I know its a lot of fun for some, but PvP is always maddening and frustrating for me and I avoid it whenever I can. That's why I always let out a few choice words whenever I am in the middle of a quest step to get something super awesome that I'd like to have suddenly leads into forcing me to do stuff in PvP. I might be the only one that has issues with this, but my enjoyment just drops once I see that "oh, you gotta do PvP to finish that thingy you gotten halfway on".
@Bungie - do you really need to bar everything awesome behind a PvP wall? I am doing the daily PvP stuff, do you REALLY need to force me to play something I don't like even more? FYI I can tell you that I'm not getting more fond of it the more I am playing it. There is super awesome gear locked to PvP exclusively so do you really need to have everything else awesome have to go through it as well? Chaperone, the exotic swords, the rank 5 gunsmith handcannon. I suppose I could chose not to do them naturally, but when just about every cool weapon is locked behind PvP that is really reducing my options of cool flashy stuff.
I beg you Bungie, for the future - stop locking so much behind PvP all the time - Have PvP exclusive gear like Iron Banner and such, but stop making most of the items have to go through PvP. Makes me a sad lion =C
All that negative stuff said, I have to say that I do thouroughly enjoy the changes to the Taken King and how some of the unique item quest like "Black Spindle" and "Sleeper Simulant" works. These kinda things I love, great work all around!
Edit: Wooh! Big subject. Bigger then I thought. Having hard time reading everything coming inn. One player came with the suggestion of having two ways of unlocking items. One PvE and the other PvP. Then players could pick which to go for. I like that idea. I get that PvP'ers aren't happy having to do PvE, same as I'm not happy doing PvP. I know what I like, but as some have pointed out, I can't expect Bungie to cater only to me. Thanks for a lot of feedback, I'm going to have to mull this over for a bit.
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Half the exotics can be earned though pve? What, half isnt good enough? The stuff earned in pvp are earned there cause maybe their made for pvp! Chaperone is a pvp based shotgun, clearly since it can one shot someone if you hit the head! If you cant do it, then dont even bother. And if you ask " then how am i supposed to get it?!?" You dont, cause you want even power though and learn from mistakes. Maybe you should get fallout 4 and just leave, thats all pve and you can earn and find everything in one game type(meaning its only pve). Destiny caters to two different realms: pve and pvp. There is more pve based content now than ever before, so it only makes sense if bungie focuses a little more now on pvp and make most of the quests pvp based at some point. The biggest challenges are either in the raids or in crucible, where skills(piss off it does take some skill) are needed to get the highest level rewards(not the endgame drops).