The online shooter Destiny 2 suffers from chronic content shortage. With a change in Season 17 starting at the end of May, they aim to circumvent the problem: Old dungeons and raids are set to become more exciting through a new “rotation system”: elite loot will drop in alternating old dungeons.
What is the problem for loyal players in Destiny 2? Players of Destiny 2 simply have nothing left to do after a while. With an expansion, like the current one “Witch Queen”, only a limited number of strikes and new raids are introduced:
- The “new” content is relevant and gets played. Because there are “elite rewards” there. You need these to advance your hero.
- The old raids and dungeons are hardly visited anymore – because that’s where the coveted loot is simply not available.
This makes even a massive game like Destiny 2 seem quite small and lame, despite being fed with content for 5 years, while some of this content is now fermenting in the “content vault.”
Super drops in alternating old raids and dungeons
This is what Bungie is changing now: From Season 17, there will be a “raid and dungeon rotation” that offers an elite reward upon completion. Bungie announced this on their blog on Thursday night German time.
With this, they want to encourage frequent players to revisit old locations in the game like the “Garden of Salvation” to grab loot.
A special treat: With the new rotation system, all encounter reward locks for legendary gear will be removed.
Oh, wait, did I hear correctly that you like farming? We can help with the new rotation system. All encounter reward locks for legendary gear are about to be removed, meaning that all legendary drop items in raids and dungeons can be farmed 100%. You can now put on some chill lo-fi music, grab a nice drink, and just farm to your heart’s content. Or not. It’s your choice (that’s really what it’s all about!).
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This means: Players can farm all legendary drops in raids and dungeons as they please.
Players celebrate the new system for now
This is the reaction: On Reddit, people are especially happy about the lifting of the locks for legendary gear and that it can now be farmed. One player says: “Okay, this is great.”
Destiny 2 is notorious for restricting farming opportunities to keep players engaged with the content of the current season for as long as possible.
Overall, the reception of the system is positive, but there are still some details to clarify regarding how exactly this will work.
When is this supposed to go live? Season 17 and the new system are expected to launch around May 25.
Bungie expands Destiny 2 by making old content relevant again
This is what’s behind it. Destiny 2 aims to solve a typical “MMORPG” problem. These kinds of games, like WoW, are huge, but only a tiny part of the game is really relevant, the latest additions. Old content is basically “superfluous.”
Cruelly, one could say: Bungie is again proving to be a “master of recycling,” but this does seem like a logical evolution to make use of the dormant existing content during the long, long seasons. Other big games also utilize such methods to keep old content relevant: In WoW, for instance, you can farm cosmetic items in old raids through “timewalking.”
The “ideal world,” in which new strikes and raids are constantly introduced and players can always experience something new, is probably something we will never see. Although Bungie has announced that with Sony’s help they will now hire more new people again, it won’t be so many that content can be constantly produced:
