I feel like they don't care. They haven't said anything to my posts or any other solo players posts. Not here or on reddit.

you aint alone , they shat all over solo players in this dlc. once your milestones are done theres nothing for you but the same old loop with zero rewards. but if you can raid they shower you in gifts for curbstomping mobs at light level 300. each raid gives 15 extra chances for loot that increases your light.. i guess those 15-20 % of the player base that have ever done a raid are the only ones they will be looking to sell the next DLC to. they seem ok with alienating all those who dont raid.

It's fine until you finish all the weekly activities. Then what are you supposed to do? I did the raid last night and only went up 2 Light Levels. It's a bit too slow to grind up now. They need to increase the LL of exotics when they drop a bit more.

Yeah the nerf to power level progression reeeally sucks. All it does is artificially lengthen the game. If you don't have a designated group then it is gonna be a long grind to be able to begin playing endgame again. I understand wanting a grind, but don't take away progression means that we had before. They may not be nerfing weapons but they nerfed power levels a ton.

I completely agree. I do the weekly milestones for Flashpoint and Clan and that is it. Strikes are not fun or rewarding, Crucible is simply not fun.

Nope. Game isn't fun at all since the "update". The people who left because of shallow gameplay aren't coming back for this turd DLC, and it's certainly not worth finding a new fireteam just to play the exact same endgame we've had since launch. Seriously, put some loot into the heroic strikes already. Milestones shouldn't even exist for heroic strikes, nightfall, and raid. Those activities should reward while you play, not once a week. I mean, it's stupid to have heroic strikes reward nothing and the raid reward every encounter... especially when the heroic strikes have become more difficult than the raid. Put those modifiers in the raid. See how your streamers like it when their playstyle is affected.

Yep. Without active clan people you can't do the raids and a big part of progression is closed to you. You have to go back to lfg and search for open slots and competent players. Making the heroic strikes drop 5 below your LL is just plain evil. Having hard fights is NICE!, but I want to progress as a reward! The shitty streamer community that makes tons of money from playing 24*7 ruined an already terrible game. LL is a meaningless number. Doing the activities should grant equipment and mods that make the task easier or get you specialised! smh Bungie devs are stupid evil and asshats.

I play everything except trials and raid, and at this point most of it feels like work where i'm just grinding for milestones to increase power. I wish they'd made Escalation Protocol more like Archon's Forge or Court of Oryx (dedicated area, multiple difficulties) or had the light level requirements the same as the public events on Mars so everyone could play without grinding for ages to be strong enough or finding enemies overly difficult.

Yeah, Bungie -blam!-ed us over big time. I’m gonna try an acquire the Sleeper Simulant and Anna Bray’s Scout Rifle, maybe try an open as many Sleeper nodes. But aside from that.... there just isn’t anything else here for me. Bungie turned a Heroic Strikes into a massive chore, and the current progression system sucks dick.

Well you have 5 less activities that you don’t get to play. Plus the story missions and “NEW STRIKES” being so bland and boring, you need to do the nightfall and raids because that’s where all the fun is. So I don’t blame you.

My clan has 6 pages of members. There are usually less than 6 people playing this game. I enjoy playing solo and I enjoy co-op activities. The problem is I’m one of the last hold outs. I can get a few clan mates together to do a few things but usually they’re just running milestones and signing off for the week. The problem is Bungie is all one direction or all another direction with no middle ground. Getting the soft cap is easy. The hard cap is a long way off and there are no mid-point activities. Heroic strikes should fill the gap but the reward drops makes them useless except for the three weekly for milestone. Exotic engrams used to come out at your light level no matter where they came from but now they’re cursed by being lower than your current power level making them useless. So to level up you have to do all milestones on one character following up with raid and raid layer then back to prestige raid and raid layer on one character. Then pass gear up (but only if it’s a weapon because you can’t infuse armor across classes) to anothe character and rinse and repeat until you get this all done on your main. Essentially, if you want to get to end game content in the first 2 months you have to play Destiny like it’s your job. In D1 the strike specific loot from the chests could improve your light up to max and you could infuse across classes. If you needed higher level arms on your warlock. That’s fine. Play heroic shield brothers until the Titan arms dropped and infuse them with you warlock. Need a helmet? Play sunless cell or the giant shank. There were middle activities that allowed you to progress. Here there’s not. And if you want to reach max power you better be lucky enough to not get legs and class items for every milestone.