Here’s a post I made in reply to someone who’d done a lot of work verifying how many cores someone could get outside of rng. We both agreed that the number can be less, somewhere between 60 and 80, but I agree his number is sound (credit to Tiamat for the work) “Please hear me out. Let’s assume that 101 cores per week is satisfactory for everyone. Cool? From there, I hope we can agree that there will always be things some or all of us find not fun, right? If you don’t like strikes, you don’t do them. If you don’t like crucible, you don’t play it. What’s the penalty for those choices? You don’t get a pinnacle, or catalyst, or some exotic. It’s always been that way. Every once in a while you may have to do one of those things to unlock something, but that’s it. What’s the penalty for not grinding cores? You don’t progress. You may get some from rng, which is why you hear that a lot, but not enough to matter. So, if you don’t grind, you don’t progress. From D1 day 1, all the way up to Forsaken, you could play and progress. That’s what this is about. Not everyone has that time. Not everyone thinks it’s even right to force that onto players. So I’m not asking just for me. I want what you want. I want more people playing destiny, having fun with friends.” For all the people I’ve heard complain about being forced into crucible for some quest, bounty or catalyst, for all the people I’ve heard complain about PvP or PvE rebalancing impacting their weapons or armor, for all these kinds of complaints that are all fair, it’s unbelievable that people in here would support forcing others to do something they cannot or do not want to do just to level up.