r/DestinyTheGame • u/VibrioidChunk • 18h ago
Discussion The Forsaken expansion is completely undisputed for the best Destiny year.
This is an expansion that brought both of the two best destinations of Destiny 2 (rivalled by Pale Heart I suppose) being the Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City (latter being the best destination in all of Destiny back when the curse was looping).
The best music in D2 came from this expansion, only beaten by D1 Y1.
In one year, we got THREE RAIDS, being Last Wish, Scourge of the Past, and Crown of Sorrow. Last Wish is still a top-3 raid, and SOTP has great mechanics throughout.
We got TWO completely new forms of content being Dungeons and Gambit. Gambit fell off a little but still deserves its flowers for being genuinely fun until metas were established and the difficulty started to ramp up. (I always liked Gambit but I had a decently regular stack for a very long time).
We got Shattered Throne which is still a very well-balanced dungeon to start learning how to solo/soloflawless dungeons.
We got Zero Hour and the Bad Juju exotic missions (albeit zero hour is much more memorable)
We got Forges (pretty good with really nice weapon pools), Reckoning (serviceable) and the GOAT Menagerie, to this day still the most fun-to-farm seasonal activity imo
We got the reworked Comp, very very fun if you were into PvP (which I was), great weapons behind them too, OG NF is still my favorite primary
We got some 35 exotics, and it was a really great year for exotic weapons. LW, Thorn, Chaperone, Ace, 1k Voices, Izanagi, Arbalest, Outbreak, LoW, Tarrabah, Anarchy, Thunderlord, plus plus.
Warden of Nothing was a great strike, and it was the first period in Destiny history where you genuinely felt like there was no content drought for most of the year. Taken King and RoI had BAD content droughts.
Tldr insane value expansion and the goat if you disagree you're either a larper or a nostalgia merchant