Ehy Sephollos =) well, your feelings are comprensible since you have basically two Years of contents and changes to deal with! If you have intention to go back playing D2 regulary, the best thing to do is actually leave all the old contents behind and focusing on the new Stuff, so those of this Seasons (Season of the Arrivals). If you prefer to recover all the old Stuff, you can do it, also because this Season will last until November, so you have all the time. You can complete the Forsaken Campaign and try to catch up with all the things of last Seasons that are still available. Anyway, probably you might need more then one single big thread here and asking many different things in many different threads. To answer to your questions: [quote]-Are the season pass things required to be competitive, or can I just purchase the expansions? If they are, do I need to buy the previous season passes as well?[/quote] Season Passes are not necessary to be competitive neither in PvP, nor in PvE. You can just buy the Expasions. [quote]-What happened to the weekly quests for things like crucible/quests for the powerful gear emblem? Have they been removed?[/quote] Weekly Quests are still a thing, but they are no more Quests, they are just Bounties you can get from NPC like Shaxx, Zavala ecc. [quote]-I keep running into these "invulnerable" bosses in world that just destroy me and can't seem to be damaged - what's the deal with those?[/quote] There are actually many invulnerable Bosses around the Worlds. Some of them have mechanics, other are Champions and you need to have higher Power to deal with them plus some Mods for Weapons in order to deal with their powers (Barriers for example). [quote]-What's this new element stuff on armors?[/quote] These are Armors 2.0. The entire Armors system is been updated. Probably you need to find a YT guide about it because it's really long to explain. [quote] -I had a lot of really good 750-light weapons. Should I save those for upgrades for when my light is higher?[/quote] Yes and no. There are many new Weapons that you would probably try and many old Weapons that were really good at the time, now are kinda meh. Also, from November, Weapons and Armors from Season 1 to Season 8 (D2 Vanilla to Shadowkeep Season 1) are going to be Sunsetted, which means that you won't be able to Upgrade anymore over the actual Cap (1060). As I wrote to you, there are a lot of things to say... it's almost impossible to update you about all of them in just one thread. P.S: My apologize, I forgot to welcome you back on D2! =)

[quote]-Are the season pass things required to be competitive, or can I just purchase the expansions? [/quote] You should at least get the S11 pass in order to access the seasonal activity and start grabbing potent weapons like Gnawing Hunger and Falling Guillotine. Shadowkeep is required to access the Garden of Salvation raid, certain exotic quests and pinnacle engram sources, which are needed to push your light level up when you hit the soft cap at LL 1050. [quote] -I keep running into these "invulnerable" bosses in world that just destroy me and can't seem to be damaged - what's the deal with those?[/quote] You are likely running into new Taken bosses that require specific mechanics to become vulnerable, generally by popping a blight, leading two shielded swordbearers together, or killing wizards that heal the boss. If your light level is too low, some high level enemies will just be immune by default. [quote]-What's this new element stuff on armors?[/quote] Armor 2.0 is a new system where armor comes with "elemental affinity". Certain mods will also have affinities and can only be attached to armor of the same element. The main difference between the affinities is that their respective mods support different weapons and playstyles. Do some research on what affinities support which mods, decide on the gear/playstyle that best suits you and go from there. You can also spend masterwork materials to switch an armor's elemental affinity. Don't worry about masterworking until you've found armor that has the ideal stat distribution you want. [quote] -I had a lot of really good 750-light weapons. Should I save those for upgrades for when my light is higher?[/quote] Depends. Thanks to Sunsetting, any weapons [b]and[/b] armor from Season 8 and before have their light level capped at 1060, making them useless for endgame content in Season 12. Season 9 gear will sunset in season 13. Season 10 gear will sunset in season 14, etc. The best course of action is to aim for good gear from the current season so it has the longest potential shelf life. Gear from Garden of Salvation and Last Wish has also been updated to the latest LL caps, making them a viable option to grind.

I'd get shadow keep and the current season of the season pass if you are serious about getting back into it Until you're level 1000 the weekly activities won't grant you gear however everything you do will give you higher blues. All weapons you had in warmind are reaquireable from the collections but may not have the same elements so feel free to delete them because forsaken introduced special weapons back into the game as well as random rolls. Upgrade modules are used in infusion so I personally wouldn't use them on any of your gear until your close to 1050 Having shadow keep will help boost your level quickly through once you hit level 1000 however you can get higher gear for doing your weeklies As for what to do just work on quests with friends Good luck guardian

Play through Forsaken, it was the last time content was actually good. Then (if you can), get Shadowkeep and the latest expansion and just skip everything in between and focus on Arrivals, leveling up and getting Umbral engrams. This season has been surprisingly worthwhile, and the gear you can get from the engrams is a nice taste of everything between Forsaken and Arrivals. [spoiler]To put things in a little more context, and to give you a taste of what you missed (in my opinion): Forsaken was excellent, you should play it. Season of the Forge was a grind fest but the weapons were pretty cool and it has a mercifully short raid with a really good exotic that you can now farm. Season of the drifter was a complete waste of time unless you like gambit, which I do not. Season of Opulence introduced the Menagerie which was one of the more unique activities Bungie had come up with in a long time. Ultimately it was disappointing because they never refreshed the loot pool. 2019 Solstice of Heroes was SUCH a waste of time. You’re lucky you missed it. Seriously. Shadowkeep was OK but very short and Hive themed, which I am never a fan of. A pyramid ship shows up, you get to go inside it and fight enemies you’ve already fought before. Season of the Undying was repetitive and boring, but I heard the raid was pretty good. Season of the Dawn was repetitive and boring. Season of the Worthy was repetitive and boring. Rasputin blew up the Almighty which took two hours (an hour and a half of which was just waiting). Season of Arrivals addresses the pyramid ships even more which is nice and brings back a lot of old loot that you can get in the Umbral engrams. This is also the season to be grinding for loot since it is the only gear that is going to be relevant in the coming year due to sunsetting. [/spoiler]