It's not cheating, but it's also not playing fairly. It's basically the equivalent of taking a shortcut while everyone's sticking to the path.

its not cheating.....its not unfair.....its not a shortcut they prefer that class....oh well how someone else plays the game does not affect how I play so it really doesnt matter

It isn't. The character creation process explicitly lets you pick any character class three times. I'll tell you this, though -- every single person who takes offense wants to get to max level, too. They're attempting to vindicate their own shortcomings by discrediting the successes of others. It's the worst kind of selfishness.

It's literally the only way to get to level 32 before the hard raid comes out of which you need to be to do the hard raid (might I just say.... As it won't let you unless you are a 32) unless you're extremely lucky on the first 3 weeks to get 3 pieces of gear and have a exotic and find enough shards to upgrade them.... My first two weeks I got no gear and only energy..... So far I'm just missing the boots...... As the helm is the hardest thing to get!

It's being brought up more often now a days, but before it was only really mentioned to counter the people who say it's super easy to get gear, and how much more awesomer they are because they rolled 3 characters of the same class to get triple returns on drops/marks. Now people with 1 of each are finding themselves high enough level to do everything in the game on all characters so it seems unnecessary/silly to have 3 of the same class to those people. At least that's how I feel this topic had evolved.

It's not cheating, just poor game design, they should have had all three classes be able to wear the same armor with different looks for each set (and any class-specific bonus on the gear would have other equivalent class-specific bonuses depending on which class was wearing them). My idea would allow everyone to benefit from the gear swapping advantage while also having more customization options and a broader range of looks for their characters, especially with any exotic being wearable on any class. The only alternatives would be to lock gear to the character who received it or to remove the ability to have multiples of the same class, neither of which are terribly appealing. The fact is though that people who make three of the same class do have an unfair advantage over people who don't, and that's not right. I have three Warlocks myself (I would only have one character if not for the weekly limitations on drops, but since there are such limitations I decided to make a pair of duplicates so I could get the most out of each week), so I have no beef here, but it's wrong that we should have an unfair advantage and Bungie should absolutely take steps to rectify that if at all reasonably possible (though preferably without taking away the ability to swap gear, I like swapping my gear and if anything should be changed it's that gear should stop being class specific).

After the horrible rng luck I had with the VOG , instead of being frustrated not getting anything for my fav character I decided to maximize my time spent playing . Work smarter not harder. They can call me a cheater but it's whatever I spent my money on this game and I'll play it however I feel.

Its not cheating. Its scrubbish

It's not cheating cheesing or taking shortcuts people are just whiny bitches because they don't have time to do this

Everyone has the option to make 3 characters. It's not cheating.

I do not think its cheating, but i hate you if you get to 32 like that, than rub it in that you are 32, while other people are leveling with a method that takes longer, but they find more rewarding. play like you want. just dont try to brag if you accomplish something the easy way.

No one strictly states that you are cheating in team we your thinking of just that you are cheating yourself of the experience of three players

People tend to look down upon it since that person has 3x more chances to get gear, while only needing 1 set of gear( and upgrade materials). 3* 3= 9, so you should( if this wasn't rng) finish in 1/9 of the time compared to someone if you both had equal drops. Also, and duplicates got to another character rather than being a waste These few facts are what make some people salty. The issue then is do you want to level up quicker, or have more diversity. I chose more diversity, but heavily weighed on making a second hunter.