Anyone else waiting to play the game and see how it works before being "skeptical"?

Personally, I'm super excited for it, even as a primarily PvE player. In D1 I always feel like my heavy weapon is going to waste. I don't need or want a rocket launcher or LMG against most enemies, so they only get any use on bosses. I've always wished I could put a sniper in my heavy slot, because then I'd actually use all those purple ammo boxes that drop before a boss. And most goes d snipers have high enough damage they're still useful against bosses. Putting energy primaries in the second slot sounds like a great move too. I've always thought a Scout Rifle would complement the range of my go-to hand cannons perfectly. I feel like people are worried that if they have to choose between a sniper and a rocket launcher their DPS against bosses will suffer too much. And in D1, they would be right. But don't forget, D2 PvE content will be designed and balanced with the new weapon loadout system in mind. You're not going to be left high and dry with two primaries and a special, because that's what will be expected in D2. I also wouldn't be surprised if snipers, shotguns, and fusions get buffed in D2 to put them more on par with rocket and grenade launchers. Shotguns probably won't need to have their damage drop off a cliff beyond melee range, fusions might be able to fire faster, snipers might be able to be more stable. And all three will likely get much more ammo per drop than grenade and rocket launchers.

From what we've seen there aren't rocket launchers, and machine guns have been replaced with the new Gatling guns.

Scout rifle Hand cannon Fusion Sounds pretty dope to me

I'm more worried about the simplified class options, only having two builds per subclass.

Where's everyone that wanted Elemental Primaries? Can we get them a round of applause for making this possible?

They've definitely changed the way that the sandbox works along with it, seeing as they had to program the game from the ground up in their new engine it was probably tweaked and fine-tuned from early in development.

Honestly I'm reserving judgment until I get to play it. Problem we have right now is bungie made a game that for the most part was broken in terms of PvP. They didn't know how the community would play this game and eventually realised their mistakes way too late to change and the community got accustomed to the way it was and were in uproar when changes got made. Players discovered things bungie didn't intend, which made the crucible play style not what they intended. Here's a few examples. [b]movement[/b] Bungie didn't expect players to master rapid movement in this game. Giving them the ability to close engagement distances fast. Using titan skating/warlock surfing. [b]1 hit kills[/b] whilst Bungie wanted weapon diversity in this game it didn't play out that way. Players gravitated towards 1 hit kill weapons with shotguns being a player favourite. Special weapons were being used as primary's and the ability for good players to 'warrior' rooms of people with a combination of 1 hit kills and movement speed. [b]time to kill[/b] bungie wanted a dynamic shooter that's 'easy to get into but hard to master' a quote coined recently by Luke Smith. The current crucible is brutal for new players because of the over reliance of 1 hit kill weapons. Bungie didn't want to make a Call of Duty clone where there were insanely fast times to kill and the rapid twitch movement meant if you saw your opponent first you'd win the engagement. But inadvertently the prevalence of special weapons made it just that. Primary gunfights become more or less redundant. [b]abilites[/b] our Guardians abilities have become a crutch, spamming grenades and panic supers. Even the worst players can get easy kills with super/and abilities but at the detriment of their gunplay. [b]weapon choice[/b] whilst weapon choices are abundant in our current PvP the Meta actually restricts your choices if you want to be competitive at the top level. This also ties into one hit kills because of the special ammo change making guns like universal remote, no land beyond and Icebreaker more prevalent because they 'work around' the ammo economy So the new crucible has addressed these problems. Movement has been restricted by removing Titan skating, and other speed options, One hit kills are now a 'power' weapon and are very limited therefore reducing the amount of people who relied on special. Primary and elemental weapons now mean more primary fights and more emphasis on team work & team shooting. New Guardian abilities now require a more tactical usage players who spam abilities or panic super will need to adapt their game. Also I wouldn't think that unique guns like uni remote Icebreaker & no land to be included in our loadouts In summary we have being playing a PvP game that divides opinions on how it should be played. Personally I can't wait to play it I'm happy they are making changes to make it more balanced. And the fun part of playing a new game is learning how to master it. Let's be honest do we really want a carbon copy of Destiny's PvP just dropped into D2? I for one do not. And I'm sure there would be uproar if they did.