Having leveled 3 characters to 85 a few around mid 50’s and nr. 4 closing in on 85 as well now… Farming Crucible for drops is something I really do not enjoy at all, so I do 95% of my farming in the “vanilla” game, which I really do enjoy, even though the drops don’t even come close to how efficient Crucible is time vs. amount of drops… After capping standings with the various factions the bounties are pretty much just phased out of the game, and you have no real reason to do them anymore, which is really sad IMO, coz I always like doing them when leveling up new characters/builds.
My suggestion is this:
Endgame bounties for farming. After capping out a factions standing you get harder and/or slightly longer bounties resulting in random legendary rewards when completed. It could also be semi random… Different factions could have weighted rewards with much higher chances of rewarding weapons/armor/jewlery depending on which faction you’re doing bounties for so you could slightly focus your farming.
Another thing I would love to see would be to have each faction expanded with lategame worthy legendary items specific to the different factions. Could also be tied into bounties later on.
Just my 2 cents on what I really feel is missing. Thanks for a great game Crate <3