Hi dmg04, What I think would be helpful in this discussion is for someone at Bungie to walk us through your vision of infusing and master working. Specifically at what intervals should we be infusing? The implication by Bungie, in the move to requiring masterwork cores to infuse, seems to be that the player base is infusing too often. I would suggest starting from the following example (cause it's basically me). I'm at 640-650 when Season of the drifter drops and I wanna work to 700. While I have more than one armor set I like to use depending on activity for simplicity sake let's use just one set of armor. How many times do you consider realistic to infuse a single piece of armor to reach the 690-700 range? If you can answer the above then the solution becomes easy. You would know, based on when and how often you should infuse gear, how many cores would be required to go from 640-650 to 690-700 on one set of gear. Then you just start multiplying and adding on (i.e. most people aren't running one set of gear. More like 2-4 would be my guess, [i]then[/i] they want to actually masterwork, [i]then[/i] they have exotics to level, [i]then[/i] they have weapons. (note: I'm not prescribing an order this should be done. Just what people will probably want/need to do) The point is at the end you should have 'x' number of enhancement cores it will take to get all that done, again based on what your vision is of how often or when people should infuse. You know what the supply of enhancement cores is and how long it would take to acquire that number of cores and finally decide whether that is a reasonable amount of time to be spending just trying to upgrade gear. Hope to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks, LordD2