I'm a 619 power Titan and I consider myself a "casual hobbyist" in Destiny 2. I play one or two hours a day, do my Challenges but haven't done the raids sinds Forsaken, nor am I able to complete the forges at this point. In year one of D2 part of the fun of this "casual endgame" for me was creating and min/maxing several builds for my Titan. I'd have my max mobility Striker, my max resistance Saint-14 support Sentinel, my "max class ability reload speed"-build with Crest of Alpha Lupi, my max recovery Iron Banner gear, etc... In the weeks leading up to Forsaken I was looking forward to the sandbox changes with random rolls, and the grind to get the optimum build. Of course, since year 2 all my old builds would become useless anyway. During the "transition week" I noticed different resources were needed for infusion, but I didn't really mind that because those resources could be easily grinded for. Unfortunately the new Masterwork / Enhancement Core economy destroyed this part of the endgame for me. I'm unable to get enough Enhancement Cores to keep multiple builds at a decent power level, so besides a dedicated Crucible build and a "Dreaming City" build I usually just fall back to my "max power" set which is an ugly jumble of random armour pieces. Maintaining multiple builds is just impossible with this economy. Up until this day I still don't understand the added value of requiring Enhancement Cores for infusion other than a stupid way to stimulate people to use different kinds of weapons and armor. And no, Bungie, the problem was never that the name "Masterwork Core" caused confusion. People simply didn't understand why this arbitrary restriction was imposed when it didn't impact the actual max power level increase. Moreover, armour sets like the Iron Banner armour set have become pretty much useless. What's the use in equipping the Iron Banner set if it puts me at a disadvantage? Why would I want to use the Dawning armour set if it costs me at least 15 Enhancement Cores to get it up to a useful level and then a lot more to keep it at max level during the dawning? If you've paid any attention since Forsaken you'll notice more and more people have stopped caring about their appearance and are instead just slapping on any new gear they get, perhaps applying at least a shader to make it fit a little. Also it's very rare to see people with Masterworked Weapons or Armour because the costs of Masterworking has increased, yet there is no incentive to Masterwork anything until you have reached the level cap. I think the problem is the choice to switch to this economy was once again backed by a clinical theory without thinking about the broader repurcussions. I get that it "increases the meaningfulness of infusing a weapon" but is that increase in meaningfulness worth all the additional irritation that it causes among Guardians that aren't grinding for hours a day? So, to recap, the new Enhancement Core economy has had these negative impacts: • Maintaining multiple armour builds at high power has become impossible except for die-hards. • "Fashion" in Destiny 2 is disincentivized. • There is less incentive to masterwork your weapons and armour while the costs have increased. The positive changes were: • Increased meaningfulness of Masterworking • Incentivise trying out different kinds of weapons. • Add some synthetic grind (not sure if this is positive). So, I would like to propose a compromise. Reduce or remove the Enhancement Core requirement for infusing armour. Reducing it to 1 EC would help, but preferably I'd see it removed. Another compromise is to reduce it to 1 EC but remove the requirement for infusions that don't increase power to a meaningful degree (up to, say, 20 levels below max power). Either way it's already possible to just pull Exotics from the collection at 20 levels below max power and infuse these without ECs anyway. As for weapons, I don't mind the requirements there as much, but I wouldn't mind seeing the requirements decreased there as well, especially considering the steep Masterwork costs. I hope Bungie will read this and take my proposal to heart. I really hope I can get back into building my optimised armour sets some day without having to grind for Enhancement Cores or having to log in just to take my daily trip to the Spider to get my "fix".