With The Witch Queen campaign in the rearview and the finale of Operation Elbrus unfolding concluding calendar week, it feels like a good time to take stock of the Destiny 2 landscape. Other than this week'due south Legend Psiops Battlegrounds and the upcoming re-release of Grandmaster Nightfalls in April, Destiny 2 is going to be pretty repose for the next couple of months - at to the lowest degree until the start of the Guardian Games in May. Now that I've hit the meridian cap for the season, I'm struggling to find activities that are withal worth doing. The Witch Queen brought us then many new things to do, simply not enough reasons to do them.

I'm non taking for granted the overwhelming number of activities that Destiny 2 has to offering right now. In that location's Weapon Crafting, Strikes, Nightfalls, Gambit, Crucible, Trials, Psiops, Wellsprings, Campaign Missions, Altars of Reflections, Preservation, Phonation Obscura, Grasp of Avarice, Dares of Eternity, Master Lost Sectors, Vow of the Disciple, and probably one or 2 things I'thousand forgetting. All of these activities are replayable and offer weekly challenges for powerful and top engrams, and for the commencement few weeks, they all kept me plenty busy.

The Legendary Entrada accelerated me by the soft cap in the first few days of the season - which I greatly appreciated - and I was able to attain the powerful cap past the end of the 2d week. It took me three more than weeks to hit the tiptop cap of 1560, and at present that I'thou here, I'm looking at all of those activities and wondering why I should ever do them once again.

If you don't need any more pinnacle gear, quite a few activities become pointless. Vox Obscura has nothing to offer once you've done the regular version and the Master version once to unlock Dead Messenger and its catalyst, respectively. Preservation was a nice post-Raid story mission, but it hasn't inverse at all since week two and there's no reason to do it once more. Hopefully that changes throughout the year, but for now, it's a dead activity. Altar of Reflection was offering some juicy lore thank you to the "2 Truths, Two Lies" messages, just we stopped getting new ones at the end of week three - some other dead activity. I've written more extensively virtually Psiops elsewhere, only I recollect it'southward also a dead activity one time you've nerveless the half dozen blueprints for the seasonal weapons.

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Strikes, Crucible, Gambit, and Dares are all in the same pseudo-evergreen category. Even if y'all don't demand pinnacles, y'all tin can nevertheless earn unique gear drops and vendor reputation with each, which tin help yous earn crafting materials or rare resources, too as triumphs and titles. These playlist activities are e'er going to be for farming xp via bounties and passively hunting good rolls on weapons, as well as catalysts your missing and long-term achievements. If you've got nil else to do, you tin can always practice a strike.

The just real finish game activities are Trials, Primary Lost Sectors, Chief Wellsprings, Story Missions, Nightfalls, Master Grasp of Avarice, and raids. All of these activities offer rewards that are both valuable and unique. If you want Artifice Armor to increase your modernistic load, for example, y'all have to grind Main Grasp of Avarice. If y'all want Timelost Weapons and Ascendant Shards, Grandmaster Nightfalls are the activeness for yous. Trials has Adept weapons, raids have raid weapons and Spoils of Conquest, Lost Sectors have specific exotic drops, and Story Missions and Master Wellsprings accept Ascendent Alloy.

Those 7 activities may seem like a sufficient number of things to practice in the endgame, only the trouble is that all but two of them, Story Missions and Main Wellsprings, were available before the The Witch Queen expansion. Additionally, both of those activities offer the aforementioned reward, Ascendent Alloy. All the other activities introduced in The Witch Queen, like Vox, Altars, and Preservation, dice as before long as y'all hitting the top cap.

This has e'er been a problem in Destiny 2, though it'southward worth mentioning that by seasons did a improve chore of spreading out the sources of specific rewards. Both Harbinger and Presage dropped pinnacles, but they also gave random rolls on specific exotic weapons, Hawkmoon and Dead Human'due south Tale respectively. Beyond Lights vendor Variks had repeatable quests that let you target specific weapons, as did the Lectern of Enchantment in Shadowkeep. Altars of Sorrow was also a great public event for grinding a specific set of weapons. There's no equivalent to these activities in The Witch Queen, and information technology makes the expansion feel threadbare one time you lot no longer need pinnacles.

It seemed like crafting was going to exist the reply to this before it was scaled back. From what we know cheers to last week's TWAB, there was originally a unique crafting currency for each specific trait a weapon could whorl. This would have immune for targeting of specific traits in dissimilar activities. Preservation feels pretty pointless now, simply if information technology was a known location for college drops of weapons with the Rampage trait, for example, then there would have been a skillful incentive to grind it. If every activity had its own pool of traits, everything would have been a lot more than current and playable. Unfortunately, crafting turned out quite a fleck different, and it feels like that's caused a ripple effect throughout the entire game.

I just want a reason to do all the cool activities The Witch Queen introduced after I reached maximum ability level. Wellspring had the right idea by offering a unlike weapon to target each day, merely once you earn the blueprint for that weapon, you're done with Wellspring. At that place'southward only four different guns at that place, so information technology doesn't have long to permanently cantankerous Wellspring off your list.

Master Wellspring, on the other hand, tin can driblet Ascendant Alloy, high-stat armor, and the blueprints for the exotic glaives. There's a lot of good reasons to do this action, but it requires half dozen players and doesn't have matchmaking, which means you ameliorate have a lot of friends or the patience to deal with LFG groups. Master Campaign Missions too offer high-stat armor and Ascendant Alloy and only require y'all to have two friends instead of 5, but these missions are manner besides long to grind. You lot're meliorate off doing Nightfalls unless you actually demand the Alloy for crafting.

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Master Lost Sectors were one of the all-time ideas Bungie has always had. They're hard, they have to be washed solo, and they reward specific exotic gear. This is the but activity of its kind, and I'd love to see the same philosophy applied to other activities like Preservation and Vocalization. Fifty-fifty if information technology was merely legendary gear, it'd be nifty if I could login and see that Vox (and only Vox) is dropping high-stat helmets today. That lonely would be enough incentive to go at information technology for a while and see what I get.

We lose a lot of content at the start of every expansion and build it back up throughout the year, so it'due south normal to feel like there's less to do correct now. I know Bungie tin can't evangelize a constant stream of heady new things to do every unmarried calendar week, and that there's an ebb and flow to the release of Destiny content. I've been happy with Flavour of the Risen thus far, but I always get disappointed when things serenity down in the 2d half of every flavor. If in that location were better incentives for the activities that already exist, I recall Destiny can practice a much better job of holding players' attention, even when there isn't anything new and exciting happening. I'grand not request for more things to do the things we already accept.

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