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8/17/2025 8:23:30 AM
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Leveling system is ridiculous. The Whole game is ridiculous actually!
I am not sure how Bungie came up with the idea that this type of leveling is good.
It is horrible. I have to spend weeks or even months if i have a life, of grinding the same few lost sectors.
The idea of raids and dungeons apparently just left the building and team play is a distant memory now. It takes forever to level up and when you do there is nothing else TO DO because the content is missing and the old content is not revamped.
On top of all, old weapons and armors are not so viable anymore compared to the new ones. This is just shadow sunsetting and it pisses me off.
There is no reason to go to vendors anymore since reputation is deleted from the game. Now you when you play activities, you don't feel rewarded for your time because there is no progression at the vendors with extra rewards.
I don't know why Bungie did all this but now this game does not feel like Destiny anymore.
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3 RepliesWhat's even more ridiculous is people still playing it and expecting it to somehow be different/better than what it really is. It's like the blind leading the blind.
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Yeah I'm not touching until the next major update in hopes they make it fun to play again
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And you only get weaker against enemies as you progress and are forced into Grandmaster difficulty in every activity to try to get better gear. Idiotic. When do we actually become powerful in return for our grinding efforts? Whoever thought a negative progression was a great idea needs fired.
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4 Replies38 runs of Skywatch today, one prime engram.
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1 Reply[quote]I am not sure how Bungie came up with the idea that this type of leveling is good. It is horrible. I have to spend weeks or even months if i have a life, of grinding the same few lost sectors. The idea of raids and dungeons apparently just left the building and team play is a distant memory now. It takes forever to level up and when you do there is nothing else TO DO because the content is missing and the old content is not revamped. On top of all, old weapons and armors are not so viable anymore compared to the new ones. This is just shadow sunsetting and it pisses me off. There is no reason to go to vendors anymore since reputation is deleted from the game. Now you when you play activities, you don't feel rewarded for your time because there is no progression at the vendors with extra rewards. I don't know why Bungie did all this but now this game does not feel like Destiny anymore.[/quote] The edge of fate dlc killed the game entirely it went from destiny to deprestiny real quick.
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11 RepliesIt is pure misery, I got drawn in by solstice and the higher tier drops and I reckon a lot of other guardians did too, come next Tuesday I expect a lot more players will drop off.
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1 ReplyThis is so true. The other thing that gets me is what is the bonus for leveling? Higher tiered gear? Sure. But you never actually feel strong and in fact as you “progress” you actually feel weaker. Who thought of this? Right now I’m at like 360 light and I either have to do mythic with all negative banes or whatever they are called active OR do grandmaster as a mostly solo player. Hell I can’t even put on lower light gear and run the Encore mission on expert or lower mythic to get an A rating in order to get a shot at a catalyst for Choir. Now I have to do a loaded challenger Mythic or do grandmaster. I just don’t get the thought process.
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Edited by Obelix: 8/18/2025 1:52:56 AMThe levelling itself is not great but the real problem is the activities to level are boring and unnecessarily challenging at some point. Past a certain point levelling means stacking so many stupid modifiers to get an A. And it just SUCKS to play. Pre EoF I spend most of my time in GM or Dungeons, I loved testing builds and this was the place if you wanted to know if a build was solid. Now it’s a coin toss. You test a build at -30 on Kepler and it shred. Start a quick play fireteam and now sniper one tap you, the build does not react the same, nor the ennemies. Then what’s the point of investing on a build and higher tier gear if a random roll of modifier can toss that away. Rant over Btw did I say I hate all these modifiers…
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They need to buff the power levels of each reward bracket drop at activity completion across the board. The fact that solo ops is the best way to level up says enough
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This was a money grab. Plain and simple.
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1 ReplyThey need to roll everything back to where it used to be. Like everything - the unshielded nonsense is crazy...
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Edited by Mara Sovereign: 8/18/2025 1:45:05 AMYou have to give credit where credit is due. I said the first day by resetting everyone and essentially sunsetting everything we've worked 10 years for, that it has set up a mad sprint to exploit all the sweaties, some I figure haven't been touched by sunlight since the drop. They're reskinning and renaming old shtuff and reselling it while penalizing you for using the original.
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6 RepliesEdited by SuperKingzach12: 8/17/2025 3:05:16 PMI’m not playing as much this system is destroying player count forced to sue new gear really kills biuldcrafting bungie really screwed up
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2 RepliesYessir.. just wait until 400. Worst leveling grind I've ever seen in my life
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5 RepliesNot at 400 yet. Just you wait you sweet summer child. The real pain is yet to come.
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1 ReplyIt’s wild seeing a 5 year old single player game consistently having higher steam player counts. Game has turned into a f2p grind for the sake of it model except you still have to pay for expansions.
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2 RepliesIt all went down hill when they didn't bring back Dead Orbit, FWC, and New Monarchy unique items and rep.
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Free for play for the first time and yeah glad I didn’t buy the expansion the leveling system is stupid
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1 ReplyLeveling used to be something that happened naturally as you did a bunch of different activities and chased the new loot. Now, you have to play the same two missions over and over and over and over again just to get to a level where you can actually have the new gear drop at the higher tiers. "But, you don't need tier 4-5 gear." This argument is empty and meaningless. None of the gear is [i]needed[/i]. If they designed a system that allowed us to upgrade our gear to different tiers through grinding for materials and I could only upgrade it to tier 3 because I don't want to play Master and GM content, I'd be fine with that, because at least I would have investment. Locking the tiers behind power and guardian ranks is just plain engagement bait. And then, being forced to play higher difficulty content just to level up is the complete opposite of their second favorite quote, "play your way" (first being, "we're listening").
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SUNSET THE WALLET
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Why are you still playing?
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I haven’t played the game in over a month and I’m glad I haven’t bought the DLC. Of course the feedback I’ve provided was taken down and I’ve been temp banned. They even banned me from their x account. Same with A_dmg. For no reason. Hopefully when Sony takes over this nonsense will be cleared up.
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Battlefield 6!!!!!!
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Agree, all the way. Bare minimum for a subscription pay.
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Lot players even streamers saying it. I am not fan on this level system. Bungie already lost players base nearly 70% cuz of this and among others. I refuse keep going to grinding levels cuz stressing me out and mental health.
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15 RepliesJust continue to play it, it's going to be a-okay.
