I took a 3-month straight break pending HoW. Loved PoE save the BS mechanics Bungie expected players to utilize to beat certain Weekly Bosses. Never cared for Trial-Hards of Trollsiris and after about 6-weeks, I was again done with Dullestiny until TTK. I agree that Year 1 was practically a Beta. As for the new so-called "Story", the cutsenes are enjoyable more so than its Year 1 predecessor. To me though, it feels exactly like the first Borderlands. Absent story with innovative cutsenes in the DLC. At least that game had exciting loot drops. I still burn Zealots on patrol with my G-Horn because the new Legendary Rockets really suck. As well as the LMG's. It's like Bungie decides to give us new toys (Swords) and thinks we won't notice the crap that they threw in with it. And don't even get me started on waiting around for Armsday and having to keep Foundry Orders within our limited inventory for at least 3 days.
Speaking of toys, I like how the latest TU introduced a second glitched TTK Super. Instead of fixing it like with Sunbreakers (the glitch, I mean, it's still beyond OP) they just remove it. "Sorry kids, looks like your new toy has some sharp ends, we wouldn't want you to hurt yourself, so we'll hold them for you until we can dull them down. We're busy spending your silver dollars, so we'll get to it next month." #DEALWITHIT. And as I just mentioned silver dollars and in light of the new Eververse Trading Co. I swear, if they launch microtransactions for materials, I'm out. I'll sell my PS4 Collector's Edition and toss the Strange Coin in Mount Kilauea.
The biggest insult is how they require new players to have both expansions to play TTK, yet they haven't been updated with Year 2 leveled loot. PoE was fun, but what's the point for it's existence anymore? I understand that they wanted to keep most Year 1 weapons in the past, at least Raid gear, but they could have updated the Class Armor as they don't directly affect gameplay. Hood of the Spawn was one of my favorite cloaks to wear. Bungie updates the Will of Crota quest items but not the other Class Items you can buy from Eris? I have 15 Year 1 cloaks just sitting in my vault. Ghostwalker, Red Sun, All My Victims, Both Year 1 Iron Banner Mantles, Wetwork, etc. Shit that you can't even get anymore and I can't so much as show them off without heavily impacting my Light Level. And every time Bungie updates the Vendors when they release an expansion, I'm over buying anything after a couple weeks, if that. They need to cycle the Legendary Vendors every Weekly Reset with the inclusion of Year 2 versions of Year 1 gear. It gives players more diversity, limits the decline of interest and doesn't rip off players by taking away content that they paid for.
In response to DeeJ about the nerf of Weapon Part dismantling because they're still trying to figure out players' overly diverse need for them, (Microtransaction Pre-Calculations Alert) here's a simple and fair solution. Let us buy them with Glimmer. The need for them will simply be at the discretion of each individual player. And for Marty's sake, enough with this hold to delete crap. We're not idiots, so stop insulting our intelligence. It shouldn't take over a minute to delete unwanted bounties. And to protect players from accidental deletion, a simple "Select Delete->Are you sure?->Select Yes" would be the best workaround and would limit the tediousness of the current UI. And I think we need a trash bin for accidentally deleted materials. Things that are deleted, not dismantled. Meaning nothing was received for said deletion. On the Tuesday of TTK Iron Banner's launch, I was using motes for xp/deleting unwanted Legendaries. My stack of motes were at the end of my list of materials. After I dismantled an armor piece, gaining Armor Materials moved its stack to the end of that materials list. So, doing this for about ten-minutes whilst conversing with friends, I was on complete auto-pilot and was too late to notice that I wasn't using more motes, I was deleting my stack of Armor Materials. I had about 180. Needless to say, I was fuming. I can barely hold more than 50 in my inventory before they're used up. Imagine if I was a ridiculous material farmer and had over a thousand in the stack. Imagine how over I would be with Dullestiny? There needs to be a major overhaul on the UI. And if Bungie can't deliver on some form of recycling bin (it may be a bit much to ask, but I still stand by it) then allow us to lock materials just like our gear so we're not left smashing our heads against our 3rd-world server pre-gen consoles that take hours to sign into Xbox Live after Goat Simulator crashes.
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