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6/24/2025 5:53:40 PM
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New/Featured gear sounds like watered-down sunsetting that will force players to refarm gear with each new content drop
While a 5-10% weapons damage boost or a 5-15 armor DR boost doesn't sound like much, I can definitely see a scenario where players kick player from fireteams because they're not running the latest and greatest gear.
It also has me concerned for exotics who will apparently be power crept unless bungie regularly updates them.
Not to mention, who will honestly want to regrind their T5 gear every 6 months? That's a lot of RNG to wade through, plus they might not even offer an archetype you like that season.
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Reminds of how FFXIV or WoW does gear every patch, higher Ilvl gear means it's required to do content at that point and time for prog raiding. This is similar in every aspect to how MMO gear grinding is, except in those games the BiS gear can be purchased with currency earned through a weekly cap, or the Raid tier at the time. Weapons were the same in terms of earning them this way as well. I'm personally experienced in this type of grind and not sure how well others will accept it, those who never experienced this type of gear progression, casual players never cared for this in either of those MMO games and would wait till content was nerfed and more approachable a few expansions after it's initial release.
