definitions of grinding/farming (Destiny)

by ManKitten, The Stugotz is strong in me., Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 14:41 (2482 days ago) @ kidtsunami

It’s the PvE side that has me anxious about the future.

Ask yourself why grind specifically is being asked for. Not more things to do. Not harder things to do. But specifically grind.

I can’t help but feel like story is mostly a lost cause. The lore is fine. We need STORIES to tell. Since 2014 the lore has been excellent. The narratives not so much.

This might just be a terminology or mindset that only I use but I see a difference in farming and grinding.

In D1 I would regularly, almost daily, pick up bounties and go knock them out, collect planet resources and work on powering up weapons and armor. Everything that I was doing was actively and gradually making a difference and improvement. When I was done, I felt I had accomplished something, had fun and looked forward to playing the next day. That is farming.

In D2, I've completed the story missions and have no reason to replay them. I've collected all of the weapons and armors, all exotics, there is nothing new left for me to collect or earn. But, I've still been playing with my hunter because, during the campaign I didn't know that Quickfang was hunter exclusive, and locked to a story mission...but at some point go the impression that it could drop from Banshee or Shaxx, so I still play in hopes of getting Quickfang...but nothing. This is not particularly fun. This is grinding.

Side note, I've never created a Titan so have started a new campaign over the weekend and it's been fun.

I'd still argue that your definition of grinding could use some work. My quick definitions are:
1. Farming - the repetitive collection of something
2. Grinding - the repetitive performing of an activity to achieve a reward whether through RNG or collection of something

Not sure why you used a story where you were grinding by mistake (there's an interesting point to be made there that it's confusing for people who don't read online guides to figure out what they have to do for certain rewards), rather than something like the Tractor Cannon, I don't have it currently and the ways I can get it are from are an engram (grinding) or from Xur (farming legendary shards).

I'm not a fan of farming OR grinding, and have appreciated fewer instances of both in D2. I'm mostly OK with the location token farming as I have never felt driven to artificially farm them, I just get them for doing cool things I enjoy.

I guess I see farming as enjoyable and grinding as not. Both are pretty much the same activity, it's just how you perceive it.

Also, I have no idea how to get a Quickfang but I also don't care that much either. :P