Character Levels in 1.0 and 2.0... It's Basically the Same. (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Friday, August 28, 2015, 12:05 (3472 days ago) @ Ragashingo

A lot of the talk from Bungie in that latest video was about avoiding that cliff where you could not progress any further until you randomly got a lucky piece of armor you lacked. They talked a lot about letting players progress by playing what they wanted to play. That doesn't really jive with merely shuffling the numbers around and everyone still needing that one lucky piece of armor.

But yes, some clarification would be nice as well...

When they said that, I don't think they were necessarily talking about the way the level and light systems work. I think it was more a general reference to the way loot works now. Increasing drop rates for gear you need, reducing duplicates, more activities give better gear, so more avenues to acquire high level gear, etc. Every expansion has made this more and more true, but now the Raid isn't the end all be all of gear, like it was in vanilla with VoG. You can get high level gear in multiple ways now, so you'll not just be doing the Raid for months on end waiting for that one drop.