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2/19/2026 1:28:04 PM
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Bungie, please don't remove crafting from Raids!
It's cool that you're adding in tiered versions of raid weapons for those who want them, but please for the love of god, find a way to do it that will keep the craftable versions of those weapons earnable, so that those of us who still prefer the old crafting system can earn them. My only motivation right now to run old raids is to get the patterns for craftable weapons that I haven't unlocked yet. If you remove my ability to do that, and replace it all with tiered rng slop, I'll have no motivation to play those activities anymore, outside of getting the exotic. I have no interest in clogging up my vault with tiered weapons when I should be able to just unlock those weapons for crafting without having to sacrifice what precious little vault space I have.
Also, I'm not the only one who feels this way. Ever since it was announced that there were plans to add tiered loot to raids, I've been grinding them to try and catch up on my patterns, out of fear of them being removed, and every single person I've mentioned this to while raiding agreed that they would have no motivation to run the raids anymore, if that happened. A lot of players still prefer the old crafting system, and we'd much prefer for raid weapon patterns to still be earnable, alongside the new tiered versions being added. Please find a way to keep them in the game, for the sake of the playerbase and the game's health, I'm begging you. You really can't afford to be driving away even more players right now.
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8 RepliesYou're 100% and not the only one who believes crafting was and still is the right way to go. Don't listen to the morons below with two braincells fighting for third place. These idiots forgot about weapon reforging in D1 which allowed you to reroll your weapon with resources until you got what you wanted. WHICH IS THE SAME AS WEAPON CRAFTING. Did these idiots say reforging would cause D1 to loose player base and time played. NO!!! They -blam!- celebrated that. Even with everyone knowing we would loose all our gear for D2, the player base was strong and everyone celebrated crafting (reforging) because the core gameplay was FUN!!! The D2 playerbase is getting burnt out of the same old -blam!- as the core gameplay hasn't been fun and weapon crafting had -blam!- nothing to do with it regardless of what internet jokes like Paul tassi and the D2 streamers say. Where are the morons now that weapon crafting is gone....They're all writting doom posts and have been for over a year on how the game is dead and playerbase is a sinking ship. Why??? Because the core gameplay hasn't been good for years not weapon crafting. -blam!- off!!!
