I'm in the same boat. I did the major stuff in Forsaken and was planning to come back for the first DLC but it seems I misunderstood what it actually is. Stopped at like 560 light or something.
Again, I think if the first Forge was decently playable day 1 for 600 light players, we wouldn't be seeing quite this reaction. We'd probably still see a relatively negative one considering the impressions of the Forge from people who did manage to get through it, but still. Out of all that expectation setting, I don't think they properly explained we'd be so underleveled for the main new activity they've been advertising this whole time and I think they also probably played up the Forge as something more interesting than it actually is. With three Forges being drip fed to us over time, it made so much more sense to have the required Light for the first Forge be 600. Let people in and feel like they have a fighting chance. Let people experience the new machine gun day 1 if they do well enough so they can grind old stuff with a new toy. This is all another reason the loot increase being so minimal is a shame and honestly kind of baffling to me. People wouldn't mind grinding old stuff so much if they could do it with new loot or had more new loot to grind for.Question marks over my head reading a few pages since the BA release. I'm not sure how Bungie could have been more transparent with what was dropping and when. You have the month-by-month roadmap for content, and then a date-by-date one for the month. For me the below image did a pretty good job of tempering my expectations on when stuff would come on "release", which is a misnomer in and of itself.
In two weeks time we'll have all 3 forges open, be in the midst of the Dawning and have the new raid to run. With more on the horizon! Of course 'day one' and 'release' aren't going to be as hype as the content drops before it because it's just one fragment of the whole being put out. People wringing their hands about whether the Annual Pass is worth the price or not because Bungie delivered exactly what they said they'd deliver.
Like I said, it's up to you how much of an asshole you want to be. You clearly made that choice.
Did some EP yesterday too by accident, its still really active. But you spot on about the post master, why can't you send stuff to the vault directly from there?
Do the hardcore not play strikes or gambit? Do the hardcore not want new patrol areas or new milestones that aren't the same old boring shit? This "expansion" doesn't feel like its for the hardcore. It feels like its for suckers. And they got me. Again.
They must have. After not getting anything for weeks, I got 3 exotics yesterday (though 1 was before reset). Two were dupes but they were above 600 so I wasn't complaining. The other was Trinity Ghoul which is only the 4th non-quest Forsaken exotic I've managed to get.
All that's going to deliver for Bungie/Activision is a dead player base.
This is what I've been saying. This thing is called The Black Armory and there's no campaign. I was expecting that manpower would be put towards a new armory!
The Ikelos SMG is really good, but it's in the energy slot so you can't pair it with Telesto. Antiope is the traditional favourite in the kinetic slot.
It's not unfair. Go into Eververse and look at the contents of the engrams and Dark Horse isn't a sparrow that's listed there. It's only attainable by purchase.
I keep saying they need to implement cosmetic slots for armor. That would keep older content relevant in the end game for the fashion chase as well as keep old gear from becoming outdated without needing to update them all with stats. I immediately stopped grinding for that Solstice armor when I realized it would be useless in a few weeks. But if say I could put the EP Warmind gear in a cosmetic slot, I'd be sure to grind that every week until I had full sets or I'd try a little harder to get people together for the older raids that had cool looking gear.
Why'd you buy the pass if you only made it to 525? I assume that means you never got to the raid or dungeon and skipped the Halloween event. you still had lots of original forsaken content left to play.
Ooh grinding out the same content I was playing before I dropped off, fun.
