I’m what you would call or consider an average player. I play a 1-5 times a week depending on the week and sometimes only getting in 2 hours of play for the entire week. I am by no means an elite player and have illusion that I will get all three of my characters to 320 before the next big update that will change the game. That being said I am passionate about destiny. I love the game. It gives me an opportunity to hang out and talk with my brother 2 states away, which I only see in person a few times a year. My son watches me play extremely excited about everything that is going on in this world that has been crafted for us. He also is waiting with baited breath to the moment when I give him the nod and the controller so that he can take over the titan he has been eyeing ever since he caught his first glimpse of the game.
Bungie lets address the grind. I don’t mind it. I actually enjoy it. I have embraced it. It gives me something to do when I can’t sleep or I am looking for an hour break from the hum drum of the everyday world. However I hate the way that I have to up grade my gear. I won’t give all the in and outs of the problem it has already been cover here [url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/02/08/why-destinys-economy-shouldnt-remain-rooted-in-infusion/#4968fde07065[/url].
The first and foremost is the fact that my guardian is not [b]MY GUARDIAN[/b]. Sure I crafted my guardian in the beginning but how each of my guardian is adorned isn’t exactly what I want, It is whatever item I have that has the highest light level and that is what I go with despite the fact that I’m not a fan of how it looks. The first thing that needs to be address is give me options to skin and shade my armor and weapon, hell charge me for skins and shaders and I will gladly pay. I want my guardian to be uniquely me, despite the fact that I ironically ran into anther Hunter that looked exactly like my Hunter in the tower the other day.
It’s pretty simple (maybe not so simple to change but straight forward enough), give us base weapons and armor that we then combine with different upgrade materials or even engrams that give that weapon a unique abilities that I get to control. As you upgrade and or infuse your weapon it opens more slots and increases its power. The possibility is endless of what I could create. As I upgrade my weapon and armor it moves up the path from white to green to blue to purple and then finally to yellow. It can still be a bit of a grind but let me make my guardian into MY GUARDIAN.
As I upgrade each item it gets more slots for perks to change or add and options to skin and shade. So now my hunter who I play with shotgun and scout rifle I can craft my armor to hold more of that ammo shotgun and scout rifle and help to boost that weapon. If I want to switch to my auto rifle and sniper then I can make a quick switch in my armor to help me focus on that instead of hoping that the armor that I randomly get has the perks and ammo slots that I want.
I choose the perks or mostly choose the perks with obviously limitations so I could not create a weapon that is to over power. Use the gun smith and give us a black smith for our armor. Give us faction equivalents of each to make it more interesting.
I could drone on for pages for how this could work but I’ve given you the nuts and bolts run with it or just hire me for my awesome ideas!
[b]Now for RAIDS.[/b]
The biggest complaint that I have heard currently is the content drought. You can fix with a little more forward thinking. We guardians are a resourceful lot. We come up with out of the box ways to get through raids. Instead of having your raid be so linear, give us 14-30 different routes to get to Oryx or whatever raid boss.
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How great would it be to have a Raid that is a essential a maze that has multiple different paths that change based on the strategy employed or the time that it takes us to conquer a battle or the challenge. The rewards would be not just gear but items to upgrade our gear to be raid specific.
This type of raid would give all of us guardians a multiplicity of routes, options, reward and things to explore on our way to an larger-than-life end battle. A raid that challenges us in variety of ways and gives me countless different routes to the end battle would be something us guardians could sink our teeth into over and over again. Content problem solved!!! (Well partially)
The possibilities are limitless don’t just limit us to a straight line to sprint through this journey, give us a mountain with challenging paths that we guardians can conquer to together.
Again Bungie I am free to be called away from my current profession to help you improve Destiny.
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Bump. Great post.