Dear community managers, Bungie and friends, I want to start by saying that over all, I’m enjoying the new artifact and armor system. I hope you guys are enjoying a much needed break for the holidays. If by chance you get around to reading this, I hope you’ll consider bringing the following feedback to the team. A trend towards same slot repeat drops: The all to familiar, reoccurring phenomenon of completing a pinnacle activity, to continually receive higher level items in the same slot is disappointing. Considering how many times I, and many others in the community have experienced this, I’m left feeling that the game trends towards giving items in the same slot to impede progress on the players part. Detailing the trend While I have been able to increase my power level by grinding my artifact(I love by the way), I’m finding it difficult to experience level growth via a major staple of Destiny, completing pinnacle activities. For instance, going into this reset cycle I only needed one drop in a fresh slot to increase my power level. After doing every pinnacle activity, including the raid, nightfall ordeal, master nightmare hunt, and the Dungeon, I received all drops, in the same two slots. That means every drop, I had 6 out of 8 slots available for growth, yet the game repeatedly trended towards 2 out 8. Those odds are terrible and these situations are more common than not. Real, in-game consequences Over the last few weeks, and speaking with my clan, I have found that people are noticing that it is almost pointless to do Pinnacle activities when simply grinding bounties yields far more progress. In fact, The time required to complete Pinnacle activities is better spent, essentially playing solo And meeting up with your clan mates for shared wisdom. I feel that this is contradictory to the social nature of the game. Don’t get me wrong I don’t feel that any less emphasis needs to be placed on doing bounties, i’m just saying that for the health of the game, pinnacle activities should not feel like a waste of time. My suggestion concerning drops I think that there should be one pinnacle activity each week, that allows us agency over our drop so that we can ensure that at least one slot will allow for progress in leveling. Another suggestion would be to institute a pinnacle lockout system, to prevent getting a third drop in the same slot, in a row. I’m not suggesting that any one of these things can be done overnight, But I’m hoping that you guys do something to counter the disillusionment that is taking place concerning a huge aspect of Destiny that people enjoy, leveling their gear by doing difficult content. Thanks and happy holidays. Edit: Other posts detailing the issue Personal, user experience: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/254773538/0/0 This one is a deep dive with evidence: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/254731770/0/0