In Destiny 2, the Beyond Light expansion finally gives you more freedom to customize your Guardian exactly to your needs. This is made possible by the new Stasis element, about which we finally know more.
What will change soon: With Destiny 2 Beyond Light (Beyond Light), the next major chapter of the MMO shooter starts on November 10. Then, Guardians will once again save the universe and chase after new gear or God rolls.
One of the highlights of the expansion is the new Stasis element for many. The ice abilities bring a healthy dose of RPG to the game and should shift the focus to control of enemies and manipulation of the environment – not just pure damage.
Stasis also gives you control over how you play your Guardians. This addresses the community’s wish to finally have more freedom in creating their personal killing machines. Now we have the first official information on how customization will look in the addon.
New Stasis Supers give you more freedom to experiment
The Stasis supers of the Warlocks, Titans, and Hunters allow you to customize movement options (like jumps), grenades, and class abilities in two ways. You can freely choose between several aspects and fragments. This way, you create your own skill combinations and decide based on the situation which additional effects you currently need.
What you need to know about aspects and fragments:
- Aspects are powerful abilities and can be compared to effects of exotic gear – aspects are specifically designed for each Stasis focus.
- Fragments modify aspects and grant them additional effects, passive bonuses, but also negative consequences.
- Think of fragments as mods that give your abilities a new spin and can be used by all Stasis classes.
- Aspects and fragments must be found in the world. How many there are and where the items come from is currently still unknown.
As an example of the interaction between aspects and fragments, let’s look at the new Shadebinder Warlock:
- You can upgrade your Rift so that the field freezes all nearby enemies upon activation – this is enabled by the aspect “Frostpulse”.
- This ice Rift can now be further modified with fragments
- For example, you have the choice of “Whispers of the Connected” – which grants you Super energy on weapon kills against frozen enemies
- Alternatively, you can choose “Whispers of the Fractured” and gain Rift energy when enemies shatter
Depending on your playstyle, various combinations of fragments and aspects are therefore available.
This is what the skill trees looked like in Destiny until now: Since the launch of Destiny 2 in 2017, nothing fundamental has changed in the subclass system. Players have the freedom to choose from one of 3 jumps and grenades, and then can select a skill tree that always grants 4 fixed bonuses.
Only with the Forsaken expansion did a focus receive a super variation and 4 new, equally fixed bonuses enter the game.
For many players, this was a step backward. Because in Destiny 1, players could choose much more freely from a “node system”.
For the old Arc, Solar, and Void Supers, nothing will change with Beyond Light. Bungie sees the freedom through the Stasis classes as an experiment and, according to previous statements (via YouTube), does not currently plan to expand this new system to existing elements.
More space for experimentation sounds pretty good at first, right? What do you think? Are you excited for the new classes in Beyond Light?
Why the Stasis Warlock already looks really strong, you can read here: Destiny 2: Stasis makes Warlocks into nasty ice mages – everything about the new class
