I've been posting on the Destiny forums since day one. I've been on bnet since 2005. The magnitude of today's update is absolutely unbelievable. It's pretty much everything the community has been asking for and the things that aren't there like changes to the weapon system are mentioned as being worked on for Fall of this year. [b]Eververse:[/b] Moving Ghosts, ships and sparrows to activity reward pools. Gameplay path to earn ALL EV rewards More direct purchase options instead of all RNG (the number one complaint since it released 2 years ago) Completing Nightfall, Raid, and Crimson Days milestones during Crimson Days will reward you an exclusive Legendary Emote, Weapon Skin, and Exotic Sparrow, respectively. Illuminated and Crimson engram when leveling up. Crimson engrams weighted heavily to new rewards I think it sounds a lot closer to what I have always hoped EV would be (like WoW with direct purchase. no RNG). I'm okay with the system because the fact is perpetual content need perpetual revenue being generated. I think this sounds fair and I'm interested to see how the new system works with aquiring the items through play. [b]Masterwork Armor:[/b] Win. We've been asking to be able to reroll our armor stats since launch and set up our characters how we want. We are getting it. Raid rewards: Raid weapons will now drop with raid specific perks. This has been asked for since the raid launched. Raid ghost with raid specific perks. We were taking about this in one of our raids 2 weeks ago and saying how awesome it would be to have a raid ghost to produce more glimmer etc in the raid. [b]Strike Scoring + High Score Tracking[/b] Been asked for since launch. Not only is it back but it REPLACES TIMERS. Yup. Timers are gone. Clan and community high scores for Nightfalls. It was fun in PoE, this could be better. [b]Mods 2.0[/b] [quote] Full rework of armor and weapon mods. This will focus on reducing redundant mods, more unique theming, and greatly increasing their impact on your power.[/quote] Another thing we've asked for since launch. The mod system didn't work because the mods were boring and acquiring them was terribly inefficient. [b]PC Tower chat (text)[/b] Been asked for since PC launch and if it works could be a harbinger for voice chat in social spaces. [b]Fireteam Members on Destination Map[/b] A little thing that is immensely needed. Nice to see. [b]Crucible[/b] RANKED PLAY. Been asked for since D1. Two ranking systems for casuals and hardcore. Private Matches. Awesome they're coming back. [b]6v6[/b] I cannot believe this is here. I did not expect to see this in the update and hoped to see it in the future. THIS. This is the single biggest issue with this game for me and has been since the reveal event and they listened to the feedback and they made good on it. RUMBLE. Yup. [b]Weapons[/b] re-balance for season 3 Exotic weapons and armor getting comprehensive design pass to ensure they stand out and offer new, exciting and powerful ways to play. Bungie did this in D1 with update 1.1.1 which outside of the AR nerf introduced the single greatest era of weapon play and balance in the life of that game. Can't wait to see if they can replicate that here. Weapon slot and archetype improvements. Hard to say what exactly this could entail, but at the least I see it making snipers, shotguns, fusions more viable vs rockets and swords and i also see a possibility of one or more power weapons moving to a different spot. Also guessing we'll see an effort to make all archetypes viable (hopefully looking at you high impact scouts) [b]Strikes[/b] Again, no more timers. Heroic strike modifiers. Been one of the most non EV requests lately. [b]Other[/b] Improved Iron Bananna and Faction Rallies (that FWC will never win even though they are clearly the best) Vault and storage improvements Masterwork exotics Shaders and dismantling. Finally. Address Solo Vs Fireteam matching I'm happy with the update. I thought it would be comprehensive, but I honestly didn't expect to see things like 6v6 and rumble which are HUGE game changers for me and my friends and how we love to play Destiny. Beyond that, as someone who's been a part of this community and been through year one and all the efforts to build better communication over the ensuing years, this is really a special moment and maybe people will appreciate the magnitude of it and maybe they won't, but this.. [quote]One Final Note Expect to hear more from us via [b]Bungie.net[/b], Twitch, and social media. We’ll be talking to you more directly, and more often, as promised. We want to thank our community for all the passionate and detailed feedback you provide. It’s critical to our ability to continually improve Destiny, so thank you![/quote] I've waited 3 1/2 years to hear that and I hope the devs and this community can refind the relationship that has existed here in the past because we all love this game. [spoiler]Title of post is from Swell. Thank you.[/spoiler]