To preface I am (well was now) Guardian Rank 11, solo flawless on every dungeon, and have 41 titles including raid titles/eternal/godslayer. Played Crota D1 through D2 Curse of Osiris, took a 5 year break then came back for season of the seraph. I am not saying these things to brag (cause I know a lot of you guys are way better than me!), I'm just giving a glimpse into the time and care I put into this game. This post comes out of love I promise. ------------ I have given Bungie every single chance imaginable within the last couple years when I got back into the game with season of the Seraph. I pushed it out through the lows and very much enjoyed the highs. I have tried to justify their decisions to my friends time and time again. But I am at my breaking point after what I just experienced tonight. To start, I have not been enjoying the Edge of Fate. Matterspark/Relocater/The Other one I can't even remember the name of cause it meant so little to me are not fun mechanics. They just make you needlessly back track through rooms and waste your time. The story was pretty good IMO, but the gameplay just ruined it for me. I have no motivation to do the exotic quest or any of the extra activities scattered around Kepler. This is just a matter of opinion of course and is not my biggest issue. Sometimes a DLC just ain't my thing and that's all good. ----------- The Portal can be fun I admit, but it should not be the sole focus of the game. Not in the slightest. Also congratulations Bungie on somehow making the new player experience even WORSE. Telling new lights that the guardian ranks are the best guide as to what you should do next, meanwhile the portal just throws you into meaningless missions that somehow tell you nothing about the game yet spoil points about the new campaign at the same time. -------------- Removing Guardian Ranks and forcing veterans to earn their way back up through the system would have been completely fine if doing very specific activities in the portal wasn't how you mainly progressed. I have no motivation to go through these missions again and again with different modifiers trying to earn my number back that I did nothing to lose. ------------- The new armor system is whatever. Just new stats that I'm sure we're gonna find out you need ones maxed (health and weapons) and some you can just drop because our builds will recharge our abilities anyway. ----------- I don't know guys. I thought Destiny was fun the way it was. I don't know who was asking for these changes. Anyways let me bring you to tonight... How did you guys not learn your lesson? You've already tried raising the power delta for normal mode raids and dungeons. The community said no and you rightfully listened and reverted it. But now this is back? Why? Tonight I just wanted a fun normal mode Vesper's run with my friends. Using the exact same loadouts and strategies we normally would for a 45 minute run with 2 phase boss ended us up with a 1 hour and 20 minute run and 5 damage phase boss. I cannot imagine what going through this as a new player would have been like. After giving up on grinding for the new guardian rank and light cap all I wanted was to still log on and have dungeon and raid nights but that is gone as well. This was the straw that broke the camels back. I have uninstalled Destiny 2 and all it will take for me to return is to have my fun dungeons and raids back. Bungie please. If you want there to be harder dungeons and raids just add a new difficulty that is a little harder and let us have our normal fun time activities. Until then guardians if you still choose to play Destiny 2 and have a good time then I am very happy for you and I hope you're able to make many more happy memories with your friends!