How to level for the raid (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 20:20 (2825 days ago) @ Korny
edited by CruelLEGACEY, Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 20:25

I asked Speedracer if he wanted me to show him where to go, and he said yes. Maybe wandering aimlessly around the Cosmodrome looking for collectables is fun for you... if so, great!

It's fun if I'm with friends. It's not fun if I look at a guide, the zoom to the spots and head off to the next step. Like I said, Destiny is a social game.

Like I said... for you. I would much rather spend that time doing an activity I enjoy, with my friends.

You just completely skipped over the part where I explained my complaint: the part of the game I enjoy REQUIRES dozens of hours of grinding before I am able to play it.

Except you're grossly exaggerating about that too. Just doing the story missions and a bit of Engram decoding boosts you up to the 350-ish area. Trials won't be back for over a week, and there's days to go before the Raid, which only needs you to be 360 to complete. Is that such a crazy goal that requires "dozens of hours"? I'm 348 after last night, and my Vault is still stocked with Exotics that I haven't bothered to decode (really, nothing new interests me loot-wise outside of the Raid sniper and Pulse Rifle).

If I'm exaggerating, it's only because my understanding is that the raid is level 385. Am I wrong about that? If it is at 385, then I'm not exaggerating at all.

I'm sure you can survive with regular playtime. Worst-case scenario, you don't haaaaaave to play Trials the day it comes back, or the Raid the minute it drops. That's that "racing" mentality at play (as much as you deny it).

I never said anything about needing to play it the moment it comes out. Once again, you're arguing with words I never actually said. And besides, dozens of hours of grinding over a month vs dozens of hours of grinding over 6 months is still the same amount of grinding.

OR, if the game is built in a way that I need to play a whole bunch of other stuff before I can get to the part I enjoy, I wish that other content was more fun. Again, none of my complaints are about the amount of content (in either direction). It's about the quality of the content, and the fact that I MUST repeat a whole bunch of it over and over to get to the activities I enjoy.

I too wish I could skip the intro of Skyrim and go right into the final fight to save the world and feel like a Hero. That's what the game is all about right? Feeling like a world-saving hero is the part that I enjoy, so if I can skip the rest of the game, then that's what I'd love to do...

Sigh. You're just going out of your way to be a pain in my ass now (<3)

Let's run with your Skyrim example, even though it is total BS. If I play Skyrim start to finish, and after 80+ hours I decide that the ending was awesome and the entire thing leading up to it was nowhere near as good, then that is totally fair criticism. What is wrong with me saying "hey I love this part of the game, I wish it wasn't tucked behind all this other stuff that isn't nearly as good". You're trying to spin my criticism as some form of entitlement, when all it is is a critique! I'm not saying "Bungie, change this" or "Bungie, do that". I'm expressing an opinion.

I dunno, man. I think a little perspective helps out a lot. Try to play a differnet game, like Neverwinter (free!) which has tons of content, but requires some pretty huge grinding (you have to buy resources that let you decrypt engrams).
Or play Rainbow Six Siege, where every match is like a more thinking-heavy round of Trials.

The type of game is irrelevant to my point. I've played and loved long, slow-paced, methodical games that take their time building to an amazing payoff. I also enjoy competitive multiplayer games, traditional single-player FPS games, Bioware RPGs, action platformers, racing games... whatever. Doesn't matter what kind of game it is... if the game requires me to spend a bunch of time doing stuff that isn't fun (IMO) in order to get to the parts that are fun (again, IMO), than I have a problem with the game because of it. I'm not rage-quitting destiny or anything like that. I'm expressing my point of view that Bungie continues to add lots of content to their game of varying quality. Stop acting like I'm being a dick for expressing an opinion ;)