[quote]Edit: Hold up, enhancement cores weren't even a thing prior to forsaken right? Why bring this up?[/quote] Cores were added to the game a little over a year ago as "Masterwork Cores". Their purpose was to serve as the currency we used to masterwork weapons and armor. They were appropriately rare for the "capstone" function they served in masterworking. But going into Forsaken, Bungie decided to make this rare currency part of infusion . Bungie wanted to throttle progression...and break the relationships between player time-invested and rate of progression. The rareness of cores would let them do its by bottlenecking infusion This would allow them (if we would accept it) to get us to play longer for fewer and less predictable rewards. IOW....their addition serves Bungie's interests and Bungie's difficulty in keeping the game supplied in content. It adds NOTHING to the player experience. So the player back lash started in late September as the honeymoon for Forsaken was winding down. In their first TWAB, about this backlash, The Investement Team RENAMED cores to "Enhancement Cores" as a giant, tone-deaf, passive-agressive -blam!- YOU to the player base. They told us they weren't going to remove them....and with the name change implied that they only reason why we were upset about them is because we didn't UNDERSTAND their function. An insult they doubled down on in the most recent TWAB about them, when they lectured us---once again---on their "design goals" with cores. Fact is we understand what they do just fine. WE JUST DON'T F-ING LIKE THEM OR THE EFFECT THEY HAVE ON THE GAME. But the Investment Team is too arrogant...and ignorant to the principles of good RPG game design...to hear this.