https://imgur.com/a/Dwp08Ri
Comparing the warlocks "new" season 3 vanguard chest "ornament" to the dead orbit chest and EDZ chest... Crucible is just as bad, can't wait to see what re-skinned or minimal effort "ornaments" we get in faction rally next...
But seriously, bungie, if you're not going to do ornmanets properly, like they are done in IB or like they were in D1, then don't do them at all, give us new sets each season. It's bad enough everything we chase is a reskin already, and everything drops below our power level in everything we do. Stop being so lazy and so stingy with loot and gear each season. Here's another idea, maybe don't put one of the only new armor sets you release each season behind f***ing eververse!
Even the raid lairs gear has reskins. Remember when you had a whole new set for each raid? a whole new set for vanguard/crucible each expansion? I could see maybe adding ornaments to the planetary vendors, but you don't even do that. Everything feels so lazy. As a solo player, vanguard/crucible things are things I can chase and grind towards, but I don't even want to do that because there's no point when the ornaments either do next to nothing, or are literal reskins of armor sets I've already collected twice. It's unacceptable, it's insulting, and feels like a slap to the face for loyal players.
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I agree with your first paragraph and your point about ornaments. But the put about the raid lairs gear being reskinned, unfortunately, is basically moot, or dead? We came from D1 with 4 different raids spread out over 3 years with very different gear. We have that same expectation in the 1st year on D2 but it's unrealistic and unfair of us to compare. We complain the raids lairs aren't big enough, aren't unique enough, don't connect to the story. But thry are really all 1 giant acitivity together. The story ties together about Calus and his relationship to us. They aren't bigger because they're 3ish of them in one year, and the gear is reskinned because it's thematic and I'm sure would ALL rather them spent that time on developing the annual fall DLC's and it's gear as opposed to devoting that time to the hold over content that is a raid lair. And in year 3 of these ethere will be more than D1 offered. That being said of course I too would have loved for the old raids and planets to be in D2, and for the raid lair gear to be completely unique.