I've been thinking a lot about how Bungie could update some of its already in-game content to the current gameplay loop. I, just like many of you, am not a fan of vaulting the previous DLC gear, specially the legendaries. With so many interesting weapon designs and perks, I feel like a lot of new players are missing out on discovering certain gear, and that also unfortunately made the DLCs irrelevant beyond their campaigns. So my idea is that Bungie could just do a few tweaks on existing activities and take this opportunity to bring back some of it's vaulted gear.
This brought me back to the Blind Well and Altar of Sorrows. They're really fun activities - There are a ton of enemies to kill and the chaos with all of the supers is really great, but finding the people to do it was always a pain. If bungie could add a 6 player Matchmaking function to them and make it so it would always be their max level version (so Blind Well Charge 3/Unstable Charge) it could really give the activities some fresh new look.
I tried keeping the gear loot pool relatively small (10 weapons each would be ideal, more if possible), but with some themed weapons of the season, just so Bungie would have less work updating them. The idea is each completion would reward a weapon, a piece of the armor set, and sometimes some extra loot on top.
[b] Forsaken - Blind Well (6 Player Matchmaking) [/b]
[b] Activity level - 1220 [/b] (each season it would update to hard cap - 30PL, until destination is vaulted)
[b] The gear [/b]
[b]Random drops[/b] - updated seasonal max powerlevel, just like the raids, until the activity/location is sunset.
Drops:
• Tigerspite (Auto Rifle)
• Misfit (Auto Rifle)
• Vouchsafe (Scout Rifle)
• Bygones (Pulse Rifle)
• Waking Vigil (Hand Cannon)
• Trackless Waste (SMG)
• Translation Theory (Sidearm)
• Retold Tale (Shotgun)
• Twilight Oath (Sniper Rifle)
• Sleepless (Rocket Launcher)
• Reverie Dawn armor set (Dreaming City Armor)
Other drops:
• Enhancement Cores (Rare)
• Vaulted Destination Materials (Rare)
The same could be done to the Altar of Sorrows activity, but then my suggestion would be to simply use the Lectern of Enchantment/Altar of Sorrows gear and the moon armor set as rewards. Same format as above, no point in rewriting it lol
So, basically - Repeatable matchmade activities, fresh gear for new players, updated gear for veterans and some resources as a bonus for the replayability. That's the idea, let me know what you think and thank you for your time! :)
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Pretty lazy reusing content, thought we went over this with house of wolves
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2 RepliesI'm sorry but I'm not grinding all that loot out again. I've had and dismantled god rolls on all those weapons. If they bring those activities up then they need to update the encounters and change them to drop new weapons with new perks.
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Lady Luna, how splendidly said. Great post. Thank you.