Destiny 2 finally receives one of the most requested armor features in Year 4, something many players have longed for – a transmog system.
Destiny 2 offers numerous ways to customize your Guardians visually according to your ideas and wishes. However, a popular customization feature has so far been denied to the Guardians – at least in full.
What Guardians have been wishing for since Destiny 1: As Franchise Director Luke Smith stated in the current “This Week at Bungie” blog, Destiny 2 will receive a transmogification system – short Transmog.
The introduction is supposed to take place during Year 4 (starting in Fall 2020), but the feature is still in early development, according to Smith.
Transmog remains one of the most requested features for Destiny. Although a version of the system already exists in a stripped-down form – the universal ornaments – many Guardians feel that these have too many restrictions on their use (more on that shortly). However, this seems to change.
By the way, Bungie has already revealed some additional things about Year 4: Don’t miss anything – How Bungie plans to improve the seasons
How does Transmog work? The transmog feature will allow players to transform their armor pieces into universal ornaments. These can then be applied to other armor pieces, thus changing their appearance. The target item will receive the look of the item from which the ornament was created.
The transformation of armor into universal ornaments is supposed to be enabled through in-game achievements or through Silver (real money currency). There have been no further details so far. Additionally, it seems that the feature is only intended for armor pieces – weapons have not been mentioned in this context.
Furthermore, starting from Season 12, i.e., the start of Year 4, among other things, no armor ornaments will be sold whose look is visibly based on certain in-game activities. Transmog will thus play an important role if you want to transfer the look of your (hopefully) stylish new raid armor to other armor pieces.
This is what Destiny 2 offers at the moment: Currently, Destiny 2 already has a form of transmog system – albeit a stripped-down light version.
While you can change the look of armor pieces using universal ornaments, a part of Armor 2.0, these ornaments mostly come from the Eververse or the Season Pass. Better said from Eververse armor sets.
At the moment, there is no way to transfer the look of raid armors or cool armor pieces from the open world to other armor items.
However, many players want exactly that. Many see the universal ornaments as just a step in the right direction. However, the system does not go far enough, according to numerous Guardians it has not been thought through consistently. One should be able to transfer the look of any armor to any other with better stats. And that is exactly what Bungie wants to enable in Year 4.
What do you think about it? A long-overdue step you are looking forward to? Or does this upcoming change leave you completely cold?
