[quote]In the title, get rid of it along with all the fun-destroying mods like... Avant Garde Glass Cannon Shields and Element trade offs Haste Oscillation Grapplehook Just obliterate them all. Stupid damned mods ever, thought up by mindless -blam!- heads.[/quote] All Bungie care about is giving to take away again. Their whole philosophy on gaming is give, and take away. They can't be bothered to actually conjure up a fun game with interesting dynamics, no, they want you to suffer for your supper. Horrid raid mechanics, elitist crucible matchmaking designed to benefit the top tier player, and alienate the majority of people who just aren't top tier. Ridiculous banes and mods, always being under light level for activities instead of just making them more challenging in a fun way. They have no idea how to make a game, because all they're interested in doing is forcing their own personal sick twisted narrative onto us and making us play out their fantasies of what a game should be. They should never be allowed to make another game unless Sony are predominantly behind it.

The shield trade off is definitely one i don't like. Makes things ridiculously hard with glass cannon. Never been through so many lives in one go.

Well they think it is meaningful content, not to mention they think it is fun and engaging game play. Remember they have devs who think making the game so hard it causes players to cry is a laughing matter. Bungie has lost it's way so bad I believe there is nothing that will save it. Sony will keep the name but it will no longer be bungie.

Avant Garde - play how they want, not how you want. Haste - I'll use my Titan barrier to fight the boss - oh wait, Bungie killed me. Grapple - Kill those ads with my grenade! Oh crap it shot me right into the boss - and back to orbit. Some fat-head at Bungle approved all this. I think it was Pete giving us the middle finger on the way out the door. Hope all his cars throw a rod.

I'm confused; can't you just not choose those if you don't like them?

What’s the one where you need to constantly be moving? yeah… that one sucks.

Volatile shields is the only modifier that I lothe, the rest are so-so don’t really care or notice them really

The ability to choose all these modifiers is just lazy development by Bungie. It's like they wanna waste our time selecting modifiers to get to a certain score. Then i start the match up and it immediately drops to a B+ for no reason.

Obviously they're not mindless because if they were they wouldn't have been able to come up with such imaginative mods that piss so many people off. IMHO they're trying to "encourage" players to try different gear and play styles. If I made an amazing game with all kinds of potential to do cool stuff, and almost everybody ignored most of it and did the most "efficient" thing every time, I'd want to "encourage" them to discover it more too. It's something they've always done. How heavy handed they got has varied. "Encourage" and "force" can get confused. I think many people agree that right now the hand lies very heavy. Personally, I dislike some of those mods so much that if I don't really covet a specific guaranteed piece of gear I nope right out. Now to piss people off... They've said that the Portal system is a work in progress. Including the mods. It seems they really mean it because they've already announced changes to the system and their plans. As always, we shall see what we will see. I believe they're trying to make the fundamental changes that people have been saying the game needed for a long time. Hopefully they developed the Portal system to be easy to modify. At least [i]easier[/i] than things used to be. They've said that one of the challenges to making changes in the game was that the software architecture was largely based on modular design and that cross-modular integration burned time and resources. And they were doing things to make it better. At least that's the way I understood it. To the best of my memory. Take it with some salt. Probably more than a grain. Justin Truman has said that throwing a game out there in an imperfect state and then continually improving it is the way to go. https://gdcvault.com/play/1028088/From-Box-Products-to-Live I know... I know... "over deliver". This guy addresses that at least as well as I could... https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1mwp26k/with_justin_truman_replacing_pete_fancy_cars/ So all that just to say... you could look at it like this kind of feedback is exactly what they're looking for. That they'll use player feedback along with all the stats they collect to tweak the game. And someday it will be great. And we'll all be happy as clams. You could look at it that way... couldn't you?

[quote]Avant Garde[/quote] I'm using mainly new gear anyway. I think each of my characters has 1 piece that isn't. [quote]Glass Cannon[/quote] The customized option exists. This is you problem. [quote]Shields and Element trade offs[/quote] Don't care one way or the other. [quote]Haste[/quote] Depends on play style. It also helps against the Brawn player stake. [quote]Oscillation[/quote] Haven't used it yet since I'm too busy customizing my activities (see Glass Cannon comment) [quote]Grapplehook[/quote] Not a big fan of it.