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1/13/2020 6:11:48 PM
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My XP Dilemma
My XP Grinding Dilemma
I play Destiny just about every night for an hour and a half. Two or three times a week, I will play for 3 or 4 hours. During those times, I’m typically doing raids, dungeons or master nightfalls. So all in all, I play for about 12 to 15 hours a week. I like the season pass. It’s a fun extra loot grind, but I found that I couldn’t quite complete the premium pass last season. This season, I feel like I will, considering I am at lv 60. The problem I have is twofold. Number one, every time I play I have to focus on the activities that reward the most xp. Those are basically just bounties. So instead of logging on and playing the content I feel most compelled to play, I have to grind bounties (clearly no one is forcing me to, but who wants to lose out on all those seasonal rewards?)The second problem is that most of the endgame content isn’t worth much in xp. Shouldn’t a raid give a ton of experience? It takes my clan about 2-3 hours to complete the raid. It’s quite possible that I don’t level up the season pass in an entire run. Alternatively, if I were to grind bounties that whole time, I would be able to level the season pass up 4-8 times. I suggest, like I think many people already have, that activities should get more xp. Especially things like raids. I feel like 100,000 xp per encounter would be fair. That way running an entire raid would bump you 3 or 4 season pass levels. I’m happy with the idea of the season pass but I feel that activities should be more closely as lucrative as bounties.
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1 ReplyI guess it's too late to say this but Eva's dawning bounties were the very best way to boost the season pass. Because of "double XP" and silly targets like 100 scorn, 50 precision, 5 finishes you could get the best part of 20,000 (1/5 of a season pass level) in a few minutes. Although earning Essence of Dawn took a bit of effort - her 3000 glimmer boutines for delivering cakes also racked up the XP quickly too. Grinding those bounties allowed you to blast through the pass levels at a huge rate - during Dawning I went from 30 to 90 in just a few weeks. Wonder if there'll be something like this later on (there is a "crimson" thing coming up around Valentines day - perhaps it will have some high XP, low effort stuff too?). I guess the actual point though is that all activities should really have the same XP/minute rate so it doesn't matter what you choose to do - you always earn XP at the same rate. (dunno if sitting on a deck chair, admiring the scenery should just tick up the XP counter too though?? ;-)
