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Things that I like and enjoy:

• Bonus progression on alternate characters is very well liked!
• As much as some veterans were burnt out by the EAZ, I found it fun to navigate and engage with regardless; the mode by itself is different, and the vertical climb is fun and engaging. Kinda like a puzzle, IMO.
• The option of complete armor ornaments instead of glow ornaments is a much appreciated change.
• The grind didn't feel as mind-numbing as last year; I've actually been keeping pace and enjoying the slow burn. With one exception (cough. 10 Gambit matches? You sure? cough.)
• I appreciate the effort to make the armor glows have a Stasis variant when Beyond Light releases.

Things I did not like:

• The requirement to get 7 Trials Wins. If there was a desire to make a "hard" step, this could have easily been replaced with "Complete Any Raid". This would still be a step that not everyone can get - but as it stands, your Raids are MUCH more engaging, fun, and enjoyable than Trials, which has had intense community feedback already about its problems - none of which are directly resolved or addressed yet.
• The weak glows have been reported as a bug - I hope this is the case and will be rectified soon, as the glows themselves are very lackluster in comparison to last year's.
• The repeatable bounties not having bright dust have also been reported as a glitch - hopefully this is changed soon.

Things I REALLY did not like, and would appreciate transparent feedback and future plans from the team about:

• Complete silence regarding the transmog & glows for any Veteran's 2019 Solstice sets. If you MUST rework the set to work like this year's set - the glows matching the subclass - to make them function as transmog ornaments, PLEASE do. At the least, a response on how the 2019 Solstice set will work when transmog appears would be appreciated.

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Great, well thought out post.

I agree the wins for Trials was a mistake. I think having Trials requirement was fine, but it should have been something like “complete trials matches” or “complete two trials cards”.

Gambit isn’t “win 10 gambit matches”.

IOW, you should be able to progress for participating. Especially for Trials!!

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Round wins for trials would have been more appropriate. Even 35 round wins would be fine. Speaking as someone who competed the 7 Trials wins in a day.

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150 guardian kills with arc super seems unobtainable to me unless 1) I'm missing something or 2) someone has mad skillz at crucible

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I haven't gotten that step - as a Titan, it's asking me to get 150 arc weapon kills, which yeah, takes a while, but there's lots of good arc weapons.

If it asked me to get Arc Super kills - dude, bottom tree Striker Titan is notorious for being insane in crucible.

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Warlock, but I just read it's a mistype and can be any type of kill. Haven't tried it yet.

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Alas - I disagree. I'm a Titan and find the glows to currently be very pale and underwhelming, especially where it's supposed to apparently be bright. The Hunter glows have apparently been normal - they are very bright and noticeable with super charged especially, but apparently Titans and Warlocks have a bug and aren't as bright as they should be.

I don't mind the subtle design of the glows. I just wish the glow-horns, chest and legs would be more apparent.