Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-25548717-20141109230752

Warning: as questions go, this is a bit ranty...

So this weekend I picked up an inventory item that promised to be an Exotic Hand Cannon. Now, I'm not a fan of the hand cannon weapons on offer in the game, but: whatever. So the directions suggested that if I were to defeat 500 Hive on the Moon, I'd activate the weapon fine... So I did as asked, except that now I'm told that I need to defeat 500 other players in PvP in the Crucible, and am warned that if I die too often, the activation of this weapon will be slowed.

Now [and I may take flame for this, but it's a personal choice thing] I absolutely *hate* Crucible matches. If Bungie had done a better job of matching between good and poor PvP players [I fall into the latter category] I might be more tolerant, but currently I have zero interest in running around a map getting killed every 15 seconds until the timer runs out.

So does anyone know if there are any options open to me that would allow me to activate this Exotic Weapon via anything other than prevailing in 500 Crucible kills? Because if that's the only only way I'm just going to abadon the bounty now and free up the slot in my profile for something I actually enjoy doing.

While I'm here and ranting, does anyone know if all exotic weapons are restricted like this? I have one piece of exotic Armour (The Armamentarium), and apart from having excessive upgrade requirements, it's no different from Legendary armour. But weapons forcing me to undertake specific activities is more than I'm interested in... If I have no choice but to make 500 Crucible kills, I'll just stop here and abandon the bounty.

Thanks in advance. 