A lot of the hardcore crowd hated crafting, "Why should it just be a matter of getting the pattern and then crafting a god roll? Then everybody will have a god roll!" and I'm just like, why is that a bad thing? Also, it's not like red borders were handed out at log in or anything, we still had to put in the work, we still had to do the runs, we still had to gather the crafting materials, we still had to level the weapons up. It wasn't a zero-work proposition. And I can't help but feel like those "imbalances" in the crafting system are things Bungie could remedy: Make a third of a season's weapons craftable, keep the other two thirds RNG; make the craftables good, but the RNG weapons better; make craftables top out at Tier 3 and RNG weapons top out at Tier 5; there's a way to give everyone something to chase. (To my memory, no one complained about the hybrid system during Echoes; some weapons were craftable, some were RNG, we were all okay with the split.) I liked crafted weapons, I liked feeling like I "owned" my gun. Yes, there are many like it, but this Until Its Return is [i]mine[/i]. I liked being able to do dumb stuff, like a triple shield penetrating Ammit, and knowing if it didn't work like I wanted that I didn't have to dismantle it and go back to the grind. I enjoyed the sandbox, the toy box. Truth be told, I still give preference to my crafted weapons today, even though they're not featured and not Tier 5; call me sentimental like that, but crafted weapons were something we could be sentimental about. Edit: Not for nothing, but I [i]did[/i] log in every week to chase my red borders, and we saw that reflected in player counts, too, there was a small spike at reset when everyone logged in to do the week's seasonal story and collect red borders. During a time when player counts are down, that weekly spike would be a step in the right direction. Right now, weekly resets don't mean quite as much as they used to.

Posting this to show the other side of legacy ftf. [quote]I'll never miss banning hundreds of alts daily soliciting in the fireteam finder and never making a dent.[/quote] - Steel Assassin Ninja

Meh to crafting. Legacy ftf allowed carry services to advertise. Don't count on the latter happening. Those carry services murdered it.

While your at it take away portal system too

Crafting system is golden. I never will understand why they basically stopped investing in a system that gives a reason to play

Crafting definitely, it was what kept me around being able to work towards an actual goal then just running the rng treadmill HOPING I got the roll I wanted. For the anti crafting crowd, -blam!- em, they don't need to interact with it and can continue doing it the long boring way if they so choose. But I have better things to do with my time then to endlessly chase loot I may never get.

(we'll also need armor crafting since it's impossible to keep different builds for 3 characters, all in the vault. no, expand the vault will not work. also, we need crafting for ergo sum and exotic class items, for the sake of the vault)

It’s too late for that no matter how many things we want Bungie ain’t going to listen at all

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