The 15 Most Frustrating Grinds In Destiny History

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[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

I had the same problem being 399 trying to get to 400 cuz everything I had was 400 except a 399 ghost shell. I finally got it a while back.

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

Bolt caster is obviously the best... RANGED. ATTACK.

[@jackyvalencia77]

The chapter to skip the ad is not right lol I almost skipped the whole video

[@PattycakesGaming]

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[@Forcer69]

Shout out to everyone who got the faction exotic ornaments. Grinding 30-50 hours of Lost Sectors within a week was definitely something.

[@jonahbrown5669]

I got them and I don't even use them 😔

[@kipp14]

New monarchy class item for warlocks is one of my favorites

[@ZomgLolPants]

getting the eye of another world ornament was hell

[@brandongrazioso]

Dead orbit exotic cloak never comes off

[@QonVince]

I still rock the dead orbit ornaments on my Hunter for my Orpheus Build. It works out perfect with one of the ornaments. What a grinddddd

[@larinanne]

Hearing the phrase "forever 29" after all these years gave me chills.

[@LaidusonPlays]

Literally hit level 30 the day before dark below came out and only because Xur sold the glasshouse exotic titan helmet. Couldn't get the helmet from hard mode vog to drop for me ever

[@OmarMcCaws]

to this day my d1 hunter is 399 because up untill destiny 2 came out i couldnt get a fucking light 400 ghost shell

[@raddpluto]

@@OmarMcCawsyo that was so annoying 😂 really had to pray it be what u need

[@Tom-bi4ci]

@@LaidusonPlaysSame here. Next morning you could get to level 31 from vendor gear smh 🤦

[@genjidora8742]

I used to cheese Atheon with my Warlock and I helped out so many people just because I enjoyed it. I must have cheesed that boss at least 50 times, I had it down to a science. The amount of "I GOT IT, I GOT IT!" "VEX MYTHOCLAST!!! YES!!!" despite never getting one was totally worth it. I finally got the Vex Mythoclast for the first time... a few months ago.

[@PattycakesGaming]

lol that's how I met 2 of my best gamer friends almost 10 years later! I had never tried the cheese but I had a warlock and figured I could give it a shot, so I volunteered to try it with an LFG group. A few tries later, we had our first hard mode clear and we've been friends ever since!

[@davidzrescalante503]

Gg dude.

[@Moobeus]

15:00 it’s so interesting the way he frames MT as coming as “the end of the era of pinnacle weapons was already in sight, but Bungie sent them off with a bang”. The Mountaintop was actually one of the first pinnacle weapons as it came in black armoury. The reason it’s interesting is because the reason he remembers it as sending off the pinnacle weapons is because basically nobody realized it was good until the crown of sorrow raid, and because it was such a hard grind to get nobody bothered getting it until people realized how good it was in crown of sorrow with auto reload well and anarchy. So, patty along with a lot of people probably didn’t get it until season of opulence, which was the last season with pinnacle weapons which is why to him it seemed like it “sent off pinnacle weapons with a bang”. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[@seaturtleninjagaming4602]

That's really interesting and a good point! I don't think he mentioned the kills got reduced either

[@fluxi9844]

i would spend hours upon hours farming materials on destinations to upgrade weapons

[@drdouchenozzle3556]

Dude same… it almost makes me cry how much time we used to waste just to see if we like a weapon or not

[@DavidJr0917]

@@drdouchenozzle3556yeah being 23 i regret putting alot of time in d2 or d1 bcs I spent hours and sleepless nights grinding

[@DavidJr0917]

Doesn’t even feel worth it

[@ChipperMcManus]

i used to have the routes memorized lol i could prob do spinmetal or the mars amterial in my sleep

[@jonnybones6952]

Yeah I don’t miss that .

[@Caleb.Connors]

I remember the faction rally cheese that was discovered on the EDZ, you could run back into The Weep lost sector. All you saw on days on end was the words "Winding Cove" as you loaded back in and a bunch of guardians running in and out of that tunnel resetting the chest.

[@acdragonz4069]

Omg dude I remember this and one memory that just came up was bumping the piping in the tunnels which would waste time slowing me down which used to poss me off so much 🤣😭

[@AChunkyDog]

My most challenging grind is figuring out what I'm supposed to do. So many quests in my inventory and I've got a dash of the 80 HiDef

[@ghstydc]

It's less what you're "supposed to do" and more what you want to do. If there's an exotic that sounds fun, do the exotic quest. If you see a video on an activity you want to do, get the quest to go do it :)

[@brainwash480]

Destiny is a game that basically /requires/ google search and probably some discords to play.

[@LordDarigaze]

One of the worse grinds for me that I never see anybody ever talk about was the SRL 320 grind. Back when SRL first came out, it could drop 320 light helms and class items. Getting them from this source allowed you to get your Guardian up to 320, without smashing your head against the wall fighting weekly raid RNG. But, for some reason, they also had a chance to drop at 319, and quite often would, if at all. So you had to do hundred of races during this limited time even to secure the drops you needed. Speaking as somebody whose done almost all of the grinds in this video, SRL ranks above quite a few of them.

[@SaltSpirits]

Man I completely forgot about SRL.

[@Rios-ov3xi]

One of the worst grinds in my memory was the 100 weapons forged for the black armory ship. Nearly 400 forges with a little bounty in between was a slog.

[@Revadike]

Chronicler title still makes me mad. I was one away from unlocking it, before Bungie vaulted it. I would have had it if it wasn't for one too many weekly reset maintenance (as it prevented the double dip cheese). Bungie really should've added a catch-up mechanic at the end.

[@kurtnordli1381]

Man "Forever 29" i haven't thought about that in ages i remember this, I was so excited when i hit 30 and was no longer a member of the "Forever 29 Club" i was so excited.

[@Wraikey]

I think about it from time to time. Had all 3 characters at level 30 and never deleted one ever, but had to wait till the last week before The Dark Below to get the helmet to drop on my warlock. Still have my full OG equip in my vault in Destiny

[@KingJC.]

Which type of destiny is this ? My power went up to 400.

[@Wraikey]

@@KingJC. Base Destiny 1 before the first expansion. Times were different back then

[@kurtnordli1381]

@@Wraikey Yup times were way different back than when destiny first launched the game has changed SO much.

[@Styxir]

A proud Reckoner player, I hated getting it solo but I liked how the title sounded.

[@1orenzomaion3]

You and me both 😂

[@michaelalfaro651]

Or fighting teammates for motes😂

[@banterlegends5347]

The fight to get Massacre Medals in Gambit Prime hurt me the most. I loved getting 11/12 kills just for my team to “help” and kill the twelfth.

[@jonnybones6952]

Trying to get the meatball as the boss was a pain and then just for the opposite team to kill theirs first was even more painful.

[@RespiteofChampions]

16:17 *Shudders in never being able to go into IB in those days*

[@mattboy5296]

Us D1 Year 1 vets remember the pain of trying to grind for Gjallarhorn. Nightfalls, Raids, PvP, getting a Legendary engram and then hoping Rahool would be nice enough to turn it into an Exotic (that was something that could happen), or hoping that this week Xur would finally sell that damn rocket launcher again. Then there was the grind for Vex Mythoclast. I only ever got the original sunset version well into Rise of Iron, and never got the updated version from the reprised VOG before D2 came out. But then oddly enough, D2's version of VOG I was lucky enough to get Vex on my second ever clear. I still don’t have 1K Voices though...

[@xXDarkDivideXx]

I never got Thorn in D1, but I did get Gally and IB.

[@arcstaff]

I did not get a single exotic bounty in D1Y1 but I did get every random drop, raid and startable quest exotic available 😬

[@rytterl]

My friends started playing the game at launch. I didn't join them until house of wolves. Within three weeks I had both gjallarhorn (from my first ever nightfall) and thorn. A few of my friends were pissed, because they already had hundreds of hours in the game without getting them. One friend played all the way up to the taken king without getting the gjallarhorn. So he had to buy it from xur, just a week before it got nerfed. Poor guy.

[@legitxvip3r]

I got the Exotic Bounty to drop, but there was no Thorn. :,)

[@xionsolaris]

Don't forget during the not forgotten grind you went against OG one eyed mask. Constantly matched against 3 titans with one of the most powerful PvP exotics released.

[@returnofmigo]

the touch of malice quest was HELL

[@limpdwarf3419]

Seeing the dusk rock blues shotgun gave me chills I miss that weapon so much 😢😢

[@Captain-Picard42]

7:09 i remember this, on Mars you'd get the resources, sparrow out of the zone come back quickly and farm it like that haha crazy crazy grind!

[@PatYolo9009]

Man....I remember all of that for D1, when it came to the exotic swords, I remember getting all 3 solo on my Hunter and it was tough. I also remember getting all the faction cloaks.

[@benjones3639]

The hardest grind for me from Destiny was trying to get the Vex Mythoclast. And then I got it after it had been nerfed. Felt bad man.

[@dixon137]

this just made me super nostalgic.. back when exotics were kinda rare.. and the character creator is just clean with its art style i do miss the SRL gear and even the white gear you spawn with D1 really needed transmog and custom gear colors

[@Moobeus]

I remember I grinded over 200 runs of the Savathuns song strike in year 1 and still never got the Duty Bound. I actually never got it until it returned as a random rolled weapon years later.

[@TheRaienryuu]

Seeing some of this stuff really makes me think just what on earth was I doing with my life... Thinking of all the grinds I went through for pretty much everything on this list. All the D1 stuff, Solstice armor for all 3 characters etc. Where did I find all the time and enjoyment to do that, crazy man wtf.

[@vblegh1620]

I almost forgot how hard I had to fight for my RAZE-LIGHTER ™️

[@christianmires5128]

Mentioning the swords brought back Vietnam flashbacks of walking around Mars and grabbing every relic iron i could find, and after 30 or so, you would get that lucky grab with 24 more lucky drops to go. Then I remember the poor Titans not having a good set of void abilities for killing, so it took forever for Titans to get Dark Drinker.

[@maxifernandez1760]

MTop's quest is the main reason I'm thankful Bungo got rid of pinnacle quests. Still remember rocking Fighting Lion, Militia's Birthright and Edge Transit during forsaken/black armory for a shit ton of games until I got it. That and Luna´s Howl's quest are the reason I barely touch Crucible to this day. Loved the weapon to death, definitely one of my favorites in the game and having it brought back thanks to Into the Light made me really happy, but that quest can eat a bag of dicks.

[@quinnmargolin9438]

Remember getting thorn and last word year one when they were starting to ramp up in usage. Hated using hand cannons because of how the recoil’s animated.

[@Brandon0159]

What about the original D2 pinnacle grind that only awarded +1 power and the only way to get higher was until all your weapons and gear were +1 before +2 gear dropped

[@kayval274]

Dust rock blues. 12m deep attitude adjustment

[@PattycakesGaming]

DRB with full auto was so insane. When I was going through old clips trying to find stuff with original NF/Luna the DRB clips were just cracking me up. It was unreal

[@DookJob]

I grinded solstice of heros for the ship, then they released the same ship model 2-3 months after, for the dawning, i gave up the hardcore grind after this, have been a casual since. Maybe this is a blessing though because i still enjoy the game unlike my clan mates who say typical doom posting destiny comments.

[@Crispyjell0]

The worst part of the weapon leveling grind was the amount of time needed to press interact to "pick up" resources 😂

[@Oron_The_Massive]

What a time travel I swear lmao Good vid man keep it up

[@lLiquid]

There was one solstice event, I think it actually might be the one in the video, but competing all three sets of solstice armor rewarded you with the EV-37 Voidstreak sparrow. I distinctly remember this, because I was the first one in my clan to get legendary sets for all three classes, and I bragged about being first hahhaha.

[@alexcox9400]

Having to grind all those specific materials for the Mercury forge weapons was the worst for me

[@Zahqariah]

I truly don’t know how back in the day I had enough time and patience to grind out two of the three swords

[@JeremyMartinez-f8r]

The 4,500 kills for the OG Sleeper Simulant catalyst was a grind for me.

[@HaydenJamal]

I had ran over like 34 GMs to get one roll of Hung Jury back in the day.

[@Legendarysetsandtapepacks]

Climbing that mountain for the touch of malice quest nearly broke me

[@endarsgameplayarchive9597]

For me the Season 3 Faction catalysts and then Iron Burden not too long after were the worst. Turned me off of the game for a while. The main problem with many of these grinds is that they are time limited. I would have liked to go for Claymore, but it was just way to restrictive with how long you have to do so.

[@15jbullock]

Jesus Christ. I got ptsd flash backs from Niobe labs and reckoner seal lol. Thankfully got them both.

[@MasterfulKane]

The Redrix was the greatest pay off in destiny history tbh the gun felt so broken in pve for awhile.

[@Stovre15]

you just unlocked the daunting memory deep within the labrynth of my mind of grinding for the dark drinker

[@MimikU7812]

I remember before Forsaken farming the Brakion strike 89 times before dropping a single Silicon Neuroma

[@MoAbElites]

doing dark drinker on my titan was the biggest mistake

[@farendiil]

chronicler is my favourite title, I'm so glad I got it

[@jjdelany8130]

Every part of ttk exotics was a grind and a half. Just hearing players today complain about an exotic quest, you know they ain't been doing it that long

[@michaelbonilla8473]

I have redrix and Luna's howl but redrix is my favorite weapon in the game for pvp Great video dude 👍

[@ajaverill08]

With the forever 29, you could only get helmets from atheon on hard mode. But exotics also would drop at 30 so you could use a exotic helm till you got a legendary one. I got lucky with a helm and vex mythoclast on my first hard run. But then got screwed with the thorn quest dropping to my hunter who didn't have a void subclass back then. Had to use atheon's epilogue

[@zxDrew]

There were so many good aspects of D1. The complexity or severity of these grinds may turn some people off, but id argue its part of the reason D1 was so special. Wish we gad this kind of depth again

[@KyleJWest-vn9kn]

I tell you what though, while that Thorn quest did require a bit to much from the player when I finally unlocked mine I stood and cheered. I was so happy to get the weapon. It is still one of my favorite moment from D1 or D2 and a hell of a lot more fun that just buying Thorn from the exotic kiosk like you do now.

[@aidanmango1731]

that first set of exotic swords in d1 were brutal

[@ImJaspy]

Idk what those people were doing at that Templar DPS phase at 1:15 😅 shooting with an AR 2 other people just jumping around and 1 just sitting in the bubble doing nothing I’d be pissed if that was my raid team 😭😭

[@MatthewWilliams-sr7ye]

You can add farming for the luna's howl heal clip/incandescent god roll to this list. I swear this roll doesn't exist.

[@K.A-87]

i will never forget the destiny 1 era the game game out on my birthday 9 sep my most fun time gaming

[@NaderVaderYT]

I actually remember the horror of the old solstice, holy fucky that was the worst experience of my guardians life no doubt

[@chewybaca6450]

I was always stuck at 25 because everyone I knew were 29 and didn't have time to get me there

[@masteroogway5028]

The forever 29... all i needed was a cloak TOOK ME A MONTH TO GET ONE. Never again 💀

[@BigPapaSpeedwagon]

God back in the day opening the door to VoG was considered a difficult endeavor. Thats as far as i ever got in vanilla d1 before taken ling and all i got was the hunter cloak XD

[@corujariousa]

Ohhh the grind of D1... I had to run Crota's raid so many times until I got the boots to drop for me (needed to level up). RNG was so cruel to me that I never got Gjallarhorn. Crota always gave me Mida Multitool (probably over 20). At least I got Crux of Crota 4 times. Go figure...

[@patstonmarcus]

Doing Niobe Labs with my friends at the end of arrivals and taking other people through it will always be one of my favorite memories.

[@clintonchico9547]

I was the first person in my clan to get the raid boots to hit light lvl 30. At the time, there was over 1400 people in our clan.

[@SSiXaXiS]

We had a static group in d1, we all got lucky and maxed out pretty easily. I remember standing in the tower and having people spam us asking to take them through vog. We spent every night running multiple carry groups through the vog. It was a peak gaming time in my life.

[@PterryDactyl88]

literally forever 29. i only reached 30 when the next expansion raised the cap to 32? 34?

[@witerunguard1737]

Why I’m I only now knowing they changed the name of light level

[@Only_Sleep]

Good ol’ D1, where my first exotic weapon was a Gjallarhorn that dropped in my first ever Vault of Glass run back in year 1

[@2008_honda_civic]

I played d1 somewhat recently and opened about 10 undying mind strike chests with my keys and no imogo loop💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@TheKazu42]

People hated Gambit Prime? It was my favorite version!

[@PhatBoyFresh]

Farming Escalation Protocol weapons and the original 5 catalysts were such dark times. There was also the planetary emblem variants which, although provided no benefits beyond cosmetic, were a crazy grind. The original Malfeasance grind was also horrific. Having to get a super rare boss that can only spawn on the max curse week and having to win the match. This was also the dreaded era of the Queenbreaker invaders. I actually did enjoy the original Solstice event grind, with the exception of the high value targets. Oh yeah, and the 2500 Iron Banner burden kills made my hairline recede.

[@me109g4zaku]

i STILL rock the Naobi labs ghost shell lol

[@Revadike]

Cant believe how much I have grinded in this game. IDK if I should be proud of embarrassed xD

[@braydenvelt]

No mention of the Gjallerhorn grind from D1. that shit was some BS

[@idgclout]

i will never forget the savathuns song strike in d2 where it was near impossible to complete to unlock the thorn and the original grind for malfeasence

[@larrywoolfolk8224]

Jesus i cant believe how ridiculous D1 was with farms, makes me happy with the abundance of easy to get exotics and viable weapons in d2

[@mikewartnaby]

Only those who were forever 29 understand how it felt. Plus being 1 or 2 levels under actual meant something.

[@josephpugh1331]

Getting the goddamn fucking thunderlord catalyst, fml I still haven’t gotten that shit to drop.

[@LittlleJimmy941]

Solstice armor was the one and only thing I grinded for in Destiny. It was that very grind that made me stop playing for years

[@IshimuraaYT]

I got so lucky in the “forever 29” days, got to level 30 on all my characters very fast and I remember it got you fireteam invites constantly….great time honestly

[@FlameCheese]

My god Destiny changed so much

[@justkevin7601]

One of the biggest grinds of my destiny career was the taniks cloak in d1. I soloed the entire strike for that thing like 150 times😅 Took me forever… The scion cloaks were quite the grind too. I miss unique loot like that

[@jabbathehutt2774]

I grinded so hard for the first solstice armor and i didn't even get close. Still a little mad about it.

[@Xfaction1111]

Mannnnnnn I was forever 1809 for the first two seasons this year lmao Woooooooooorst RNG I ever had

[@jackmaboi5231]

Pvp as a hunter for thorn took weeks

[@ksl4044]

new monarchy for life

[@lieblingdiablo7276]

The multiple fronts I grinded for that, I was so upset when they lowered it. All the time I put into it got wasted.

[@eliross13]

bro i was so little when i played destiny 1 im only 19 now and, the sword quest brought me to tears i would get so mad fighting the hive boss for dark drinker

[@Tah-.]

I was stoked when I heard wardens law would come back but was sad to hear it wasn’t a warden of nothing exclusive anymore

[@Rottin_SkullZ]

I know grinding isn’t exactly the most well liked of things, but some of my best memories on D1 were spent doing just that. Thanks for the nostalgia trip :’)

[@MarcanumX]

The Hothead questline in the Taken King (before Bungie changed it to just completing matches) was arguably one of the worst quests ever. If anyone remembers, you had to get at least 45+ wins in Crucible in at least 5-7 different game modes. Bungie changed it a few weeks later after it dropped because it was a painstaking grind.

[@leemur5398]

That grind for 30 is and will always be my favorite part of the game. D1 exotics felt great to get and beating the raid was rewarding. Back when you would do every activity on each character every week, now there's just so much to do it's too time consuming

[@Exoticdwarf_]

I still have my armory forged shell equipped at all times. Took a group of us 3 days to complete the stupid puzzle because we kept having to stop and go during the summer but holy shit was it so incredibly rewarding

[@szymonkoscielny5966]

I remember doing my first VOG 2 weeks after raid dropped ( I was 14 YO at the time with a bunch of 30-40 year olds) - unforgettable expierence🤣

[@jettii04]

This video brought back a memory of soloing the special version of sunless cell for that final quest step.

[@I_C-y]

Boolean Gemini and Necrochasm were my 2 hardest weapons to get, I’ve only ever seen 1 other play in my entirety of playing D1 w the Boolean Gemini.

[@iamlittlebrad]

The funniest thing about the “forever 29” is I didn’t have that problem. Got super lucky my 3 runs. Now that luck is running out in Destiny 2 lol

[@chicken5038]

I remember the nechrocasm grind it was the first big grind I ever did and in my memories it felt like an odyssey to get that weapon and I basically never took it off my hunter.

[@Lyricx93]

That Thorn quest 😩 I got it on my hunter and all I had was a void fusion rifle (after the nerf that murdered them).

[@Schalaster]

Honorable mention to the D2 Mars sleeper nodes You had to obtain resonate stems that came from menial tasks on Mars Then you combined 4 of those into a key which corresponds to one of the 40 nodes on Mars Unfortunately, which of the nodes your key could unlock was random* and there originally was no knockout system *Creating a key while being in a specific zone would almost certainly exlude all the nodes in that zone, but there was still a lot of RNG Combining stems would consume them even if the key was useless, so you had to keep doing busy work on Mars for a long time Collecting all 40 and then collecting one more would reward the emblem 'Warminded' Another honorable mention: The Blacksmith title from season of the Forge required you to kill 500 enemies in each forge with Jötunn, Le Monarque, Threat Level, and Izanagi's Burden respectively Getting that many kills with Izanagi was particularly tedious, especially if you matched up with randoms that could steal your kills Also, fun fact for the Truth to Power grind: The lore entry was located in Mara's throne world, which could only be accessed every 3 weeks (the strongest curse week) The weekly Blind Well bounty rewards you a token that unlocks the door to her throne (on the 2 other weeks it would only give you a chest outside her throne world) You could carry over this token while weekly reset rolls around if you're staying in a Dreaming City instance from before reset Doing so with the arrival of the strongest curse week would get you an additional lore entry for that week cycle so you could double dip, shortening the grind

[@betmynamespookedyou4665]

I’ll never forget grinding 3 weeks to get the Redrix’s Broadsword. Or it took me 5 weeks to craft the Insidious Pulse from VoW because I only have 1 character.