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Edited by Rainbine 9545: 5/12/2026 11:27:41 PM
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Abilities and a personal take

Is it just me or does this game no longer feel like destiny, not because of the Star Wars stuff but more so it feels less of a “shooter” and more of just use your abilities for everything? Loot doesn’t feel important, thanks to a mixture of reasons and some being the tier system, delta stuff and just ability spam to the point you can just run double special and feel no effects due to just.. how stupid it feels Destiny to me will die if abilities aren’t turned down to a more reasonable level and weapons are turned up so we can use them in the game more and have a reason to use them over abilities… and this one is personal… stop them from being able to synergies with classes and stop being as add clearing as possible with weapons like sunshot and gravaton And yes this is me asking for nerfs inside of a game cause it’s boring to see weapons do multiple roles and making other loot feel less impactful and meaningful Edits: to explain something, no I don’t want it to be anything like cod, don’t know why people think I want that as this is destiny the game that mixes all the things together and makes something amazing, I just personally believe some of the abilities are just too good in their current state Second, I also will change my stance on the weapons i talked about with one conversations with one of the commenters they made decent points, so I will retract that statement and truly believe that some abilities are too strong and too constant with how strong they currently are, thanks to another comment I remembered that d1’s abilities were nothing like as they are now. My own thoughts and what I feel is best: what I want now is a game that can fluctuate between gunplay being good and worth using in any situation and abilities able to mesh into it and make you feel like you used everything at your disposal. Lastly I’m not the person to know every everything, most of this is coming from personal experience and think I have seen in this game, from warlocks being able to spam arc soul, hunters going invisible every 3 seconds and the only one I struggle to even think of is titan since most of their stuff is simple so I feel like they a pass with their kit and void hunter needs something else to build into while warlock needs to be toned down just a bit to get in line with pve content
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  • The #1 hands down best thing about Destiny 2 is the gunplay. It just "feels" good

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    • So you want destiny to be a cod game?

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      • Oh I read alright and it’s obvious that you’re the one not using their noggin. I’ll spell it out in crayon for you. I saw you conflate ability spam with double special weapons, that’s a first. In the decade plus I’ve been here I’ve never seen such…. Brilliance…. Blaming the tier system, what’s that got to do with abilities? Delta, that’s the LL to damage taken/received system. Which governs abilities and guns, so not ability spam. So let’s see what else. Okay so you want guns > abilities, as a general concept that’s fine but what came after? Don’t want guns to syngerize with abilities? Like sunshot. Well hold on now, isn’t sunshot a gun? So you don’t want exotic weapons to act exotic? That sounds like plain normal guns. So you don’t want abilities to be frequent or strong, you don’t want exotics being exotic. Which leaves your typical call of duty guns, with abilities being little more than kill streaks. Yeah pal. Pretty sure that metric has never been used in Destiny except base D2 And that was such a bad show they walked it back 100%. So you’re asking for that sci-fi call of duty that no one liked? Like I said. It’s obvious you were the one not thinking.

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      • Who knew a game about space magic special abilities would have them be effective enough to use. Who thought of such heresy?

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        • Edited by Wargodmini: 5/11/2026 1:57:26 PM
          Asking for weapons to be brought up, yes 🙂 Asking for nerfs on good weapons, when the rest are borederline useless for the most part, no! 😡 The ability of this community to ruin this game via input, is staggering, and you don't think twice about it! Nor have attained any personal mastery, to weigh in on the situation in an insightful manner

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          • Totally agree. I love build crafting but this should be second to gunplay and currently it’s like 90% abilities

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            • Edited by GradeMyGuardianTTV: 5/11/2026 1:45:44 PM
              Only 1.5 years late to the party..... The amount of hate I've received on these forums over your exact sentiment is unreal...... I've detailed this many times over, never altered or swayed on the matter, yet still have clowns pulling up and arguing with me. I'M RIGHT. And it's one of the cornerstones of why players are leaving the game. There's certainly several factors, but middling tier of players (ie not hardcore, not casual) are the MOST plagued by this ideology. https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/264474782 Another post within the same sentiment: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/264557025?page=0&path=1&sort=0&utm_source=chatgpt.com

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