I much prefer level grinding, not light level grinding. They should just add 25-50 levels a season. And every time you hit the next level, either all gear becomes that level (which I would prefer) or you get a few drops each level tailored to the next piece of gear you need. For example, all helmets and primaries start dropping at the level you’re at. Next level, all gauntlets and energy weapons drop at the level you’re at and so on as it rotates depending on the next few items you need. And when those pieces of gear are higher level, all world and game mode drops will also drop at your level - except in end game activities where it can drop higher. Gotta give end game content the boost it used to have like in D1. But meanwhile the rest of the players who can’t do end game will eventually get there. I am sure Bungie would find a way to screw with players this way also. But I would much prefer that every level you hit, all your gear levels with you. That’s the way it should be. I have always hated the idea of light level. I only didn’t mind it when it was small jumps. Forever 29 sucked but it was nowhere near as bad as this. It also was fine because it didn’t lock anyone out of content. You could run your friends through raids and nightfalls no problem. And yes I’m aware that there are those will be able to grind that out insanely fast but forget those people .. that’s their choice to play this game as first priority. Look at how incredibly unfair it is for the people who did not AFK forges and not receive the powerful engrams, which has made others 150 plus LL. And then now there are those stuck at 1012 cause they did not AFK. I could not care less if people AFK, have at it. But as usual Bungie punishes those that were unable to exploit or simply chose not to, as they quickly took away the ability to AFK and nerfed the high engram drops. I have not played in three months and decided to play this last season for the dungeon since I already paid for the pass and this would be my last few weeks or so playing this game since they have showed me no reason to buy anything from them again. But I am not going to take 3 months or more playing the same activities that have been there for years, in order to level up for the dungeon to now maybe never be able to do it when it disappears. Even in Assassins Creed Odyssey when you level up you can go to the Blacksmith to level up your gear. Sure it takes some in game coin and materials, but those are easy to obtain. You also could purchase materials with real money and if that’s how people want to do it, to each their own. But Bungie would make it as difficult as possible to be able to mirror this idea and would probably almost ensure you had to pay real game money to do this. TLDR: light leveling is stupid and should only be regular leveling through game play. (Solely my own opinion and you’re free to have your own as well)

List of wrong moves (and I'm only mentioning the latest ones, cause I'm being nice, lol): Removing random powerful Umbral Engram (yeah, let's grind some more!) Stopping low light level Forge farming (wasn't hurting anyone) Sunsetting (don't even want to comment on that one...) Making us regrind exact same copies of the guns we already had, over and over and over again. Replacing SBMM with CBMM in Quickplay Crucible and Iron Banner (now Crucible sucks, too) Removing content with the next expansion (i.e. Menagerie, Leviathan, several planets). As a matter of fact, I would be paying money to actually have content taken away from the game... That's fantastic! Adding recycled content to next release such as Cosmodrome and VOG (I can go play D1 if I wanted to replay those, and I wouldn't need to pay 'again' for it) The list could go on...

You have 3 months. You can get to 1040 in one of those months. You’d have to literally play for only one hour a week to not hit 1040 by the end of the season.

Just stop chasing light levels.

[quote]Why not give a max amount of stats allowed per armor piece and let the player slot those stats as they see fit???[/quote] This. So much this. The amount of times i get an amazing base stat but a god awful spread.

Wow. I honestly thought this was a cool new leveling tool that helped with the grind, and I had just started doing it. Instead of the years old and boring crucible / strikes / gambit / etc... now here is an exciting way to level up faster. Last season I really wanted to level up to 1025 so I could play grand master nightfalls, but because of work and family commitments I simply did not have the time. I thought maybe this season I could get there. But no. Smh...

Think we're all tired of the endless power grind, the fact that 63% of activity completions on Saturday were failed forge attempts shows it. I'd rather they just changed it so all focused umbral engrams had a chance to drop higher power gear. Now i just don't see the need to focus any at the moment

10 years from now, friends will ask me: "Describe the game called Destiny?" Me: "It's a game about Bounties?. . . . . . That's all I can remember."

Yeah, but they fixed the stupid 750 gear drops in Gambit so it kinda evens out. Oh wait. Of course they didn’t. They just left that as it was and only fixed the thing that benefited us.

Don't listen to anyone who tries to trash you. You have a right to be annoyed and frustrated. I'm getting fed up with the power level grind. I just want to jump in and enjoy new content without having to grind for my entertainment.

The community was already tired of grinding. Found an exploit to sidestep the hamster wheel. Bungie proceeds to fix the exploit that was doing zero harm then, nerfed the power of umbrals. The correct thing to do is just let it go. Realize your player base is not happy and not do things to actively antagonize them.

I’m already at 150 with avg of 4 hrs a day, no afk forge. I don’t think the afk forge thing was right, but it honestly barely affects anyone. Everyone can hit soft cap in less than 3 weeks.

I was actually having fun, grinding different activities bc Umbral Engram drop everywhere. Now we’re back to bounty simulator.

Yup, in your corner with a side order of: WHY THE HELL IS THE STORY LINE QUEST BUGGED ON MY MAIN DAMN CHARACTER. Not only have Bungie nerfed loot but they're also flat out stopping progression on many main characters because of a bug, AGAIN. A bug which they have to investigate and patch on a Thursday or next week on a Thursday because that's when they patch things and we can't do it any earlier... Unlike the afk farming which they patched ASAP because players had found a way to get their arbitrary level high enough to do damage to enemies in the season's Public Events and Dungeon. Seriously; What the hell are you guys (Bungie) smoking?

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