-When you wiped in nightfall and had to start from the beginning.( that was demoralizing on the longer strikes) -pre HOW There was only one way to reach max level, and that was to equip all raid armor. -When you stayed up untill reset to get nightfall done on all 3 charachters so you could have an xp boost for a week(and a cool blue flame on your head) -When you had to play Crucible in order to get crucible marks to buy crucible and faction items. Or play strikes and the daily,weekly and nightfall to get vanguard marks to buy Vanguard gear -When you grinded strike playlists and patrol just trying to get enough mats to unlock the next damage node on the gun you got in nightfall -The perks on items had to be unlocked, along with higer Damage and Defense values, some people were stuck at 31 because they didn't have enough Radiant Shards to level all there Crota gear -When you had to do 6 patrol missions in order to complete the patrol daily bounty. -More difficult bounties, like kill 2 enemies at once with a fusion rifle 20 times, or kill 3 enemies in one super use 20 times. -After TDB, having a mountain of Ascendent Shards and Energies in your vault