Grind? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, May 09, 2018, 10:40 (2189 days ago) @ EffortlessFury

Lol

We clearly have a vastly different definition of grinding if that’s what you’re complaining about.

Each frequency is one use only… to get another you have to do it all again.

So… if you look at the item it at least gives you a clue as to where it's to be used. But you still have to grind for the pieces each time.

Those things were dropping like candy for me. in the space of an hour or 2 I got 8 and I wasn't even trying.

8 is enough to make two keys. I have a quest step where I have to open 15 of them. 2 keys per hour means 7.5 hours of patrols / Public events. Really?

Cody, I think your problem is that you look at each activity with a singular, laser focus. The idea behind some of these systems is that your gameplay time is making slow progress toward several goals simultaneously rather than steady progress toward only one.

But it’s not. You are assuming that the activities that award the fragments are things I would actually do during the course of my normal play. Patrols are boring and mind numbing. Public events are fun only the first few times, and I rarely encounter them because I don’t do patrol mode. If I just played the game, I would never finish this quest.