Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to stay standing on the warsat. Instead we should kill the waves quickly while _not_ standing on it to make things difficult?

As long as you can figure out the minimum time needed to upload it, this could make it quite interesting. i.e. Wait 2 minutes, then upload?

1. Bungie don't want people building up the packages in the post for a giant XP hit while using an telemetry and ranking up items super quick in one go.

Unfortunately this is probably the reason given the DLC is coming. You could have saved up public event packages and cashed them in later, potentially leveling DLC stuff quickly. I wish I was smart enough to have thought of that a week ago :-/

• plinking away
  
• doing bounties
  
• doing missions
  
• chatting with mates
  
• picking up engrams
  
• getting high grimore scores
  
• waiting for war sats
  
• waiting for enemies to move against each other
  
• and collecting spin metal :-)

Fun times

Yeah. There's a Warsat one that is fairly hard. Ends up with a ton of Wizards and Fallen assaulting you at the end! I like that one. :)

If you nuke down the first couple groups on a warsat with rockets you can get through a much larger number of waves than a low level will; this can result in super badass enemies by the end of the event that can challenge a larger or stronger group of players.

While everyone else was at the loot cave plinking away, I was waiting for the the Hive and Fallen to fight and me to be in the middle!

If you kept killing them, the game would respawn them with progressively more difficulty to the point where you would fail eventually, like firefight.

Then they took it away :(

On the one hand, it's nice to see a group of randos flock to the event and work together.

On the other hand, it's boring as all hell to have a group of lvl 28+ randos flock to an event and steam roll it to the point you can't really even tell there was an event.

Seriously, they aren't fun for high level players.

Fallen walker drops- everyone pulls out their Ice Breakers, walker is dead in 30 seconds.

I just did a quick run though with a Hunter character, and I encountered a few events on my way to lvl 20 and they were HARD, and SATISFYING to beat solo.

I'm sure it's a simple matter of adjusting difficulty here or there or something.

I find public events fun. But since most of mine are private, I find the reward for acing them more fun. Without it, I'm just standing in a circle or next to a pillar, getting my ass kicked Lone Wolf style and getting nothing for it.

Sounds fair to me. I like running into them alone in general because they're not very challenging with other people. That conflux defense one is especially hairy. Does suck when all you get is event participant, for sure.

And you don't have the "complete 3" bounty. Then yes, there's no point.

It's fun when there's people around. 9 out of 10 public events I find myself in have no one, making Assassinations and Conflux Protections very difficult--in some cases, impossible. When I'm by myself, the stuff gets harder, BUT I'm primed to be the only one to get a reward--reward meaning a shard or energy, plus some more waiting for me at the Tower for completing one per day.

ALL my guns require a good 32 Ascendant Energy, and I can't just join raids every 5 seconds--they're long, they're insanely difficult, and they require too many. Public events are our lean version, our quickie to earning just a little bit more. I still have no idea what the hell ANY of the raid stuff means, so that makes it impossible for me to be an effective player. Public events--there's Fallen over there,

kill.

they.

ass.

Simple as that.

I find public events fun. But since most of mine are private, I find the reward for acing them more fun. Without it, I'm just standing in a circle or next to a pillar, getting my ass kicked Lone Wolf style and getting nothing for it.

Assuming you have two characters and you do a public twice a day, You can collect up to 14 MoL a week plus any from XP for buying an Exotic Engram from Xur for either an Exotic or Exotic Shards.

They don't award the package for doing the Public Event Daily anymore. This led to a discussion of reasons you would bother doing public events.

They do reward ascendant shards/energy pretty frequently these days though. I just like doing them because fun.