This is more of an informal post to me opposed the ones I'll do better research on, but this is more venting about my feelings while I listen to some music. Right off the bat, Ash and Iron is not hyping me at all rn. The armor associated with it is just a reskin portal armor, the only weapon that interested me was the potential to get a stasis Crossbow (which will be the first time I have access to the Crossbow as I haven't been able to do Desert Perpetual, but that's a whole different conversation), and Bungie is trying to be all tongue and cheek about "Oh wow that new Axe huh? Is it a Relic or Exotic? You just have to watch our live stream to find out ;P" (It's going to be a relic and everyone will be mad) which has all just gave me absolutely nothing to be excited about. I'm not even gonna touch the lack of Siva in the Plaguelands. Even as someone who didn't play D1 they played on nostalgia bait WAY too hard with this and it's going to blow up in their face (I'd love to be wrong about this tho) like with the end of Heresy. But to me, the biggest disappointment comes with the sandbox update for this MAJOR UPDATE being a gigantic nothing burger. They're only doing a tuning pass at PvP (which from what I'm hearing will barely change anything), nerfing everything that was good in DP and will be in Epic DP (so they can have another dumb raid race that features an overly mechanic heavy DPS Check filled raid race that the majority of people racing will feel the need to resort to cheating to clear), and then some random exotic armor and weapons changes that are buffs in some cases and "buffs" in others. But that's it. Nothing else is changing. And I've gotten to the point where I'm just genuinely tired of waiting for certain needed changes to come and for them to either never come or be wholly lacking when they do. Once again, I'm a Behemoth main who stopped playing it two years ago because my choice of subclass was quite literally making the game too hard for me to be able to meaningfully progress (I'm not joking in this, it was only after I dropped Behemoth that I learned how to do anything harder than a nightfall because that subclass quite literally held me back), and I'm just tired of waiting for it to be where it needs to be (because it absolutely needs a fundamental overhaul, not just "add some crystals to the worst melee and aspect in the game"). The other thing is that I've been waiting for a buff to Touch of Malice for almost the same amount of time, and even when we have a season all about the taken King and the dreadnaught, where we literally are taught how to weild the power of the taken King BY THE TAKEN KING HIMSELF, we got nothing for Touch of Malice and it's God awful catalyst. And that's just two of the MANY things they need to address, and major updates like these are the time to do this, but no, with the sandbox update from Edge of Fate and now Ash and Iron it's just "how can we funnel more people into a half baked Portal and up viewership time for raid races. Earlier I said I'm tired of waiting but in all honesty I'm more frustrated with waiting and hoping that some of my favorite things in the game will finally get to a good place and I wont be gimping myself by using what I want to use. I have quite genuinely lost hope in the game, and that hurts because I WANT to be excited about updates, and I WANT to be excited about playing the game, but loosing hope that these things can happen Ina timely manner has just really killed my enthusiasm. Remember when Bungie said they would add more aspects to Prismatic? I couldn't thing of a good place to add this part but I swore there's somewhere they confirmed more aspects would be coming and I remember BEGGING that they put Sol Invictus on Prismatic because having sunspots and Diamond Lances on a feedback loop was something I literally dreamed about, and then they gutted the only good (albeit overpowered) build on the subclass without buffing the other aspects like Drengr's Lash making it still a strong subclass because of Transcendence, butand the variety of supers/class items with no substance