I think the ability to switch it is good enough, except for how expensive it is to change masterworked gear. That just doesn’t make sense to me

You are asking Bungie to break the loot system, and Bungie (for once) is smart enough NOT to do it.

It shouldnt be changeable - it simply shouldnt exsist. It restricts builds such as cannon (void)/shotty (arc) and was done purely to extend playtime and force you to get 3 seperate sets - which even then you can maximize efficiency with due to the above issue ^

Gotta love when people forget it not their game and try to demand that everything changes to fit what they want. Lol

I like the changes. I personally like grinding for good rolls. If they got rid of affinity then once you get a good roll on one set of armor then you never need to look for another set. By the way their are plenty of people who put in hours in this game that don't stream. Most people who complain about streamers play a few hours a week or a month and want everything immediately.

I can't see why people like yourself are complaining over a compromise. If you can't find time to grind then I don't know what else to tell you. The deal with armor affinity is adequate. Why? Because it's so easy to farm out the materials. Stay with me on this. 950 Nightfalls drop prisms / exotics / shards / cores and it's the easiest of the harder tiers. Pit of Heresy drops masterworked gear at the boss. - melted down - 6 prisms / 6 cores. Spider- Daily rotation of materials to buy for other items. People complaining about this really aren't thinking it through. They're using this to take stabs at bungie for compromising. Without eroding an already easy grind. I work 4/7 days a week. Do I grind in those 4 days I work? If I have time before work sure. If not then I'll wait. Destiny isn't exactly going anywhere. The only thing I would say is for raids to have Ascendant Shards drop at boss fights. 2 per fight since that'll make you have 6 per week. (across 3 chars). Since it takes 3 of them to masterwork exotics. (using garden as an example it would have to be tuned out for things like last wish or Leviathan)

Shortsighted. If it wasn’t expensive to swap, everyone would only need a single set of armor for the rest of the game’s lifespan. Say goodbye to incentive, and player population with it. This is a win-win solution that doesn’t sabotage the game.

Yep, this the hot' it' take lol. Legit question: how many pieces of armor do you have do you plan on changing? I'm asking because i bet it's not as much as you and others ranting about the costs are trying to make it seem. Which means it isnt gonna cost that much in materials to change it, and yall just complaining to complain. I understand people wanting to change elements without a cost, but those same people are ignoring that bungie wants people to play the game, which is what all devs want. This is a trade-off, which is ok.

I remember a few years back when Deej said Bungie would respect our time in the future.

That's how I feel every time I look at playing Destiny 2 now. It's a job, a grind. It's a theme park of grinding for stuff. Pick your ride & grind it for rewards. It's design is what I've seen mentioned here, as a Skinner Box. And the encounter design, ugh. Some how Luke Smith thinks that ads spam is good game design. That removing the power fantasy for the players is a good thing. Dumping story in walls of text is easier than telling the story & having the players play through it. I'm pretty much done with D2 & it's arse backwards anti-player design. I'm seriously considering getting D1 again to play casually.

[quote]The more you demand people grind out assets to trade in for roadblocks you yourselves put into this game, the more people are going to complain and leave.[/quote]Is Destiny the only RPG you've ever played?

Imma be real with you man, the fact that your aren’t considering how much stress you’ll put on the engine, and your console, to load up your entire mod collection is worrying. The affinity system is a cheap way to reduce stress, have you not noticed frame drops when trying to change a mod when that mod list has been increased? Imagine all 160+ trying to load onto your screen. Fine, we can reduce to 10 slots to show your mods, now you gotta look through the mess to find them. The affinity system is an easy to use system, it’s a category for mods, it helps ease things for the engine and console. The ability to change the affinity is more than enough, some people are still on their generation 1 consoles, I hear people complaining about lag in the menagerie, I have no clue what they’re complaining about. Now imagine those players having to load up a list? Insane demand to make without realizing your nullifying a portion of the player base.

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