It is absolute garbage now . I can run master level activities and I'm a gilded conqueror,the streamers have nothing on me or many of us. But this is just not fun anymore . There is a time for high level activities and we all gear up for GM's those that run them. But just playing a hero mode strike has turned into a chore depending how many times people leave trying to finish one. How is this remotely good for anything. Its not fun and a waste of your time not having fun!. Could someone at bungie please explain to us how we are to enjoy playing this nonsense ??? I sincerely feel bad for the new players and have carried many through just a basic hero strike. Its over kill bungie please tone it down and adjust it so all players have fun. Not just the 10% who run raids and the video streamers trying to make a buck off your company.

Legendary lost sectors are not a fun grind at all now. The champions are ridiculous.

Yes, they have taken all the fun out of the game for me!

The only thing I don't like about the increased difficulty is that enemies are just bullet sponges now. I am fine with them killing me faster. It means I have to prioritize certain enemies and use the map to my full advantage. I don't like that we now have to use so much ammo just to kill red bars. That is an uninteresting way to increase difficulty. Once you die during an activity enough you start to learn the patterns of how enemies spawn, which enemies will push up on you and which will stay back. So now it's just an exercise in patience of finding safe spots to run between as you focus down certain enemies and have to spend forever killing them. This is not fun or interesting game play. It doesn't give any sort of power fantasy. We can still feel powerful and have difficult content. It doesn't have to be one or the other. The nerf to our ability up time (though you can still have almost constant up time) and most players having their preferred builds removed means that Bungie both decreased our power and increased the enemies power. It doesn't seem like that was game play tested very well. The increased difficulty would probably feel much better if our abilities still felt as powerful against the enemies. Edit: additionally if they are going to keep difficulty this way they should bring back adept as the 1770 difficulty and then make heroic like 1800. A 60 power level gap between heroic and legend seems extreme.

Who doesn't enjoy more bullet sponges in every activity now 🙄

I'd rather they revert ALL of the difficulty changes and fix the "actual" problems that were in place before. The season-to-season reset, and overtuned subclass 3.0 verbs. As many others have stated, the game feels more-so of a slog now with combatants being bullet sponges in so many regards. Honestly, when I want to fight bullet sponge enemies and to play tactically the entire time, I can just boot up The Division. But when I hop on D2, I'm mainly looking to have fun with overpowered "space magic". Sure, a challenge here and there is fun, and the way it was done before was almost perfect. Are people overreacting to the base strike playlist, sure, that I can agree with. But having patrol be Legend difficulty, and having all Legend/Master content be forced contest mode at all times is not challenging or fun, it's uninventive artificial difficulty. The thing that made D2 fun for the past few years was outside of GMs (And that was also fine, as I said a challenge sprinkled around is good, but not the entire game), you could actually spend the time to gear up, make use of the seasonal mods and buildcrafting to not only show mastery over the content, but be rewarded for your playtime investment with less of a "hill to climb" to achieve success in this level of content, it gave purpose to your player's power. Now, not is there only no incentive to engage with the content at that level because of the much higher entry point skill-wise, there is also no incentive to continue engaging with the game throughout the season to build up your power. All of last year was a week-to-week process where I'd do the seasonal story, then hop into strikes and bounties to gear up and power up to engage with the Master tier content, and to help others do the same. Now? I see no purpose to doing anything other than the seasonal story each week and maybe a ritual activity here or there. Endgame wise, I see no point to Legend or Master content, and I'm probably just going to ignore it in favor of GMs to gild conquerer again, and then I'm out for the rest of the season. The bigger problems that really needed fixing were the pinnacle RNG drops overlaid on-top of the seasonal reset in which players were knocked out of the endgame at the end of a season. If Bungie would have just left difficulty alone and proceeded with this one pinnacle grind for the entire year, that would have been a major step in the right direction for this problem, tuning down the artifact XP requirements would have also helped a little bit. As for the other problem of people "blowing through" the normal content, that would just have required hitting things like Jolt and Trinity Ghoul to make them less dominant in low-level activities. All I see the changes doing is just driving a much larger wedge through the community in terms of player engagement and retention. Low-to-mid skill tier players have already been posting here and on reddit in troves complaining about Legend Lost Sectors and Patrol difficulty, these players are most at risk of just leaving the game altogether which hurts player retention and engagement numbers on Bungie's end. Sure, while higher skilled players are likely fine, a number of them will be like me, where there is just no longer a point to engage outside of a few bits and pieces here, which also, hurts engagement numbers. And so, my one suggestion? Full revert.

Revert it period. It doesn’t even apply to grand master. Master was a good balance before.

Every enemy is a sponge.

or you can just git gut and stop playingtutorial

List of people wh ofind the game hard : - People using 2 primary weapon / no mod / dont use heavy ammo / dont use super

I honestly cant imagine the lack of intelligent thought process at bungie. Make it more challenging....thier only solutiion was depower the player and just add health to everything. That makes nothing hard, just tedious. With 3 players tedious becomes laughably bad. It never occured to them to.....update the game properly with better enemy ai....destiny ai is non existent, even MGS 1 from decades ago the enemies reacted bettter lol. What about enhanced enemy mechanics with more variety and random attacks? Rather than.....shoot switch, damage phase, immortal, shoot switch again, repeat. The callus boss fight on legend with 3 players is so hillariously bad. After i solod it and thought, that was annoying af. I went on lfg tried to help others who were struggling but oh hell 100 clips and a tormentors down, lets get the other.....wow thats bad. The valkeries in GOW and GOW2 were so much fun, beating the final valkerie queen on GOW difficulty you felt elated....but beating callus was just relief its over, it was a chore.

Am more powerfull than ive ever been, strand is reall powerfull, i have more mods activated at a time than ever and you wanna make the game easier?Dont think bungie will do this simply because they know there own game and realize guardians have never been this powerfull before.