I was hanging on to see what this season looked like. But Bungie seem intent on doing everything that no asked for. This is what they do all day, instead of making content and listening, they come up with nerfs and doing things like adding world loot pool weapons to Lost Sectors, and yet more "balancing" patches where they increase things by 0.005% percent and then sit back marvelling at their perceived magnificence instead of doing what people have been asking for, just up the exotic drop rates in Lost Sectors like people have been requesting for eons. Come on. It's not hard. How about making Vex Incursion playable with a timer for it .. Nope. How about making a 1770 Nightfall not feel like an ad infested bullet sponge fest .. Nope. How about making anything feel less like a bullet sponge .. Nope. Bring some Strikes back .. Nope. How about putting the Ritual Set from this season in Collections .. Nope. Some Gambit changes .. Nope. But hey, it's not the fault of the Dev's right. It's Management. These Dev's are the problem. Sitting around all day smelling their own farts doing things no one asked for. You would think that after the eleventy millionth "balance patch" on weapons the penny would drop. Nope. They just go right back to tinkering with things no one asked for. Look at the way they talk about a game, wittering on about fun builds being a problem and cost to whatever "ratios". Meanwhile players are streaming out the door and they're advertising vastly overpriced Witcher 3 armour sets, one set of which will cost more than buying the Witcher 3 with both it's amazing DLC's right now. Ironically some of the builds you can make in Witcher are off the chart, and positively encouraged by a developer that has the right attitude to its games and players. Just requested a refund on Final Shape pre-order. Going to get Baldurs Gate 3 with it. I can't do this anymore. It's not healthy. Oh look Bungie, I just solidly nerfed your game into "Not Interested Anymore."

The wording on the seps nurf is rather telling " we wanted to give other melee exotics a chance to shine in this nich" Well that shouldn't come at the cost of something that was functioning well. If you think it is overpowered by all means by they don't at any point say they think seps are overly powerful. Instead they are sniping it to try and push people to use other exotics. That isn't the way to get people to try new things. Instead refresh and update other exotics to reach the bar set by those loved exotics. I also think the defensive nurfs are a bit much. As it stand in most master level content groups tend to play a more defensive game. They avoid combat if possible or hang back to deal with threats. The reason for this is playing aggressive generally has a low rate of success even if you build your character and group defensively. The exception for this were strong solar groups, good devour builds, and Strand titan support. These builds provided exceptional support that increased the rate of success enough that players felt comfortable making aggressive risk playes more often to speed things along. Now we are going back to a long range defensive meta were fire teams will huddle up and try to cover corners. If this is what bungie wants for the hardest level content they can expect a sharp dip in player participation.

I think this is right outta Bungie's playbook... What's the bets that Bungie nerfs the shite outta us, continues to do so for months on end and right before Final Shape hits, they Buff everything nearest and dearest to all of us on its release. Making everyone praise Bungie and all of a sudden the fans that are more sheep-like than human start saying, [b][i]"Final Shape doesn't seem so bad after all"[/b][/i] - when really we've just regressed back to a previous state.

They killed one two punch on every titan build

Bungie is really bad at numbers. They failed their projections and laid off good artists. They're failing at listening to the community and increasing difficulty for casuals more. They would rather crunch numbers instead of improving anything.

The stasis buffs are NOT welcome. We wanted genuine reworks to make them viable in the 3.0 meta but these changes are terribly insignificant

Once again the response of Bungie is to nerf everything that make players have fun. Since the nerf of starfire protocol build I haven't had so much fun as then, again. When I see another games, for instance Diablo 4, with very strong buildings, and they say that if we are having fun, we should use it , because they won't nerf it, I am forced to believe that Bungie just don't want us to have fun. Just give us the tools to build strong buildings and let us have fun. Dont nerf it.

A few streamers that want a bad version of cod are more important than bungies space magic loving player base… sad times

It’s like they are intentionally killing the game to make room for marathon since it’s doing so poorly.

I was semi-curious about the new season but this gave me Lightfall patch note-vibes. Killed any shred of excitement. Definitely not getting Final Shape if this is what it’s going to be like.

BoW nerf could of been a lot worse thankfully. I have been loving that build this season. Stasis buffs are welcome - however, there is nothing that I can do with Stasis that I can't do with other subclasses (apart from the turrets i guess). My main issue is that if you remove the power fantasy, you remove the fun. there is a real thin line between being challenging and boring. Other thing I wanted to mention is that I've spent ages getting my armour. I'm not gonna get a load more just to get a small benefit from the artifact.