In Destiny 2, many players adhere to a code of honor. We present to you 7 unwritten rules of the action MMO that everyone should know.
What rules are we talking about? Destiny 2 has been around for 4 years – some Guardians have even been playing their character since Destiny 1, so for 7 years. Over all this time, many rules have established themselves that are not officially in the game but that Guardians should know.
MeinMMO lists the 7 most important of these unwritten laws and even has a golden rule as a finale. While your Guardian won’t be arrested for ignoring the rules, you will quickly reveal yourself as a noob or rude player.
1. Rule: Public events should be done heroically
While exploring the planets in the Destiny universe, smaller events occur in the open world that are completely optional. Sometimes a satellite crashes from orbit, sometimes it requires stopping a hostile drill from stealing our valuable resources. Anyone nearby can join together with complete strangers.
If you decide to participate in such a public event, then please do so heroically!
If you defeat the boss too quickly, the event ends prematurely, resulting in less loot and can even harm others. Some quests specifically require heroic events – the poor Guardians have to wait until another event starts somewhere else and no one denies them the heroic completion.
As it is not always easy to guess how an event goes heroically: Don’t be a noob – Here’s how to trigger all Heroic Events in Destiny 2.
2. Rule: Tea-bag only if you were first tea-bagged
In the Crucible, this social interaction (unfortunately) happens quite often: A Guardian squats multiple times quickly after a kill. This is meant to symbolize rubbing one’s genitals in the defeated enemy’s face… clearly a humiliation.
This procedure, however, violates the etiquette for many well-mannered Guardians. It is different if a brazen Guardian first tea-bags you. Then it is allowed to tea-bag back – though it doesn’t make it more decent.
The most embarrassing thing in PvP is when you hard bag someone, and the supposed victim then unleashes their inner Shaxx and dominates you. In every kill cam, you can expect either a counter-tea-bag or simply cold indifference – both leave you emotionally crippled for the entire match.
3. Revive dead Guardians and be sure to let yourself be revived
Guardians die often in Destiny, and that’s almost never a problem. You can be revived with the press of a button. This saves a ton of respawn time, so you don’t have to run back into the fight for ages. However, many Guardians do not get revived, so they do not revive others – a vicious cycle.
This is why you should allow yourself to be revived: It is frustrating from the other side when a Guardian rushes to revive you, almost has you revived, and then you just respawn yourself.
- On one hand, this is annoying, but on the other hand, it can also be dangerous.
- By reviving, you get a small overshield – this shield is often missing for the noble Samaritan, and they die.
- Sometimes you can’t prevent self-reviving, as the game has fixed timers for automatic spawns in certain modes. In that case, it just happens.
4. The first power ammo in Gambit belongs to the Invader
In the PvEvP mode Gambit, you can really ruin the other team’s day by invading their battlefield and taking them out one by one. However, for the lone invader to have a chance against the overwhelming force on the “other side”, they need their strongest weapons.
Believe us, an Invader with Eyes of Tomorrow helps you more towards victory than you with a sword after the first wave. We also have 2 important rules for Gambit outlined on MeinMMO – you’ll find more about the crucial role of the Invader and particle delivery there.
PvP Cracks also add to this rule: Whoever gets a kill in the Trials gets the special ammo for it. But it doesn’t carry as much weight as the power ammo for the first invader.
On the next and final page, we continue with the last unwritten rules that everyone should know. As a conclusion, you can also read a moral lesson.
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