[quote]Okay, the paid event card...I get it. You can say 'don't like it, don't buy it'. Doesn't change the fact it's yet another form of gating content behind a paywall and, as a long term player, I'm really starting to resent the amount of times Bungie wants money from me. The event itself....grindy, which isn't much fun but if we're being real it's not a suprise. What makes it just really bad though is that you can grind out the currencies and go to 'upgrade' your gear only to actually make it worse? Why? What sense is there in this other than literally forcing more grind out of players? I mean why would it even be worth spending time on this when it can turn out to be a complete waste of time? Does anyone at Bungie this is 'engaging'? I've said it before, but there's never been a stronger case to argue that there's zero respect for player time and investment in this game. This is an all time low for the shooter/looter genre.[/quote] I Agree with all of your issues (especially about the endless ploys to monetize the crap out if everything). [i]but...[/i] I do like the new Armor stat roll system. The old way to roll 'good' armor still involved a lot of chance. I am sooo sick of grinding and still not getting to where I really wanted to be with my armor. I didn't buy the [i]extra[/i] Dungeons so... [i]No Artifice Armor for me :( [/i] What is nice about the new system: You can equip a ghost shell [i]Armorer mod[/i] and then, when you do the 3rd Armor rank up you can choose which stat gets a +20. The [i]BIG[/i] difference is this: [i][b]BOTH the +10 and +20 can be in the top three stats![/b][/i] I had hoped, when I heard they had 'extra' slots, that they were actually making Avarice Armor available to solo players. NOPE. But still, I like it for the stat rolling.