I think Bungie dropped the ball... (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 18:15 (3467 days ago) @ Xenos

Jokes aside, you are 100% correct that my ToO results were ideal. But let's look at the ideal PoE results: the best you can hope for from a 34 or 35 run is 1 etheric light (unless they also drop from the large chest... Do they?). So that's 1 every 1-2 hours vs 3 every hour-1.5 hours. On top of that, there are plenty of ways to spend a couple hours in PoE and walk away with NOTHING. At least with ToO you can get the other reward packages, buy weapons and armor, and get drops along the way.

Right, but I ran ToO for 5 hours and walked away with nothing but strange coins and motes of light, which I could have gotten 4-5x as much from running PoE in matchmaking. I still didn't get the chest piece or etheric light so my 5 hours was way more wasted than if I had spent it on PoE. And I imagine my experience will be much more common than yours.

You could very well be right. Just keep in mind that ToO is by its very nature a highly competitive mode. It absolutely will reward the best teams more fruitfully than those who don't do as well (as such, I'm sure it will only ever have niche appeal within the community).

On the flip side, I played Destiny PvE for 4 hours last night (nightfalls, 32 & 34 PoE) and walked away with nothing but an armor core. That just doesn't feel right to me.