House of Wolves had more content than any of the expansions including taken king.
You felt rewarded when you got a weapon because you knew you could get the roll you wanted.
The raid gear was worth grinding the raids for.
All content from vanilla to dark below was also a viable option.
The strike rotations included every strike and had some great guns in them.
Exotics didn't come pouring in through a little coin and the bounties were difficult enough to make you feel that you earned them.
Although the weapon meta was bad it wasn't nearly as bad as this mess we have now.
Localized matchmaking meant you almost never had red bars on your team.
Xur sold 5 heavy packs, instead of 3.
No time gated quests that just artificially increased the life of the game by weeks. (Except elder cipher and some tdb quests)
Overall you felt more rewarded. You knew once you got an etheric light the items light would be max and you didn't have to rely on rng. You had 3 sets of raid armor all max level. Your weapons were tailored to you because you didn't have to rely on rng for a good roll (because you were able to reroll it to get what you wanted) after you already waited through rng to get the thing.
I miss house of wolves and the drive to play because "they surely won't mess up all this progress with taken king! They're going in the right direction"
.... thanks for proving us all wrong again Actibungie
Edit: Don't get me started on Nightfalls.... I forgot they were even a thing because of how badly they're implemented now. Back then you got your weekly exp buff and good rewards... it was either Strange coins, a legendary engram/weapon or an exotic. Now you get a ghost shell.
Edit 2: To everyone who thinks I'm talking solely about poe or things added solely in HoW please consider that when I typed this I meant the state of destiny in its whole was at its peak during the time of HoW. I know it didn't have a raid and that PoE rewards were a joke. I was there too. Overall the systems in place and the rewards for every other activity were on point and just a lot better implemented.
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how > ttk
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3 AntwortenThorn meta was the peak of the game? Boo, boo, boo, boo, booooooooooooooooooooo!
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Yep house of wolves was awesome
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Best part about how? Hunting the wolves and treasure chests. The whole week before how dropped was a great time to be in destiny. Like the ol loot cave. You would run in to so many people. A shared world. Like destiny was supposed to be.
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1 AntwortenThe changes they made for the taken king has destroyed the game. I couldn't put my controller down , less than a week after taken king I had force myself to get on. It's now to the point I can't remember when I even logged on...lol bungie emailed me wanting to know why I stopped playing.
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The house of wolves might have been better than TTK but not nearly as big as the TTK content wise.
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HoW was good enough I was convinced to buy TTK. The Taken King was so -blam!-ing bad I quit playing Destiny. Not coming back until they fix the broken state it's in now.
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2 AntwortenMy favorite part about HoW was the dragon strike playlist. My friends and I would clear our inventories save for a few of our favorite guns. And grind that shit for hours, only leaving when we got a full load of blue and purple engrams. Then, we would go and decrypt them, dismantle what wasn't worth it into TONS of weapon parts (~150 on a good run) and do it again the next day. Cryptarch rep skyrocketed like nobody's business [spoiler]and I only got hopscotch once :( but I had a dry rot 32 with full auto and final round. Absolute MONSTER. [/spoiler]
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I would have to agree with all of this. I felt like I had a direct path to getting MOST of the things I wanted with out TOO much RNG. I hate RNG.... I want to punch that b*stard in the face....
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3 AntwortenHoW: Community: HoW is a rip off! TTK: Community: HoW was great! My brain hurts.
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Especially the bit about wxotics
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2 AntwortenWhat are you saying... Looks like you all forgot what it felt like to play The Taken King for the first time. Playing the suncell strike and the bond brothers strike and thinking "woow this is fcking amazing". Having actual cutscenes and getting to really know the characters. Stepping foot on kings fall for the first time and being blown away by the mechanics and length. Most of you guys are pathetic. Stop showing the wiser audience how shtty of a community we can be. Youre the ones fcking up the game with your toxic post.
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This community is so stupid. Nearly everyone complains about the strikes the meta the endgame the loot and more, and hate when they get changed. Now they think it was amazing? You forget how you felt?
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Bump Grinding strikes for a specific gun/armor, finally getting it, then having to get rid of it cause of bad perks/rolls is pretty frustrating.
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HoW PvE = f[b]u[/b]cking amazing best dlc aside from PoE HoW PvP = Thorn, TLW, shotguns. Literally cancer.
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2 AntwortenThe original loading screen was the peak of Destiny.
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Don't forget the wonder of watching people solo Crota's End faster than a team could do it And the fact that heroic strikes now are like the old playlists, and nightfalls are like the old heroic strikes Not to mention all of the strange coins you could get from the heroic strikes, making it well worth your time to run it just to get amazing gear from Xür like the Icebreaker
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Sad but true hipefully they improve
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I hate to say it, but I agree with just about everything in here.
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4 AntwortenIf only there was a raid... Maybe even community made.... https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/183935371/0/0 Bump to support and if you want me to continue! This isn't HoW related but it's fallen related. Specifically House of Kings
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Only thing that sucked was PoE LOL
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5 AntwortenHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH what?