When enemies in lost sectors and nightfalls are tougher than the raid with contest mode you know things are -blam!- in the balancing department

Have you played the raid? Bungie definitely didn't catere to those that wanted harder content. We wanted harder raids and dungeon not harder patrol and lost sectors.

One important thing that's almost always forgotten by the elitists who either play this game for a living, or live in their parents basements and don't have to work, is that the majority of the player base are the very "filthy casuals" that they're always telling to "just git gud". We have lives outside of Destiny, and we can't dedicate all our time and energy to grinding and getting all the exotics and god rolls needed for the game to feel as "easy" for us as it does for them. Too much difficulty increase, especially at the lower end, also further worsens an already terrible new player experience. Destiny is notorious for having one of the worst new player experiences in gaming, and from what I've heard, it's gotten a lot worse with the difficulty increase from Lightfall. Keep in mind that most of these new players still only have blue gear, no exotics, and incomplete subclasses. If they try to start playing a game that has little to no tutorial, and now also feels like "Space Dark Souls", most of them aren't gonna want to stick around. And without new players, the game won't be able to grow, or even maintain its population, leading to it actually turning into a dying game, as opposed to just a "dYiNg GaMe".

[quote]Been playing since taken king & I'd really like to enjoy the game I just spent $100 on but it's completely ruined by how high u have increased difficulty. For the elitists complaining previously about difficulty, they could've just used different load outs to handicap themselves if they're just so bored by fun builds & weapons rather than making it unplayable for so many. It isn't fun & there's so many ways ppl could play to increase the difficulty for themselves but instead u cater to them & ruin the experience for the rest of us. Also story missions where u get to try strand r bugged & super bar goes back to zero when u die & randomly so its rare u even get to use it.[/quote] Bungie didn't increase difficulty because elitists or streamers or whatever complained. Bungie themselves stated a few years back that game will get more complex and hardcore in the coming years.

Heres my two cents. Is the game unplayably hard now? No. Because of how well equipped we are these days with ridiculous survivability, ad clear, and dps capabilities, you can kit yourself out to be able to handle the new difficulty still pretty easily. The problem is, the extra amount of effort for the same loot as before is jarring. You get the same proportions of loot but now you have to go in with a lot more effort put forth in terms of your gameplay and your loadout which is frustrating, especially considering playlist activities like strikes and seasonal battlegrounds used to be a place to comfortably go and level up guns or something. Like for example for the earth defiant battleground you basically have to use a void primary if you dont want to spend half of every clip just breaking the shields of every single acolyte. Again, is the game unplayably hard, no. But I think the diffiulty is out of balance. Too much extra effort and attention required for nothing in return

Strand titan with abeyant leap

Yeah, we're not going to handicap ourselves because you think the games too hard. Easy =/= fun. This goes for modes, BUILDS, missions, raids, etc.

This game is not hard.

The game is easy. It needed a change. And it’s still easy.

People who complain the game is hard are : Using 2 primary weapon / dont super / dont use heavy ammo / dont mod armor / dont use exotic .....