[b][u]RESPECT PLAYER TIME INVESTMENT TIME[/u][/b] The grind coupled with the RNG is a symptom of the real problem. Bungie can't keep up the pace of development needed and has relegated to the grind fest to manage their development time in fear that too many good drops will allow players to compete everything and quit. Instead they are playing the miser to force the grind and come up in the meantime with Festival of Lights and SRL to distract us from that fact. Just look at faction rep. I've only managed with a ton of consistent grinding to level one character on New Monarchy ONLY 5 levels since SEPTEMBER !!!!?! That's just stupid. Did the math last night on it. Careful bungie. People like me start looking at the math like that and you are in much deeper long term trouble than you think.