Flaw Explained (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, October 03, 2016, 16:09 (3065 days ago) @ Earendil
edited by Cody Miller, Monday, October 03, 2016, 16:16

The flaw is that to continue progressing after you finish the story missions, you need to do repetitive activities. It does not matter if you are leveling up quickly, or slowly. You are going to be replaying the same things over and over. Be that the strike playlist, Archon's Forge, or whatever else. Both of which Korny used, and he allegedly leveled quickly.

The game does not give you anything fun to do while you progress. So regardless the speed, you are stuck playing boring, mind numbing, repetitive shit. Contrast this with Taken King which had a mini storyline to tackle after you complete the regicide mission. New locations. The story progresses. A cool few boss fights even. So you could have fun while you progress.

Archon's forge is mind numbingly simple and repetitive. The strike playlist is comprised of mostly old strikes you'd done a bazillion times before. You have to do SOMETHING to gain engrams and rep, but what's available is rather boring.

The issue is not speed, but what's actually left to do between the story missions and the raid being of low quality.

P.S. My last 3 faction packages have given me items lower than my current light level.

What I (and many) have a problem with is the RNG aspect where two people put in the same time and have vastly different power. But are we really at vastly different power? I'd wager (with no data) that our skill difference as individuals is significantly greater than the 5 light level difference that RNG has dealt us.

An astute observation. If skill matters most, why have light level at all? Get rid of it if it doesn't actually matter. A number indicating you overall power is a terrible idea in every video game ever. Progression should be based on skills and perks only. That way it's still skill based, because you have to master the use of such skills and perks. Like that one game that did it better than any other game in history. What was it again? I mention it so much I should remember the name…