Returned to playing, and have a few questions...

I'll try to answer some of your questions:

2) Cryo ammo will replace the debuffs applied by Cryobeam and Snap Freeze with its own. bsn.boards.net/thread/12885/disturbing-cryo-ammo-test

3) Shoot an enemy and you'll get 3-3.75% health back. From what I understand, if you kill an enemy, you'll get an additional bonus of 4.5% of health siphoned (from damage) for each kill. You can stack kills up to 3 times over 7 seconds. So, if you kill three enemies in the time window, you can have up to 17.25% of the damage you're dishing out turned back into health.

Find random plat games. Play Jug. Use a good siphon. Don't detonate Snap Freeze. Only equip disruptor. Welcome back.

Yeah I've played the Juggernaut and see why it appeals to a lot of people, especially in platinum. Personally I find the Juggernaut boring, and haven't touched him since I leveled him up to 20.

My currently top 5 favorites, in no particular order, are: Asari Adept, Human Kineticist, Batarian Scrapper, Salarian Operator, and Turian Havoc.

I play all of the kits but those are the ones I gravitate towards the most.

Personally, I play mostly play Juggs on Platinum (occasional Avenger if 1L2L).

Below that I mainly play the Kineticist and Kroguard. A lot of other kits are fun too, though: I also still play the occasional match of Krogan baseball with the Gladiator...

Why?  Why not, I say.  I play the game because I enjoy the game; it's not perfect but I, for the most part, like Andromeda.  Plus there's the small matter of maxing my manifest again for MP like I did before Bioware dropped that big ass card dump on us... *angry fist shake* DAMN YOU BIOWARE!

I tried to come back too. But I realized I don`t want to play a multiplayer game that is losing popularity fast. Very fast.

Play Destiny 2 lol

It has been a huge improvement from Destiny 1. Loot drops, currencies, and grinding are being handled really well. Strikes are more fun now because the level design has improved, it has more diversity to it than the previous strikes. They did make some changes of powers from Titan, Hunter, and Warlock which are welcomed by most players. There are actually less glitches at the raid now and raid gear is amazing. Clan features has been improved, and there's matchmaking for nightfall and raid as well. 

But the game isn't perfect. A lot of people are upset about the "silver" micro transaction in the game. Most of the heat is toward the shaders. In Destiny 1, you can change the color of your gear by applying shaders, and they were permanent. So you can keep swapping different kind of shaders as you wish. But now in Destiny 2, the shaders had become a consumable, so you lose the shader when you use it. The benefit now is that each shader is being applied individually into each piece of gear, so you can mix and match colors. But the downside is losing the shaders. Some people also complain about the raid being too mechanically difficult. In previous raid, you can still carry the team sometimes if one or two members died in a level, but in this raid, you cannot, everyone has to participate to perfection.

My overall verdict is Destiny 2 is worth playing and spending time on. I had fun shooting aliens and do the raid/nightfall/crucible with friends and randoms. And I didn't even get to talk about the crucible, and changes in power weapons and other things.

Not sure what changed but it's pretty fucking fun now

Yeah I do find platinum to be quite enjoyable now. It's a shame the player base has dropped off a lot since it's difficult to find random groups to do platinum, and even rarer to find a group that can do it proficiently fast.

Yeah I've had some issues but many I've been seeing a lot of battlefield observers tho.  I had a bad case of that in a couple of days ago where friend and I were doing everything, while the other two were sitting back and hiding at one end of the map.  They refused to move for any reason except when they were overran.  If they were killing things it would be one thing, but it honestly felt like just the two of us were playing.