I said this on Reddit last night, I think it's all I can offer on this topic anymore, I'm almost done with arguing about this with people who give the crappiest defenses for something that just doesn't make sense. People would rather be irrational if it meant feeling better than others for "managing the economy better": (Bounties) [quote]Doesn't change the logical flaw cores have by being in infusion. They still need to get out. More investing things at the masterwork level are needed vs making the meaning of cores confounded. Re-rolls, Perk enhancement, you name it. Something more complicated than infusion. More mastery like things to use them on, means they develop a healthy spot in the economy[/quote]

Here’s a post I made in reply to someone who’d done a lot of work verifying how many cores someone could get outside of rng. We both agreed that the number can be less, somewhere between 60 and 80, but I agree his number is sound (credit to Tiamat for the work) “Please hear me out. Let’s assume that 101 cores per week is satisfactory for everyone. Cool? From there, I hope we can agree that there will always be things some or all of us find not fun, right? If you don’t like strikes, you don’t do them. If you don’t like crucible, you don’t play it. What’s the penalty for those choices? You don’t get a pinnacle, or catalyst, or some exotic. It’s always been that way. Every once in a while you may have to do one of those things to unlock something, but that’s it. What’s the penalty for not grinding cores? You don’t progress. You may get some from rng, which is why you hear that a lot, but not enough to matter. So, if you don’t grind, you don’t progress. From D1 day 1, all the way up to Forsaken, you could play and progress. That’s what this is about. Not everyone has that time. Not everyone thinks it’s even right to force that onto players. So I’m not asking just for me. I want what you want. I want more people playing destiny, having fun with friends.” For all the people I’ve heard complain about being forced into crucible for some quest, bounty or catalyst, for all the people I’ve heard complain about PvP or PvE rebalancing impacting their weapons or armor, for all these kinds of complaints that are all fair, it’s unbelievable that people in here would support forcing others to do something they cannot or do not want to do just to level up.

They should be removed from infusion. They keep me from using gear I want to use.

Agreed. They don't belong in a basic progression mechanic that is infusion.

I decided to stop playing before Drifter started because of infusion cores. I came back for opulence but once I get the exotics quests from last season done, I am gone again. There is no reasonable way to upgrade gear. The core economy makes it a futile effort. Until that is removed this game will only appeal to the HC players which I used to be one.

You’re right enhancement cores should be removed from infusion.

Gunsmith. 3 daily bounties, 2 weekly. There are 7 days in a week. You do the three daily bounties, for the 7 days, which take up maybe 20 minutes if that, gives you 21 cores. Do that again for your other 2 characters. That's 63 cores right there just from daily bounties. What's that, an hour maybe? You have a week to do an additional 2 bounties for more cores, and other rewards. There's no issue other than you not wanting to play the game.