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What was the point of HoW

With the changes being made to destiny and looking back at destiny year one, I ask what the point of HoW was. Upgrading weapons that will no longer be upgrade able, gear that may not be upgrade able. What about story, at least Croat was a boss to vanquish that brings us to the taken King. HoW was filler. It had no plot development, no real story, nothing to gain and lacked replay ability. Right from the start bungie seemed to promote taken King and guardians have been talking about it. Am I missing something I mean we go from killing a son of a god to skolas, a thug in a prison for sport.
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  • HoW storyline: The Queen tells her brother to send his Crows to spy on the Nine. The Nine spot the Crows, and they become upset. One could say that Crows rustled their jimmies. In retaliation, the Nine freed Skolas, and let him do what he wanted to do, which was to reunite his house and rule over the other houses. So, Skolas sneaked into the Prison of Elders to free his people. When he got there, he was greeted by his old comrades. He told them about what he was going to do. After he told them his plan, one Vandal ,by the name of Randal, asked him, "How are you going to break us out?" To that, Skolas replied, "Well...I was just going to rip the doors to shreds with my bare hands." A Dreg, by the name of Greg, quickly spoke up and said, "You can't do that. You'll set off the alarm. You'll have to steal a key from the warden." "Where do I find the warden?", asked Skolas. To that, Randal said, " The warden has his own office located two floors above us. His key should be located on his desk." When he finished his conversation with his mates, he made his way up to the Warden's office. After traversing through the halls, he made it to the Warden's office. He slowly opened the door, sneaked in, and looked for the key. It took him no time to find the key. After obtaining the key, he made his way down to the Fallen cells to free his people. When he got there, he inserted the key into a machine on a nearby wall, which allowed for the doors to open up. With everyone free, tried Skolas to sneak his soldiers out of the Prison without being detected. Everyone was keeping up with Skolas, everyone except Greg. He was a little slow coming out of his cell, so he was further behind than the rest of the group. While making his way back to his group, he saw the Warden talking to Petra Venj about something. Greg, the curious type, wanted to hear what was going, so he decided to get a little closer. " *fallen sigh* it gets very lonesome down here, yes?", said Variks (the warden). "Yeah I bet it does", said Petra. "How do you stand it? I'd go mad if I had to stay down in a shithole like this." "You just get use to it, or at least deal with it", said Variks. The two just stood there in silence. "That's so sad", whispered Greg to himself. "Well, I got to get going now. See you later, Variks", said Petra. " Wait, Petra! exclaimed Variks. Before you go, can you help me find one of my arm bolts? I think it popped and I can't find it." This was a lie, all of his bolts were in his arm. He just wanted Petra to bend over so he could get a look at her ass. "Sure," responded Petra. "Where do think it popped out at?" "I think it fell out somewhere over there," said Variks. Variks pointed to the ground in the direction he was facing. The two went over there and looked for the bolt. When Petra bent over, Variks started to quietly growl, he loved that booty. "I can't seem to find it," said Petra. "Are you sure it popped out?" "Yes, yes," insisted Variks. As Petra kept looking, Variks got closer and closer to Petra. When he got close enough to here, he bent, and grabbed her booty with his lower right hand. Surprised, she shot up and smacked Variks in the face. "What the hell was that all about!?" yelled Petra. Before Variks could answer, the two heard loud snickering coming from from down the hall. It was Greg. He was laughing his ass off. "Who goes there?" yelled the two. The two went to investigate the laughing. Now, Greg was panicking. He began to run down the hall to escape them, but tripped and fell. Variks and Petra made there way around the corner and spotted Greg. "Stop, prisoner!", yelled Variks. Greg got up, and booked it. "Check the cells and see if anyone else escaped," said Petra. "Yes ma'am," replied Variks. As Variks went to check the cells, Petra chased after Greg. Greg ran and regrouped with his pals. His pals asked, "Where have you been?" Before Greg could reply, Petra caught up to Greg just find the majority of the House of Wolves sneaking out of the Prison. Shocked, Petra ran back to where she came from to alert Variks and the Reef what has happened. "Damnit Greg!", yelled the rested. "What did you do? Did you fall behind?" Ashamed, Greg replied, "Yes..." No sooner did he say that, alarms started to go off. "There has been a breach in the Prison of Elders. Most of the House of Wolves are trying to break out. Send reinforcements to the Prison to keep them from escaping." Now, the Wolves raced feverishly to get of the Prison. When they came across a weapon arsenal in the Prison, they broke into the arsenal and armed themselves. Near the entrance of the Prison, Awoken soldiers positioned themselves for the Wolves. But when the Wolves breached the entrance, the soldiers were outnumbered 3 to 1. The Wolves slaughtered through the troops and may their way to the Shipyard. There, they stole as many Ketches and Skiffs as they could before reinforcements could arrive. Before the troops could arrive, the Wolves had escaped. When word about the Wolves prison break reached the Queen, she became infuriated. She asked Petra to send a distress signal to the Tower to tell the Guardians that she needed there help to hunt down these traitors and kill them. This took a long ass time time to write.

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    • It's not filler quite a lot is happening on and off screen. Grimore cards state Eris and the queen getting ready for the coming war. How cut set skolas free. And on screen skolas getting vex tech and being able to harness it like nothing. Plenty of things as well.

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    • Read grimoire for skolas' story. I agree that it seems to be filler in some ways, but he also hints at Oryx and his entire plot seems to be his best shot at saving the fallen from Oryx's onslaught.

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      • What waste of $20

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      • You got level 34s like me and I'm sure u pre order taken king edition. You get VIP rewards my opinion u get a better a emblem

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      • It was the last opportunity for you to use all your favorite year one legendary weapons and armor. Also, Trials.

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        • To give players something to do between expansion 1 and expansion 3. I also think they used it to test out certain bits of player feedback, to see how well concepts like allowing everyone to upgrade their vanilla Legendaries would work in the Destiny Eco system long term, needless to say they weren't happy with the results.

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          • It was supposed to be in the game to begin with. If it had, this wouldn't be a problem.

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            • It was a bridge to keep us from falling and never coming back. The bridge had great and some bad things like the previous bridge. Maybe the bridge would be longer and better...

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              A time waster for oryx to get here. XD

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            • I thought the etheric light idea was good as were the weapon and armor cores . But all of that is deemed useless by bungie . So there really was no point in purchasing this

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            • Unfortunately, jack shut your mouth. Not good enough for Trials and PoE was fun for 2 weeks and Skolas is frustrating as hell.

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            • $20 from every sucker.

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              • To unite the guardians and awoken. So we will combat the forces of the darkness together. To introduce interesting new characters and places.

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                  A decent enough dlc about the fallen, which like the cabal, haven't had much content. I'd expect the first year two dlc to be more or less cabal themed. Weapons took a nosedive with HoW imo, just because of reforging and ascension being a bad move, and also because they just ripped the heart out of sniper rifles for me... But hey, they're still ripping in 2.0 so more hurt to come, perhaps. Can't wait to see TK perks... I'm hopeful, but not expecting much.

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                  • Entertainment. Expensive entertainment in terms of other expansions in other games, cheap entertainment compared to (ugh) movies and the like.

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                  • It got the awoken on our side of the fight they're an ally fighting oryx in the dlc as seen in a cutscenes it actually is pretty relevant

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                  • There was no reason. Same thing goes for Crotas end. Or this game entirely really.

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                    • What was the point of mass effect 2

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                      • The grimoire cards were actually really interesting and made me feel bad for The Fallen

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                        • True but trials is fun

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                        • Filler

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                        • Keep people playing.

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