To clarify, this is a topic I made last season. [quote] I have 14 legendary weapons at 700 and a couple left to infuse. 7 exotic weapons, a couple left again. 21 legendary armor pieces at 700, around 7-8 left to infuse. 5 exotic armors at 700, with 5 left. ON MY HUNTER ALONE. So just my Hunter, I’ve spent let’s see, 14X2= 28 cores on legendary weapons, 7X3= 21 cores on exotics so 49 cores on weapons alone. 21X2 for legendary armor is 42 cores for armor, and 5X3 for Exotics is 15, so 57 cores on armor. I’ve used 106 cores already. To infuse each piece ONCE up to 700. Sure there’s outliers like same gear piece costing zero cores and infusing exotics into gear costs one Core, but we’re still looking at around 100 cores spent already. On my Hunter alone. Take a look at my characters inventories. I’ve made them public for this. I have over 1,800 hours in Destiny 2. I beg you to tell me what I’m doing wrong, and how Bungie’s game design is perfectly sound. There are many players who are minimalists. Using the same weapons and armor for mostly everything in Destiny is their thing, these are the people with 15,000 kills on their Midnight Coup. I. don’t. do. that. I have multiple weapons that I like using in multiple game types and the thing they all have in common is that I like them at max. Yes, MAX LIGHT. Because a common rebuttal is “just use them without infusing because light doesn’t matter in most activities 4head” Except that it does. One major thing that Bungie has cultivated since Destiny 1 is the pure feeling of being max light with a loadout of gear you like. Bungie has always stated that they want max light to be an impressive feat, and they describe Destiny as a LOOTER SHOOTER suggesting that you should grind for gear you want but people like me find themselves being forced to choose between a.) being max light or b.) using gear I like. Which is terrible design to a looter shooter. The last big flaw is the fact that a basic tool, infusion, is requiring a resource material that is NOT tied to gametime and progression, but rather specific activities and RNG. I could play every day (already do) and end up with less cores than a guy who gets on only to do Spider bounties for an hour a day. I might have more FUN, but he has more cores. The required activities and farm methods for cores disrupt gameplay and turn player attention away from the actual GOOD POINTS of Destiny and direct them to boring, needlessly grindy trash. Horrendous economy design that forces players to choose between one looter shooter aspect or the other. Max level or awesome loadouts. Not both. [/quote]