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Edited by AbsolutZeroGI: 11/28/2022 8:52:55 AM
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This game needs less grind.

As a long time player with a decent track record, I can confidently say that there are too many grinds in this game. It needs to be dialed back a notch. I am not trying to brag here, but I've done a duo master atheon, I've gotten every active raid seal, conqueror, and I'm a solo run away from having all the dungeon-related seals. I've done all the seasonal seals, and the DLC seals. So, when I start a new season at +0 artifact, 10 light out from "pinnacle cap", it annoys me. I can do the hardest sh*t in this game, but the game makes me prove that I'm still capable of it every season or else it locks me out of that content. The grinds, as I see them, currently. 1. Pinnacle grinds There's a soft cap, a hard cap, and a pinnacle cap that goes up 40 every year, not counting the massive jump when a dlc launches. I get DLC bumps, because it's new content, new area, and thus it makes sense to see new growth. Adds start out wrecking you, and you eventually grow to shrug them off as being completely undeserving of your attention. But pinnacle grinds are little more than thinly veiled attempts to get people back into what should've bee one off activities like vox or preservation to waste our time. 2. Artifact grinds This has improved over prior years, where GM ready is just over 100 season ranks instead of like 200 previously, but it's still the same crappy seasonal challenge and bounty farm. It takes an eternity to get there just by playing the game, and endgame stuff like raids give you almost nothing compared to basic pvp playlists. It's literally just filler for the first few weeks of the season, and it's entirely unnecessary. I could see maybe using the artifact to unlock mods, but having it increase your light level is a stupid idea. 3. Exotic grinds Every season has new exotics which means back to the master lost sectors (which you can barely even do until you do the previous two grinds) to get the latest piece of armor. Then, you have the seasonal quest line for the new exotic weapon catalyst too, which almost always involves some long @ss grind getting pvp kills with this new off meta weapon. It sucks. 4. Crafted weapon grinds. 8 new weapons, each needing 5 frames, and the drop rate gradually going down every season has most players basically revolting. Oh, and at least 3 of them are new pve and pvp meta, so you have to get them to keep up with the power creep, just so they can be nerfed or power crept next season for the next batch of 40 frames you have to get, craft, and level up, and then craft again. Ugh. 5. Seasonal challenges You know the only thing worse than playing gambit? Playing gambit with 3 people trying to get sniper rifle kills on red bar adds because that's what the game asked you to do, and it's the only reasonably good way to get xp early in the season without doing gunsmith repeatable bounties for 8 straight hours. No, Bungo, I don't have a good sidearm I can take into every activity to get the 1000 kills necessary to finish a weekly seasonal challenge and NOBODY likes grinding 100 chest opens on the Leviathan or 100 champion stuns in master ketchcrash. Stop. Making. Us. Compete. With. Each. Other. In. Co-op. Game. Modes. @ssholes. ----- Now those are just the grinds we get every season. There are other grinds that are omnipresent. 1. Stat rolls Armor has to be double or triple 100s or they suck, according to streamers and reddit. Always gotta be looking out for better armor rolls with artifice slots or whatever the latest craze is. 2. Raid exotic/Adept/red border weapon grinds Gotta get that Cataclysmic with bait and switch or your dps is garbage. Gotta get that adept weapon from trials or you're the worst pvp player ever. Gotta get the GM adept weapons because they're new meta somewhere I'm sure. Whatever. -blam!-. Remember when we all grinded for Stormchaser God rolls and then Bungie nerfed it a few weeks into the following season, citing a fire rate "bug" the gun didn't have? Oh, raid exotics gave a 0.1% drop rate? Go f*ck yourself, prepare to do Oryx CPs until your kids graduate high school in 15 years. 3. Gilded seals Got conqueror only once? You cleat suck, I have mine gilded 6 times because I'm a gamer. Prepare to spend time doing the same challenges again just to brag to strangers on the internet that you've done the challenges more times than they have. 4. Too many seals 1 for the season, 1 for pvp, 1 for the new dungeon, 1 for dlc, 1 for your mom, 1 for the homies, 2 for the previously free but now premium mid season event, etc. Jesus, give it a rest. 5. Festival of the grind Nothing more than a late season attempt to keep people engaged. You made people grind lost sectors for 2 weeks for some lame @ss loot and a seal nobody cares about. 35 freaking lost sectors for 25 triumph score points and the same Lincoln green pulse rifle we've been disassembling since year 1 because it's actually garbage. Glorious. Next time, give us bad omens and that one grenade launcher that dropped every 14 seconds for a year. ----- I'm sure I'm missing 1 or two, but that's nearly a dozen grinds going simultaneously most of the time. It's too many. Stop it. We're humans. You don't pay us. This is nonsense.

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