Gotta start off with some positive things before I start or else this will get too ranty. 1. The April update did improve the reputation system to pretty much where it was before taken king destroyed it. That is greatly appreciated. 2. Adding some year one weapons into the packages is a neat touch. Granted this needs to be done across the board as this game is currently a third of the size it could be. 3. Endgame rewards are better as well. Having multiple paths to 335 is great since pretty much just the single raid wasn't a great progression system and was very reminiscent of Vanilla Vault of Glass being the only way of progression. But there's a serious loot problem happening at the not quite endgame level. Your nightfalls, strike playlists, regular crucible, crucible/vanguard packages, faction packages, and Shaxx's weekly bounty. This is the content that most destiny players play the most. There's some really cool loot in these activities. Strike playlists have strike specific gear, crucible has things like Eyasluna and Red Spectre, faction packages can drop spektar gear, and vanguard/crucible packages have updated year one weapons. Then for playstation there's sublime engrams which drop the coolest armor sets in the game. Problem is all of this is stupidly rare while vendor gear and strange coins saturate all of the loot tables: -People have had to kill omnigul hundreds of times in order to get a single Grasp of Malok which likely will have a terrible roll on it. -Nightfalls are still dropping strange coins and ghost shells as the only reward. -Vanguard/Crucible packages seem to only reward capes now. -Shaxx's weekly bounty truly has nightfall tier rewards because I'm only getting strange coins. -Crucible playlist weapons are more rare than Gjallarhorn ever was. Getting a crucible playlist weapon [i]and[/i] a usable roll is rarer than winning the lottery. -Idk where people are getting sublime engrams but I got one from court of oryx and haven't seen once since. It's actually at the point now where legendary engrams are actually a disappointment because they're always class items or leg armor and they always decrypt to the same freaking thing every time. This is the problem: you could give 335 capes, 1000 Strange Coins, all the red and blue ships, and every ghost shell at 335 and it will still be disappointing because People. Want. Guns. No one grinds through five of Shaxx's bounties for 20 coins. No one queues up a nightfall hoping they get that 325 ghost shell. No one is pumped up when their legendary chest engram turns into a 285 artifact. Even your sterling treasure packages recognize that there are primary and secondary items. If you opened a sterling treasure and just got a single white chroma you'd be a little pissed. [b]Here's what needs to happen:[/b] [b]Strike playlist and crucible playlist:[/b] -Flat out double, triple, or quadruple the chances of getting strike specific gear and crucible playlist weapons. -Reduce the chances of getting literally nothing from a crucible game. -Knock the scales a little bit to slightly favor players who get "The Best Around, On the Bright Side, and Objectively Speaking" medals to lessen that feeling of "oh if I had done just a little worse I could have gotten an Eyasluna" and promote actually playing the objective where applicable. -Slightly harder to accomplish: increase chances for solo players who join in matches late and stick through to the end. These people keep the game alive and need to be rewarded. [b]All Packages:[/b] split rewards into Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary rewards. -Primary rewards are: Weapons, Helmets, Chests, Arms, and Legs. You are guarenteed a primary reward from every package and each item has the same weight. -Secondary rewards are: Ghost Shells, Class Items, Artifacts, and large denominations of Motes and Strange Coins. Not guarenteed but a high chance of obtaining a secondary reward in addition to your primary reward -Tertiary rewards are: Ships, Shaders, emotes/bike horns/whatever, and Emblems. Lower chance of getting a tertiary reward. [b]Nightfall[/b] -Follow the same guidelines as packages. -The strike specific gear for that strike is added into the loot pool as primary rewards and weighs heavier than legendary vendor gear. Exotics are primary rewards. -Strange coins, ghost shells, sparrow horn kits, and emotes are secondary rewards. [b]Shaxx Weekly Bounty[/b] -Crucible playlist weapons are primary rewards. Exotics are primary rewards. -Strange coins are secondary rewards. Secondary. Not primary. -Shaxx is explicitly forbidden from giving me strange coins ever again. --blam!- you Shaxx just give me an Eyasluna. [b]Sublime Engrams (Playstation)[/b] -Should actually drop from things. -Seriously. That's it. Look bungie we're in the awkward period of the game where you're working primarily on Desitny 2. There's no need to keep the loot system so stingy.