[url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/06/25/destiny-2-players-hate-edge-of-fates-new-gear-grind-plan/]‘Destiny 2’ Players Hate Edge Of Fate’s ‘New Gear’ Grind Plan[/url] "Bungie is instituting a system where you will get a stacking damage-resist bonus over time by using New Gear armor sets and then also getting higher tiers of those new armor sets. In a given stretch of time [...] if you get a full set of Tier 5 armor, that will equal a significant 15% damage reduction. Lower tiers, still of New Gear armor, will offer less than that. Non-New Gear armor gives you nothing. The problem becomes that this will then “expire.” There will be new, New Gear armor after 6 [...] months, and you’ll have to do it again, not only getting Tier 5 New Gear armor, but also playing Jenga with the new stat system that requires a lot more finagling than before to get a good build. It seems to be an attempt to get players to grind armor in a way they haven’t for a while, but it feels more like a penalty than a bonus if you’re not doing it. Some players may downplay the damage reduction as not that big of a deal, but it at least feels bad that you’re grinding out sets that will be fundamentally worse in a few months. The weapon concept is similar, and while it’s perhaps not as bad, it’s more complicated." That's from the article linked above. Edit: To be honest, I thought Armor 3.0 would be like an optimization and simplification. I never thought that it would be a complete "break" with the current system and a significant new effort. Edit: Text correction