[quote]One thing we have noticed is a lot of discussions about the Endgame and how it can be improved. Right now, these discussions are also happening in our studio. We are listening, but need time to digest everything and draw up the best plans for the future. We will have more to say on this soon. Please stay tuned, and keep the conversation rolling. -Cozmo[/quote] Thank you for the update and it's good to hear it's being discussed internally. Like you said, there are millions of players and we all have differing and strong opinions on what Destiny is/should be and it's got to be hard to build a game that fits what everyone wants. That said, here are some things that I believe would improve the game and endgame grind (some more easily doable than others, but all I think worth considering) 1) A total rethink on team sizes. 3, 4, 6 doesn't work. Ostensibly the reasoning for 4v4 PvP was creating the best crucible experience possible. It doesn't take much searching to see that isn't panning out. Yes, good connections and crisp play are fun but what's more fun is playing with friends and not telling 2 they have to go after a raid. DeeJ was correct about Destiny and friendship but the current game philosophies don't support that. There are no easy transitions from patrol to PvP to raiding. It's disjointed and leads to someone always left out or already playing with others because there wasn't room. Clans in-game are great, but raids as the only 6 player social activity isn't sustainable. Besides Crucible, patrols should 100 % be accessible by 6 members of a fireteam. We cheese it sometimes and it's FUN all running around planets and doing public events together just like it was a blast to cheese 6 into CoE and Archons Forge in D1. I also think despite the idea of Hunter, Titan, Warlock symmetry of 3 person Fireteams, they should grow to 4 eventually. 2) Get rid of Xur. It's good 3oC are gone but exotics still don't feel like special drops anymore. I remember the feeling of having my first exotic drop in D1 and how exciting it was. They're basically handed to us in D2. I think having chance drops from strikes, the NF and raid underbelly chests is fine; as well as the weapon specific quests like MIDA, but I think Exotic Bounties should return. I think the Vanilla Exotic Bounties were probably the best bounties in D1 and truly felt rewarding. When someone had Thorn, you may not have liked the gun but you knew they earned it. I would remove Exotic engrams from heroic public events and instead put bounty drops in the loot pool for a set of exotics obtained through them. 3) make exotics feel exciting and special. They don't need to all be more powerful, but every Exotic should have one perk that makes it fun. 4) Eververse is robbing the game of end game content. While I think it's somewhat better than D1 (though still hate that Eververse is RNG) in that items get sold for dust that we can attain just playing as well, I think too much was put into that loot pool. The exotic ships and sparrows should all be moved to random drop chances in Lost Sectors and Cayde's chests. I would put them at low to extremely low drop chances but they're content that players would enjoy playing and grinding to get instead of wasted as Eververse purchases. 5) The token system needs a lot of work. It's okay with the world vendors and wasn't too bad with the Faction Rally, but it's not popular in IB and how the same random gear drops we get in every other faction engram ended up as loot possibilities for ranking up in IB is really mystifying. 6) There's not enough unique loot. When it was announced all great would have static rolls, I assumed that would be made up for with just tons of variety. That's not really the case. While the unique sets from the various vendors are cool, there should be more starting with strike specific loot drops like we had in D1. Outside of Zavala's reward drops, there's pretty much no reason to run a non nf strike in D2. I know that for whatever reason you all hated us grinding for weapons like Grasp, but the fact that we did spend so much time farming Omnigul should tell you that we thought it was fun and rewarding. 7) mods aren't fun and there economy is still awful. It's kinda cool we can have 99,999 Glimmer now, but when we're constantly dropping 95% purchasing blue mods to hopefully convert to purple (and not having enough Glimmer to apply them if they do drop! it becomes less fun really fast. Blue mods just need to go completely. What's their function other than to stack to make legendaries? Drop the pointless step and just let us purchase purple mods. The mods themselves need work too. They're all pretty boring and outside of weapon stability mods, pretty useless. I've seen suggestions for things like 3rd eye on mods. Don't know that I'd do that on every weapon, but I think exotics all having a customizable special mod slot (with special mods like 3rd eye) would make mods and exotics more fun. 8) Let us replay the full campaign. The Ikora memories idea isn't bad but should not be the only way (besides starting over) to replay the full campaign. Ikora could still have her memories, but I think they should be special, more in-depth missions in the vein of Praedyth's Ghosts and really bring the lore to life. Wouldn't have to be all the missions either. 9) Give more (read: any kind of) endgame challenges for solo play. The craziest thing about D2's disjointed team endgame is that it's all so punishing for solo play. Crucible just isn't very fun solo. Nightfalls are no longer soloable Strikes don't drop anything worth playing with randos to get Most public events I attempt solo, there aren't any randoms helping either. There's no arena style endgame like PoE, CoE and AF Outside weekly milestones, there's nothing else really to do and no daily bounties to grind 10) Jay from Destiny tracker suggested bringing back record books. This again could really give more to achieve at endgame and could be an avenue for even more unique gear sets (the Eververse gear sets could have been in a record book instead and I know players would've loved grinding PvP and PvE for those set completions. 11) make power level matter. It's one thing to scale everyone on patrol, but it plays and feels exactly the same at level 7 and 90 Power as it does at level 20 at 305. Shouldn't we feel stronger? 12) make endgame more rewarding in general. Playing IB everyday for no gear drops. Running the raid for no drops and level nothing gear you already have at the vendor. Those aren't rewarding experiences. 13) gate content better. Other's disagree but I still feel the raid a week in was a mistake and took away from exploring and really getting into the depth of the worlds. Instead everyone was power leveling for the raid and it turned out level didn't really mean much. Trials did the same with PvP. Now this week you had intended to drop IB and the prestige raid together. That made no sense. Why would you, knowing a lot of people are going to be grinding the raid all week, put out ib at the same time and make people choose? 14) completely redo the crucible. Casual and competitive would maybe work in set game modes, but they are all RNG. In D1 I learned Destiny PvP playing Control. I was able to really learn the mode, the flow, the maps, etc in a game mode I felt good playing. D2 is a nightmare hodgepodge. There is no getting into a flow or rhythm when the game mode changes every match. 15) rethink timers. They're okay occasionally but they're mostly just artificial difficulty. 16) give us a Forge and Theater mode. 17) what's the point of the farm? Once we open the tower there's no real reason to ever go back and even if you prefer it, no vendors. Expand the farm. Give "remote" vendor access and please give us a shooting range. It would be so so so nice to be able to chill and test weapons while hanging out in the social space. Particularly if there were challenges and daily/weekly leaderboards. 18) let us grind and build gear sets how we want. There's nothing that really distinguishes any of the sets beyond skins. My choices as a Hunter are basically mobility and resilience. Sorry, no recovery for you today. Someone suggested let us use all our pointless Legendary shards to reroll the gear slots. 19) keep content flowing. So far we've had the faction rally added. It was fun enough, but let's be realistic. It was content that already existed turned into a limited time event. The world events were the highlights for me though as they really brought the planets to life that week. 20) Destiny is still fun AF. The weapons, classes and abilities are still fun. The raid is fun. PvP can be fun. The planets are beautifully crafted. Playing with our friends when the game allows us too is still fun. Just give us more to do. More to Chase and more to experience both with friends and SOLO. Thank you