I'm not a hard-core player, pretty casual actually. I'd describe myself as extremely average in terms of ability. I suck at pvp. I enjoy pve a lot but don't ask me to do a master nightfall. I've never done a raid cos no one to do them with and the idea of getting mic'ed up with 5 strangers to do something ill probably struggle with is not overly appealing. I'm like a lot of players, average. I like running about killing stuff, do a cple of strikes, a nightfall, run a few lost sectors, do some public events. You know, just unwind for a cple of hrs after work and family stuff is done for the day. I've played since d2 released and bought every expansion. I've got a few thousand hrs in game now and enjoyed the journey I've been on. I've got my hands on some (for me) really good weapons and armour pieces in that time. I've managed to masterwork a lot of it, even without being able to do the high level stuff that gives easy access to all the upgrade mats. I just done my gunsmith bounties and saw spider and was patient. For me, I enjoyed the BL campaign and new destinations but really miss all those strikes, especially pyramidion and savathuns song. And all my gear that went. It was really heartbreaking to say goodbye to so many weapons I'd patiently worked on over sometimes months. And my armour thats masterworked. Its not gone yet but literally all I see when I look at it now is the power cap. I can't afford to masterwork multiple armour pieces every cple of seasons. Its too much. So I feel all my gear now has a clock ticking down to when it will be obsolete. At the end of this season its my breachlight (among others). I got such a good roll on that and love using it. And it looks really good too. But its going and with it so is a part of the game thats special to me. I hate the feeling all my stuff is on its way out as soon as I get it. Its not incentivising me to grind more gear at all. Its making me feel whats the point. I'm feeling more distant from the game, not closer. I find myself looking for an alternative to destiny more and more, and as more of my gear that I've spent so long working on is being taken away, that feeling is getting stronger. I'm not gone yet, but to be honest, I'm half out the door and looking down the street. I hope bungie can change my mind.