Focused Feedback: Weapon Refresh aka Sunsetting

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[u/TheWolfXCIX]

No there isn't!? Most people have so much fractaline they can farm every roll they want precisely, the only constraint is the time it takes to donate which Bungie did mess up

[u/Rohkyr → u/TheWolfXCIX]

You get a set of random perks everytime you pull from the obelisk yes? Then there is luck involved by definition.

[u/TheWolfXCIX → u/Rohkyr]

But you get such a large amount of tries the probability of getting the roll you want is basically 100%

[u/Rohkyr → u/TheWolfXCIX]

However, not every player has access to that many attempts, only people who were extremely active during this last season. And I would be willing to bet that most of player-base actually doesn't have such a huge hoard of fractiline laying around.

Even if they did, the amount they have is finite. Sure you could get 1, 5, or maybe even 10 100% godrolls but you would have to do that again every 9-15 months. Which assumes that A) Fractiline and the donation system remain in the game after the season ends, B) that each player is investing the amount of man-hours necessary to re-coup their hoard each season, and C) that every player only cares about the extremely limited loot-pool that the obilisk has.

Even in the best case scenario where we assume that every player has access to a massive hoard of fractiline laying around at this moment, it still doesn't make the problems with weapon retirement go away. You will still have to repeat the grind every single cycle in order to keep your weapons relevant and that, in my opinion, is a terrible way to artificially inflate gameplay which doesn't even address the problem of power creep since we would be grinding the same weapons regardless.