I miss having the mystery of exotics😭. We havent really had that since D1 though and its mainly due to data miners. I know its my fault if I look at at the mined data but it still kind a ruins it for everyone else.
I remember getting the Mida Multi Tool from my first Atheon kill and literally not even knowing what the Mida was at the time because the game was still new and a lot of people didnt even have an exotic yet.
My first exotic was the Invective but that was only because it was one of the bounty exotics😅.
It was still super cool to see an exotic though because I didnt know what it was before hand or how many exotics there were in the game in general.
I hope for D3 that they have all the exotics blanked out in the collections to keep the mystery alive. It a small request but it honestly matters a lot lol. Gotta keep the sense of mystery and exploration alive and its hard to do that if we can look up exactly what it was without even having then item.