I just play Durge. Can’t play Tav anymore due to loss of content. Like you said, it feels empty. I suppose the player needs to think of a backstory and interject that for themselves. A valid way to play. But I definitely enjoy Durge more. Good Durge’s ending, for me, was super underwhelming though, which doesn’t make me feel excited to play through it again. I would say that it’s the most underwhelming thing about act 3, to me.
I have found the best way to play a custom Tav is to come up with a way to link the backstory you imagine to one of the Origin characters similar to how Wyll and Karlach are linked, or like the tension between SH and Lae'Zel due to Prism etc. or linked to something or someone in Act III. Far from perfect and requires knowledge of the story but it has helped.
