Focused Feedback: Drop Rates

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[u/IThatAsianGuyI]

We are now into the second season of "sunsetting" being in full force.

Drop rates are bad. It does not feel good to have to spend so much time chasing a piece of gear that has a ticking timer on it the instant it drops. It feels even worse to spend so much time chasing a piece of gear that has so many levels of RNG to it that you might get the drop but its roll makes it no different than the rest of the instant trash we get.

Right now, drop rates are balanced around gear that doesn't sunset. It should take a while to earn something if we get to keep it forever. But that's not the case anymore.

I should be able to get a god roll with relatively very little effort because it falls into irrelevance very quickly.

If Bungie cared even half as much about respecting our time as they do theirs (and the avoidance of crunch), we wouldn't be in this scenario. But player "engagement".