With the advent of the new Infusion system since Forsaken's launch, players have been required to use up to 25 Planetary Materials in order to upgrade their arsenal.
On average a loot chest or a resource node will give around 1~3 materials. If you are out in the wild, farming for these materials that you need for infusing, you will eventually be hit by an artificial barrier placed by Bungie to limit your efficiency, halting your ability to keep farming and acquiring your necessary materials for increasing your Power Level.
This artificial barrier was originally placed because players were able to enter a cave for an easy loot chest for Planetary Tokens, which they would exit and enter again, repeatedly, to farm for tokens. Planetary Tokens are no longer obtainable and now Planetary Materials were given the additional function to be required for Infusing Legendary and Exotic weapons and armor.
Bungie, this artificial barrier doesn't belong in the game anymore because it's hampering our players' progress. Especially now that you ninja hotfixed the Spider to no longer sell planetary materials for Legendary Shards but for Glimmer only. This artificial barrier no longer has a valid reason to exist.
The rewards from Public Events also need to be better tuned. Heroic Public Events need to reward at least 10 of the Planetary Materials and a higher chance of the generic Rare quality weapon or armor to be a Legendary instead, to increase incentive in participating in the making of a Public Event into a Heroic. A High-Value Targets loot chest could also be updated to further give additional Planetary Materials and Glimmer, perhaps even bonus Experience Points as well.
tl;dr:
Bungie, remove the loot lockout from farming Planetary Materials.
Bungie, increase rewards from Heroic Public Events and High-Value Targets to be more meaningful to increase incentive.
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I think it's fine. It gives me a reason to go to a planet I rarely visit, or see what Spider is selling. I managed to get over 200 Seraphite just by doing Patrols and looking around long enough. Pretty fun, actually.