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8/20/2025 6:14:42 PM
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MY OPINION VS YOURS
Greetings everyone in the community!
Bungie, I hope you read this as well.
The reason I'm making this post is to express my personal opinions about Edge of Fate and everything that comes with it.
I would like to hear your (the community) thoughts because I enjoy a variety of perspectives on this matter, so let's respect each other's viewpoints and have an enjoyable interchange. 😉
I will number my thoughts so you can number your responses to each if you like.
1. I've been having a blast with this expansion, including the campaign, the triumphs, and the side quests. The origin story of Ikora was a nice touch, and Lodi is very likeable. I also love using matterspark. It's awesome having a second health bar, blinding, jolting, amplified, and an escape plan all rolled into one. Rolled, get it?
2. I really enjoyed the difficult power grind, because only the most dedicated are first to 450, instead of every casual Explorer in the game reaching max light at the same time.
3. The rewards for reaching max power and guardian rank are tremendously worth it! I absolutely love the new armor stats and bonuses. Build crafting is an absolute dream come true now. I've never felt more powerful, efficient, and enamored with my guardian!
4. The new weapons are phenomenal, and I have a blast farming a variety of PVP and PVE to acquire them (Unless I'm up against sweats, lol.) T5's are beautiful and powerful!
5. The portal, challenges, and rewards track are excellent. The portal is simple, attractive, and full of variety. I look forward to more being added as time progresses.
6. Overall, I think Bungie did amazing with all the updates, as they strive to keep improving the gamer experience. I've never had so much fun or been so hooked to D2 as I am this season.
7. My only criticism is that many people don't have as much time to grind for the best loot as I have. Perhaps you should consider making the grind less stressful and more rewarding for casuals.
8. Finally, I'm not blind to Bungie's mistakes, manipulations, devious marketing tactics, greed, corruption, and victimizing their consumers. I've shared all my anger and rage towards these issues countless times on forums. Today, I just wanted to give credit where it is due. To all the developers who put their heart and soul into the gamer experience, I give a big warm thank you! 🤗
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1. Campaign was solid. Better than Lightfall, worse than Witch Queen or TFS. No complaints here. 2. I also like that the grind exists, but I think that there needs to be more opportunities to earn higher tier loot before you hit 400. Either by upping the difficulty or offering weeks like Solstice with low chances for high level drops. 3. It’s really nice, but so many people won’t be able to experience the vast majority of it due to how tied in it is to light level and sheer time investment. 4. What weapons we got are great, but the number of weapons available is too low. An easy solution for the Crucible, Standard Portal, and Pinnacle rewards would have been to reissue the last 3 newly added weapons from their complementary sources. - Crucible: Joxer’s Longsword, Anonymous Autumn, Better Devils - Standard Portal: Origin Story, Wicked Sister, Cynosure - Pinnacle: Palindrome, Lotus Eater, Cruel Mercy Perhaps also update the perks for the reissued versions. Hopefully they are going to fix this with Ash and Iron. 5. Portal isn’t bad, but the Fireteam Ops is a massive failure. Not only are the rewards vastly undertuned compared to the others, but so many of the options do not have active matchmaking. There are so many activities in this playlist that are never featured to have matchmaking. This drastically lowers the amount of things in this playlist. Either: - Have the selection rotate more frequently - Save 1 of the featured slots for a non-strike/battleground activity. (My preferred option). I have yet to see Coil, Savathun’s Spire, etc have matchmaking. 6. It’s not bad. It’s probably the most approachable it’s felt in years, but the game currently feels extremely shallow. This is largely due to the poor reward structure Bungie has added for the vast majority of the game’s activities combined with how important power leveling is for rewards. [quote]7. My only criticism is that many people don't have as much time to grind for the best loot as I have. Perhaps you should consider making the grind less stressful and more rewarding for casuals.[/quote] 7. 100%. Basically, Bungie implemented a lot of things that are good in theory and the current stage is all growing pains. BUT Bungie needs to keep their foot on the gas - the current game has massive issues that need to be fixed ASAP. - Rewards need a massive overhaul. - The grind is ridiculous time investment. - So few of the community has had a chance to even try the benefits of the stat overhaul due to the grind to reach tier 4 and 5. - New Gear bonus disincentivizes grinding - Fireteam Ops are DOA - The game feels too shallow
