That’s how I felt too at first but then I realized, if they had released a D3 we would be starting over anyway. So I’m trying to keep an open mind, and if the changes they introduce are enough to make the game feel new and fresh, why not?

They want your old gear to be irrelevant so you can grind for the new gear to pad out play time ,certain accounts will say the obv front and thats (it will still be usable) they are not lieing, they just don't explain it will be usable, it just won't be viable in anything above vanguard ops and low tier pvp. The replys you have below from those accounts are hilarious 😂 like new armor stat's is loot now ? 🤣 So you will need to farm for new armor because your old triple 100 stat gear is irrelevant same as the time you spent grinding for it

My biggest gripes with thee armor changes besides it 100% being a change planned for a destiny 3 you can’t convince me otherwise is we’re still gonna have to grind the same awful activities to get it. They haven’t said anything about actually grinding for armor being different.

This definitely seems like the moment when they should have ended D2 and move on to D3.

I must say grinding out my armour. For it to be sunset again is stupid. I understand they want to change the armour system up but its annoying I am having to put all that work in again.

We all saw how sunsetting or even sunsetting light worked out. Noone but the 3 streamers who are left playing this game liked it. All the casuals hated it and stopped playing. They never came back. They could atleast introduce an addition to the crafting table that allows players to edit their current weapons towards the new system with materials but nope, that would be player friendly... Very bold of Bungie to try it again in this terrible state that Destiny is in and also considering how bad Marathon looks. But hey Bungie keeps manipulating themselves. Go for it lol

A few of us kept saying it was a sunset….

Your current armor and weapons will inevitably be less effective than the new max tier gear. The fact that you planned to ride the same boring -blam!- loadout forever is exactly why they're doing this

The refresh unfortunately needs to happen but I worry it is too late. When have been the most exciting times in franchise history? The times when a new yearly DLC phases out old loot by making it obsolete and gives you a whole new array or weapons and armor to grind and play with. I point to destiny 1 taken king, when everyone seems to forget was the first time sunsetting happened by literally making every single thing acquired in year 1 utterly useless because it was all capped at 170 light. We look back on taken king today as all time peak destiny, and it's not just nostalgia. The new stuff made people want to play. It didnt matter that the past year was a waste from a resource perspective. Out with the old in with the new. I point to forsaken, when the entire sandbox was overhauled and created basically a whole new game to play. Gone were all of your year 1 weapons with 1 perk, now you get two on everything. Gone were your double primaries. A billion new weapons to chase and play with in this new sandbox. Any casual player who played will tell you that this was the peak of destiny, even though they had just had all their stuff from year 1 sunset... again. People will not play without a reason to chase meaningfully new and more valuable gear. If you take everything away and give a whole new world of things to chase to make up for it, people are not mad, in fact they love it, and this has been proven. The problem now is that D2 has been a hamster wheel for so long that itd hard to imagine any sort of overhaul would get people to play it. The sheer volume of weapons now, across multiple weapon systems (unenhancable, enhanceable, craftable, origin trait or none etc) from multiple years is so overwhelming people complain about a 500 slot vault. You make people grind for so long and add so many layers to the grind, people do get attached to their stuff, more than they would have been before forsaken and taken king

so, if obtaining new loot is not your incentive to play this LOOTER Shooter, what is your point of playing? The point is that there needs to be gear to chase, always something better on the horizon. BTW your gear isnt obsoleet, you can still wear it, use it, just there will be better stuff out there.

I’d rather armor actually be a useful drop than be annoyed I get armor over a weapon drop