Bungie, you're obviously throwing in the poorly made last ditch effort to force tedious, uninteresting, unfun gametime on people, but chasing power is not the problem, its the game's playability. Want to know how to make the game more playable with a Psuedo New Game+ feel? Make all these artifact perks unlockable with a REASONABLE exp grind. Let me explain:
I didn't even bother to reach the current power cap, you base it on a terrible RNG system that injects players with pure frustration and disappointment getting pinnacle rolls in slots that don't benefit. I didn't bother because you created a playground where no running, jumping, sliding, hopping or even a brisk walk is allowed. TONS of build possibilities, but restricted by stuff like champions and an ever-increasing perk pool from the artifact that ISN'T INCLUDED IN YOUR LOADOUT SAVING.
I grew quickly exhausted of having to memorize & juggle artifact perks for certain loadouts and lost interest in playing well before your layoff drama. I tried just sitcking with the same build or builds similar enough to one another to lower how frequent I was changing artifact perks, but i couldn't get around how silly it was playing with such restrictions. I'm left wondering why you even limit artifact points when the perks rarely stack up completely for any one build. MAYBE column 5 artifact perks should be limited, but only that column.
PLEASE revamp artifact perks to either 1: be included in saved loadouts, or 2: allow all or most artifact perks to be unlocked simultaneously while adjusting column 5 perks to be less-stackable. Let players enjoy your damn playground without all the damn restrictions, limitations and forced meta.
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is so fun how players can't see the optional grind made just for players that like that grind
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Saving artifact mods to load outs seems like such a no brainer I don't under stand why it's not a thing.
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I wouldn't mind if we kept this season's Artifact to be honest. It did come with the Campaign after all, so technically would make sense. Though I would absolutely love the ability to save Artifact trees with Loadouts, as you mentioned it is quite annoying to have to clear or refund enough to set for changes.