Destiny 2's Solar 3.0 Severs Class Identity and Overcomplicates Gameplay

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Destiny 2's Season of the Haunted is one of the biggest seasonal releases in the history of the game, and it includes a new patrol zone in the form of the reprised Leviathan spaces for players to explore. The update also added the now-reworked Solar subclasses, which were redesigned to better match the current state of the game and the Aspects and Fragments system introduced with Stasis. The Solar 3.0 update was highly anticipated by the community, with many Destiny 2 fans hoping it would be next in line after the Void rework, but the end result is not pleasing everyone.

Although, it should be noted that pleasing all players with massive updates to gameplay mechanics and interactions is not an easy task, and Destiny 2 may be an even harder game to handle in these regards due to all the various components that go into making builds work. Still, the problem may be that the Solar 3.0 update severs the classes' identity into Aspects and Fragments, and it also adds new layers of mechanics into an already convoluted gameplay flow that takes time to truly master.

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An example comes from the fact that Solar 3.0 Warlocks lost a lot of utility across the board, with the new Aspects being severed parts of the various skill trees that existed before, such as Heat Rises and Icarus Dash. These two Aspects were previously perks that gave Dawnblades its own identity by creating a very specific gameplay flow for players to engage with. Even though having more options and customizing the selection of abilities a given class has access to is a good thing, in this case, it means that recreating that specific playstyle may be more difficult than before and less rewarding, too.

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