If you think we're having fun doing your forced activities day in day out just for mediocre loot you're wrong. I would maybe enjoy the grind if I had no real life tasks like working or cleaning the house or whatever it is. If you have 12 hours a day to waste then there's no issue The issue is re-issued mediocre weaponry that has an extremely low dropchance from activities. And because there's RNG involved there's gonna be a few lucky numbnuts coming on the forums saying "I don't have an issue with that, I got (insert random legendary re-issued weapon) in just an hour!!!! Yes, I'm not asking for handouts. I promote long term play and to keep enjoying the things you've earned. Yet by introducing weapons with incandescent on it, or void related perks we actually have to grind those out if we want any interaction with yet another overhauled skill and ability system It's as if you feel the need to reinvent the wheel everytime, even if you did it perfectly on some seasons. Now I can only enjoy this season on my titan if I use Lorelei ( And it IS as good as advertised). I'm tired of Frosties, tired of Heart of Inmost Light. I'm tired of that -blam!-. These are exotics that add nothing to a build. They just give you your abilities back a bit faster. On top of that very few exotics actually work with solar 3.0. Very few. Only a few weapons and a few exotic armor pieces go with it. For the rest you have to grind your -blam!- off just to get something we already had at launch. Mida. Drang. You name it. Yes incandescent is good, but I'm starting to develop PTSD from the amount of changes Bungie makes every single season. I can take it, but it's sucking the fun out of things. On top of that alot of things got changed. Not just "the way stats are displayed on guns", because that's some high end BS. Guns perform much worse now, and it's already been confirmed. Up to a point you're going to stop using most of your old gear/weaponry and start grinding out the new stuff simply because it's much better stat wise and perk wise. It's a huge slap in the face of any player that has dedicated THEIR time to your antics. Time, not money. Money too, and alot of it. And to add to injury it seems most bottom tree solar subclasses got outright removed. Warlocks and Hunters for sure. Stability now reduces flinch that's why they probably removed Knock 'Em Down. Honestly it's just not fun spending a whole day trying to get a single red border weapon. Weapons which without incandescent are essentially pieces of trash. Again, how about YOU give US something decent. Give us the option to select Artifacts from previous seasons. And since YOU, BUNGIE are all about EQUALITY. How about you give us some void weapons which apply volatile rounds directly on hits. Repulsor Brace is an overrated perk for Void titans. Maybe it's semi decent on hunters. But what does that matter without last seasons Artifact. Why grind out void weapons. We don't have all these artifact perks anymore that boost void. And what comes after arc 3.0? Mediocrity. As usual. The Castellum is such a braindead stupid activity. On a stupid map too. With ugly tentacles all over it. Everything you manage to crap out is reskinned garbage lately. Imagine these Castellum weapons not having Incandescent on it. Who needs a solar SMG or Sidearm? Everyone would use hand cannons instead in PvE. But simply because there's a perk on there that we desperately need to make solar 3.0 great, we have to grind it out. We DON'T HAVE TO, but it's basically all you got this season. And some more weapon types nobody needs in the new dungeon. Yeah sure the stasis pulse is good. I'll still outplay you with my blast furnace. A gun I earned back then, and a gun that's still good. The point is of this whole post ; you're stretching out your content to the max, only letting us do a few things each week and in the meantime we have to brainlessly grind your new activity for a handfull of generic weapons that don't stand out at all. And I would like to get that new exotic sword, but honestly the Dungeon already took me more than half a day with me and a friend. And it's not a fun dungeon. It may be a good dungeon, but it's not fun at all. It's tedious as -blam!-. I have the firepower to defeat that boss with my loadout in 1 single attempt. Yet you gotta run like rats in a maze for an hour straight just to unlock damage phase. And for you coordinated friend groups who have it down, good on you. There's still a feckton of bugs in there, a feckton of bugs in Rift. Let's talk about Iron Banner. I've played a full day already, and I'm at around 1600-1700 points total. A full day, not 8 hours, 12+ It's tedious aswell with no new rewards. Not even reskins, just weapons they gated from us to bring back later. Because they have nothing. The perks on Wizened are a joke. Same with the SMG. I don't think I'm gonna play another 40 hours just to reset rank on IB. I could earn 1000+ dollars in that time easily and spend it on some actual fun. What a disgrace. Nothing new to offer basically, just rehashed reskinned garbage. And the dungeon weapons are underwhelming AF. There's better alternatives around for days. Which is the ultimate final point of this rant : Nothing means -blam!- in Destiny 2. I can do normal strikes for an hour, get some random legendary stuff from Zavala and outplay you with that random legendary stuff. Because every weapon is equal to the other. You don't need a godroll. You don't need snapshot. You don't need any of this -blam!- Nothing stands out. There's no way to get stronger after you've masterworked your gear. No Paragon system or extra experience system that lets you keep passive stats over to the next season. Nothing that gives a player who plays 120 hours a week an edge over someone who plays 120 seconds a week. There's no endgame in this game. Grinding is the endgame, with no goal at the end. Just grinding triumphs. Honestly man, if I cared about that I would've grinded out some seals long ago. Nobody gives a F about your gilded 4x flawless title or unbroken. Because it means jack -blam!-. Your triple stat setup too. You still died 53 times last Rift match. Whilst not even carrying. We're rats, and on top of that they are abusing their rats. Stretching out some dry -blam!- content now over the course of 3 months. Just let me finish your stupid 52 step quest in a day, because that's easy as -blam!-. With a Lorelei helmet you can hunt down any boss with Lament and just -blam!- all over it in massive quantities. Had to vent this -blam!-. There needs to be more endgame progress. Not just really hard to do mechanics for a chance at something that's objectively not better than the random vanguard gear you get. As a matter of fact you can get a 260 rpm scout from gambit with rapid hit kill clip. You can get a godroll Eyasluna super easily or a Dire promise. You can get a godroll Retrofuturist and you never need another shotty in your life. It's why Destiny 2 sucks so hard. Endgame activity gear and weapons need a massive buff so it incentivizes people to actually work towards getting dungeon ready. Right now though I can think of alot of weapons that are much better than the Dungeon gear, and much easier to obtain than in that clusterfuck of bugged mechanics and bosses who take random hikes. Not a question of gitting gud, just a question of is it even fun to do endgame activities. The answer is no. Alright but does it have rewards that stand out. Nope. Pretend all you want how the stasis nade launcher is better than Pardon our Dust from Dares. Pretend all you want how the stasis pulse is super good. Keep on pretending you love this stuff. What we love is being in an abusive relationship with Bungie.