Destiny Players - Strikes, missions, grinding

Destiny. I'm tired of grinding the same strike missions in a desperate attempt to getbettrr gear.

Maybe I should re-ask. Do I need to be friends with other destiny players to hear them in strike missions (chat) or does it not matter?

Hit me up! New destiny player (and new to xbox haha) level 10 warlock and would love to play some missions strikes etc!

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done the crotas missions and the new strike already (nightfall)

was good doing something new and i love destiny - not sure the price is justified though for what you get. I will continue to play and grind though as there's something that just keeps me coming back (probably the constant amount of people and groups i can
jump in and out of)

My biggest Digital game regret and I didnt even pay for the game. Excellent gameplay very poor everything else. Lack of content, to much grinding for little reward, lack of content, only 3 player co-op, lack of content, no real reason for the game being
always online, lack of content, terribly unbalanced MP and did I mention lack of content?

I quit playing after me and a friend did 5 strike missions one day, and they were all the exact same strike. Bungie *** up, or Activision did. Whoever is at fault it doesn't matter to me as Destiny 2 wont ever be downloaded to my console even if its free.