I'm not saying that light should be changed though, my problem is the lack of reward to drive players to actually complete raids in the first place. As a casual player, do you have any desire doing the raid knowing it really doesn't offer anything special? When I said hardships and pain, I meant the experience raids try to creates essentially becomes that for many people. It's that hurdle that so many people can't do so they give up or choose to ignore it altogether. Maybe it's not real life, but I'm sure having that sense of accomplishment is something some players like to feel. Jumping that hurdle is sometimes the reward people want from things they do. As for the rewards, if bungie just keeps everything so easy to get, what does it leave for the other activities? Raids really only grant higher light level and higher light level doesn't matter because prestige raids don't give you anything special, nor do nightfalls or trials. Why should I, as a more hardcore player, even care to do these activities more than once if they don't have a reward to keep me doing them? Why shouldn't these more difficult activities grant higher and more exclusive rewards to things like patrol? How do you keep them relevant when the only reason people even do them is for light level that does nothing other than give you that edge you don't need? The idea that everything should be equal doesn't work because the people who put down more effort are the ones who feel like they are being cheated for their time and that's why they left. It might be a video game, but people's ideologies still pour into this game, and if you don't value the time and effort of the players who play more you have people leaving In droves. I'm not saying that light level or every reward should be exclusive to activities, but what can you do to keep players playing those more difficult activities if you don't reward them in a fair way? Why should bungie hand out vex mythoclast for free when everybody else goes through the hard mode grind of pain to get it?