It's not the gear. It's not what percent of the player base is using a certain piece of the gear. Or what the most popular subclass might be. It's not what may or may not be OP this week. Or whatever combination might be "breaking" the game. None of these things are actual game issues. Not because they don't exist. But rather because they will ALWAYS exist. No matter how Bungie curates our gear. No matter what balance passes they make. No matter what gimmicks they use to entice people into playing a certain way... None of that matters. Because they aren't actually problems that can be "solved". There is no "fixed" version of Destiny where these things just magically disappear. No equilibrium where all gear is balanced, and there is an even distribution of gear usage across the board. This mythical state of perfection will never actually exist. And the fact that Bungie seems to keep chasing it, IS the actual problem with Destiny. FAR too much time is spent trying to "fix" things. Especially things that aren't actually "broken". An OP perk combination is unbalanced. But it isn't "broken". It doesn't stop the game from being played. It doesn't make one player so OP that they can completely wreck someone else's game. Sure it might be annoying. And it might even actually break something under very specific circumstances. But "broken" on a game wide scale? No. Destiny needs to be a game where something is able to be obtained, and we, as players, are given a clear cut method of obtaining it. Period. If you do THIS, you will get THAT. Every time. Every item. Every currency. Every single thing. IF YOU DO THIS, YOU WILL GET THAT. And this needs to be clear up front because another thing that Bungie can't control is player time/investment. No matter how hard they try. They can't change how slow or fast a player might be able to do something. So they need to stop trying to control that aspect of the game. If a super hardcore guy can do something in an hour. And a super casual player can do it in a month. The solution is NOT to take the average of the two in terms of requirements trying to find some middle ground. The solution is to plan out the steps based on a solid design philosophy. With CLEAR parameters for completion. None of this % bullshit. The game needs a whole lot more in the way of challenges and a whole lot less in the way of tasks. There is no challenge to play X number of anything. So an artificial barrier to completion based on an arbitrary amount of time required is never going to be compelling. "Get points by doing Y" isn't fun. And it certainly doesn't make it feel like we are a part of anything. And that is what is really missing IMO from Destiny. An actual sense of achievement. Because that is why people continue to play some of the best ever made. The feeling of "hell yeah, that was fun, I did it", or "holy shit that was annoying, but damn, I did it". Not "yay, I made the counter go to zero after umpteen hours doing the same thing over and over again".