Destiny is one of the best FPS games for the way it feels when playing, its core mechanics whilst "shooting things in the head" are excellent, but this content is so protracted and dull its almost amusing in its level of repetition. "We brought back machine guns!" whoop de doo, you added a weapon from D1. "Last word is back!" (maybe?) yeah, you added a weapon from D1. and the repetition goes on........creativity, where did you go?

Yep Black Armory was just awful the thing that pisses me off is that if people get god roll weapons from black armory i get either 2 taped by a kindled orchid or 2 bursted by a blast furnace Conclusion Black Armory weapons are op and to get them its such a grind

Just play gambit. Its what keeps me playing this game.

The FUN is gone. It’s as simple as that. Back to FORTNITE.

I disagree. My goons and I are enjoying it.

The Raid lair is better than any of the year 1 lairs

It’s been entertaining enough for me, I don’t feel ripped off or anything. Yes the forge stuff is repetitive and fairly forgettable, but it’s fine in my opinion. I wouldn’t want to see only small DLCs like this always, I’d still like a forsaken style DLC at least yearly, but I’d happily pay for ongoing smaller add ons like black armoury. If it keep me occupied for a month and then I play other games until the next DLC drop, that’s fine.

The forges are an end game activity, while they may not be mind blowing end game activities they are end game, sure they are tedious but so is crucible for some and strikes for others so why should doing an activity that takes 5-10 minutes, an activity btw that rewards you with some of the best weapons in the game (looking at you blast furnace, kindled orchid, the sniper and hammerhead) get labeled as boring when you’ve been doing the same strikes since day 1? Do the strikes reward powerful weapons? No, the nightfalls do and even then I’d much rather spend the time farming for a god roll blast furnace (something that can be done every other week now if they keep the 3 weapons cycle) than some mid tier nightfall specific weapon that may or may not even show up on weekly reset. So again why praise strikes that reward next to nothing and despise an activity that gives us a fairly reliable way to get some of the best weapons in the game? The things we got in this micro dlc have been known for a while, we knew that no new strikes would be added or gambit maps (if only we got a gambit focused dlc) but we did get a raid, and before anyone says “BuT iTs A rAiD lAiR” id like to remind you that Crotas end is right there and speaking from personal experience SOTP is a significantly better raid than crotas. You said there’s no new armor, the raid set, the forge set, the new banner set and the vanguard dare set are all right there and they all look fantastic, on top of all that the black armory dlc added some of the best shaders across both games imo (although srl still have the best shaders.) so again where’s the failure in that department? I do have my gripes about armory, time gating a certain hand cannon is a little silly imo, I get why they’re doing it as late as they are, just a little build up for jokers wild. But unlocking the forges in segments I personally think it was a good move, I remember back in the April update? The one that added the Malok strike, they gave us everything right away and guess what happened? Everyone finished everything right away and another drought started, releasing it in parts not only helps with trying to keep the population alive it also helps the game feel less stale, I for one am excited about the labs, I know nothing about it but it’s new experience, it’s something I am excited for specifically because it’s something new. Now I agree, a lot of the armor sets look meh, no arguing there, but there are some that look amazing, hell the vanguard dare cloak is probably my favourite cloak across both games (I know I’ll get called a heretic for not praising the VoG cloak). You also mention amazing weapons, d2 has some fantastic weapons in both visual appeal and usage, exotics alone, malfeasance hands down the best looking exotic hand cannon (I still love you thorn) Cerberus +1 a unique exotic that looks really cool, almost every energy weapon, they look great and quite a few are incredibly useful, and for power I can’t think of a bad one there, even prospector is a good and nice looking weapon. The new raid, threat level, the fusion, the scout, all great weapons that look really nice and let’s not forget the raid exotics, 1k and anarchy, two incredibly powerful and unique weapons. And if you wanna talk about powerful legendaries outside of the raid ones, ep shottie, lunas, blast furnace, go figure, bygones, trust, dust rock, retold tale, mindbenders, all great legendary weapons that all look really nice (except dust rock). I can’t speak for others but imo the arsenal we have in D2 is leagues above what we had in 1, sure there were some stand outs in fatebringer and vision (my all time favourite weapon btw) but I dunno about you but I’d rather have my lunas over a fatebringer any day. I understand nostalgia glasses play a huge role in these feelings towards weapons but like I said, D2 arsenal over D1 any day... unless we’re talking exotics because that’s tough I do have some personal bias towards bolt caster since it is my favourite exotic across both games. (Even though they’re not out yet, all the new forge exotics look really good, even the bow looks fantastic) While Black armory may not have been the typical dlc (even though they made it clear from the get go that it wouldn’t be one... road maps are hard to read I guess) in my opinion I think it was a good dlc... not forsaken level but still leagues above CoO, it gave us a fun raid, really good weapons to chase after and grind for, and it hasn’t even given us all the things we can do in the expansion yet, there’s still more to come and for $15~ I can wholeheartedly say that black armory has been worth every cent so far.