THIS! And Remember how IRONBANNER was something we all awaited with excitement. Now it’s a horrible experience with ZERO REWARD Shame on you Bungie for gutting D2 into a pathetic hollow shell of D1

I honestly despise the side of the community that advocated for the removal of unique raid weapon perks because they felt "left out" when they refused to find people to play the content. Not all the solo players did this mind you, but man I'm still surprised that Bungie took that feedback in.

Yes pretty much all of that should've been in D2 from the start but adept weapons for strikes are comming sometime in year 4.Sometimes I wish Bungie would skip a season just to add strike specific loot,arms day,factions like D1,gunsmith quests/test weapons as well as other thing from D1 that people have asked for like Rift and Combined arms.

I will only dispute some... 5. This was only a thing for part of the last year of the game. Would it be an interesting thing for a weekly challenge, sure. But don't act like it was an ongoing feature. It was at the end of the games life. 6. No one used them unless they were deemed best in class as they had fixed rolls. Yes they had primary elementals and i would argue that they would not have been as popular had they not had that, though beyond that they also gave them great rolls so they would have likely still been popular. There is a reason they removed the element because it absolutely killed all diversity. Only Vault weapons mattered, and only slightly. Sure it validated the grind. I get that. 7. No one used the raid armor for the perks unless it was a "god roll" for tier 12 stats, or they liked the ornaments in the last 6 months of the game. Litterally no one I know utilized those stats. Would mean a lot more if they were game changers but they were not. shout out to a few pieces like boots that made running in kings fall easier. other than that they were what the kids now days would call "trash." Of course there was the obligatory flexing in the first month that I have a set and tower kids do not. 11. Hard mode raids existed upon D2 launch. The community has become too casual and they removed them. Afterall looking at launch casual was their approach which is funny. One could argue it was a failure. They stated their reasons in a TWAB ala two years ago. Not agreeing with it, just stating it happened. 12. I have a hard time feeling for this one. Majority of players used what Youtubers or streamers told them was "da bes" and that's all. Yes some players altered from that. But in the end it amounted to optimal meta play at all times discounting a minority of builds. Besides Destiny has always in my opinion not had enough variance or counter play to certain builds (mainly pvp). PvE end of the day doesn't matter as it's pretty casual but i get not having "choice" for maximum OPness. 13. Nope other than trolling 15. Really 16. We just need a bigger vualt! 17. Very few cared about SRL. It was only popular-ish because at the time of it's debut it dropped max light helmets and many of us needed them. We didn't like the mode. It was just the best farm for that gear piece in an otherwise much more brutal light grind than D2. Why should they waste resources on something like this when they can't get so much right in D2?

True, the first game still has its niceties, which kinda got lost along the way somewhere...

I realize that things have to be (somewhat) "difficult" to get so that there's a "chase" but the people who whine about exotics not being RARER are batshit insane. You have a ridiculously low chance of getting the exotic you want with a roll that is actually decent even with the way things are now.

Meh I find a lot of D1 stuff far more satisfying and less tedious compared to 2. The gunsmith stuff in 1 was particularly good.