, and most obvious solution. Why did Bungie do this?: I understand they wanted to drive players to use more weapons, but trying to control their player base with a method like this seems lazy to me. Just being honest. If you want to create depth in your weapons pool..... how about creating depth in your weapons pool? It's a challenge, but if more weapons were good, and the cream that rises to the top was a wider range of weapons, you wouldn't have to conjure up some artificial solution to try and manipulate players into using more stuff. What you really want(from a developer standpoint) is for that to happen organically, but instead Bungie has tried to force it. Finally, what these arguments usually boil down to is 2 extremes arguing towards their point, much like politics. You get 2 sides, when the solution is probably somewhere in the middle. 1. This is a basic element to the game. I paid $40+ for Forsaken, and we should just get to infuse. 2. Git gud. You crybabies don't want to work for anything. Infusion should be earned, not handed to you. Lets be honest, neither of those viewpoints are entirely accurate. Remove MW cores from infusion, and I think we land in a good middle ground. There's a lot to work for in this game without MW cores being required for this.

The MasterWork Core issue needs to be addressed. I have a few pieces of gear I would like to MasterWork, but I hold off on doing so in case I need to Infuse something... The cores drop at a good rate and the purchasing mechanic is also good, for Masterworking gear but not infusing. Hopefully this gets fixed.

Bungie doesn't care...if they can fix an exploit or flaw real fast then what is taking so long to change this.... Real simple remove MWC from infusion.... Done

Im surprised bungie has not responded to this post with how many upvotes it has.

Yes. The whole point of infusion is so you can use the weapons you want to use. Adding MW cores just restricts your play style and sometimes forces you to use weapons you don't like.

No they should not be removed from infusion. What needs to happen is that you need masterworks cores to be more accessible and easier to farm (Like a guaranteed drop from doing weekly milestones or bounties that give you 3 masterworks cores or so)

Lmao over 1.1k upvotes and bungie’s first priority is to nerf sleeper to the ground when no one asked to do it...