*Edit: Added some stuff about the crucible too I started playing Destiny 2 with shadowkeep and the season of undying so I havent played that long. Mostly i've enjoyed my time in Destiny 2 up until now, but i'm getting close to a point where I dont see any reason to continue so i thought i'd share my thoughts about the game. I will touch upon a variety of subjects so sorry if it ends up a bit messy. Light level: I started out at level 750 and now i'm about 980. Looking back I wonder if the added 230 levels have changed the gameplay in any significant way. I dont feel any more powerful than before, and the game is plays pretty much the same as when i started. It might make a difference if i had tried 980 nightfalls or raids when i started out, but outside of that i dont feel more powerful now than I did at 750. Because of this I dont really feel any need to chase pinnacle gear and thats supposed to be at least part of the endgame content. Weapons/armor: For a supposed looter shooter there is a surprising lack of viable weapon and armor choices. 99,99% of armor i loot i end up sharding as pretty much nothing has higher stats than the season pass armor i got in my first season. I was excited the first time i got exotic armor, but since then i hardly even care what kind of exotic armor piece i wear as the buffs on them are so small that they hardly matter. I have all the possible exotic armor pieces for my main character and all of it rots in my bank except for one or two pieces. Similarly i was excited the first time i got an exotic weapon. It was the riskrunner and i liked the riskrunner quest. Since then i have found all exotics with the exception of some raid exotics as I havent tried raiding. Most of these now rot in my bank as they are situational at best and you can only equip one at a time. The riskrunner is still a fun weapon for killing reds but you can kill those easily with any weapon. What you want is weapons to kill champions and bosses. My inventory then consists of weapons i need to finish weapon specific bounties (which seems to be locked to bows, pulse rifle, rockets and linear fusion rifle this season) and the rest of the time i use a loadout for killing bosses and champions. Since boss design dictates that you need to stay at range and hide behind a rock only to pop out occasionally with a shot there is only a few weapons worth using for bosses. The exception is bosses that are so easy you can just rush without thinking. Because of boss design and champion mods locked to specific weapon types there are only a few weapons that are usable in content where weapon choice actually matters. The rest of the content is so easy it doesnt really matter what weapon you use. The end result is that I wonder why I bothered chasing weapons or armor and thats kind of a problem in a looter shooter focused around grinding out weapons and armor. Nerfs to the few standout weapons doesnt help as it just turns everything into a pool of mediocrity. The social aspect: This game has the worst tools for social interaction in any team based game i've played. The first thing i noticed starting out was that noone ever used the chat. In the easiest matchmade activities you are just put together with some other randoms that dont talk, and for the harder content you have nothing ingame to help you form teams at all. I found the lfg Discord and have gotten some good team through that, but in the end its just wierd that i have to rely on a out of game tool to find teams in game. Since everyone is doing their own thing its rare that i have found any player that i have played with for more than about 30 minutes. I'm in a Clan but its purely for the bonuses. I've never teamed with anyone from the clan i'm in, and when i look at clan recruitment pages it seems i must have x number of raid clearances and i dont have any. Simple things like going for a heroic public event is impossible to coordinate as there is a total lack of communication, and there is no ingame clue to what you need to do to start it. There isnt even any talking in socalled social areas like the tower and the farm. Inventory: The inventory, and the bank is way too small, especially if you actually want more variety in weapons used. If you had easier bank access it would help, but zoning to the tower all the time to get stuff out of the bank is not an option. Since you need some slots open for loot, you are pretty much restricted to bringing your top weapons. If i wanted to chase armor with different elements and the different gambit armors for all 3 characters there is no room in the bank. Bank size should at least be doubled. Crucible: I like the crucible even if i'm not exactly a dedicated pvp player. My worry is that the devs seem to struggle to balance this mode without affecting PVE, or making every character and weapon the same. I wonder if most exotics are so bland and boring to avoid them beeing "overpowered" in pvp. Maybe exotics should have seperate pvp and pve stats or just use large scaling factors between pvp and pve to avoid it. Its probably close to impossible to make everyone happy with pvp balance unless everyone is exactly the same so i dont envy the devs this job, but it should be possible to have more variety in pve. The mode also seem affected by a lack of variety in map design. Its sort of the same problem they have with PVE bosses. In PVE you want long range weapons with high burst damage to avoid getting instakilled or punched across to another planet (where you usually end up in some kind of pit). Most crucible maps seem to be designed for relatively short range combat that favours these kind of weapons. All in all i think the game has been fun as a "solo game" but i wonder about the longevity of it. At the moment i dont really see any need to continue playing once i finish the last solo campaigns, but i should probably make more of an effort to start raiding.