The new season of Destiny 2 brings a long-awaited feature. However, players are not satisfied with the implementation. Overnight, they tear apart Transmog.
What players are waiting for: Destiny 2 finally gets a proper Transmog feature in Season 14. In just a few weeks, starting from May 11, 2021, Guardians will finally be able to look good while shooting aliens in the face.
This feature, known from many other MMOs and MMORPGs, has been desired by Destiny players since 2014. Bungie has now presented the feature, which will be one of the main attractions of the new season, in detail. But players immediately hate it. So they don’t hate the feature, but the implementation.
MeinMMO provides you with all the new info on Transmog in this article in a compact form and then addresses the criticism from the Guardians. A refresher on Transmog in general can be found here: Armor feature that so many wish for will only arrive in Season 14 for Destiny 2
Transmog is useful when the new armor is stronger or has a higher level, but is not visually appealing. This way, players can dress as they like without having to forfeit the power of new items.
New Info on Armor Synthesis in Destiny 2
In Season 14, Ada-1 returns to the Tower. The friendly Exo lady is your contact for “armor synthesis” – that’s what Transmog is called in Destiny 2. Only with such an armor synthesis can you give your items the look of clothes registered in the collection.
Here’s how to get armor syntheses:
- Defeat enemies to earn Synthetic Threads.
- Spend Synthetic Threads on Bounties to earn Synthetic Strands. The Bounties are available for Raids, PvP matches, Strikes, Gambit – actually something is available for every activity in Destiny 2.
- Convert Synthetic Strands into Synthetic Fabric with the Weaver in the Tower.
- Use Synthetic Fabric to transform an unlocked armor piece (Legendary or lower) from your collections into a universal armor ornament. Exotics can only change their appearance as before.
Is there a limit? Yes. Note that you can only earn 10 units of Synthetic Fabric per season (about 3 months) per character. When the new feature is introduced in Season 14, you can earn 20 Synthetic Fabrics once per character.
That’s enough to convert four complete sets – meaning the helmet, gloves, chest piece, boots, and class item. Alternatively, that’s 20 individual armor pieces.
The Synthetic Fabric required for armor synthesis has to be earned first, and there is a cap, a limit on how much you can earn in a season.
Regardless of Transmog, you can still adorn and change all legendary armors with universal ornaments as usual. The existing system remains as it is, only expanded by armor synthesis.
Impatient Guardians can go faster
This is the role of the Eververse: Those who can’t find time to play or don’t want to grind can buy synthesis fabric templates directly from the Eververse. This is a token that can be used for the process of armor synthesis.
Here’s how much it will cost:
- 1 synthesis fabric template (1 token) costs 300 silver.
- 5 synthesis fabric templates (5 tokens) cost 1,000 silver.
- Bungie states, for comparison, that a set of universal ornaments (i.e., a complete event armor) costs 1,500 in the shop.
- 1,000 silver corresponds to about 10 € – depending on the bundle, it gets cheaper as you go up.
Whether the synthesis templates will also be available for Glimmer, the earned in-game currency, is currently unclear.
Players have been waiting 7 years for Transmog and tear it apart overnight
Fashion is the real endgame for many in Destiny 2. They want to look good when they head into battle. Some swear that they play better when their carefully chosen ensemble of armor, shaders, and ornaments has runway-worthy qualities.
However, there has been a massive wave of criticism from players after the recent announcements regarding Transmog.
Too complex: For many, it is incomprehensible why they have to earn 3 different resources to change the look of their armor, complete bounties, and then undergo a conversion with an NPC to finally change the appearance of an armor piece in their inventory (even listing everything in one sentence sounds overwhelming).
- The US colleagues titled their article on Transmog “The armor Transmog system in Destiny 2 sounds much more complicated than it needs to be” (via GameRant.com).
- Also on Reddit, there are numerous comments under the post regarding the Transmog info, such as: “I mean, when you all typed out those synthesis steps [in the blog post], didn’t you realize that this should be earned directly? All these interim currencies are ridiculous” (beekface via reddit).
- That players have to grind bounties for Transmog does not make sense to Guardians. One would rather say goodbye to those.
Why is there a cap? The artificial limit of 20 Synthetic Fabrics per season and character – or later only 10 – really annoys the Guardians. Why are diligent players not allowed to earn as much Transmog as they want?
Famous streamers and content creators, like many of you, are looking forward to Transmog but criticize the established limit. Among them is Fallout Plays, who is regularly quoted in MeinMMO for weapon testing:
The Eververse is once again the villain
Transmog is said to be too expensive: The fact that players can easily bypass the two mentioned points with real money gives a very bitter aftertaste for Destiny players. The Eververse has a bad reputation in the community anyway. Now many are accusing Bungie of being greedy regarding Transmog.
Many do not find the monetization of the new feature too bad in itself. However, in combination with the restrictions per season and the high complexity, the costs seem too high.
The well-known Forbes author in the community, Paul Tassi, predicts that the Transmog system in this form will not work:
Did it turn out worse than expected? At MeinMMO, we reported on Transmog in early April and feared that two factors could ruin Transmog: It was about timegating and too high costs. So an artificial limit that stretches the time and the prominent role of the Eververse. Now it seems that, in addition to both concerns, the system is unnecessarily complicated.
Additionally, not all armor will be able to benefit from Transmog right away. Some ornaments from Year 1 of Destiny 2 will not be available at launch. For example, the “Trials of Osiris” or “Prestige Raid” ornaments.
Due to the criticism, the changes to shaders are also somewhat overlooked. From Season 14 onward, they will be universally available after being unlocked once. However, the price will also change.
Immediately after the information about Transmog became known, we also saw comments from you on MeinMMO:
Seasonal cap of the Transmog items, exclusion of ornaments, ornaments partially bound again to certain armor pieces, shader price increase from 40 to 300, and so on and so forth. Bungie just doesn’t learn and messes it up again.
Criz Zle via MeinMMO
What are your thoughts on the topic – has Bungie ruined Transmog even before the new season starts? Or do you think it’s not that bad since it’s all optional and purely cosmetic? Let us know your opinion in the comments.
We will have a clearer picture of how long it really takes to perform armor synthesis and how complex it becomes in practice starting from May 11.
Another highlight of Season 14 that many are looking forward to and where hardly anything can go wrong is the return of the Vault of Glass with its iconic loot: Destiny 2 finally brings back the coolest weapons from Part 1
