First let me thank you for taking the time to read through this. If you stick around through the whole thing please give it a like or comment. I'm more just curious how many people saw it. With that lets go. The DLC is coming out Dec 9 and, like many others, I can't wait! It's going to be a blast going blind into another raid that just further strengthens the new friendships I've acquired. I've been reading quite a bit online and looking at comments from both the forum and reddit. I've come to make some of my own opinions and I'd just like to share them. Price: I think it's fair. More content than any other DLC I've bought before and helps me more than just multiplayer maps. Content: let PS users have the exclusives. From what I've gathered nobody liked the current extra strike. Im having more than enough fun not doing more Mars strikes and the weapons I have are lovely. The new mechanics: well let's divide this up a little bit. 1. Mats for marks. Love it. So convenient. Don't forget daily missions and patrols too for mats!! 2. New vendor weapons/armor. Like and dislike. Hear me out. I believe bungie should keep the old gear and just add more gear too it. Make the new gear need commendations and leave the lower tier gear accessible to low level guardians. It only makes sense. This would be the typical advancement then: - lvl up to 20 - rank up / get marks / coins - xur / low tier armor/weapons - VoG normal for gear/weapons - VoG hard for weapons/gear (helm) But hey if you're unlucky with drops and have been doing it for a while it's ok. You're still doing bounties and such so when you get enough commendations boom higher tiered armor/weapons from Vendor to help you progress. - enter Crotas raid - enter Crotas hard raid Or something like that. That progression makes so much sense doesn't it? it's sad to see the lower tiered items leaving the vendors. 3. Nightfall lvl cap: no. There should be the option for doing it at a higher difficulty. Just like with the daily heroic mission and weekly strike. Higher level rewards better but are harder. A lot 25-28s do this just for better gear. Would be a shame to take this away for only 27+. Ex) nightfall lvl 30 has maybe an additional modifier. Rewards have higher chance for exotics or just and an additional 5-10%xp buff on top of the lvl 28 nightfall. 48 mats too would be nice. Heck a sweet and deadly modifier could be "survivalist" aka no revives allowed. (Except for my sunbros :] ) 4. Exotic upgrades: some don't like the concept of lvling up their weapons from scratch again. From what I've gathered when you upgrade it'll be doing 300 atk and it's just the perks you need. Lvling it up gets it to 323 then. Since they will be easier to upgrade - it's not a big deal. Esp with mats being able to be bought with marks. You know that currency everyone was complaining about being useless before? If I could make my guns stronger by redoing the perks everytime my guns would have over a 1000 atk by now lol. Another gripe is players that used an exotic shard already before the DLC notes kinda got unlucky as it's possible for individuals who just got the exotic to trade it in to xur for the 2.0 version. My recommendation to solve this - make it so you have to max out 1.0 to get 2.0 weapon. Done. Also I want you all to realize one thing... At least you get to KEEP the exotic and have the ability to lvl it up. Would suck if you had to wait for it to drop again or buy it from xur again (when he sells it) and THEN lvl it up. I support bungies decision on this one. On that side note - there should be a way to lvl up legendary RAID weapons from VoG. *edit start* Maybe just upgrading them to 313 atk or something. Honestly I'm only saying this because I love the vision of confluence and Fatebringer and would hate to see them get old. Though i do believe that legendaries shouldn't be able to be upgraded as there would be no point in getting new ones. *edit end* 5. No additional vault space mentioned. But I hope they do something soon. I understand why it's taking long time to figure out still. More vault space = more data per user = more server space used = more costly to add more = not cool. 6. Hard raid / primary weapons not available till January. Love it. gives the community the chance to get familiar with the normal raid and continue to lvl up. Hope there is a "only lvl 30+ can enter" condition. 7. I think I'm done and will post this now. Thanks again for reading! Comment/like? I'll respond when I can. Edit: forgot middle para for exotic section. All good now. Edit: added more info about the legendary raid upgrade section