[quote]D1Y1 veteran here across multiple accounts and consoles. It's the first time in over [b]10 years[/b] that when I think about how ridiculous are the decisions made for the progress of power grinding and how the portal works...I honestly prefer doing something else. Like thousands out there I enjoy raids and dungeons. It's sad that all raids don't drop anything useful, I still run desert perpetual because I enjoy the mechanics and playing with my friends and even teaching, even if I know that the loot is useless for power grinding...but honestly I prefer [b]ANYTHING ELSE[/b] rather than doing Portal activities or worse Heavy Metal until my eyes bleed. Frankly I don't have all that time to waste and neither my friends who left for Helldivers 2 or Warframe or Borderlands or even Destiny Rising...etc. It's sad that such bad game design decisions are impacting even the most passionate fans of D2. On top of this, the incoming Nerfs are like gasoline on a burning house.[/quote] So you prefer to play other things other than portal activities. You prefer dungeons and raids. If you like playing dungeons and raids why would you want gear to level up when the activities that require higher levels are portal activities that you don't want to do. The item that drop in the activities you like to play are no useful for leveling doesn't make sense when you say you don't like doing portal activities so there's no need to level up.