Destiny 2: The Final Shape (June 4, 2024) Video Game • Page 172

How the fuck am I supposed to level up right now? I have no idea what to do haha

 

on your Destintions screen, hold L2 to view your expansion/seasonal quests. Do those first. Then any follow up quests. Then playlist activities (gambit, strikes, crucible), then pinnacle activities (dungeon, raid, Nightfall, Nightmares)

 

The soft-cap is 1010, so you can level up to that point just by playing regularly. After that, you need powerful drops to level up to the hard cap at 1050, and then there's the Pinnacle cap at 1060 that you can only achieve with pinnacle drops.

But like the above post mentioned, do your traditional gambit/crucible/strikes stuff, then focus on the harder things like nightmare hunts, nightfalls, dungeons, raids etc. Once you get back into the groove of things you'll see how it all falls and figure it out

 

Can anyone explain sunsetting to me? If I start playing again are all my masterworked weapons just useless as I climb back up in light level?

 

Whatever weapons that are to be sunsetted, those weapons will not be able to be infused after this season to grow in power. I'm pretty sure you can still use them in some modes(non-competitive PVP, maybe free roam) but don't quote me. I remember they did this with beloved guns in D1 with Fatebringer, Vision of Confluence and others. We all lived to see another day.

I'm super stoked on the game again. I'm glad this season deals directly with the overarching story that's to come. Suuuuuper stoked for the new content. Its reassuring that it will still be Destiny 2 until at least 2023-2024 so the work that we have put in will still have all that for the future.

 

When you look at the weapon and armor, you’ll see a yellow number underneath. That’s the max infusion level. Everything will still be useable but in activities where power level is important (pinnacle activities) in the future (starting next season) some stuff won’t be worth using.

 

Forsaken is peak D2 in my opinion. I love the storyline and the Dreaming City.

 

Agreed. Hoping Beyond Light is a return to that, with the new ideas.

 

Forsaken is def peak destiny both 1 and 2. AoT was cool but forsaken was just amazing

 

I'm just beyond relieved that we'll be able to upgrade to next-gen for free. I was worried there would be a "transfer fee" of some sort.

 

free and it'll be 40k60fps that's ridiculous for a console

 

Luke Smith is our daddy now

 

I'd argue that The Taken King is peak overall Destiny.

 

april after ttk dropped was one of the worst times in Destiny history.

 

Yeah people forget that, as good as TTK was in the moment, by like late November 2015 there was literally nothing to do in the game. And while we did get the April Update 2016 as a stopgap measure, D1Y2 was pretty much just an expansion and then nothing for an entire year.

With D2Y2, however, not only did we get Forsaken, which was the single best expansion in the franchise's history, we also got a full years of robust content drops co-developed by High Moon and Vicarious Visions, including three really great raid experiences.

There's really no comparison. Things were bad during D1Y2. I remember the crushing realization that we were getting literally nothing for an entire year when I excitedly tuned in to Playstation Expo 2015 only to get a sparrow racing trailer instead of DLC news. Woof.

My ranking of Destiny's six years thus far would be:

D2Y2 (Forsaken, Black Armory, Drifter, Opulence)
D1Y3 (Rise of Iron/Age of Triumph)
D1Y1 (Vanilla D1, Dark Below, House of Wolves)
D2Y3 (Shadowkeep, Undying, Dawn, Worthy, Arrivals)
D1Y2 (Taken King/April Update)
D2Y1 (Vanilla D2, Curse of Osiris, Warmind)

 

Guess it’s time to redownload this and get back in. What expansions would I need to buy? I have the season pass with the two that came with it but that’s it

 

Did you buy Shadowkeep? If not, I'd say get Shadowkeep because it's on sale right now and also buy the current season. That's really all you need.

 

Shadowkeep already includes the current season at time of buying

 

oh cool, didn't know that

 

I guess for me, that's the most I played the game for a long time. I dropped the game during drifter/opulence. I had a lot more friends on every single night during TTK time period, raided almost nightly. You make fair points, but my experience during that time dictates why I said what I said. I also probably had a completely different experience in the spring that expansion since I didn't pick up the game until December.

 

@Anthony_ and @dylan

I'll change my comment to "my favorite time in Destiny was TTK" because you guys aren't wrong. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

 

I think I'm just sad because the group I had around TTK split up when D2 hit PC, then I pretty much played solo up until Shadowkeep. I also just lost the ability to play it like I played D1. Fortunately a lot of my friends have come back and are enjoying the game, and I have really high hopes for the Fall after that reveal. I really think we're about to get the game that Bungie truly wanted to make.

 

this is exactly me. TTK came out right when i graduated college but didn't have a job lined up yet so every tuesday i was up at reset (when reset used to be up in the middle of the night), run the raid 3 times on 3 characters with my group, go to bed at like 6am, get up in the afternoon, apply for jobs or respond to voicemails from places i applied, grind out gear/run strikes for loot, repeat until friday and then it was trials all weekend. I played a shit ton, but like ant said after november the game was baaaaaaaad. crucible was terrible because they did sbmm behind the scenes instead of cbmm, denied it and denied it and denied it, and then admitted it, worked to create the april update, they fired some high up guy at bungie or on the destiny project because of it, I can't remember who it was though right now.

 

this is my ranking as well

 

this is why we're besties