and I'm OK with that... the problem I have is the constant penalty for death... I gain 2 levels and lose a level or two... drives me crazy... mostly because of the high amount of AI enemies that spawn almost right in front of you at the extraction zones... and then the rouge squads, which I can deal with, with friends... but what if it's only me playing, then it's impossible.
jmo
Have you been in the DZ since the last patch? They nerfed the penalty for dying some because people were complaining about it.
I decided to give matchmaking a go with the DZ since I had a little time to kill yesterday afternoon. First group I got into there were 4 of us. One guy decided to go rogue and everyone else in the server ended up in a huge fight against us in like 5 minutes. After dying twice and 2 of the other guys in the group leaving I left too. Tried again and got a group with 2 guys. 1 immediately left group when I joined but I stuck it out with the other guy. Ran into a solo playing while clearing a landmark and invited him to join us. Good voice coms and cooperation (we even saved another group being attacked by rogues at one point) and I got a decent amount of purple gear extracted. I also leveled up to 18 from 13 in like 45 mins. You definitely take chances with the random matchmaking though. I think I am going to start using one of the LFG sites if none of my friends are around. I had pretty good luck finding decent gamers for Destiny doing that.
I am going to try to be on tomorrow night and Sat night if possible. If you see me in the game feel free to join on us or invite me to your group.