Hey you! Beta player here. I think the best thing about getting into Destiny from the start was the newness of activities. stories and Raids. "new" things now are mainly old things in reverse, or a variation of something done before. I envy you a bit too. You will not have the frustration of grinding for materials, grinding raids for armor and then as soon as you have the best DLC makes it average or sub-par. Collecting what counts as "money" in this game, then having the money system change. As much as Destiny was frustrating back then, the way it is now has lost most of its light for me. I only play now to help friends new to the game once in awhile. Meh. My Raid team has moved on to the Division Beta

Back in the day the g-horn destroyed bosses in minutes and the icebreaker would rip the heads off ads. Kids would rage at two to the morgue campers and try hards would try to quick scope with the no land beyond, it was a good time and the hype for exotics in nightfall a and raids was the best gaming experience one could ask for, that was just a taste of what it was like in year one.

Year one player here. Year one was better. I was always exited that maybe just maybe I would get that icebreaker from a crucible match. The best time I had was when I got the last word and gallerhorn back to back from iron banner matches. I know it was so cool. Now everybody either doesn't care too much or already has all the exotics. Snipers are way too common and all the fun has been sucked out be skill based matchmaking. Ya good times

The best time was before they nerfed the black hammer. So you know it was a legendary Crota raid sniper that worked exactly like black spindle except that when the ammo refill perk (white nail) went off it spontaneously generated ammo for you so it never depleted the reserve ammo...... Those were good days. Pumping 30+ rounds into a critical spot and walking away with only having used 3 rounds... Also it was great testing your might again st Randle the vandel......... Crota swords on earth, zombie apocalypse heavy machine gun, there was so much good and bad with every DLC drop....

I remember my first attempt at nightfall was just ridiculously hard, getting kicked to orbit when the fireteam dies. The rewards to grind for almost felt worth it, there was nothing easy. But now - spamming a tonne of motes will instantly level your gear, dropping ToC, it's too easy. On the other hand I believe y2 is also a lot harder, for some (me) the kf raid is just impossible. No other player sticks around long enough to succeed. There isn't one reward out there that every single player wants, no thorn no gjally. Destiny year one was fun. I miss Sepiks and Phogoth

In the beginning...the Warlock prevailed.

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I miss the good feeling i got when doing vog or crota like i was a part of something now its just a farm fest

First vog run 4 hours Got atheons epilogue Had no idea it was bad Loved it Fatebringer eluded me for 20 runs

You missed marty getting fired for hanging his doodle over the rim of luke smith's coffe mug when luke stepped out of the meeting to use the toilet.

Being day 1 player is like being a girl with a very aggressive boyfriend who tells her (instead of ask her) when to get it on. That was my attempt at keeping it clean - hope you got the underlying message.

This is long winded, but gosh I love this game. Blades of Crota I miss the Blades of Crota phenomena that would occur on the Moon and the Cosmodrome. It was like the "Taken are corrupting the area" instances. The Blade of Crota would show up with a few waves of Acolytes and once you downed him you were able to pick up his "blade of crota" and swipe the be-jesus out of the Acolytes. We had a bounty every other day that required we take out ten of them, this used to cause mini competitions with randoms on patrols. You can get a feel of what it was like by doing the Sword of Crota mission. Public Events When I started playing Destiny Public Events were a major feature. As soon as the sky turned dark and we'd hear that 'something falling from the sky' sound, we would jump on our sparrows in a frenzy to find the event. They were difficult and if you were lucky you'd be rewarded with a few Ascendant Shards or Ascendant Energy. More players were on patrol to wait for these events, an app was developed to let us know where and when they would occur and usually you could tell that one was expected because of the large number of players waiting in the area. They started to lose their glamour because of two things: 1) After a certain point, Ascendant materials became useless 2) Players started noticing that the last person to join the event would usually end up getting the Ascendant materials; this meant that you could defend the warsat for all of the waves and a random could walk up at the end, shoot a Dreg and get the Ascendant materials. Secret Bullet Sponges and the Curious Question Mark Monsters Randal the Vandal is pretty popular on this forum, but not even Randal could cause the fear and frustration which the Celebrant of Oryx put me through. On the Forgotten Shore, you can find three seemingly harmless Hive Knights guarding the door to the Warmind's bunker. I was just Dead Ghost hunting on the Cosmodrome and was surprised to find any adversaries at all in this area. I took out the first two with no problem and saw that the major, Celebrant of Oryx, was only level 18. I didn't think anything of it, I believe I went to work on him with my Multi-Tool and a One-Way Ticket. About ten deaths and twenty minutes later, I finally took that sucka' out! I've had similar experiences with the Servant of the Eyes, Hand of Crota, and the Heart of Crota. None of my friends told me about those Curious Question Mark Monsters. When I came face-to-face with the Praetorians on Venus (the ones guarding the Vault of Glass) I had just unlocked Venus patrol and still had no clue that monsters actually had levels. I fought for nearly two hours because I was curious as to what they were guarding. Finally, I googled: How to kill Praetorians and found out from the Destiny reddit that I couldn't kill them yet and that those question marks meant that they were too high of a level for me to challenge them. Similar Experiences: Hive Knights in the Steppes, Cosmodrome and getting carried on my first Crota Hard Mode. Happy Hour This used to be a phenomena which was unique to the Cosmodrome when I first started playing; only recently have I've noticed "the enemies are moving against each other" prompts on other planets. The ones at Skywatch and Rocketyard are the most memorable to me. Rocketyard because it had several Blades of Crota running around and everyone has encountered Urzok, the Hated, at Skywatch. This is all still a part of Destiny, but they were so exciting in the beginning because it was mini challenge to see how long I could survive while fighting them. Thorn Bounty If you're a PvP player, this bounty was probably nothing to you, but for those of us that are PvP-challenged it was a nightmare! At the time when I had to complete the Crucible step of the Thorn bounty, I was lucky if I could get one kill in any match. I watched for months as my friends got to burn monsters with that eerie green shimmery poison. Then one day a friend shot a Cabal ship and the whole thing lit up with that poison, something went wild inside of me. I had to have it! I went flip mode and got it done in one early summer night after weeks of trying and failing. I still have my Thorn and the screenshot of the Speaker awarding it to me. Lord Saladin = Sexiest Titan <3

I miss year 1 hawkmoon

You don't want it. Thorn Thorn And Thorn

I still remember the beta days. Those were fun. I can clearly remember going online to find all 5 golden chests before the beta ended because I wanted to know what you get. I can't describe the amount of joy I had when I acquired a full set of Komorov armor. So many hours put into the first raid ever, The Devils Lair. Sepiks Prime was literally the first raid boss. So many good memories.

-blam!- yes when thorn was a 2 shot and run away. That made me wet.

No you are a Christmas nub... Not kinder

I remember when people stood still after a team won even though they could still move.

Arghh that first gali. The grind for my fate bringer and vexmithoclaste "can't spell that one lol" The pitititititititititititew of my first end game gun, the necrochasm and its counter part the husk of pit. Then getting a sword bearer and company spawning on the moon and cosmodrome. Good times.. Nowadays it's not so good. Guns rant no where near as good as year 1. No burn less perks. I thinking these days there's legendary weapons far better than the year 2 exotics. There's nothing truly exotic to most of them. Shame really as its spoiled the game a bit.