It is by far the most efficient strategy to level your character. If the game had a more efficient leveling system built into it's more legitimate systems we would be utilizing that. Many other games have leveling systems that put you close to end game levels at the end of story content. So you don't have to work as hard. This game makes you play hours upon hours, days upon weeks even, to get to end game levels. And it makes you play content we've already been playing up to this point.
TLDR: If you Make a better leveling experience, you will get more players who want to engage with it And not *want* to find the exploits.
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I am afk farming because I want to get to the Dungeon more quickly. All three ritual activities are the same that we’ve been playing for months and months. I think there are many here that are tired of the same activities. Tired not of the idea of strikes, crucible, or gambit but tired of the same ones that are in the playlists. Making them more difficult (trials or the new nightfall difficulty level) isn’t making them new or fresh. They are still the same things we’ve seen for a long time. Now that sunsetting is a thing I’ve honestly come to the realization that I’d rather they burn it all down and wipe everything; end D2 and bring us D3. Why? Though me may still have strikes, gambit, and crucible in D3 they would have to be all new maps, playlists, entire strikes at least initially. I don’t want to mindlessly grind. If they were all new strikes to grind then at least they are fresh and they have nuances to learn and become better at completing. The issue isn’t light level grind it’s stale content to do said grind. Those that have been playing since D1 I fear are not going to be engaged by returning raids, strikes, and locations from D1 because for as much as nostalgia is nice our mind eye has already seen this a million times over just like the content that is in D2. So maybe Bungie should go dark. This September expansion and seasons dlc should be the end. The remaining planned content for the following two years be turned into a proper sequel, fleshed out and new. They are going to take everything away via sunsetting anyway or make you regrind the same items every X months when the previous leaves the light cap. So might as well do it properly and give a a proper new and fleshed out game.