Leveling up weapons is now easier, with the hard-to-earn items like Ascendant Shards and Energy no longer required. Secondly, Strange Coins, while no longer a reward for weekly events, are now often given for doing anything from turning in Bounties to completing Crucible matches (I managed to earn 90 Strange Coins in one week without specifically farming them).
The Taken King solves a lot of these problems. And even when you got a great weapon, you had to level it up, which cost even more hard-to-get resources. Otherwise, you had to hope to randomly get them from chests, which took a lot of farming. Getting Strange Coins was a pain, since you could only get so many a week from events. The only dependable way of getting Exotic weapons was from doing the Raid (difficult for people without the time or friends) or to farm Strange Coins for Xur, who only showed up on the weekend but offered great loot. You’d rarely got the item drops you wanted, and even then, your Engrams often became useless.
Getting loot in Destiny once felt like a chore. He works much better as the game’s comedic relief now, which is an important element considering how bleak the environments get. North’s take on the character gives the robotic buddy a child-like quality, especially with his eagerness to please. Nolan North replaces Peter Dinklage’s directionless, passionless performance. The recasting of your Ghost companion also works wonders. Sure, it’s a character that’s right in Fillion’s wheelhouse, but it helps make the whole game more likable. In other words, he’s now actually a character. While so many people in Destiny talk like they’re in a spiritual retreat, Fillion’s Cayde-6 (I actually know his name now) is humorous, sarcastic, and an act-before-you-think type. Someone at Bungie must have remembered that they had cast Nathan Fillion, because he’s suddenly everywhere in The Taken King. The Taken King not only offers a coherent story of its own, but it incorporates Destiny’s original characters and actually makes them memorable. In the original Destiny, the vendors were more important than your commanders. Actually, I did know Xur’s name, but he wasn’t a character as much as he was a merchant. I knew I had to go to a guy called the Cryptarch to get my Engrams turned into items, but he also had an actual name that I never learned. I don’t think I could have named a single character when playing Destiny last year. I had no idea what was going on, what I was doing, or who anyone was. The story, or rather the lack of one, was one of my biggest gripes with the original Destiny.
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