The first year of D1 offered the franchise's best weapons to date. And they weren't just handed to you. You had to chase them every week. I ran VoG nearly 30 times before I got VOC to drop, which sucked. But they've gone too far in the other direction with just handing everything out right away. There isn't a single stand out weapon worth chasing in D2. I've been using the same weapons on all 3 character since week 3. That's just one large difference. In vanilla D1 our guardians felt like hero's. Not couch potatoes, haha.