But how many friends? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, June 22, 2015, 15:40 (3681 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Interesting. I've always seen Destiny as a three player game with a pair of modes that allow (Crucible) or need (Raids) six players. Oddly, I've recently found it far easier to gather six for a raid that three for a PoE run... I think it's because PoE requires "too large" of a time commitment.

What do you want to see happen to help you play with your friends again? Up PoE to six players? More Raids? A six player ToO variant?

You know, I hadn't really thought about it. I guess the main problem is that the strike playlists and crucible used to be my go-to activities if I couldn't form a party, but now both feel very tired and boring, so I have zero desire to do them. Then, the one activity that I do enjoy (ToO) requires top tier gear to be truly competitive, and I need to farm etheric light for that, but because I'm basically locked out of PoE parties during the week (and because they take so damn long AND because I just don't really like PoE that much) I feel like I have these chores to do in order to be able to play the fun stuff on the weekends.

So the problem isn't necessarily that I can't form a party, now that I think about it more, but is more that I need to form a party for activities that aren't fun for me in order to deliver top tier performance on the weekends for the activity that is fun. And I hate feeling like I'm gimping my team because my gear isn't good enough (see my older posts on CE hardmode at level 31 because I could only ever get 2 pieces of CE armor to drop).

I guess that if I really want to ToO, I'll buckle down and schedule something for PoE to get some etheric light. But damn, I just don't have fun doing PoE at all. FPS bullet hell is not my cup of tea. At this point, I think I'll probably play some other game that's fun all of the time instead of Destiny, which is only fun a portion of the time.