To be fair, you did just play the least fun part. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Saturday, March 21, 2015, 12:31 (3783 days ago) @ Funkmon
edited by CruelLEGACEY, Saturday, March 21, 2015, 12:43

Funkman beat me to it, but I was going to say that I usually feel somewhat burned out and "meh" after a hard mode Crota run. The only thing that takes the edge off is if I get a piece of gear I'm excited about (which is rare these days, since I have almost everything).

Not that I disagree with you; Destiny is in dire need of new content. I'm happy about all the "quality of life" improvements that have been or will be added between expansion 1 and 2, but those alone are not enough to keep our enthusiasm up.

I know we can't expect susbstantial new content before the expansion, but I do think there are some changes Bungie could make to help us have more fun with the game. At this point, I think the Bounty system is beginning to have a real negative effect on my day-to-day routine with Destiny. I like having something goal-oriented to focus on, so I'm taking the time between expansions to work on upgrading my vault-full of exotics. Bounties are all but required to do this. I enjoy bounties like "get 100 precision kills" or "get 9000 XP without dying" because I can complete them doing any PvE activity I choose. But I find too many of the bounties each day require completing a specific story mission. Making things worse; there are only a few missions with bounties offered, and they repeat all the damn time. I feel like I'm running The Archive every other day because the bounty keeps coming up. Some bounties, like "Kill 7 Hive at once with Fist of Havok" are almost as bad, because there are relatively few opportunities to pull it off. Once you find a mission that lets you accomplish this goal, you end up repeating it every time the bounty is available.

Bounties in Destiny are fast becoming a list of chores I need to complete before i can go and have fun. I'd like to see Bungie add more "open ended" bounties that are not tied to specific missions so we can spend more time doing the stuff we actually want to do in Destiny.

Aside from that, a few other minor changes that would make a world of difference:

* Bounties should pay out Glimmer as well as rep & XP.
* Raids should count towards bounties. All glimmer-boosting items should work during raids and all portions of the strikes.
* Faction Vendors should offer bounties that can be run simultaneously with Vanguard bounties. The Iron Banner is great for upgrading gear because you can complete Crucible & IB bounties at the same time. This should be expanded out to the other vendors.
* Xur should offer 1 exotic bounty each week, with a specific known weapon given as a reward for completion. And not just 1 of the 5 exotic bounties already available... There should be a bounty for every single exotic weapon. If you don't complete the bounty by Xur's next visit to the tower, you fail and miss your chance.