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Welcome to Dark Below 2: Anything you do now will be useless next month

[url=http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/08/04/destinys-year-one-legendary-weapons-staying-behind-in-year-two-9432.aspx][/url] Welcome to TTK also known as Dark Below 2: Electric Boogaloo. We rolled the boulder up this hill for a year and now it's rolling back down. Looking for hopscotch pilgrim? Leveling your new iron banner gear that you grinded hard for? Are you on the search for some good raid weapons and armor or getting that solar jewel of osiris? Are you rerolling that skorri's revenge to get some better perks than graverobber? Stop. You're now wasting your time. If you are 34 and have your exotics leveled then there is no reason to search for new gear because all current legendaries will not continue forward. 365 is now the new 300. Trapped in inferiority. Raids? Do them for mats and shred anything you get. Prison? You're already sharding those pathetic rare weapons in disguise so keep it up. Get a sweet armor piece? Don't bother if you're comfortable with what you have. Anyone that played vanilla destiny and experienced the hell that was dark below's progression system should feel ill. Having an expansion act as a replacement was a really stupid decision. Hopefully they won't screw up exotic progression again but legendaries are yet again getting the shaft. This may actually be good but I sincerely doubt it. Expansions are supposed to expand content, not replace every facet of it. If every legendary weapon and armor were available this game would be filled with things you can get. Now that history is repeating itself you can now help to protect yourself from Bungie's idiotic and frankly abusive decisions. Step one: stop collecting new gear. Stop grinding strikes.There's nothing you can get now that won't be useless next month. Hell if enough of you stop grinding for a month bungie may just get a little worried. Step two: anything in your vault that you haven't upgraded needs to be upgraded now or sharded immediately. They want you to make vault space so we can shut up about it so I guess they win. HoW weapons are mostly trash anyways so you won't worry about them. Step three: don't shard anything you would regret if they made etheric light 2. So don't rage shard your fatebringer just yet and make a permanent altar for it in your vault. Remember your shadow price and how you deeply regret sharding it? Don't make that mistake again. Step four: it's time to edge your faction packages. Then stop grinding rep. You'll likely get a single mote each but who knows you may get something useful. Step five: only play what you find fun and -blam!- everything else. Are you glimmer farming? Grinding for marks? Trying to get weapon parts? When this happens stop playing altogether. You like trials? Then only play Trials. If they are going to render your time spent useless then stop giving them your time for things that will be worthless in a few weeks. Hopefully this isn't another stupid decision. There had better be new raid difficulties with different rewards. There had better be so much more gear that it makes up for it and doesn't make the last year a waste of time. But if you do this it won't hit you as hard.

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  • Ol' Aulakauss has a crazy theory: I don't think Raid Weapons and Armor are going to be rendered totally useless. Yep! You heard that right, in spite of them explicitly and in no uncertain terms saying that all your Year One Legendary Are Belong To Us. They're overhauling Destiny and going out of their way to rectify things they done goofed on in Year One. They're also selling a bundle pack with Dark Below and House of Wolves in it, which would be a good way to piss a lot of people off when they find out the two extra DLCs they have are basically a playable version of 'Look how much worse it used to be!'. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they're going to add Level 40 versions of Vault of Glass, Crota's End and Prison of Elders, as well as have them offer relevantly rated Raid Legendaries and Raid Armor when played on these modes. Trials of Osiris and Iron Banner will obviously also be offering Taken King adjusted gear. So, while all your shit is going to be useless, I don't think you'll necessarily never be able to bring Fatebringer to bear again or run into combat with Black Hammer. I think you'll just need to re-run those Raids to get TTK-rated versions of them.

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    • The thing is, there isn't ascension, boo-Hoo, but then you can wear any legendary armor you like and not be affected by its light level. This basically means you can get to level 40, then don't have to use any etheric light to wear the gear and stay a 40

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      • Bump.

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      • Tell me why my sniper, rocket launcher shotgun etc. will be useless for REGULAR pvp? It wont , so you can still grind for this if you want

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        • Yes there is no ascension... Yea there will be plenty of new weapons and gear... Yes there will be new activities... Anyone who follows any kind of game has already read the game informer review, or reddits info.. And knows TTK is bigger than what kids refer to as VANILLA destiny. And yes they changed the game again.. Upset?? Yeah I get that you are. However every article says the same about the future... This is how it will stay. Obviously take it with a grain of salt, but be optomistic. This could potentially be "THE" game changer we've been wanting and needing for some time now. That's just my thoughts and opinion which is my own. You don't have to like or agree with it. It is what it is and all it ever will be.

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          • Great post and i fully agree with you. However i will highly possible still go on with dismanteling things as i need to depart my ways with Destiny. I loved this game and played it extensively for the last 12 months. But now i find it extremely hard to go on the same route once again. Path is clear : Taken King doesn't allow ascension - brings new weapons we will not like that much. Next DLC in January will offer ascension with a new Etheric Light type so the grind will restart Next DLC in May will stop ascension and another burst will occur within player base Destiny 2 in 2016 September etc.. basically if you want to pay Destiny you'll have to fork 100$ average to Activision pockets while you just continue to do the exact same routine. Get extremely limited content to what you've paid for. I ordered Battlefront today , will try to find an alternative game until November though...

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          • Doesn't matter to me I'm done, this and the UK price has finished this game for me. Played the beta and since day one but enough is enough, to all who are staying good luck I think you're going to need it.

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            • Edited by Raider TCK: 8/4/2015 5:48:20 PM
              I agree. I have been spending the last few weeks in the strike playlist for the chance to get a hopskotch pilgrim. Now I am not going to bother. What's the point it's going to be obsolete in the new DLC? Bungie does not give us enough content to make anything obsolete, having anything made irrelevant is a terrible design perspective. Ascension and re rolling, allowing us to make our guardians what we truly wanted them to be was the best thing about HOW. People say 'Well when WOW comes out with an expansion everything gets made obsolete!' Every single one of WOW's expansion is at least 50-100x the size of destiny and all of its expansions combined. They drop with several MUCH longer and more expansive raids and dozens of dungeons. If Destiny dropped an expansion that was HALF the size of a WOW expansion, I would be more than happy an pre order today. I am not going to delete anything and Destiny will still be on my hard drive, but unless it gets RAVE reviews, or a future DLC fixes it, I wont be bothering. I think that going cold turkey on destiny for the next two months might put me on the wagon for good.

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              • bump this shit up

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              • This is quite a nice read http://m.imgur.com/a/xs5fZ

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                • But it is fine if I want to collect exotics, right? I hope we can fully equip or exotics next expansion

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                • This will be the same every year till destiny 10 every so crota type expansion that's first launched with each season pass will duck up something. To be improved by 2nd expansion (VoG) To then be slightly (and say that with the tiny bit of salt) improved by the 3rd expansion to be rinse and repeated again with the newest expansion into Destiny 3.0 and it's then 3rd season pass of purr shite. It's going to be the same over and over why because Bungie -blam!-ed up and the game is just bland and it's future will be just crap.

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                  • BUMPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are changing stat values on gear too so alllllll that time spent grinding to min/max your int/disc was a waste of time because the only way to get 100% on both again will be the "new" gear aka , pay to win. PAY TO WINNNN

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                    • This is the analogy i use.... Destiny is like beer. If you drink a beer, 5 minutes later you're pis@ing it down the toilet and it's been a waste. However, if you enjoy drinking beer you keep drinking it (and wasting it, it's your money anyway). If you don't like the beer you are drinking you stop buying it and maybe try a new brand. I've enjoyed playing destiny (and got my money's worth), but it might be time to move on.

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                    • I agree

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                    • It's not Destiny, it's Time Wasting Simulator 2014-15.

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                    • It's not Destiny, it's Time Wasting Simulator 2014-15

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                    • Tldr youre seriously whining So you'd like to use the same gear and weapons for ten years? Don't get the dlc then.

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                    • [url=http://youtu.be/KpMV2uVhdO8] WHEN WE HUNT WE KILL. NO ONE IS SAFE. NOTHING IS SACRED. WE ARE BLACKWATCH! WE ARE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE! WE WILL BURN OUR OWN TO HOLD THE RED LINE. IT IS THE LAST LINE TO EVER HOLD![/url]

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                    • I like the new ideas but i think its unfair to the people that play destiny for so long the endless grind to get max level and the new people will get max Level so easy

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                    • For once in my life I agree.. Holy eefing shit I'm pissed

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                    • Posts don't get much better. Thanks!

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                    • Become Legend.... but don't get used to it.

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                      • It needs a bit of a reset as the guns that are used now can't really be bettered without breaking the game or making them better than exotics. .. I think there will be much more difference between legandaries and exotics going forward and I think it's a good thing

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                      • None of what we've done has been pointless thus far as we've all had fun doing it till now. The problem is two sided. The developer wants us to start using snd get excited for the new stuff they've created and we've spent so much time and effort on our current gear and want to keep it. The unfortunate thing is we're at the mercy of the developer on this one. As your post pretty much sums up, not much left to do except get ready for TTK to drop and do whatever you need to do to get there.

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