For 1 season

It’s good for people like me, who have other games, a life and a job.

The seasonal pinnacle climb was literally the only reason that I ventured into Gambit. It certainly wasn't for the map variety... 🤷‍♀️

But Bungie just can't help themselves can they - yes, they've removed the seasonal level grind but they've also taken away most of the solo pinnacle sources at the same time. They can't give us something good without them thinking "OK what can we take away from them to spoil their fun". Both my Warlock and Hunter are 1810 base and I just need Gauntlets for my Titan who's 1809 base, so I thought great, I'll just do my Vanguard, Gambit and Crucible pinnacles to hopefully max out my Titan. Except they're no longer pinnacle - only powerful - clearly Bungie hates solo players. [b]UPDATE:[/b] So I've just reached Guardian Rank 7 and to achieve Guardian Rank 8 one of the objectives is to "Earn pinnacle rewards from Gambit, Nightfall or Crucible weekly challenges". But, of course, there are no pinnacles for Gambit or Crucible any more so clearly Bungie's left hand doesn't even know what its right hand is doing. Do separate departments even talk to each other anymore?

[quote]Love the no level grind, please keep it this way. Re-leveling every three months became boring and felt like a chore. Now I feel the game is opened up to do whatever I want.[/quote] No level grind, good (in theory). But very poorly implemented. Typical Bungee lately. Activities that once awarded Pinnacles now reward 'powerful gear' but require MORE repetition to even get those. (3 strikes only 60% finished) AND those activities now lock players into a level DISADVANTAGE which makes every mob more of a bullet sponge. It even took (at least) a third of clip to get an 'explosive' barrel to explode. Also, you still have to level for the 'rewards' of the season pass. (Even though I don't personally like a single thing from the season) Great job Bungie, now even base level strikes are tedious and zero fun. [b][i]Gunship[/i][/b]

Now it’s gonna be super boring, leveling up made you do pinnacles now there’s no reason to even touch half the activities, luckily this season the seasonal activity is fun and fishing is nice and we get a new dungeon.

[u][b]TL;DR[/b][/u] This is a good change and I appreciate it, they're starting to respect gamers' time and I didn't particularly appreciate having to re-do everything. It stopped being fun for the last few years. It began to become artificial, making us do homework while calling it fun, it wasn't. Shortly after Shadowkeep launched, I didn't play Destiny 2 properly until Season of the Chosen I came back to play Witch Queen, finished the campaign and played a bit after. But I lost interest in the resets and couldn't bear to grind it all again. So I left until Season of Defiance (-blam!- to Reef and Petra/Mara) and I did the first season and stopped playing. Was actually going to stop completely until PS: Experience showed Final Shape (Like Holy -blam!-!) I'm seeing 'There's nothing to do.' Why is that a bad thing? It's a good thing, the game finally respects your time a little, allowing you to play other games. No need to worry about not doing something, I can come back later. FFXIV understands that they don't have to worry about ensuring players keep playing their games and make efforts to keep them playing, players taking time away helps them in the long term. WoW feared nobody playing and tried to keep them playing, it caused more damage than anything. Bungie is more relaxed about player engagement, they can just focus on making the game and bring more quality of life. Unless this is the game you live and breathe for, then yeah. But hey, find another thing to fill the void. No pun intended, it'll be good to play some Marathon alongside Destiny 2. However, I do think Bungie has ways to go to make the experience even better. I like some of the changes but hope they make more QoL. I personally would rather have a Destiny 3 after Final Shape. But that's just me.

[quote]Love the no level grind, please keep it this way. Re-leveling every three months became boring and felt like a chore. Now I feel the game is opened up to do whatever I want.[/quote] Kinda killed the reason for alot of people to play Why should i get on if there is nothing other than guns to farm, i can just get the deepsight upgrade and come back once a week

I’m seeing a lot of comments about how people are tired of doing the “grid”…why are you playing Destiny then? Destiny is a MMO at its core so…you’ll grind, then grind some more, and when you feel like you’re done…you’ll grind more. The action/adventure and FPS is just a byproduct of what the game is actually is. This isn’t COD or Overwatch…thank the Traveler.

If you want to engage with anything above strike level content, you'll want to earn some levels on your artifact still. If you want the bright dust from the seasonal challenges, you'll still have to engage with most of the game. If you want to regain your guardian rank, you still have to level the artifact. Leveling is very much still a part of this season, the level just isn't HIGHER than last season. They still reset our artifact level, then kept the expectation that you'd level it again to play late game content that you were blitzing through at the beginning of the week and now will struggle through. They still want you to engage with the same content that used to level you up with gear and xp, but now, just do it for xp. There's no more freedom this season than there was last season, it's just how you're perceiving it.

No more level grind but i dont have anything to do either

[quote] Now I feel the game is opened up to do whatever I want.[/quote] You played for 45 mins last night, if everyone does that this game is dead within 2 months.

Yeah , these things compensate a lot how bad the story and setup is many times, and make me stay in the game I consider to have the BEST gameplay; sad other things arent at the same level, but in gameplay BUNGO is god.

I am very happy with this change! So nice to not waste my time grinding pointless power level and I can just “play” the game