With you on that one, I have a very specific amount of play time in a week, Crafting lets me get the weapons with a relativly definable period of time; this just means, I get one of each weapon, and feck it, thats me done on the act, especially with the story being entirely front loaded too. Hilarious to see they also made comment on the issue of vault space.. which for many of us is half full of multiple weapon rolls for guns .. something crafting helped reduce.. so they are making their ackowledged problem worse, by moving the stuff they had already introduced that helped lessen it to later !

Shocking so many people are mad at the armor changes which are objectively good and not more mad about this.

Bungie going all in on every little way of getting players to spend more time in game. Remove crafting, and just slide it in as an offhand remark. Make the new seasonal activity a reskin of Onslaught, the activity that takes around 45 minutes to get to Level 50. What are the odds that, if you want your pinnacle to get you to the newly raised power cap, you'll have to do more than one as you, yet again, rescue some hostages. You know, like we did in the first season last year. Want that god roll ?? .. get in that activity Guardian but your chances will be somewhere between slim and none because you know, RNG. Clearly all about bumping up those engagement numbers. Standby for their paid for YouTube Shills to shovel out just how super awesome this all is. Bungie don't care if you enjoy your time in the game. They just need you in it to stop their next job being Pete Parson's full time car washer. Sony must really be turning the screw. GTA 6 out in a year as well. Frontiers is going to be right up against it.

With you on this one. Crafting needs a bit of a rework for sure, but with no vault space and many rolls "expiring" when they do weapon tuning, crafting was a huge buffer here. Would be ok with this if you could use matts to reroll a perk or something. They just need a little imagination to make this better.

Onslaught is far from boring it's one of the few activities that actually takes effort to complete fully. This isn't battlegrounds where it practically plays itself. Also, when an episode is more than 3 months long, god forbid the loot chase is designed around that right? Even still, this focused loot thing that was brought with Into The Light isn't going to take 3 months that's obviously a massive exagerration. It's much better for a loot chase to last you 1-2 months than for it to last 1-2 weeks max and the literal only reason it's 1-2 weeks is because it's timegated. With rng, you have the ability to farm in 1 week. Crafting has brought so much timegating to the loot chase because it's the only way they stop people crafting perfect god rolls in the first week and it just stalls any excitement.

They made crafting too easy.Echoes was basically just giving us the red borders as had everything I wanted crafted the 1st or 2nd day of each act. If the grind for the god rolls is similar to ITL i'll be okay with that.

Not a fan of the non-crafting only because once the year ends we don't know how to obtain these weapons again, if we get to obtain them again. I saw an arc grenade launcher in the heavy slot. If that thing is a DPS monster, then people a year later who missed out on it or weren't there for it are missing out on what is right now potentially the best arc heavy GL out there. (Emphasis on if it is a DPS monster with envious/ Bait & Switch or explosive light) Farming should be there and respected, but crafting should be guaranteed when they exit.