Destiny 2 is in a bit of resurgence at the moment since the Forsaken expansion came out September 4th. Everyone expected it to be Taken King level but turns out it’s even bigger than Taken King and is rare🌳 territory being in contention to be one of the best add-ons of all time! I really enjo﷽y playing the game so I may be a bit biased, but trust me when I say that it’s awesome and so epic!
Now, having said all that, the landscape of the game has changed and new/returning players are coming back. It’s consistently in the top 10 games being played on Twitch so it’s being played a lot right now. With all these people 🐓coming into the world, people are likelyꦓ to not understand all the changes or how all the systems work. It’s all pretty simple and easy to get in the habit of doing, but not all of it is obvious at first and realistically most of the stuff on this list won’t be a thing until players hit the level cap. The main story needs to be completed first.
This list is going to be 25 things that 💦curren♒t players are doing wrong and need some course correcting. Some of these are little things to make life easier, but others are pretty big things to not do! It’s ultimately a video game, though; play how you want. But if you’re needing some advice, let's get to the list!
25 ⛄ Pick Carefully
With Forsaken came a huge update to the world and the economy of the game. Infusing weapons and armor have always never been a big deal. You get a higher power weapon/armor piece and you just infused it using shards and glimmer and you moved on. Well, it now costs planetary material and masterwork cores to infuse, and it has become more of a com🎀mitment. So don’t go around infusing everything just because you get a new thing. Wait till you get something you love and then go nuts!
24 ๊ Get Bounties
Bounties have made a big comeback in Destiny 2, and literally every vendor has some to get. The bounties you get from Spider only give you glimmer, but have a ch𓄧ance o💫f getting an exotic. I’ve seen the Lord of Wolves drop from one, so getting those can be very important.
They have a chance to drop exotics.
Getting Crucible and Vanguard bounties give tokens to get more weapons/gear to rank up faster. The most important ♔ones to get are the ones from Petra in the Dreaming City beꦓcause they can give powerful gear from doing the weekly ones.
23 Cap Thওe Points
When Destiny 2 first launched, they changed up Control and the point didn’t capture any faster regardless of how many people were on it. People were not happy about that and they have recently changed that to where it does go faster. They also used to have one point already captured and that’s gone as well. So when a game starts, there's no reason to not go for point A or C and capture it with your team. It’s free points and may put your teamꦗ in the lead! I see people go off to B at the start of so many matches and there’s no reason to.
22 Clan Up!
If you play Destiny 2 at 💮all past the stories of the main game and DLC, then joining a clan is something you’re going to want to do. They have daily and weekly bounties to get clan points and give you and your classmates gea💞r and weapons.
You basically get free engrams.
ဣJoining up with a clan from a streamer might be a good idea if you don’t have many friends that play, cause they are usually around 90 deep and get all the free ones during a week.
21 Chill Out
A thing I see all the time is people wanting to run through a strike and not take down all the enemies on the way. I get that people just want to run the three weekly strikes and get the powerful gear, but running through some can be a whole thi༒ng. I’m playing a first-person shooter and want to use my weapons! Most strikes have an enemy barrier up where you have to clear them to pass anyway. Plus, it’s easier to do Vanguard bounties running the strikes as intended.
20 Use That Supꦆer!
A thing that makes Destiny 2 different from a lot of FPS games is the ability to use supers. Most supers in the game can take care of large groups of enemies or get a few takedowns in the Crucible. A mistake I see all the time is people saving them till the last mi♎nute or for the opportune time. They recharge decently fast now so pop those supers if you’re about to go down, don’t save them for a hero moment every time!
19 🐽 ไ Same For The Same
I already mentioned the infusing system changing, but let’s talk about infusing the same weapon/armor piece into a duplicate. Don’t just dismantle the lower l💞ight one for the higher light one if you’re low on materials. You can just use glimmer when infusing two of the same now!
It makes things so much easier.
It took me a while to f🍰igure this out but it was so nice when I found out. So you can keep those god rolls and just infuse them up from now on!
18 ꧟ ♎ Purple Stuff
Mods completely changed with the release of Forsaken and are now much harder to come by. You ♕can get them in the wild and by completing bounties but you mainly get them from dismantling something with a mod ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚalready in it.
Dismantle all of your old mods.
Banshee 44 sells two different mods every week and seeing what those are is something most people probaဣbly aren’t doing yet. They are kind of expensive but worth getting a few if he has some good ones.
17 ▨ 🥂 Glam It Up!
Shaders are still a weird thing but the economy is better than it us🐟ed to be. They are still a single-use item, but you can buy them in the collections tab now. So if you get a single shader you like you can use it as much as you want as long as you have the materials to buy more. There’s no need to conserve them anymore so go nuts and put them on everything you want! I see people walking around with basic weapons and armor and you don’t have to do that anymore!
16 Repeat Content ꩵ 🦄
I totally get that you want to play all the new content with Forsaken, but doing the weekly milestones is cruꦉcial to raising your light. Yeah, you’re going to be doing strikes you’ve done a ton, but that’s the grind. Doing the Heroic story missions is new and that’s different. Also doing a Heroic adventure every week can get you powerful gear! Doing some of the older content is just part of the game and doing them real quick o𓆉nce a week isn’t that big of a deal.