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I have been playing frankly a lot more of Destiny 2’s Edge of Fate post-launch Portal mayhem than I thought I would, this past week in particular, given that it’s been the Solstice event positively raining loot on everyone.
However, once again I found myself running another Conquest as part of trying to rank up, and sure enough, I discovered that my amazing Hunter build now had to be handicapped because my exotic class item was not deemed “New Gear.” I didn’t even bother trying to make an entirely different build and I just threw on a legendary cloak instead. Forget it.
Destiny 2 simply needs to scrap the idea that only specific exotics in a season count as “New Gear.” It’s not just being annoyed in one-off Conquests (which I assume Bungie will make repeatable at some point), it’s about the Portal score system.
More or less the entire game is now based around hitting certain ranks in the Portal, namely A-rank, but that gives you extra bonuses based on how much New Gear you have on, even if it’s not “mandatory” like Conquests.
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Destiny 2 already badgers you into using New Gear for legendary armor and legendary weapons despite the extremely limited arsenal right now. But even doing something as simple as picking a single, non-featured exotic weapon and a single non-featured exotic piece of armor is enough to get me to miss A-rank by a sliver some of the time. And god forbid you use even more slots without the New Gear badge.
It sucks to have to hamstring my build, for instance, an Ashen Wake Titan build in a Solar season, or literally any Prismatic build, because it’s not featured for whatever reason. Or I’m hurt using Gjallarhorn or Monte Carlo or Ergo Sum (why do they hate Prismatic this season?).
I mean, come on, the answer is obvious here. All exotics should be considered New Gear. The only reason this system exists is because Bungie wants to encourage different metas and builds in a given season but we already have systems in place for that. The artifact give big bonuses to 1-3 elements a season already. The “New Gear” system for the legendaries already only give you a small amount of new guns to put in those slot. Do we really need exotics hurting our all-important scores on top of all this?
We do not. This change is inevitable. It’s one of those things that is so obviously a bad idea that you know Bungie will reverse course. But we do not need some sort of months-long internal debate about this. Do it in the next patch, and please don’t say it’s some sort of impossible coding issue, I’m not buying that anymore, especially for something like this.
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