Upgrading Faction Gear - Am I Being Trolled? (Small Rant) (Destiny)

by petetheduck, Sunday, December 21, 2014, 15:25 (3627 days ago) @ Blue_Blazer_NZ

Small rant - just have to get it off my chest.

Most people seem to be annoyed/frustrated/pissed about the way upgrading gear has been handled with the arrival of The Dark Below; I am certainly one of those people. However, I have refrained from being vocal about it until last night.

I am a Dead Orbit guy; I have a set of maxed armour from them which max out at 27 light. I first thought that it was all basically redundant now, which was frustrating in itself. But upon checking the DO vendor, it turns out they have the exact same gear, but with higher stats (33 light). Yay! Except I would have to level it all up again...which is stupid, no? E.g. The exact same chest piece has the exact same perks, but just with slightly higher numbers. It's not even justifiable by being a completely different piece of armour. Even the exotics have some silly requirement to get have a not-so-Exotic Shard.

People will say "just get it and level it up". My question is "why?". Why is it like this? Why is this game so openly dismissive of the time spent working on our gear? The arrival of the expansion has suddenly made large swathes of gear sub-optimal, with only kooky, cumbersome and laborious means to upgrade them (except VoG gear...which can't be upgraded...because reasons).

Not to harp on, but I frequently feel like Destiny is trolling me every time I put it in. It's become almost a job to "play"; so much so that lately I've found myself spending way more time in GTAV and even Battlefield 4 (seriously, wtf???!!!!!!)

I think this clicked for me when Luke Smith was on TTL Party Chat and kept referencing "seasons".

I interpreted that as the Vault of Glass' exclusive reign being season one. Season one's primary goals: Reach level 30, complete the Vault of Glass on Hard, get the Mythoclast.

So the arrival of Crota's End would begin season two. Season's two primary goals: Reach level 32, complete Crota's End on Hard, get the Necrochasm.

We can extrapolate from there. This is the game that Destiny is.

This is why I changed my focus from having one character of each class to having multiple Warlocks. I want to have an easier time completing this season's goals quickly. I don't think I'd have enough time to get 3 characters to 32 before the next DLC. I have fun playing Destiny and I want to have plenty of time to enjoy this season's spoils before they're made void.