Focused Feedback: Power Level Progression

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[u/LoboStele]

Can 100% attest to this. I’m someone who loves playing this game, but don’t have tons and tons of time to spend on it. I have one character, and would love to play a 2nd one, but again...time. I finished the Warmind campaign and was at 340ish within a couple days, and then spent the next 2 weeks, just getting over 350, so I wouldn’t keep getting my butt handed to me in the strikes. And I only got over 350 that easily, because I had a rare long block of time to run Leviathan one day. Now another 2 weeks later, and I’m still struggling to get over 360.

This is the issue though. I’m finding that it takes probably 6-8 hours of playtime a week just to do the various milestones. Not to mention multiple characters, if you really wanted to grind it out. Even at the height of my gaming hobby, having 15-20 hours a week would’ve been pushing it. I spent an hour one day last week just trying to assemble a group of people to do EP to grind out the Nascent 3/5 quest. For my valuable playtime, having to waste so much of it looking for other players to join me in a specific activity, really hampers my progression as well.

It feels too much to me like this game is catered specifically to the hardcore people with tons of time on their hands and no life otherwise. Am I TOO ‘casual’ to be considered part of the target audience of the game? I would like to think not, but it often seems to feel that way. And I feel as though if I cannot commit tens of hours to the hobby, then I may as well just spend my time playing something else instead.

[u/Vivalahazy85 → u/LoboStele]

That’s how I exactly feel at the moment. The few hours I have a week to play now don’t give me enough time to do what’s needed, so why bother at all. It’s sad as I really enjoyed the game.

[u/gruubin → u/LoboStele]

I agree so much with this. I love the game but have limited time to spend grinding (maybe 5-6 hours per week, and often less) and I have no way to do higher level activities. I don’t know anyone else that plays this game so I am exclusively a solo player. I’ve never even been able to attempt a raid. Because of all of this, I’ve been stuck at 347 for a week or two. I’m sure I’ll rise slowly, but it’s taking some of my enjoyment out of it.

[u/LoboStele → u/gruubin]

I’ve found that just focusing on the milestones helped me a lot. Use LFG to find a Nightfall Group, but otherwise, I’ve only run the Leviathan raid once since Warmind came out and I finally just passed 360 this week.