I am a collector at heart. I am sentimental. I want to collect the new weapons. But i want my old weapons to be relevant. The VAULT OF GLASS is no small feat in terms of lore. Neither was the killing of Crota, an apparent god. To take those rewards and level them up. Then pull them from your vault to apply Etheric Light that you worked for... only to have them tossed in the trash because three months later there's some newer stuff?
What's the point in using Etheric Light at all? What is the point in getting it? What is the point in taking a 300 Vision of Confluence and upgrading it to 365?
There is no point. Because they will all be obsolete. So the entirety of HoW was just a waste of time.
That is a giant kick in the nuts to those who have been here since the beginning. And some kid who just bought the collectors edition can breeze up through to the best gear, skipping all of the raids and not requiring the etheric light or shards.
I had a list of things i wanted to collect. All of the different raid gear for each class. All of the exotics, all of the weapons i thought looked cool etc etc.
The main point: Playing Destiny right now has almost no point to it unless it is for the pure enjoyment of doing it with friends... and a good few of us dont play with friends constantly.
Everything Destiny is right now is obtaining gear or gathering materials to increase the weapons/gears power. Which is pointless because it will be to NO PURPOSEFUL END.
And to anyone saying Destiny is an MMO. You're wrong. It has SOME features similar to an mmorpg. But thus far... they have made it so we can bring our beloved weapons that we spent so much time progressing with us along our journey. Most mmorpgs dont require you to level up your own gear. Most mmorpgs dont require you to change the method of how you progress multiple times.
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To be honest I feel like raid gear could be its own tier of weapon. Maybe that's a terrible idea but I just thought of it. Most other legendaries are generic, and there aren't many Destiny raids to go around. For gear from an activity many have not completed to go obsolete is somewhat disappointing. Even if a lot of people have raided, many have not. So it would still be cool to be able to practically use raid gear. When the new good guns come out, there could be some actual variety. I know I can't expect to use the same guns forever, but I wouldn't mind this if there were more variety in the first place. Getting rid of the old to replace it with new guns of the same quantity doesn't really fix the problem. It just makes you "need" the new guns.