D2 made us feel weak and powerless, like everything was nerfed. But, hear me out, this may be a good thing. Consider this, when you were a little kid which made you feel better and which made you feel worse. Your mom gives you 4 cookies and after eating two says 'share with your brother' and makes you give him the other two cookies you were about to eat, OR Your mom gives you one cookie and as you're eating it says 'here, you can have another cookie' At the end of the day, either way you've eaten two cookies Destiny always felt to me like they were taking power away from us. Taking our cookies. The end result was trying to achieve ballance but that was achieved more through nerfing than buffing. Say you rate a weapon, power, ability, etc. on a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is complete nerf and 10 is OP and 5 is completely balanced. Now if they introduce a weapon, power, ability, etc. into the game at a 10, to achieve balance they have to nerf and nerf and nerf til it's a 8 then a 6 then eventually a 5. Ballance is achieved by STRIPPING power. But... if everything in the game starts off weak 1 or 2 they can achieve ballance by GIVING us power. Raising power to 3, 4, and eventually 5. This makes a big difference and is what I HOPE they are doing. Destiny always felt that they were stripping power. Some examples: FATE BRINGER: When we beat the raid and got Fate Bringer it was awesome, a legendary primary with element burn!!! AWESOME!!! But then Bungie said Whoa Whoa Whoa and monkied with the light levels to make it obsolete. Then reintroduced it as an exotic with burn OR a legendary without burn and we thought 'This sucks!' BUT... when you think about it that's the way it always should have been. If the Fate Bringer dropped an an exotic in the first place that would have been ok. The problem is that we HAD a legendary Fate Bringer with arc burn then they took it away. How they replaced it was fair, but it wasn't what it used to be. TRUTH: The Truth used to be my favorite rocket launcher. It, and the Dark Drinker, were the only weapons I had one for each of my characters. But they nerfed it and it disgusts me to the point I deleted them all. But that's because it's not what it used to be. Is the Truth garbage in it's current state? I don't know. If the Truth was introduced from the beginning the way it is now would I resent it as much as I do now? Probally not. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because I remember how good it used to be. G'horn, Trip mines, Thorn, Red Death, Hammers(although hammers [i]were[/i] stupid OP when they first came out) etc. etc. any thing you can think of that used to be good but now 'Sucks', suck not because they suck, but because they were 8s and 9s when they came out and were nerfed DOWN to 5s. Their power was Stripped for ballance and we lament what once was. So I'm hoping what Bungie is doing is starting off with everything at 1 or 2 and, through updates, buffing things UP for ballance as time goes on and they get feedback. (Remember [i]we[/i] are Bungie's R'n'D) So maybe feeling weak at first in D2 isn't a bad thing, because they can't take power away from us in the name of ballance they can only give us more power. Hopefully.