The 15 Most Frustrating Grinds In Destiny History

Destiny has some absolutely ridiculous grinds over the past 10 years. In this video, we're exploring some of the most frustrating ones as voted on by the community. From material farms, to insane PvP feats, to secrets, and challenges making you want to uninstall the game, these are the most frustrating grinds Bungie has ever added to Destiny 2.

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Sections:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Forever 29
2:00 Factor75
3:12 A Light In The Dark - Thorn
4:59 Nechrochasm
5:48 Exotic Swords
7:50 The Will of Crota 2 Blues
8:20 Solstice of Heroes
9:35 Faction Rallies
11:18 Strike Specific Loot
12:19 Redrix Claymore
14:10 Luna's Howl / Not Forgotten
15:00 Mountaintop
16:17 Iron Burden
17:08 Niobe Labs
18:30 Honorable Mentions
19:19 Reckoner

[Forcer]

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

[larinanne]

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

[genjidora]

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.

[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.

[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.

[fluxi]

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

[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

[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.

[Rios-ovxi]

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.

[kurtnordli]

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.

[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.

[RespiteofChampions]

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

[mattboy]

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...

[Styxir]

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

[patyolo]

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.

[Captain-Picard]

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!

[lizard]

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

[xXDarkDivideXx]

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

[limpdwarf]

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

[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.