You guys say in the Livestream that power will be fully enabled while you're viewing world tier difficulties, but you're still capping our levels. So that's a lie. And the new difficulty levels (Fabled and Mythic) are scaling higher than GMs, capping us 30-40 below.
Cool, we're potentially stronger thanks to these stat reworks, but you're immediately going back on your word and making the enemies even stronger to the point we're leveling up more to enable damage than to close the gap or surpass the enemy in power, as are the points of a power system. And to top it off, the rewards aren't going up much if at all for completing what are for all intents and purposes, higher activities than GMs.
If players shouldn't be allowed to benefit from leveling up, you should have no say in how easily players get what they want from these. You make the game harder/ more challenging by actually making it harder, not by capping the player, then nerfing the player, then buffing the enemy 4 times more. At this point, we're leveling up to enable damage, then focusing our stats to increase our resistance or damage output to match GM difficulty IF that.
Why? Why even have a level system if it doesn't even work? You've had YEARS to figure it out and it looks like we're only getting further and further from the "power fantasy" Destiny is supposed to be.
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I think there is a lot of confusion regarding the power system. 10-200 is standard fair and quite straightforward. 200-550, 200 as a base, about T2, to get T3 and above, player needs to complete more challenging contents. Completing said contents, you will be rewarded with T3, so on and so forth. So you need to gear up through playing incremental harder contents, sort of like a ladder. The system encourages players to play to achieve higher tier rewards. Is T5 mandatory? No. T3 which is quite achievable is good enough. 6% weapon damage bonus and 9% armour DR for pve. PvP needs T4 for better weapon stats as it is competitive. Now the question is about time investment. What are all these progressions meant relative to your presence, time and effort? If you like D2 and willing to commit most of your spare time in it, it is a very good progression system. If you tend to play variety of games, D2 might handicap you. T3 should be fine though for modest time investment.