It's like you completely forgot about intellect, discipline, strength. Armor 2.0 is going to bring those back, meaning you can spec into having a grenade build with just the armor base stats alone. All armor is going to drop as 2.0 and you get to put whatever mods you want plus the added benefits of getting extra cool downs to grenade, super, melee naturally on armor stats without having to use a mod slot like now, the only way to get extra cool downs is by using things like a paragon mod, Also transmog. Basically you get to look how you want and build your character exactly how you want, and you're still disappointed.

Heres mine: its sucks. Hasnt been thoroughly thought out, play tested or stress teated in the sand box. Finishing moves are beyond stupid, time gated content in the form of rotating bosses and unique drops is not what anyone wants, the power level grind and bonus seems absolutely absurd and too me sounds like wasting development times, nerfing power as an excuse to lazy development tells me all i need to know about SK and the season pass and finally thanks for all the key fragments another well thought out mechanic that wastes peoples inventory space and is fundamentally worthless as a reward. Dont pre order dont buy day one. Let gladd and datto get through the raid first. Thats all that matters to bungie anyway.

Is everyone getting Armor 2.0, or just those people who purchase Shadowkeep?

I'm looking forward to finding out that Armor 2.0 is just a more complicated system to increase grind. Honestly all I wanted out of it was the ability to change the armor's appearance, everything else is looking complicated just for the sake of being complicated. Grinding for micro increases in six stat bars? [i]More[/i] grind for mods and then grinding for resources to unlock mods, all while grinding for armor to put the mods in? They're just taking the grind we have now and multiplying it so we keep playing. Someone thought this would be a good idea, and I'd love to hear their explanation of why this is "better" for us beyond keeping us chained to the hamster wheel. The Director’s Cut and Shadowkeep videos haven’t really done that for me. I guess we’ll see come October.

I just hope that the Eye of the Gate Lord isn't the only artifact for Shadowkeep. Also I kinda wish that the artifacts were hanging off our belts like a keychain, adds some detail on how we look.

But its almost like you're getting more powerful by being able to slot in all of the best enhanced perks across all your armors. Oh wait, you are, and will. I dont think having to make a small trade off like having to choose novelty over functionality makes the update bad. That seems like a pretty good trade to me, especially since you can have both very easily. Easier than ever, actually.

This is like a restaurant review from someone who never ate there. Don't be that guy.

There were no numbers mentioned in how the mods increased stats, and they did say they’d be borderline exotic, so we’ll have to see how it plays out

Funny thing is, back when Shadowkeep was first announced I knew for a fact that they would do something to "balance" the mods, even said they were probably going to do something to limit it and some way. Was met with people calling me an overly critical idiot that didn't know what he was talking about and people saying it was Activision causing all the limiting non-sense with power and that the three slots of mods, customization, and relics were going to make Destiny great again and bring a huge wellspring of customization and builds. Lo' and Behold, we're now two months from release and they reveal that the new armor system is going to have a lot of limitations and rules (probably why they waited this long after anyone that was going to pre-order the DLC had done so). Even the most trivial of mods are going to cost nearly all your points to use ,so it's either use really weak perks and get more variety or use strong perks and do without. Relics just unlock mods and you will have to unlock them again the next season ((once again, Bungie going back on their words about not having to grind for the same things over and over again)). The finishers consuming half your super meter is just the shit flavored whipped cream on this cow-pie though. This could have been a really cool new feature added to the game that gave it a sense of being more action based and dynamic, but, as with Bungie's fashion, they decide to put a limiter on it for no reason. If you want a game that actually rewards you for time played, and gives you a sense of power and progression from that, Destiny is not the game you want to play.

Something you may not know, Bungie is actually adjusting Ability/Super cooldowns. At 0 Intellect, Discipline, and Strength you Super cooldown will be 7 minutes, and your Grenade and Melee cooldown will be 1minute and 30 seconds. So no, your current armor probably won't be as good.

And the fact each season will have it's own artifact,so you basically have to grind to level each one as the past artifacts goes away.So one could reach a power level of 1000 but then the next season starts and you go back to 960,sounds like fun huh.

Well anyone around here with even a little intelligence knows the last thing Smith wants is for the guardians to be more powerful. But I’m completely sure the grind is about to double.

I agree with this. Armor 2.0 allows more customization but you still have to grind out the mods for it first. Your builds might be fine, but I am sure eventually you will switch out your sets for 2.0 eventually. Being able to switch multiple builds without having to carry 9 armor sets is nice. It results in a cleaner experience, but overall I see your point.