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Edited by pickle rick: 8/7/2015 5:02:08 PM
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Phasing out legendary gear

First, I'm all for slowly phasing out legendary gear. We need to keep things fresh. Second, letting us ascend gear was a dumb solution in retrospect. It creates an expectation. But, rendering our current legendaries obsolete overnight in the taken king is not the right approach. It leaves us feeling cheated for all the effort we've put into the game (bungie itself acknowledges that the old rng loot system was nothing sort of a shafting). There has to be a middle ground between completely killing them in all new content vs letting us ascend them in the taken king. Rendering them 15-30% weaker will do the trick. Also, when I do eventually let go of my old gear I shouldn't feel shafted. The HoW's 2-to-1 blanket exchange rates were a good example of being shafted. 2 coins for 1 mote? 2 radiant mats for 1 mote? Really? Whose idea was that? If all I'm going to get while letting go of weapons which I spent over 100++ raids to obtain, upgrade, and ascend is 1 mote and 2 weapon parts I'm gonna feel very cheated. Of course we don't yet know if bungie has a plan. But I'd rather voice my concern before that plan becomes official. Stop being a dick to old players bungie. There's a limit to our patience. PvE hasn't had anything interesting since crota. You bungled skolas with the burn modifiers and by the time you fixed it we realized it wasn't really that fun and the loot was much better in 28 PoE. PvP has been plagued by unbalanced weapons and bad connections for even longer. I'm getting tired. DeeJ said bungie wants players to feel a link between time spent and loot earned. Starting with a clean slate now is convenient but not the right solution.

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  • Edited by Endless Spheres: 8/11/2015 2:01:36 AM
    They're not obsolete. They're being phased out just as you put it. The campaign starts at about Level 25 or something around there. Your Year 1 weapons are more than ready for the start of the expansion, but there's new loot to be found during the campaign.

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    • Edited by ValiantBlu: 8/11/2015 1:55:08 AM
      I'm only going to say this one more time What level are you? 34? Wrong, you're level 20, your gear artificially raises your level to 34 but you're still level 20 What level are your weapons? 34? Wrong check the level requirement on all your gear, weapons and armor, all level 20 Why doesn't your level 30 armor perform well against level 34 enemies? Because it drops your level The armor that kicks you up to 34 though is great Because it scales damage AS IF you were level 34 It's still level 20 gear Think back to your first blue gear Level 10-15 probably It was probably the best gear you had for a long time even with gear outclassing the armor or defense rating You probably held onto it for about 5 levels before you found a green that was better Don't dismantle everything when TTK releases because I'm sure your level 20 gear, the same level 20 gear you've been using at level 34, will still be effective [i]at least[/i] until level 34 And you may replace some things But that's only because they will be [i]better[/i] than what you currently have I'm not seeing a problem here Bungie literally only told us we would find gear with better attack and defense ratings off the bat That doesn't mean our current gear will be useless immediately That means that we 1) will have more options right off the bat and 2) can expect gear that kicks our current gear in the ass by the time we hit 40 Also RNG is getting tweaked so the game will take all your gear into account for drops And if you have all your purples still won't that increase your chances of finding better guns? I just don't get why everyone is so up in arms about this I'm done Your guns will be obsolete, yes, not suddenly paperweights

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      • Very well said in regard to that skolas fight. Ugh it's zero fun. And not at all worth the time or pain in the ass for the reward. But even if the reward was tripled I wouldn't fight skolas again.

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      • Ascending guns was a desperate attempt to use the Fatebringer to sell HOW. Now it's putting a bad taste in some mouthes when they aren't doing it now. Ascending will be back in one form or another in the future. Maybe the next time they attempt to sell DLC without a raid.

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      • Very well said. I don't even fully agree but bump for good points, and actual logic :)

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      • They should print this in large letters and post it over the bosses office to remind them why they have jobs (for now)...

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      • Bump for truth. Well said.

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