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6/15/2024 1:53:20 AM
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Pathfinder is a questionable replacement for bounties and vendor challenges

As it is stated in TWID for 05/23/24, one of the goals of the Pathfinder is to give players more "agency" over how they get their rewards. Before I could engage with any playlist I want to get my reward, now I still need to play a certain way to complete a node, and to add insult to injury, I also need to play a specific activity to actually get the reward. At the time when I'm writing this, 2 tier 5 nodes are Crucible ability kills and Gambit motes banked. There are multiple issues with those 2 challenges: * Gambit objective is bugged, as far as I can see in multiple reports on the forum. * There's no way to complete the Pathfinder with only 1 playlist, as could be done before. * The Crucible objective is in percent instead of just a number that I can see and understand, so I need to figure out on my own how much every action progresses the node. As a destination reward source, Pathfinder feels right at home and much better than a destination bounties, hope we would see something like that brought to the old planets, even though I know that old content rarely gets any kind of major system updates. As a ritual reward source, we have the same bounties in separate interface that you don't need to pick up anymore, but they're unified, give less bright dust than before (if you try to farm it the same way as vendor bounties and weekly challenges), still require you to play a certain way, have no clear way to see how many times you need to do a certain action for some nodes, force you to play all the playlists or at least 2 to even get the main reward. As far as I know, Gambit is the least popular playlist that rarely gets updated. Crucible is a PvP playlist, and, let's just say, if you like it - good for you, but Crucible activities take about 8% to 10% of the player base according to external monitoring tools like warmind.io, so it's harder to find players AND it's a PvP mode in mostly PvE game, add to it the requirement to kill players with certain abilities or weapons, or have some kind of debuffs when killed - and it's just not fun, especially when other players just play meta. We've been told multiple times with different changes that we could play what we want in terms of ritual activities, and every time we're forced to play either an abandoned playlist like Gambit or a PvP playlist like Crucible (and maybe specific targets like Competitive and Trials playlists in Crucible) in mostly PvE game. If someone just wants to say that I'm PvP noob who doesn't want to play Crucible - you can look up my stats anytime, I'm about average and can enjoy PvP, but only if I'm not forced to "defeat opponents by making them volatile with Void" or some stuff like that. And let's not start about Gambit...

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  • I was hoping to see people still talking about how bad Rituals Pathfinder is. Pale Heart is fine but Rituals is complete garbage. I'm looking at mine for this week as I haven't even opened it at all until now. Last week, I got two done okay enough. The third set was basically unplayable for me. I don't do PvP so final blows are just not gonna happen, especially if it's a specific final blow it's asking for. This week? Whether it's Vanguard, Gambit or Crucible, most of them are requiring kills on Volatile enemies or to get kills with Ignitions. Ignitions?! Most things die LONG before an Ignition actually triggers and the things you can stack enough Scorch on to trigger one usually DON'T DIE from it. One of them is Crucible Ignition kills! Huh?! How?! I don't think I have EVER seen anyone die from Ignitions in Crucible. I literally CANNOT do this week's Rituals Pathfinder because I'm blocked by things that are INSANELY rare to actually achieve or it's in a mode that I just do not play because I am not good at it. So how am I supposed to make any kind of progress here? They need to separate the Pathfinders to make one for each. You pick the one you want to do. Finish it. Reset. Go again. But you should ALSO be able to reset a Pathfinder that you don't like. If the objectives are particularly garbage, reset. That is when it should cost the 10K Glimmer to reset. If you complete a Pathfinder, it's a free reset. If you want to change the one you have, 10K Glimmer and hope for a better roll. As it is, right now, Rituals Pathfinder is just complete dog sh!t and NEEDS to be changed IMMEDIATELY. Because I have no reason to try and attempt any of this for this week.

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