Currently the pinnacle grinding system is as follows; -Past 1050, pinnacle rewards are the only things that increase your level -Pinnacle rewards are split into +1s and +2s - +1s include the complete 4 crucible matches, 3 strikes using the element of the burn, and 3 gambit or gambit prime games milestones - +2s include the garden raid, the final bosses of the prophecy and pit of heresy dungeons, the flawless trials chest, and I THINK the 100k nightfall and weekly clan XP milestones although im not sure about the last two The problem is, the loot pools from the pinnacle activities are extremely skewed. The gambit, crucible, and strikes pinnacles are fine, they have large loot pools, but the real important pinnacles, the +2s, are very unforgiving. The raid specifically. The garden of salvation raid has a full set of armour, two kinetic weapons, zero heavy weapons, and FIVE ENERGY WEAPONS. Those energy weapons can drop throughout the whole raid too so it’s not even like you are guaranteed something else; The fusion is from the first encounter, shotgun and auto from the second, hand cannon from the third, and sniper from the fourth. You can do the entire raid and get ALL ENERGY WEAPONS, something that has happened to me before. Just now I did a garden of salvation and got the fusion, the bow, the shotgun, the pulse, and the bond. That was a lucky run, getting upgrades in 3 slots, and not going up a single power level. It was useless but it could’ve been even worse which is a problem. When the best source of pinnacle gear has such a ridiculously skewed loot pool it is just not fun grinding power at all. When you do all your pinnacles for the week on all your characters and go up two levels it just makes you not want to play at all. I feel like pinnacle grinding would be significantly better if there were ways to target the upgrade you needed, but the way it is now it is just so random that spending the hours it takes every week to do all of these chores just to get almost nothing is just not fun at all. I play the game to grind master nightfalls, do trials, do challenges that require light level. Having to do the OLD CONTENT for light level to do the NEW CONTENT is terrible and I feel like many can agree that grinding out all the pinnacles for the week is extremely unrewarding. Edit: Pleasantly surprised with the lack of people telling me it’s not that bad, that I’m asking for hand outs etc. Glad Im not the only one so frustrated by this system.