How Destiny 2 Could Improve Lost Sector Farming
Destiny 2 puts a lot of emphasis on the experience of farming for loot and powerful items, which makes sense in terms of gameplay and from a design perspective. Bungie's space magic looter-shooter is fast approaching its eighth anniversary, and while many things have changed over Destiny 2's lifespan, the fact that this game is meant to fulfill different power fantasies remains at its core. This is achieved by including randomly generated loot, and players can expect to get items with all sorts of perks or stat distributions while running most activities.
There are exceptions, in the sense that some activities or gimmicks allow players to farm specific items over others, or those items are more likely to drop with a given selection of traits and stats. A great example comes in the form of Exotic armor pieces, which normally have a completely casual stat distribution and only a handful of ways for players to get them more consistently, such as farming Master and Grandmaster Nightfalls or Lost Sectors. Lost Sectors are, in theory, the most prominent way of farming for Exotic armor in Destiny 2, but the final experience is mostly frustration and dissatisfaction, which is something that could be fixed in a few ways.
Destiny 2: How to Complete The No Peeking Triumph (Darkness Rifts)
Destiny 2's Lost Sectors can be extremely unrewarding and rely too heavily on RNG when it comes to awarding players with an Exotic and stat distributions for said Exotic. Lost Sectors are supposed to be good ways of farming for specific Exotic armor pieces because they are on a daily rotation, meaning on any given day players can knowingly farm for a category of Exotic armor. This is a good approach in theory, but in practice it more often fails to
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