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jboss said

I really hate what the devs did to this game. I used to play all the time for the first couple of years when the game was actually, ya know, fun. They seemed to be obsessed with "balancing" gear. Which I guess means nerfing weapons and armor that were actually fun to use into obscurity and buffing fundamentally garbage stuff to be barely usable. And the last raid I felt like I could actually get through was Oryx. I don't see why they did a complete 180 from "vanilla" Destiny (see: fun) to cater seemingly to highly skilled players exclusively. Which of course means people that can somehow play for hours and hours a day. It sucks because I really loved to play this game but I can't even imagine getting back into it now.

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To be fair, they have mostly stopped nerfing a lot of stuff. In fact, they may have made the player too powerful now. And, they have added things like Dungeons (3 man) and The Menagerie (6 person with matchmaking) as things that are almost mini Raids. And, while those have mechanics, they are the simpler mechanics like those used in D1.

On the other hand, the Raids in D2 really are more puzzles, chores, and jobs than they are fun. It's more about having to be really organized and perfectly execute complex mechanics than it is about using guns to kill masses of enemies. To me, they should be fun with fairly simple mechanics that lead to the mass slaughter of monsters the way they were in D1. In D1 none of the mechanics were really complicated and they didn't take away from the fun. What they have done now is added really complex mechanics that cause wipes at the slightest mistake. That's not fun and it doesn't allow for anyone to have the hero moment. All you get is the "I did this amazingly mundane but complicated thing right for the tenth time in a row so we can start a damage faze while standing in a Well of Radiance" moment.

But like I said the upside is that new content like The Forges, The Managerie, the Shattered Throne Dungeon, and even some of the newer strikes are fun.