I've enjoyed the expansion immensely but there's one thing that is ruining my impression and overall destiny experience...
Key farming.
I'm an active player in an active clan. After clearing POE lvl 35 twice I really want to help my friends and clan members experience the joy of smashing Skolas (again). But since I can only get rewarded once a week it only makes sense to do it holding a key. So it's off to Skywatch for the most boring 2-4 hours of my life. It's just so infuriating to pull that chest 40, 50, 60 times and come up with nothing but some special ammo synth that I can't delete from my inventory. This problem is exacerbated by the fact everyone in your fire team wants a key before undertaking the POE so it isn't just one key you need. It's 2 or 3 on different players. Add that to the AWESOMENESS of players jumping in the game and pulling a key on their first try. At this point it takes twice as long to pull a key than beating the POE itself. So dumb.
I feel like friggen Old MacDonald over here. I can't stand being at Skywatch anymore. Please make it easier to enjoy the POE.
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Yeah, the keys are a pretty good example of bungie not being very good at coming up with ideas to make people actually want to play their game. It seems the only thing they can come up with are poor variants on skinner boxes. If they are adamant about this whole key system they should add guaranteed ways to get keys tied to the resets. Giving us an automatic key for the queens wrath named target bounties would work. Or an automatic key for the daily or for the weekly heroic/nightfall. I'm sure the main argument against this would be that keys = exotics and this would water down the experience some how. To which the obvious response should be lower the drop rate on exotics from the key chest. The three hawkmoons I got last week would probably agree.