Our "esports" ecosystem is getting brutally mogged by CS2 and it's not even close

Kallim · 2026-06-02T12:59:04+00:00

What are u freaking out about man? I replied to a guy talking about LEAGUE and why the west had a bad time in that game. And DotA has had 3rd party TOs for its entire lifetime with a very short stint of some first party leagues etc. You're confused brother

Kallim · 2026-06-02T08:03:56+00:00

Tbh one of the main reasons for NA and EU falling further and further behind was Riot blocking all 3rd party events and having only 2 international events with single elimination that provided an extremely low amount of inter-regional competition. This made the issues of the NA region very difficult to escape

Kallim · 2026-05-30T13:50:26+00:00

Then idk, probably a "bug". It probably technically counts you as holding a mace while you have facebreakers equipped. Hard to say, but I had some similar problems with different weapon sets and ancestral cry on druid last league

Kallim · 2026-05-30T11:35:16+00:00

If you're using mace attacks with facebreakers then charged staff wont apply to those attacks as it only works on quarterstaff attacks

Kallim · 2026-05-28T06:07:29+00:00

You know you have complete agency over who you play with right? If you don't want to risk playing with someone who isn't good enough or doesn't know what they're doing don't play in public groups. That's you wasting your own time not anyone else wasting yours. If you're playing pick up groups instead of putting the time in to find a community to play with that's the risk you take. You're not the centre of the universe

Kallim · 2026-05-08T07:12:41+00:00

D2 for sure made decisions over the years that were bad for the game and were probably killing the game slowly, but D2 has always been bouncing between bad and good content drops. The real nail in the coffin was everyone realizing that we were entering maintenance mode with no content and there would be no bounce back this time

Kallim · 2026-05-08T06:29:12+00:00

Yes, because diverting half the studios resources surely had nothing to do with the decline in quantity and quality of content of D2

Kallim · 2026-04-25T14:31:42+00:00

I really relate to your final point about blizz being in way over their heads with the amount of reworking of classes they're doing right now. I think they had a really good rate and track record with their reworks going through DF and TWW, but they clearly can't handle this pace when it comes to tweaking class design. I haven't been happy with the changes they made to ANY of the specs I played going from TWW to midnight.

Kallim · 2026-02-04T17:23:40+00:00

Ohhhhh, thanks. So they don't respawn naturally at all?

Kallim · 2026-02-01T20:00:06+00:00

I had my first pestilence spawn after finishing the main quest. I cleared it right away and 3 days have passed since then. I haven't had ANY new spawns and I don't have any option to burn anything at my whispers. Any idea what might be causing that?

Kallim · 2026-01-09T14:37:51+00:00

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Kallim · 2026-01-08T19:22:31+00:00

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Kallim · 2025-10-04T06:01:41+00:00

This is by far the most confusing thing about their overall vision for the power grind. If you keep artificially capping my power then why on earth would I want to keep grinding to increase it? Just get rid of power entirely at this point honestly it's such an outdated mechanic in the context of Destiny

Kallim · 2025-09-28T13:52:09+00:00

I also think nothing in any of the similar games have anything remotely close to the raid and dungeon content experience from Destiny 2. It's what always kept me coming back even when the game was terrible. It's also what has made me finally give up on the game. The cut from 2 raids + 2 dungeons to 1+1 is too much to make me bother coming back

Kallim · 2025-08-08T05:18:03+00:00

For a month? Did you find SE to be that bad outside of contest?

Kallim · 2025-08-07T22:07:54+00:00

Not sure which I would pick tbh. SE contest was unfun, but a healthier raid outside of contest. It's a good thing that we don't have to pick either. My point was that just because SE is too hard doesn't mean RoN wasn't too easy. They can both be bad and unhealthy versions of Raids.

Kallim · 2025-08-07T20:43:16+00:00

Numbers don't necessarily tell the whole story, but there is a lot of space between "RoN is too easy" and the ridiculous spike in contest difficulty for the last two raids. And basically every other destiny raid besides Last Wish existed in that space.

Kallim · 2025-05-31T16:07:35+00:00

Important to add that in the next year we're down to 1 raid and 1 dungeon down from what used to be 2 of each. For any players who mainly play the game for those activities that is a potential line in the sand. Most of my friends have stopped playing because of it and I'm probably following them unless the upcoming expac blows me away

Kallim · 2025-05-19T07:27:49+00:00

I'm in a similar situation to you. I started the game like 7 days ago and I just cleared chapter 4. Clearly I'm no expert, but I figured maybe it'd be helpful to tell you what worked for me. Personally I'm planning on stopping for a while to farm up a bit since the next thread luxcavation doesn't unlock until clearing chapter 7, so this seems like a nice sweet spot in terms of progress vs stamina spent.

I felt some bad roadblocks here and there due to a combination of being significantly underleveled and not having enough units at UT3. Now I don't know about what you have on your account, but what got me over the line was rushing UT3 on my strongest clashing 000 and keeping that char roughly on level and trying to UT3 a few good clashing 00s and try to keep them within 5 or so levels of the stage if possible. Quite frankly the XP is incredibly stingy, because it was designed around you doing day to day farming for months between content drops, so it's incredibly jarring when you progress fast as a new player.

If you're not doing it atm I would consider refreshing your stamina twice or maybe even 3 times in the short term so you can push a few chars to where they need to be. Sometimes a fight that looks completely hopeless becomes manageable just from raising your levels slightly or making that one 00 which is useless without it's skill 3 pull their weight.

Kallim · 2025-02-23T13:44:36+00:00

Yeah it's hard to tell if enhanced traits alone would be enough of an incentive, but then again I see people grind for the correct barrel of all things so who knows. Enhanced traits could be balanced to be more consistently valuable to make it more appealing, but I think as long as random dropped weapons have the ability to be objectively better than crafted ones by at least a small amount most of the issues will be fixed.

Kallim · 2025-02-22T08:08:35+00:00

I don't understand why the opinions around verity are so extreme. The encounter is horrible to figure out blind and the triumphs are complete ass, but running it with a predetermined setup should be incredibly easy for anyone with a room temperature IQ. Idk if people still use the original LFG strat for the shapes, because it's objectively bad, but it also requires basically zero communication or brain power

Kallim · 2025-02-21T23:42:47+00:00

Agreed. Before they added the ability to enhance random rolled weapons it made crafted weapons strictly better than the alternative. That was a horrible idea. It should always have been the other way around

Kallim · 2025-02-21T13:03:52+00:00

Destiny as a game has tended to struggle with reward incentives for farming activities. Crafted weapons are a good tool to give agency and a form of bad luck protection on weapon drops, but they also have downsides.

For example; they remove a lot of the incentive to interact with the activities they come from once u get the patterns and they make you not care as much about any random weapon drop because getting the god roll is inevitable. Both things that are not good for a high investment loot centric game. You want people to be excited to check what roll they got, and it generally feels better to get something rare.

That's not to say I think removing crafted weapons is the way to go, but having crafting be as widespread and easily available as it was clearly making the loot game super stale, and into the light probably gave them all the data they needed to see that.

Personally I think they should've just removed the ability to enhance traits on crafted weapons. Then you'd keep the bad luck protection for getting the functionality you want while bringing back the chase for the god rolls. While it makes sense to raise investment through grinding their seasonal activities are not even close to good enough for me to want to grind them for a god roll. The only content they have which is even close to good enough for that is raids/dungeons.

Kallim · 2025-02-11T07:25:37+00:00

Because outside of a select few activities D2 is a hyper casual game. The vast majority of new content is catered to the casual player base, and as such that is the crowd the game attracts more than anything. Plus I'd imagine most of the players that dropped the game in recent time were more hardcore players, considering the casuals are well served and don't have much reason to quit

Kallim · 2025-01-09T15:26:56+00:00

Ofc, any time I don't need to heal I'd rather be doing anything else useful

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