Coming from both a heavy mmorpg and fps background (played UO and Wow from day 1, played quake 3 team arena on dial up), I would say the RNG is fine in raids and strikes. What's lacking is a distribution system.
Take a page from any successful mmorpg, on strikes, weekly and nightfall add a need/greed system for rolling on loot. In raids, add the same as well as an option for a loot master who can one time distribute loot gained to those who need it.
While we are at it, adding the above as well as a proper LFG system would take this game to the next level. LFG would only be needed for raids and nightfall, keep the weekly and strikes on matchmaking.
Edit 1: Feel free to weigh in guys! This is the feedback forum, the more solid this can be made, the higher the probability it can be added.
Edit 2: Keep the discussion coming guys! I know we are all frustrated, but keep it civil and remember that changes take time. Only those with enough support will get put in.
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Let me start with.....Intellivision & Colecovision were my first consoles. 20+ year vet of the very first gaming MMORPG: Ultima/Ultima Online/ Ultima- Lords of Ultima/Ultima Forever (IPad/IPhone) If they wanted a "next level" game it would be so. It's painfully obvious that they are struggling to keep this a viable game at this point. When I think about the pre release screeners and cut scenes I realize something went horribly wrong prior to release, so much so that it crippled & fragmented the entire games overlying story and features. Not that I don't fully agree with you, I just feel Bungie has had an enormous amount of time to do what's right yet they refuse to fix or add content....blatantly I might add. So again, while I fully agree with you I have little to no hope or expectation of a true community pleasing fix, content addition, or story line ever coming to fruition. Games aren't about entertainment any longer, they're about less for more. PvE's are becoming shorter (what we actually pay for) and PvP is the true intent as seen with CoD over the last 12 years. After I'm burned out on HoW I'll be done for these exact reasons.