I don't think the new system makes endgame more significant. That is the HOPE, but we won't know until people start completing the endgame. Common sense, though, tells us that it won't matter. If the gear in endgame is really that significant, it is also significant enough to ruin balance in PVP - and they REMADE the entire game for the sake of making PVP easier to balance. So if there is significant gear in endgame, it won't remain significant for long. You make a good point about people being able to 1 phase DPS endgame bosses, etc. but that isn't necessarily a problem - if the elite tier endgame loot like Spindle is hard to get. Things were HARD to get in Y1. Not everyone had an icebreaker, G-horn, etc. Y2/Y3 broke faith with that by making all the elite-tier weaponry super easy to get. That effectively ruins the point of this game being a loot grinder - and in fact, its one of the things that destroyed replay value in Y2/Y3. I have absolutely ZERO problem with people becoming so powerful that they can DPS a boss in a single phase using their endgame gear that they ground long, hard hours for. That is what PVE players ultimately want in PVE - to be able to show power progression by improving their damage output and increasing their killing efficiency. THE PROBLEM since TTK launched is that that gear was never hard to get. Really, what you are complaining about is Endgame PVE losing its significance because Y2/Y3 catered to the casuals and instant-gratification crowds. THAT is what made PVE endgame lose its significance. The endgame gear wasn't the best in the game and all the rest of the gear that could be called "elite" was super easy to get by quest or by 3oC and repeatedly running strikes. Case in point? We had powerful weapons and abilities in Y1, and endgame PVE was the end -all, be-all for the game. Certain segments of the population didn't like THAT, mainly because they couldn't get access to that content, and so the importance of endgame was watered down in Y2/Y3. As for the game needing mastery? I think you show mastery by being able to flawlessly negotiate raid challenges/mechanics, not by suffering through tedious combat with weak weapons. Quite literally, not since Y1 has AI difficulty been the cause for raid failures. Everything since Y1 has been difficult because of the mechanics, but once you figure out the mechanics and develop a strategy for overcoming them, you have effectively mastered the raid. You don't show mastery by suffering through long, drawn out, tedious gunfights, you demonstrate mastery in PVE by being able to negotiate difficult game mechanics to achieve a certain goal. All it shows by completing content with nothing but a primary weapon is that you have the patience required to plink away at bosses who aren't necessarily hard - they're just tedious. And that's not fun. Bottom line, Destiny in PVE needs to embrace the SUCCESSES of Y1 and continue to build upon it to address its short comings. Not all of Y1 was a mistake.