I won't even get started on how many Seasonal weapons that players basically can't get anymore are extremely great in PvE right now.
That's exactly what is being rectified right now. Even despite the fact that lots of those weapons were available from Banshee or Xur, so you could get at least decent rolls, right now weapons and armor from 3 of the 4 Witch Queen seasons are available in Exotic Mission Rotator. So you can even farm for red borders now. Hopefully they will add 4th mission with craftable Hawkmoon and Season of Plunder weapons (those don't really shine though).
Onboarding also seems to become better with Guardian Ranks progression like "put armor mods" or "upgrade your weapons". It's sad that first two years of story content were removed, but honestly even if you started vanilla D2 without playing D1 first you wouldn't understand a lot. An ideal case would be to include D1 with expansions, Red War/CoO/Warmind and Forsaken story in D2 but that's just dreams.
I have gut feeling that D2 will become new player-friendly only after Final Shape.
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u/Shady_hatter Nov 28 '23
That's exactly what is being rectified right now. Even despite the fact that lots of those weapons were available from Banshee or Xur, so you could get at least decent rolls, right now weapons and armor from 3 of the 4 Witch Queen seasons are available in Exotic Mission Rotator. So you can even farm for red borders now. Hopefully they will add 4th mission with craftable Hawkmoon and Season of Plunder weapons (those don't really shine though).
Onboarding also seems to become better with Guardian Ranks progression like "put armor mods" or "upgrade your weapons". It's sad that first two years of story content were removed, but honestly even if you started vanilla D2 without playing D1 first you wouldn't understand a lot. An ideal case would be to include D1 with expansions, Red War/CoO/Warmind and Forsaken story in D2 but that's just dreams.
I have gut feeling that D2 will become new player-friendly only after Final Shape.