I think factions should be permanent but with the rallies happening from time to time, with the winner faction gaining items like pinnacle gear, better rolled weapons or things like that

In my opinion factions wouldn't be so much of an issue if the planetary vendors were better! What did d1 factions have? Rank up rewards, cosmetic items, cool looking gear, quite a lot of decent weapons, an affiliation aspect, regular updates and a one off quest Compare that to planetary vendors, and there are similarities, but they don't really compare! D2 factions at least added a bit of focus for a short space of time, and the vendor system itself was good, but a little too centred around rng... the token system was overly repetitive as well! Bringing in factions to how vendors like shaxx and zavala are now is the right step, but I do like the focused events! Again, improving planetary vendors is key for me! So long story short... a mix please!!

In my opinion factions wouldn't be so much of an issue if the planetary vendors were better! What did d1 factions have? Rank up rewards, cosmetic items, cool looking gear, quite a lot of decent weapons, an affiliation aspect, regular updates and a one off quest Compare that to planetary vendors, and there are similarities, but they don't really compare! D2 factions at least added a bit of focus for a short space of time, and the vendor system itself was good, but a little too centred around rng... the token system was overly repetitive as well! Bringing in factions to how vendors like shaxx and zavala are now is the right step, but I do like the focused events! Again, improving planetary vendors is key for me! So long story short... a mix please!!

Honestly had a hard time deciding between the mix option and the d1 option. Honestly love the idea of faction rallies bringing in new guns every month but honestly they needed work on how many tokens you get for activities. While d1 style would just be better since now we not only have random rolled weapons but also armor 2.0 out. Personally think a mix would be best to keep new guns and ornaments coming in to go after. Then also having it so you can grind for basic gear and the winning guns between the faction rallies. Could just bring back year 1 gear as a start or give some love to forgotten weapon archetypes/ones that don't have a version in every element. This last bit can be ignored but feel I should mention forgotten archetypes and what not. Forgot ones are like the huckleberry and immanent storm(may have messed the name up) introduced in war mind with a unique feature of dealing more damage the closer you are but none seem to have made it to y2+ yet. Of course I will admit maybe I somehow overlooked it but this is just an example of the forgotten. Now version wise you can look at timeworn spire from iron banner. What we got since y2 started has been claws of the wolf and outlast(having memory issues so might be wrong name). The ones that came in y2 are energy while timeworn was kinetic and again unless I missed something we haven't gotten a kinetic variant of them. I'm sure there's a big list for all this but these are just examples I can think of right now. Also sorry for this going on longer than I thought lol

Factions should be permanent like in D1, with random rolled gear. But maybe there should be something like month long faction rallies, with sick and original rewards. And to make choosing factions more meaningful, you should only be able to choose 1 for and entire season. (Like per account) to separate the charlatans from the actually faithful. And of course, faction quests with exotic class items should be a given.

Upvoted. I do miss the exotic class items.

No factions much like trials and arms day it can stay dead.

I don't really get it Theyve already got the weapons and armors for Factions. Just let us perpetually grind rep and give mats and stuff to level them.. Why not??

A mix is fine imo, as long as the factions stay the whole time and faction rally gets improved on.

Honestly I'd enjoy Factions being open like they were in D1, however I did enjoy the Faction Rally event. Maybe do both? A Faction Rally could be used to introduce new weapons early and you could farm for rolls on faction weapons and armor in between Rallys

Kinda would like there to still be faction rallies where each faction has their own weapon for the season and if your faction didn't win for the season you could still purchase it and the others for 100 legendary shards.