11. [b]Leveling Up Launch Weapons[/b] - Please, no more of this exotic shard crap. That was just a plain slap in the face. Added damage buffs already exist in the tree. Just add one, two, three more to the weapons that have a counterpart in the DLC. Maybe we have to bring our mats to the Gunsmith to add the buffs, but don't invalidate the effort we put into leveling up our equipment. That was just an outright acknowledgement that there wasn't enough content in TDB.
12. [b]Show the Gunsmith Some Love[/b] - Once you level up, the guy is useless, and he shouldn't be. He sells the worst weapons. His role in exotic bounties could be given to anyone else. He's the Gunsmith and yet he runs a junk of a store I only visit to unload glimmer when my cap has been reached. Give him a real role. The guy is just plain lonely and woefully underdeveloped.
13. [b]Exotic Bounties[/b] - make more of them as they are so much better than coins or RNG. When I finish one, I feel that I have earned the weapon. But now that I have burned through each at least four times, I just quit them. What is the point? (I hate that this is a reoccurring question I have with Destiny). Unlike some, I don't have an issue with the PvP component of the bounties, but I do think they call for some rethinking. Take Thorn for example. I want to stay in any game that I play, but as the punishment for death is extreme (compared to the others) if there is lag, I quit to orbit. If I'm brought into a game in progress where my team is getting slaughtered, I quit to orbit. I don't want to, but your design compels me to. I'll take a thumping if it is earned, but not when your servers/matchmaking skew the playing field.
14. [b]Stop the Nerfing[/b] - If gamers aren't using a weapon class, fix IT, don't break everything else. That's just obvious.
15. [b]Crucible Badges[/b] - maybe there is a place to view all that I have earned and all that can be achieved, but I don't know where it is. If it doesn't exist, please make one. It would be interesting and give us something else do in PvP. And if one is made, please make it AND THE GRIMOIRE available in the game as well as on the app.
16. [b]Add Faction Ranks to Character Page[/b] - it shows all my ranks with the different factions
17. [b]Faction Patrols[/b] - any patrols done for a particular faction should give you rewards for their faction in addition to the faction you are currently representing.
Finally, Story? You have heard the criticism. You know at this point there really isn't much of one. There could be, but there isn't. I know that this is a ten year project. I know there is much you intend to share and a game plan on how you intend to share it. That being said, I have no idea how my life is going to unfold, but I do has a sense of its direction and an awareness of what is going on around me and a solid grasp of our history. The same cannot be said of Destiny other than I go around and I kill one of four alien races. Expecting me to log on and read every Grimoire card is a poor approach to the art. There are numerous games that have offered rich storytelling and greater content: Bioshock, Red Dead, Fallout, etc. all of which have done so on budgets comparable to Destiny at launch. And without a darn app only Grimoire. I shouldn't need to wait for ten years for quality storytelling and content. Or maybe to you I do, and if that is the case, after HOW that is when I will return.
I hope it is not the case.
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It all has to start with raid matchmaking