Completely agreed, constantly running out of resources to infuse up gear is and getting pinnacles in the wrong slot for weeks on end is tedious and adds nothing to the RPG experience. Leave the leveling to a system that utilizes the artifact to manage level bonuses. This would be AMAZING from catching up second and third characters as well - something that can be extremely time consuming to manage. I acknowledge that they want to maintain and increase player engagement, but there's got to be a better way to entice players than pinnacle drops. There are inherently much more interesting progression system carrots (multi-perk weapon drops from paragon resets for example, or perhaps access to craftable weapon red box drops that wouldn't be available otherwise) that can be employed to incentivize players.