Destiny 2’s loot grind is getting some main modifications in its subsequent enlargement, together with changes to make extra actions extra rewarding and to make gear extra viable within the recreation’s new Portal exercise scoring system.
Bungie introduced a number of of the modifications in its livestream detailing the upcoming Renegades enlargement, noting that a lot of them are responses to suggestions from gamers within the wake of Destiny 2’s Fringe of Destiny enlargement. A number of modifications to the grind to extend gamers’ Power level–the measure of the energy of their gear that determines the problem of content material they’ll handle–are being walked again or adjusted to make the grind much less intense.
The largest of these modifications ought to be an alteration to numerous actions to make them extra viable as a part of the grind to extend Power, together with actions you may do as a part of the Renegades enlargement’s content material, in addition to legacy raids and dungeons.
Presently, rising your character Power past a sure stage is completed nearly solely with the Portal, Destiny 2’s new one-stop menu for varied actions, which features a scoring system that determines what loot you obtain primarily based on the problem you set for the exercise you are taking part in. That implies that gamers are disincentivized from taking part in actions on the Fringe of Destiny vacation spot, Kepler, in the event that they’re trying to drive up their Power. Different beforehand high-level actions, like raids, have been equally pushed apart by the Portal system. With Renegades, these actions ought to all be extra viable as strategies to climb the Power ranks.
Bungie is making changes to how Portal works too. Bungie is eradicating the “featured” gear component for a lot of Portal actions with Renegades, permitting for a lot of extra builds to be viable.
Presently, you get a bonus to your factors in Portal’s scoring for utilizing featured gear, which proper now could be solely new weapons and armor that had been added with Fringe of Destiny. That implies that utilizing previous gear and weapons is an computerized drawback within the Portal, which has been irritating for gamers, since they’re pressured to chase new gear and create new builds round it to maximise their scores and earn higher-tier loot.
Some actions will nonetheless embrace a featured gear component, however Bungie is altering featured gear to incorporate all Unique weapons and armor so gamers can use extra of their favourite builds within the actions.
One other new adjustment with Fringe of Destiny is the inclusion of drugs “tiers,” which run between Tier 1 and Tier 5. Gadgets with increased tiers have higher perks and stats, typically, however that has resulted in some endgame gear feeling much less rewarding. For raids and dungeons, Bungie will up the tier of all gear that drops to Tier 3, with the upper tiers being accessible from more durable variations just like the “epic” model of the Fringe of Destiny raid, Desert Perpetual.
In Renegades, you may even have the choice to extend the tier of Legendary weapons utilizing a brand new foreign money and mechanic. Bungie did not embrace all the small print, however the concept is that, when you get a set of perks on a gun you notably like however it’s low-tier, you will not should throw it away in favor of searching for out the identical gun at the next stage. As an alternative, you may increase the tier of that gun. That’ll doubtless be an arduous course of so everybody would not instantly blast all their weapons as much as Tier 5, however it ought to be an choice to make it so you are not instantly deleting all loot beneath a sure tier threshold.
To accommodate hanging onto extra good weapons in hopes of accelerating their tier later, Bungie stated it will improve gamers’ Vault area with Renegades, too–although it did not say how way more area gamers can count on.
Lastly, Bungie detailed a number of stability modifications. It is strolling again some changes it made to Exotics like Queensbreaker not too long ago, and it is placing a pause on all “noncritical” nerfs to weapons and armor whereas it evaluates its “philosophy” on making these modifications. Essential changes, like banning sure gear throughout the world’s first completion race for Renegades’ dungeon, will nonetheless be on the desk, however in the intervening time, builders are holding again on making main weapon modifications until they’ve an excellent motive to take action.
Bungie additionally means to buff a number of issues, together with the unique Tremendous talents that launched with Destiny 2 and their subclasses. Count on these changes to come back in waves, with some taking place in October and a few with Renegades. Bungie stated it is placing collectively a roadmap for these changes it will launch someday sooner or later.