I was attracted by the home page I believe which bragged about customization and player roles(implying trading and ability to be a merchant)
I expected these two things

1 Customizing weapons: for example increasing the damage of the Breach shotgun and losing the second clip as a trade off
2 Player trading, just spending my entire time customizing weapons and selling them because I had never played a FPS before this and instead I have been getting protostomped for almost 2 years or 3...

Oh Timtron, what are we gonna do with you?

Even though your initial expectations did not match up with you actual game experience, if you have stuck with it for 2-3 years there must be something positive that you get from it.

Perhaps focusing on that rather than what it isn't will be a step forward in your DUST 514 therapy that you have unwittingly begun.

Your "working on you" DUST task: create a thread talking about the things within the game that have kept you playing lo these many years and encourage others to post theirs as well.

Sadly these "proto stompers" probably suck, but rely on proto win. I run dragonfly scout with advanced mods and dual flaylocks. Been a while since I've got back into that fit but man I'm getting the hang on it. What I learned is this, most of these proto stompers have very very bad situational awareness. Flank them, I've meled a lot of full heatlhed proto suits with a scout which is sad. Like I said just flank them, attack them from cover and keep moving before they can react.