We have GOT to get some form of pinnacle protection.
Pretty much title. On 3rd week of getting 1560 gear with only kinetic and heavy not at 1560. 8 or 9 of my pinnacles from the past two weeks have been my energy weapon. Bungie, come on, we have got to get some form of pinnacle drop protection once we get our first hard cap drop. This is ridiculous.
Equipment level should be removed entirely. Its just an old dated system and bungie doesnt manage it correctly for even player growth for endgame. We could just have weekly gated artifact levels. Boom. Done. Then players can do whatever content they want and have it applied to the artifact. No forced game modes for powerful/pinnacles, no rng madness that gives you an "upgrade" at or below whats already in that slot and then the same thing 5 out of the 10 you get that week which amounted to completely pointless use of a persons time.
But bungo will never do that.
And even easier system - dont have levels at all and every player is just at baseline for all activities and when you need to ramp the difficulty up you select the challenge level which adjusts the enemies health, damage output, quantity and champions. Then you could just log on and play and not worry about the level rubbish that really doesnt matter anyways.