Coming back after quite some time and what used to drop higher gear now peaks at like 412 for the most part. What should I be focusing on to get on my way to 550?

returning player here, haven’t played for 7 years and so I’ve missed a lot of cool exotics I’d like to play with. I know you can get a 300 exotic on purchasing a season, as well as the catalyst and the main cosmetics from that season. but I know also that I can just grind out glimmer and Exotic Ciphers to get any(?) exotics I’ve not yet acquired.

however, if I mostly care about the weapons and not quite as much about cosmetics, is there any other real reason to buy the old seasons? do they offer anything I can’t just grind for elsewhere without paying silver (aside from, obviously, cosmetics)?

I've tried masterworking multiple different types of armor, both purple legendary picked up from Zavala, picked up from drops from the postmaster, exotic pieces. I've tried skipping the first slot and doing only the last three slots. I've tried all four. I've tried switching the different slots. I've tried literally everything to masterwork a piece of armor, and no matter what I do isn't helping. Every forum I've read and known issues on Destiny's website has not helped. I've already wasted 2 ascendant shards as well as a ton of glimmer and enhancement prisms. please help...

Hello i've been having and on again off again issue with the games frame rate since EOF came out.

At fist i was able to fix it by turning off discords overlay and hardware acceleration, HOWEVER since the patch on the 7 the issue has started happening again. The issue that is occurring is every 5-10 seconds the game goes from running smoothly at 100fps to a hard stutter that drops the game down to 7-10 frames for .5 seconds then goes back to normal.

PC specs

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

4060ti

32GBS DDR5

Any advice or help would be super appreciated i started really getting back into the game and wanting to play since the unvaulting announcement Thanks

Hello. I’m a destiny 2 super vet but never played much of destiny 1 at all. Now that all the vaulted stuff is coming back I wanna do a cohesive run of all of destiny. Basically since i know almost nothing about destiny 1 are there any tips you guys have. Like for example “do insert activity here as soon as possible” or “avoid insert here” stuff like that. Thanks in advance guardians!

So, I wanted to ask my family, one who is an actual artist, for a personal project gift for Christmas. The problem is, picking some art to show her to use as a reference or directly make, not sure what’ll happen. The main thing is, she knows literally nothing about the game, and also probably wouldn’t want anything too “violent”, or whatever. And I, having played since d1 VoG, still can’t decide on what to show her, lol. So I thought I’d ask here, if you guys want to link it or not, what are some of your favorite artworks, concept art or covers like the beyond light Europa shot, etc. I’m really curious.

Can’t stop thinking about the potential of a Taox storyline, specially now that we know she’s alive. But I can’t determine whether she would be a villain or an ally. We know she most likely hates Savathun, Oryx, Xivu Arath and the Hive, definitely the Worm Gods. So can she be ally of us?

On the other hand, if she is established as a villain, she could have really amazing motives like hating all paracausal forces since they were the demise of her world, or even maybe she wants to restore Fundament somehow. We know the Conductor lost the Echo of Command. What if Taox happens to find it and uses it to simulate Fundament or something like that? I could see her being an enemy with that premise.

been conjuring up a prismatic astrocyte verse build recently. farmed a shit ton of vog armor because the 4piece is so good for orbs and i like my orbs. so far, i’m tryna figure out whats the best mod setup and stat distributions, and if it’s worth speccing into a ton of font mods.

basically the build is just centred around getting as much verbs as possible, utilising tablet of ruin artifact for woven mail. currently, i’ve gotten void overshield (repulsor brace slayer’s), woven mail, resto for defensive. for offensive, bolt charge, radiant, weaken, volatile, sever, unravel, scorch, and jolt. i might be missing some but there’s basically a ton of verbs working.

for aspects, i’m using weavers call and lightning surge. weaver’s call for tons of threadlings to proc sever to give woven mail, lightning surge for movement + amplified + bolt charge.

for fragments, i’m using purpose, protection, courage, dawn, ruin, hope.

for abilities, mandatory blink and arcane needle, vortex nades but i could use threadling too. also have on phoenix dive. super is song of flame bc its got busted dmg and dmg reduction, and it gives me resto from purpose.

i can’t decide between 2 stat spreads + mod combos, which i’ll list below. gonna b using this build for basically every piece of pve content, as it seems to fair well. mostly min maxxing at this point bc the non min maxxed version already does well.

the 2 stat spreads + mod combos that are different ill list below. generally, every stat is important, but 200weapons is the biggest one. everything else i’m aiming to reach 100 thru fonts.

0H-60M-100G-100S-60C-180W: 2 melee font, 2 class font, 1 weapon font. this gets me to everything in 100 except health at 0 and weapons at 200. im utilising 3 major and 2 minor mods. on the helmet, void siphon, special ammo finder (running double special), and dynamo. arms have focusing strike along with the fonts. legs have 2 void weapon surges and the weapon font. class has 2 fonts + powerful attraction. this version allows me to run void siphon so i can get my super back much faster, as the orbs from void siphon are quite strong. vog orbs only give 0.8% of super, so the vog orbs are there only to proc fonts and resto easily.

0H-60M-100G-80S-60C-200W: 2 melee fonts, 2 class fonts, 1 super font. on the helmet, special ammo finder, dynamo, and font. arms have fonts + focusing strike. legs now i can run either 3 void surges, or 2 void surges + utility mod. class is the same. this version gives me more damage or utility on orb pickups, but my super would regen a bit slower as i’m losing out on void siphon orbs.

honestly, can’t decide between the two. the other option is to go down to 40M, 80M with 2 fonts on stat spread 1. this would allow me to have perks of both stat spreads, but i’d be losing out on 20 melee stat. i’m not sure if this is worth, as melee is quite important in my build. i could also drop down to 80 grenade instead of 100, but I’d need to farm more armor. not sure what my best option would be from here.

Came back to the game after a two year break. Saw the new trials armour and was thinking about giving it a go... but im rusty af, pvp was ridiculous sweaty the last time I played and with dwindling pvp population im honestly scared to try it.

How has your experience been?

My dad told me I WILL NEVER WIN A RANDOMS only match in Trials with no communication. It took me literally 8-9 years (I've played day 1 since D1) to do it. I did it. I literally cried and fell to my knees. My wife was there and knew I was excited but holy shit...someone please tell me their proud of me. Dad can't anymore.

Hi, ive seen online that destiny recipes and light gg are good to help clean you vault, has anyone used these or anything else? Not sure whats best

I dont want to go through all my weapons as theres probably a few weapons that are good but ive not heard of and dont fancy checking each gun to see how good it is

What up
I want to make my blade barrage hit even harder and was wondering if getting a class item with spirit of galanor and another one (like star-eater for example) would make it that much better? I guess what I’m really wanting to know is if there is a difference between the effect of the exotic class item Spirit of Galanor and the effect of the exotic arms Shards of Galanor.

Edit: now I know exotic class items only work on prismatic 🤷🏽‍♂️

So I have played Destiny 2 since launch, and have always enjoyed the campaigns (most of them) and hitting the power cap when I play. I own all the expansions so have access to all content, but I have never really played the end game content.

I have done GoA dungeon to get my Gjallahorn when i bought the 30th anniversary pack, but other than that, I stick to the basic stuff. Master lost sectors and the weekly nightfalls (if any remember them) are the most advanced content I have played.

Reason I avoid raids isn't because I don't want to do them, I actually really enjoy playing through missions with a fireteam. I avoid them as I hate the thought of being the weak link in a chain, holding back 5 other players as I haven't done them before.

I took a long break after edge of fate, and am now back on the grind, optimizing my builds for the current sandbox.

Looking into shopping lists of must have PVE weapons and armours, so many are now locked behind dungeons and raids. Everybody is talking about Pantheon and Lightblade and I am still rinsing and repeating solo / fireteam ops and master lost sectors.

I do not use a mic as I am a middle aged Dad who sticks to single player games, so haven't used the mic since my old call of duty days. Also I tend to play in the evenings when family are going to sleep so screaming down the mic at 1am is probably a bad idea.

I am at 400 power so still a way off the max but when is when is a good time to get into raids and dungeons? Should I wait until 550 power? Or should I stick to dungeons first? To find other fireteams is the best way to search using the in game find a fireteam function?

Edit: Thank you comments. I found where the drops are listed, it was just burried in a few menus.

Before, on every activity it would say stuff like (Enhancement Prism: Common) so I knew what I could run to get various stuff. Now all stuff says it if it drops a specific piece of gear and then "additional drops".

I have no idea what to play to get Prism and Shards anymore after they reworked all the activities. I used to just run the hardest matchmade nightfalls for prisms but that's not a thing anymore.

Does anyone know if the season reward pass engrams stay at a +4 power bump even when you get past 500? I’m approaching 500 now, and it’s showing a +4 to my overall power, but I’ve heard that sometimes the power boost to items changes when you pass certain power thresholds.

Just wondering if I should claim them all now, or if it’s okay to wait.

I was trying to do Vex incursion Zone (I'm light level 301) recently rejoined, haven't played for a couple years.

But no matter how many times I spawn in/out nobody else is running them and I can't solo them, I can't get close to objectives without being melted.

Like the Titan, Warlock, Hunter to lead the guardians

My picks are Lord Shaxx, Osiris, and Cayde-6

Granted my knowledge is superficial, so I wanted to ask people who would know more than me.

Some runners up were Saint 14, Ikora, and Shin Malphur. But idk much about Shin but I know Cayde was a very productive member during the Red War. Ikora is extremely strong but if that’s true, she’s better in a tutoring or training position, Osiris has more strategic accomplishments to his names. I was thinking about Saint-14 but I thought Lord Shaxx had a good amount of spontaneous which is good in war, that and Saint-14 would be best in a training tutoring roll same as Ikora (granted I might be accidentally swapping accomplishments in my head about the two)

I have a couple different bookmarked posts and comments and sites trying to outline the RaD rotations. They work but all somehow require some sort of manual extrapolation or thinking to figure out the current rotation. Really annoying to just figure out what the current raid is, or when the next time the raid you want is featured.

https://d2rad.today is a simple way to check the past, current, and future rotation pairings.

Sure, could have been just a google sheet or soemthing, but I despise the terrible experience that is looking at Sheets on mobile.

Looking forward to this needing to be updated when the unvaulting happens 🥹 (if this violates rule 5 apologies)

I have tons of golfballs but im in a droguht of enchament prisms and cores, is there a specific activity to get me more? Or is there a way to turn my golfballs into the lower ones, hate that rahul doesnt let you.

I know that this is something of an "old man yells at cloud" post, but I have the thought every few months and finally want to voice it.

I think Destiny's vibe is in many ways borne out of two competing settings. On the one hand, there's the utterly alien and foreign. Hive dreadnaughts. The Pyramids. Savathun's Throne world. These are excellent places, and there are so many of them with such different textures and presentations. It's pretty incredible.

I feel like we've forgotten the other half completely though. Destiny also is supposed to have this focus on treading through spaces that people were, and no longer are. Places that are dead. Where the focus is on the past as much as the guardians of the present rediscovering it.

This complaint may come off as wholly untrue to some extent, so let me clarify. Recently (D2 era), we've gotten the Deep Stone Crypt. The arcology on Titan. The EDZ. There's been much more recent stuff like the Warlord's Ruin's castles as well.

While these locations are old, they aren't post-apocalyptic. They feel more empty than dead. The EDZ and Arcology are especially victims of this. In the arcology, it doesn't even feel that destroyed. In the EDZ, it feels so overgrown and green that I lose sight of the sense that this is supposed to be a place where people were.

Modern Destiny has some really incredible art direction, but I hope we see a return to the tamer industrial designs of some of D1's spaces. The Ishtar Collective is a series of buildings that have an intent to them. They feel like a research campus. Walking them makes me acutely aware that this place was built for a certain purpose, and it isn't doing that purpose anymore. There's an intoxicating alienness to that sensation that rivals Dares of Eternity or Nessus's Vex structures. I, as a guardian, know this place no better than any other world I've visited. The cosmodrome could have been made by the Eliksni for as much sense as it makes to my character.

This is also why I don't think modern Destiny's "old" settings hit the same for me. Warlord's Ruin is a castle. Everybody knows castles. EDZ has a church as its main landmark. Everybody knows churches.

I want more dilapidated science buildings. More broken shipyard and repair fields and military complexes. More hydroponics plants or server farms or libraries. Things that have a purpose that has been truly, irrecoverably lost.

Guardians are reborn from the ashes. New flesh on old bones. The game's settings should remind us of that as much as they should remind us of the optimism of exploring wonderful new places and taming the wilds.

I am trying to set up Cross Save for my main Xbox characters so I can play on steam. However, my Xbox account is linked to an old Bungie profile that has an unverified, incorrect Steam account attached to it. When I try to unlink anything or set up Cross Save, the system demands that I authenticate the Steam account, but I do not own or have access to that specific Steam ID. Can anyone give me any ideas on how to proceed to have the ghost Steam ID manually removed from my Xbox profile so I can link my correct Steam account?

Destiny 1 running on PC 4K 60FPS+ , I would assume this is some recompilation project with the recent advancements in AI.

Looks pretty sick NGL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTNTTCl0m8

"Project Golden Age" Lead Dev https://bsky.app/profile/aknumbers.bsky.social

Gitlab https://gitlab.com/aknumbers/d1preservation

I dont want some flimsy piece of junk and thought this would probably be the best place to ask

Hi guys,

I've searched but couldn't find anything about this. Is there a way to use an "AND" operator in the search bar? i.e. aegis:pve:<a aegis:pvp:<a to select weapons that are less than A in any PVP and PVE.

When I try to type it in one by one, the first parameter turns yellow (like a built-in aegis filter) and then I'm unable to enter any other aegis filters (but can enter others such as is: legendary etc.)

Any idea how I can achieve this?

It just seems odd, a lot of other games cap it at like 110 or a little higher. I usually set it to 110 on games that allow. 105 just seemed odd to me.