Tl, Dr: I do apologize for the rant and language ladies and gentleman, but it really helped me vent and I feel much better now. Basically the levelling and loot system in destiny are punitive instead of rewarding and constructive. This is the point I try to make in my slightly rabid howl at the moon (where the wizard was promised to come from). Please take the nerdrage with a grain of salt it is meant to give you a little chuckle and you should only take my comments on the loot and levels seriously ;D
It was after a particularly laborious war of attrition with the psychedelic minotaur on Roids in the vault of Ass that a thought dawned on me...I am not having fun. The thought, ladies and gentleman hit infinitely harder than LSD bot's purple fart blaster ever could.
We all know the tale of the Mythoclast, and we all wish to have it. It is the final reward for defeating Atheon on hard and a truly worthy prize. But back up for a moment and listen...You stand as much chance of getting it as Bungie does of getting a clue...Say what you will about tipping Atheon off but the fact remains that even if you spend HOURS doing that asinine back and forth the proverbial legit way, there is a 99% chance that you will get a sparrow the explodes in your crotch if you accelerate with it and if you are lucky, some ass ended shards... Who even thought a bloody EXPLODING vasectomy bike was a good idea!?
In all seriousness though guys. The fight with Atheon on hard takes multiple hours on average because of all the glitches, coordination blunders and other issues that crop up in the average group. Whilst a perfectly oiled machine of a team can consistently do it in a few tries, that is still on average an hour of your life you are throwing away for nothing! So I ask you to look away from the nerfs, hot-breaks and other shenanigans abounding with Destiny and focus on the most dire problem in the game right now.
the 'reward' and 'level' systems actively punish instead of reward. If you are under levelled for something you get annihilated no questions asked but what happens when you are over levelled? Bugger all. If you clear the hardest content in the game, regardless of how, you have defeated it, what do you get? A space vasectomy waiting to happen and shards, broken off from something ascended, probably your hopes and dreams for this steaming pile of SHIT.
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You hit the nail on the head with the whole "underlevelled = slaughtered, overlevelled = nothing" When I have to go complete bounties on earth why am I not blasting my way through the fallen and hive on a biblical annihilation level. On venus, heroic mode my pulse rifle does 350 per bullt in Burst for critical hits and around like 117 for body blows. On earth, its closer to 151/81 spread. Why doe a level advantage disabled like in the crucible on earth, this is literally the only RPG that has done this ever. I go back to starter area in pokemon and you bet your behind my lvl 100 Typhlosion (which can solo the elite 4) absolutely vaporizes the lvl 2 pidgey. Why am I not doing that on earth?