No. I enjoy the grind....but people need to understand that there are GOOD grinds....and BAD grinds. There are two kinds of progression in a game like this: Vertical...and Horizontal. Vertical progression is how you progress in power. Increasing level, unlocking your character abilities, basically dealing with your basic power to deal out, and withstand damage. Horizontal progession is about customization and min-maxing. About personalizing your character's loadout and abilities to your personal play style....and squeezing those last few percentage points of efficiency out of the character. Vertical progression needs to be STRICTLY tied to player effort and investment. If you play long enough, you eventually get to max level, and unlock all your abilities. Its an INVESTMENT grind. Horizontal progression is where players will begin to tolerate...and even enjoy an RNG grind. What Bungie is doing is BLURRING these two in ways that are not helpful, and that the community will into accept. 1. I am EXCITED that random rolls on weapons and perks on armor have returned. Along with the deep perk pools...this will make the end-game horizontal progression much deeper and more enjoyable. 2. But Bungie continues to make some key errors. At the behest in some case of gamers who dont' understand or accept how these two should be separated. a. Locking access to our secod subclass attunement and Super behind an RNG grind (The Blind Well). Band move. b. Treating what is really a part of the game's vertical progression (exotics) as if they were loot: First the catalysts in Warmind....and the changes with Xur now. So, no. Unless Bungie goes to an Investment grind (quest) for the acquisition of exotics....then Xur needs to sell exotics. Because they are the game's only protection against players who have invested hundreds or thousands of hours in the game....and being denied access to a key player POWER through simply bad luck. Changes that need to be made. 1. Remove Masterwork cores from basic infusion. The resource is simply too rare...and it will throw cold water on the game's progression. People will just infuse the game's pinnacle weapons....and we'll all be back to running the same loadouts again. 2. Go back to the smart loot system of D1. Bungie is trying to use access to drops that will progress your character as a "carrot" to try to incentivize people to play the entire game....rather than letting people play the parts of the game they enjoy. The result is a progression system and is growing increasingly byzantine and difficult to understand. Even for veteran players.