I think Y2 is great. With some flaws. What do I hate? Edge Transit drops Sleeper Stimulant in Gambit one shots guardians. Masterwork cores should be removed from infusion. One-Eyed Mask + Shoulder Charge in crucible is aids. Content for fireteams, like the blind well, nighfall, ascendant challenges which dont require communication should have matchmaking. I get there is LFG, but that doesnt mean bungine cant do it. Solo players who cant do the raid cant get the third seed of light. What do I love? Leveling in Y2 is way better than Y1. I ended up buying forsaken a few weeks after release so I am a bit behind, but as long as you grind getting to max power should be easy. Campaign Dreaming City is a sight to see. Music is great as always Collections, a much needed change. Now you know how to get everything and it makes the grind much easier. Although you cannot reacquire any forsaken gear because of random rolls for whatever reason.

So like right now I'm at 521 light but there is really nothing for me to do progress until next reset. Sure I could grind out strikes or something hoping for a prime engrams to drop. But I just don't seem to have much luck with that.

Bungie will not give us solo queues for competitive pvp and Gambit. There are plenty of reasons for thst but just stating those will immediately offend all the ppl that enjoy their easy farm.

Absolute -blam!-ing shit

Same as always, good through the campaign, good through the initial grind. And a very large wall of go -blam!- yourself when you realize everything that is end game requires a fire team.

Same shit as usual except worse and with more grinding. D1 was almost perfect and then they scrapped it to come to whatever the hell this trash is.

Pretty good. Hates - master work core infusion system. Hates - shoulder charge been returned to OHK Hates - shotgun bums never touching primaries in crucible Hates - amount of heavy in crucible in general terms. Loved - design, music and dreaming city design Loved - the level up system MINUS sh!te infusion needing cores Loved - time to kill on weapons lowered Loved - grenade damage buff across the board

NF, EP, Ascendant Challenges, Blind Well, etc. should all have matchmaking. Those activities don’t require any communication to complete and just require bodies. Hell, I would rather suffer through getting matched with terrible players to at least have the option to do these activities whenever I feel like instead of waiting around for EP and BW to get enough players in an instance. I can’t see any reason these activities can’t have matchmaking other than Bungie wanting to let fireteams progress faster because they thought they were capable of making a social game 4 years ago. I really have little to no problem with anything in this game other than the lack of matchmaking for EVERYTHING outside of the raid. The only other real issue I have is that year 1 content wasn’t brought forward properly. All that wasted loot just feels wrong since we now get the same 5 weapons dropping over and over again. The loot pool is so poor and boring right now.

This dlc was sold on the premise that it was geared more towards the solo player, it is in fact, not. If you want to do the story missions then you can do that solo, but every other activity needs a fire team if you wish to have fun. From crucible/iron banner to the blind well and hawthorn bounties, you will need fire teams to even enjoy this dlc. Leveling up was okay at the start, once you start to hit the soft caps then it got tedious. The inclusion of infusion with master work cores made that system unapproachable until you get to light level 600 with just rares and random legendary drops. Buying master work cores from spider was an education, only seeing that it cost 10 shards I started to buy as much as I can from him, little did I know, the cost of doing business with spider kept going up exponentially. The only redeeming quality of this dlc is the dreaming city and its secrets and art work. The enemies feel like another reskin but at least they have some different abilities like an arc relic that pulls you in or a void relic that provides immunity to the scorn. Some of the fights feel like sponges, but I guess that's due to the reduction in damage to scouts or that my light was not high enough for the area I was in. There seems to have been a lot of bugs and glitches in this dlc, either it felt rushed or there was a lack of QA testing. After the first 2 weeks there was now no point in playing since the powerful engrams are bugged and not providing the power that they should. There is also a list floating around about which activities one should be doing to maximize their light level gains, so once you get high enough the only activities you should be doing is nightfalls, raids, and the dreaming city weeklies. This takes away from the rest of the games activities that are offered which provide powerful engrams. The seed of light controversy could have been avoided if it was communicated before the raid had dropped that there are more than 1 avenue to obtain the third seed. After getting the first and second ones and putting them to use I was anticipating unlocking the third sub class to see how that one plays only to find out I have to now wait and see where the third one is located at other than the raid. To many things are time gated as an attempt to keep players artificially playing the game instead of players playing the game due to it being fun. I did like the new triumphs page and collections page and that along with the advertising for it being solo friendly is the reason I bought the dlc in the first place.

Only complaints I have are the masterwork cores being required for infusion and also the RNG for determining whether the "Powerful Gear" I earn is actually beneficial to my power level.

As solo player, I've been enjoying the expansion so far. It has improved on every aspect of vanilla D2, but boy the grind is real, it's been a slog to level up light and I'm hoping that gets addressed in a later update. Masterwork cores need to be removed from the infusion process entirely, as it is extremely limiting and should be used to masterwork weapons and gear only. Also the drop rate for the newer loot is terribly scarce, the only exotics I've gotten were from year 1 and I have yet to pick up anything from "Forsaken", so that needs a tweak to keep it honest, but not a total giveaway. Other than those concerns, the Forsaken DLC has been quite a treat and has given us back the game we once loved.

I like the direction D2 has taken. However, where the current game is now is where D2 should have been from jump street. D2 just feel way to neutered in comparison to D1. There a still some issues to work through, like the master core nonsense, but this expansion actually felt like progress towards getting back to the D1 days.

This game dresses itself up as a casual friendly game. “Jump in play a strike, go live your life, rinse repeat”. When in actuality it’s “cool you’re invested. Now go subject yourself to racists/sexist/homophobic teenagers you find randomly on a website”. It’s been fun playing the 10% of progression they give solo players but the fun doesn’t last.

Now if only we get better perks, and such. Then maybe people will come back to this game. I say maybe because integrity is still #1 We are still back to the starting line of what we left off at. Removing so much that it took 2 years to get back to this, not really integrity

I like the challenge of running solo at times