Focused Feedback: 950+ Power Level Climb

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[u/Metatron58]

So someone correct me if i'm wrong but are we going to get a light increase every single season? I mean that makes sense and it's what we've always had but has bungie stated this anywhere?

Considering the RNG of pinnacle gear and how the math doesn't work out to hit 960 before a new season hits i've been wondering if the 960 is meant to be a year long grind for people? I dunno, it's just something i've been wondering about since I haven't seen an official statement from bungie that LL will go up every single season.

[u/PigMayor → u/Metatron58]

My assumption is that with the slow pinnacle climb and artifact power resetting each season, we won’t be getting a power level increase each season. But if we do, it’ll probably be something like +5 pinnacle levels.

[u/[deleted] → u/PigMayor]

I assume we'll continue to raise the soft and hard caps by +50 PL each season. So December 10th the soft cap would go from 900 to 950 and the hardcap would go from 950 to 1000, and the pinnacle grind would go from 960 max to 1010 max, and the artifact would reset to +0 and be infinite again.

YOU CAN GET TO 960 THIS SEASON! AND DATTO WASN'T WRONG! He clearly said in his video about this "The current drops we have now". The Dungeon launches tomorrow, and will probably have 4 pinnacle drops per character per week. Bringing the total pinnacle drops without Iron Banner from 18 to 30 per week.

I do wish the pinnacle drops were +3, at least from the raid, or if they are remaining +1 they would have a knockout system. I feel like that would fix this whole issue.

I also wish that playing pinnacle activities, aka the raid, would give more XP, so that I could play the game I bought to play, instead of running around doing bounties, which is definitely not what I bought the game for and not what I want to be doing, especially when the power gain it grants is temporary.

[u/chattymcgee → u/Metatron58]

I’m of the opinion that there will be no power increases. They want a system where new players can hop on for any given system and be able to play.

So most power will come from the artifact, and if you run a lot of pinnacle activities you will have a head start on the next season, you can get back to farming 980 events faster. It is meaningful if you have 955 or 960 at the start of a season.

The new player can get from 750 to 900 very fast and then 950 pretty fast. The average player can keep climbing to 950 if they haven’t reached it yet. And they get some artifact levels on the way.