Taken King Ascension (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, July 19, 2015, 05:30 (3515 days ago) @ Cody Miller

My main concern with making old loot obsolete is us having new loot to replace it. Even with two expansions under my belt, I still trend toward using exotics from the original game rather than Dark Below or House of Wolves. Some good exceptions, like Lord of Wolves on occasion or Ruin Wings if I'm soloing for awhile.

On the other hand, I'd really like a good excuse to diversify. Kinda sick of my helmet of saint 14.

Bungie has already chosen their method of content delivery. More frequent and in smaller quantity. This is inferior to less frequent and of more quantity, but the choice is made.

They have a problem, because old weapons are very good, and they messed up with perks and stuff on the old weapons. Fixing the perk situation in HoW only made the weapons that much more inferior to the old ones.

There are two choices: let us keep upgrading our gear, or start over. Keeping old gear makes new content too easy. Starting over doesn't feel good and is a loot treadmill.

i feel like at some point we will just need to start over, after they figure out a way to introduce new weapons that will be desirable alongside the old ones. A very challenging endeavor when you have frequent content packs, but perhaps a problem they can solve. It could have been avoided in the first place if there were 4 Destiny games, with no taking gear between them.

You did read about the upcoming weapon changes, right? Where they are decreasing the bonuses given by the old stability, range, and ammo perks so that the newer "plus this minus that" perks make more sense. And they've already shown a willingness to tone down (or up!) anything from individual weapons to entire weapon categories as needed. So why can't the plan going forward just be to keep everything and fix problem spots as needed? It's not like the old guns were so awesome that the newer ones are useless. Case in point, most of the weapons I use today are House of Wolves era and I don't can't remember the last time I was killed by a legacy Legendary...

(Also keep in mind that we're going to be told more about weapons and weapon foundries next week so there might be stuff revealed soon that will make both our theories moot!)