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Edited by jareids: 3/18/2016 1:07:00 AM
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A Theory About the Spring Update and Why Bungie Won't Talk About It

So, I thought of this last night. Im pretty sure I know what the update's going to be, but let's start at the beginning. We don't know much, but we do know that Bungie is (and has been for a while) devoting all of their efforts to create Destiny 2. Postponing the release only confirmed that they just need more time. But at the same time, they know they have to give us [i]something.[/i] What's the easiest way to do that? [b]Add a means to advance Y1 gear to max level. [/b] This would be veryyyy effective, because it would keep us happy, but they wouldn't have to create a bunch of new content: • Add upgrade path for Y1 gear (I think it will be etheric light) • Prison of Elders returns at 320, 340, and 350 light (whether it'll be new bosses or just leveled up old bosses, idk) and new weapon drops • Fusion rifle nerf • General weapons tweaking [b]Upgrade path: [/b] Use etheric light from PoE to raise light of all legendary/exotic gear to 350 light [i]They would literally have to "add" almost nothing! They'd just be giving us what we should already have. It's a shame they have to resort to tactics like this to manufacture new content.[/i] They don't want to say anything publicly yet because they need this "new content" to last us as long as it can. The more players that delete their Y1 gear, the better. Also they would want to prevent us from stock piling etheric light, armor cores, weapon cores, etc. Compare this to when HoW was released. It was the same thing. They needed to focus their efforts on TTK as much as they could, so a big part of their update was making it relevant to play old content again. I'd put money down that this is their next update. What do you guys think? [b]Post update edit:[/b] Judging from the pictures at least, it seems PoE will definitely be making a comeback in April. Now it remains to be seen whether or not they'll allow us to ascend our level old gear to Y2 levels with etheric light. Either way, I'd start stock piling etheric light, and weapon/armor cores.

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  • Stopped reading after, "Postponing the release only confirmed they just need more time" We'll golly Columbo ya think?? Reported then muted.

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  • After they said the only thing u can do is use etheric light for rep gain I turned my 40 in to save room in my vault as had no reason to keep it. If they now add in a real reason to have kept it I will be pissed and am sure anyone else who used the ones they had would be also. That would be a big slap in the face. If they did do that they would make a new item that only dropped from the new harder setting

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    • Stopped reading at [quote]Fusion rifle nerf[/quote]

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      • If I could bring my LDR to max light I'd be so frickin stoked.

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        • Plus does anyone remember how much people hated PoE skolas was the reason many people didn't get the year one emblem as they hated it that much. It was a 3 man no cp grind fest it took as long as a raid sometimes just from the meaningless time sucks run back to center...wait...wait...run to next challenge...wave one joke..wave two joke wave 3 depends then run back...wait wait....wait run back.. Should have been one less wave per rotation and least one maybe two less rotations in general

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        • Destiny 2 and or the expansion this year will break the y1/2 trend of having not a lot to put out

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        • If it's just an updated PoE....then I am afraid I really am done until 2. I hated PoE, and never bothered to finish it

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        • Ok but where does the division come in? Like how does this post help them

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          • The problem with that idea is that it makes everything but PoE, essentially useless.

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            • I like how you put nerf fusion rifles in there lol

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            • Good theory but at this point I'm not sure it would be a good idea, making everyone grind Poe until the next dlc would kill even more of its player base, it would be implementing everything people hate with out adding one thing we have asked for. Does sound like something Bungie would do though lol

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            • Funny thing is they have done this before with HoW and Taken King but let's break it down so everyone can follow the steps. 1.Go Months without any new. Slowly update the game along the way. 2.Announce weeks before that you will have news soon. 3.Announce a date of the release and streams following up to release.Doing it so close that they literately can't change anything immediately even if the players don't want it. 4.Proceed to hype the hell out of all the new features making them seem like they are going to be much better than they are. Remember how PoE was supposed to be this amazing, dynamic, firefight like thing that just wound up being 4 rooms and only 3 objectives with very few rotating bosses/modifiers? 5.Rinse and repeat til next content release.

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              • Taken shader is probably from beating the taken Skolas. Good thing I still have an etheric light lol

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              • When nerfing fusion rifles isn't even the main point of the topic, you know they're just a joke now...

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              • Holy crap nerf fusions. Love the idea and it has been on the back of my mind for awhile

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              • Because it's shitty and pathetic that's why they've proven the last two years that's all they can do at their absolute best.

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              • This makes sense. I didn't care too much for PoE but we all did it for the Etheric light, that's what made PoE relevant and bridged the gap between content and max light level as well as making everything relevant in the game. HoW period was the best not because of PoE but because of ETHERIC LIGHT.

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              • They did say " new and updated gear "

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                • If true etheric light will probably get us to 280

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                  • Several problems they would have to completely get rid of infusion which resulted in a massive grind, they need this update to last. You would be able to level up elemental primaries which goes against their current thought process of making raid weapons shitty. I still have 5-6 etheric lights so I would already be able to make 1 character max level on day 1.

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                    • https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/196541347/0/0/1

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                    • Why do you need etheric light when there's infusion? Infusion is a good system, it was just implemented wrong and made it too much of a grind...

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                      • Your old gear will be obsolete... Deletes old gear for the vault space and no use for it... Hey guys guess what? Your old gear will be usefull again!!!!!! Screw that...

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                        • I like how you casually put "fusion rifle nerf" in there ;)

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                        • Destiny is literally a game created to pool in mass amounts of money with minimal effort or money spent during the process. What you people don't realize is that 500m is released through out the contract of 10 years based off profit. If Destiny doesn't meet the expectations of the corporate greedy satan worshipers than unfortunately Destiny will be discontinued. It's just a matter of time before the last few remaining players see this and move onto better games which I will not mention.

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                          • bungie isn't dumb enough to make old content relevant. if they bring back old raids, i will sell this game for a dollar.

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