There is nothing to do because Bungie created nothing to do. It's simple logic really...

You know why you feel like this? Simply because it's true, there is nothing to do in the game. The story is told through lore books. Atleast 98 % of the story is. Not very engaging, is it. The game outside of seasonal activities, the core game, has not seen ANY love, qol and content updates un years. It stayed the same ever since they made it free to play. Should tell you a lot. They constantly take content from the core game AND seasonal stuff away. And the biggest point is that there's NOTHING to chase. Literally nothing. Most mmo's have a gear grinding phase with a new expansion and after that, it's mostly chasing cosmetics such as transmogs, mounts, pets and housing stuff. That's how people play mmos after beating the new raid x amount of times. Destiny has nothing of that. No expanding world with years of content to come back to as a new player to collect old transmogs like wow, final fantasy etc. due to the DCV removing everything. Mount like items (sparrows kinda) are almost exclusively sold in the store, just like our version of pets (ghosts). There's no ashes of alar you can grind months and months for cause it has a low drop rate and it's rare and unique. No, in Destiny it's 12 bucks and can be bought. Grind over. Destiny is what other mmos have at the very beginning of major expansions. Gear grind. And that is all. It gets old imo.

The difficulty destroys clans. You join a clan of say 50/80 and play quite frequently. Within a very short space of time there’ll be a group of elitists/best players etc who only play with each other in order ‘to get things done’… the other 44/74 then gradually leave the clan or the game. Ad nauseum.

[quote]I find myself often wondering what I want to do. I love the feel of Destiny. I love the buildcrafting. I love going in and experimenting with ideas. However, so many times I've just sat in orbit feeling like there's nothing worth doing.[/quote] That's called burnout. The best thing to do is leave the game for a month or two and play other games. When you come back to Destiny you'll feel better. But for every time you do this, the burnout will come sooner than the time before (unless Bungie really, REALLY, creates a lot of original, engaging, and rewarding content, which is highly unlikely to happen).

I love Gambit. It just sucks getting paired with awful players who have never heard of the words "Particle Deconstruction". Anyone shooting majors and bosses with a sidearm should be banned.

I agree and disagree. I think there is nothing to do because I done it ALL already. strikes, 1 zillion times - Check Gambit, as much as I can stand - Check PVP, hate it but have done some - Check Legendary lost sectors, again and again, and again - Check patrols - check etc. You get the point, right? Nothing NEW to do! I have done it all already and now I am going through my vault working on catalysts for all the exotics I have yet to finish. Can you say "boring grind fest"?! Trying to get ammo to drop for tractor cannon, when it is a heavy shot gun so shot gun ammo finder does not work. I basically run from public event flag to public event flag for 14 bullets. The ammo economy needs fixed in PVE in a bad way.

The problem I have with Legendary Lost Sectors are the ones with glitchy Overload Champions (a certain Europa one comes to mind). While persistence can bring you victory, the grind you may partake in becomes a little annoying when you have to put up with that. I agree with the post though and I'm sure my friends would too.

I fixed the problem by not playing anymore, and not sure if I will ever be back, most definitely not for the anniversary scam dlc. Time away made me see I’m really not missing out on anything except a never ending pointless grind.

Play another game. I just started playing Final Fantasy 14 Online and I have never been happier. Realizing that there are OTHER games and breaking away from my Destiny addiction was refreshing.

[quote]I find myself often wondering what I want to do. I love the feel of Destiny. I love the buildcrafting. I love going in and experimenting with ideas. However, so many times I've just sat in orbit feeling like there's nothing worth doing. PvP is pretty fun, but the same maps over and over again get a lil old. Gambit has a whole mix of boring things, like unnecessarily tanky enemies and the tendency to have just random BS happen. However, I want to focus more on the PvE aspect of the game for this topic. There are a multitude of PvE activities in the game, from strikes and raids, to seasonal activities and patrols. There is no shortage of things to do in this game, and yet it feels like there isn't anything to do. I feel the reason for this is that nothing gives a proper challenge to the player. When I say a "proper challenge," I don't mean the game isn't difficult enough. The game can be extremely hard, it's just often the difficulty feels contrived and forced. There's also the whole aspect of forcing co-op for the highest-tier activities, which sometimes isn't easily achievable for some, but that's a whole different topic. Patrols are laughably easy. They are also mind numbingly unrewarding. Common strikes can also be extremely easy, but I genuinely find enjoyment in experimenting to find the most busted and broken ways to utterly break strikes. However, the fun of strikes can end up being throttled by random teammates with bad synergy/teamwork, and sometimes the throttle doesn't even seem like it can open up enough for you. The same can be said for lower tier nightfalls. If only they, too, weren't so soul-crushingly unrewarding. Seasonal activities tend to be 6-player, matchmade activities (aside from wrathborne hunts). You make up 1/6th of the team. This means regardless of your power, knowledge, skill, and contribution towards the goal, the throttle placed by random matchmaking is much more powerful. Will it go full open and reward you for your power? Or will you get cruddy team mates who make the activity feel like a slog? Either way, they also tend to be very unrewarding. Higher-tier content tends to have artificially placed difficulty. Being challenged is fun, but what's not fun is rendering 4/5th's of the game's options unviable. This severely limits player freedom of choice when only a handful of options are adequate enough. Still, though, optimization is fun, and it's still possible to blow away a hard activity with a good team, it's just getting that team can be it's own headache. All in all, when I get on for a bit of Destiny, I just don't have much fun with the bulk of the game. Patrols are boring and don't have any real rewards, the seasonal activities are ludicrously grindy and can be tedious. Most matchmaking in this game can ruin a good time, and as someone who doesn't have a regular group of friends, it's a huge hassle to get a team together for higher-end content. There is one saving grace activity that I thoroughly enjoy, though, and that is Legendary Lost Sectors. They are the perfect difficulty to challenge me and really test my buildcrafting, skill, and strategy, yet easy enough that once I get the gameplan and rhythm down, I can blow through them at full power. It actually feels good to play them. I contribute 100% of the effort, so the throttle is fully under my control. The game actually even rewards me for learning how to optimize and explode through the activity by faster completions, and it's actually somewhat rewarding to do so. I truly hope they open up more activities that feel this way in the future.[/quote] There’s plenty to do just nothing you want to do. Fixed your multi page essay for you.

I've started running through my head on how to solo the Prophecy dungeon, got me working on a Warlock. Tried it with Titan, and it just did not work out.