[quote]I started playing Destiny with day 1 of Beyond Light so I started at a low point in the games history or so I am told. Honestly I had a blast. So the bar was set fairly low for me on what to expect from bungie. Even during bad expansions like lightfall I remained mostly optimistic because any bad period would be fixed within 3-4 months with the next season. With seasons gone that optimism is gone. The game feels so terrible to play right now I dont think ash and iron will save it. I dont even think renegades will save it. I do have faith that the expansion after renegades will be amazing but I fear the player base will be gone by then. There are 2 massive problems I am seeing. The grind is too much. 250 maybe 300 should have been the hard cap not 450. This grind is miserable because... 2. Playing with friends is detrimental to your grind. If you and your friend are 20 levels apart then playing together is awful. The person at the higher light level has to turn on all the modifiers to get decent loot and the person with the lower light doesn't get anything extra for playing that way so there is no point in playing together. In fireteam ops why dont we get bonus drops in the same activity? Its just an awful system. What makes this even worse is there is no word from bungie on fixing either one of these issues. It all feels so meaningless now. Before we would play to get loot to use for the day 1 raid or GM nightfalls. But day 1 raids are now for the top 0.003% (unless you play with a cheater) and not for the top 10% anymore. GM nightfalls are gone so what will I use my loot in? PvP? LMAO yeah sure let me go play a game mode where sprinting bugs the game and hit markers are gone. I'd rather play gambit... oh wait! Oh we get to use it in the new raid? Getting 5 other people to play this awful game right now is really hard and fireteam finder is incredibly buggy. On top of that we get tier 1 loot... Look I hate to be another negative voice but we need some feedback or something on what is coming in the future. We need a sit down and chat video like we had with Joe in november of 2023 or the time Luke told us the end of destiny was not coming after the final shape. Because right now it feels like the end. And to put on the spinfoil hat; I think the C-suite is actively killing the game intentionally to get golden parachutes from sony when they pull the plug on destiny 2.[/quote] A few point to note, in all activities outside of conquests, fireteam power is enabled, meaning everyone will be brought up to 5 power under the highest power in the team. It’s also not detrimental to level with friends. I believe you actually help them level by playing with them due to how scoring works. The time it takes to level isn’t an issue so much as the impending reset to your level. Level taking long to progress is good. You genuinely feel like you’re progressing something with the new system. That being reset every six months is not so nice. While there should be something to progress every expansion release, it shouldn’t be the same thing every release. Nightfalls are gone. Instead all activities in the portal can be done on GM. There’s also an ultimate difficulty above them coming later.