<Pulled from my same reddit post because im lazy> From someone who's been playing this series since Moments Of Triumphs Destiny 1: We really need to have a talk about- Champion mods. Guardian Rank 7 to learn about them is WAY too late when you're pushing new players into 300-400 Light Content as early as they're getting in. Guardian Ranks aren't the focus- Light Level is. People are going to see that number go up first, and focus that. Not their Guardian Rank. Either Master Content and higher needs to be locked to Guardian Rank Completions or there needs to be a drastic change to how new players interact with Champions. They're no longer part of End Game Activities. They're Core game play Mechanics now. The amount of GR--blam!--4 Players I see running Grandmasters is staggering. And most of them either don't have the equipment to deal with them or don't have the fundamental knowledge of the game to realize "Oh, I need to use specific weapons against these guys" The icons are no longer enough- The players need to be forced to interact with these portions of the game. This has created a space where Veteran players are expected to have access to all 3 mods in the event that other players aren't running them- And with this season especially, The Mods are garbage. Bows are not a popular weapon archetype, Volatile mods do not have consistent enough drops to be viable for everyone and all of our other options are Primary weapon focus or through Subclass Verbage. Bows and Swords being our only source of unstoppable outside of Exotic weapons and Verbs from subclasses doesn't respect the sandbox in any way and only limits what the players are physically allowed to do within the game. This really needs to be considered with the June update if it hasn't already. I know we're getting a new pass with the new update and I'm excited for whats coming up but I'll be honest and say if the artifact mods are too limiting like they were this season- I don't see many players even attempting to come back. A lot of people play this game for the incredibly varied sandbox and Artifact mods like we got this season are nothing but detrimental to the player experience. This sandbox is miserable when we're only able to use 3 types of weapons effectively. Either that or they really should just be removed at this point. You guys have made plenty of ways to make content harder naturally and through the new Banes system- which in my honest opinion works way better than the Champion system ever did. TLDR: Champion mods need to be introduced to players earlier, Grandmasters and Ultimate need to be locked behind Guardian Rank completion requirements to prove people know the systems, and Artifact mods need to be significantly less restrictive. My Personal suggestion and I don't care how much friction it causes: Champions taught at GR4, You can't do Expert+ until GR6. Make the players actually interact with Champions. And give Stasis back Anti-Unstoppable. Make fun of me for my excruciatingly long post. I genuinely care about this series and I'm ready to start slinging my suggestions for the game. Edit 1 (2:-blam!-/7/26): Markdown changes Edit 2 (2:48 5/7/26): Extra Info: I've been playing more off and on for the last 3 years. As new expansions and seasons come out that interest me I've been playing the game. And my current take on the state of the game is coming from the eyes of a veteran who's just come back after Season Of Heresy to all of these changes to the game.