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7/27/2025 8:33:00 PM
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The power grind might be what breaks me
Coming from 8k hours logged play time; I've put in grind before, I've played through the droughts, I've found things to enjoy beyond normal gameplay (trio raids, sparrow tech, etc)... But this? The power grind might be what breaks me.
The power grind is hopelessly irrelevant. It was tolerable before, but this iteration is by far the worst. It doesn't matter that we can "grind what you want for as long as you want" when the grind is soulless, arbitrary, and completely meaningless as we are just power capped anyway.
Gating the best that the game has to offer behind a forced and meaningless time investment does not inspire joy. Oh, and then enforcing a power delta once you get there completely invalidating the arbitrary number. Make it make sense Bungie, because it hasn't for years now. Just hard commit to curated difficulty (hidden power deltas) and get rid of the useless number already. That's how the majority of the game already plays anyway. If it must stay, reduce the barriers to enjoying your game by jacking up the rate we can power level through ALL power bands.
Side note: the removal/lack of raid and dungeon content as part of the power grind is honestly the most insulting part of this change. And no, adding single encounters to the portal will not alleviate this issue.
Bungie, I'm not asking for change tomorrow. I only ask that you reconsider the power system internally and addresses the overwhelming concern. Your community is not stoked and you do not have the luxury to sit on your hands to wait and see how the dust settles. The community will continue to hemorrhage if communication lags.
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3 RepliesYeah nobody likes it like the most effective way to level up is to do lost sectors on harder differences and to just speed run it.. Streamers would enjoy those not regular players who just want to play the game and enjoy it this concept is not just for casuals that's for any player even hardcore players. There are even streamers who are coming forward and saying they don't like the progression they are saying that from 300 to 350 the progression is slower the rewards are terrible and that they want the game to be that if you play on harder difficulties with negative modifiers where the content is almost like 50 levels above you and you're trying to solo it like literally the rewards should be dropping 6 drops not one drop... That has always been the problem with destiny 2 since shadow keep they increase the challenges but they don't improve the rewards... That's why people refer to the current progression as you being a hamster in a hamster wheel. Also I know people who are 350 right now would argue that what I say here is incorrect yeah they would say that because they abused Encore. Most people who hit 400 by now they used the Encore glitch because just remember bungie took almost 5 days to fix it if someone grinded 5 day straight in encore everyday yeah anybody would hit 400 because just remember people were getting plus 10 drops as 6 to 7 drops...
