In Destiny 2, Guardians have stumbled upon a glitch that greatly increases their damage in the new Shadowkeep raid. What is it all about?
What is the glitch about? With the Shadowkeep expansion, the new raid Garden of Salvation made its way to Destiny 2. While some Guardians have already achieved exceptional feats there, such as defeating the raid boss without weapons or beating it with only 3 players, other teams are still struggling.
However, clever Guardians have discovered a trick that noticeably increases the damage output of players in this new PvE top activity. This makes life in the new raid, especially during the tough final boss encounter against “Consecrated Mind – Sol Nature”, significantly easier.
What exactly does the glitch do? In all encounters in the new raid – except the first one – damage can be increased by a full 33% or even more. This can essentially be maintained throughout the entire raid – until one dies.
How does the trick work? The whole thing revolves around two raid-specific mods:
- Relay Defender
- and Enhanced Relay Defender
These mods only work in the raid and can only be obtained there. Therefore, you must have already had some loot luck for it to work at all – because you need a few of them.
These mods grant the wearer bonus damage when they are within 5 meters of a relay (the structures from which the beams come), and the effect can be stacked.
With the trick, it is possible not only to stack the buff even further but also to use it outside of the 5m radius.
Once you stand next to an active relay, you need to equip a full set with the Enhanced Relay Defender mod on every piece of armor. Then equip a set with the regular Relay Defender mod on each piece of armor. Move a short distance away from the relay and then return to it.
If everything works, you should now have 2x the Relay Defender buff and 2x the Enhanced Relay Defender buff. Even if you move away from the relay, you will keep this buff – until you die. If you have a full set with the Enhanced Relay Defender mod, you also receive an additional damage bonus within the 5m radius from the relay itself. This way, you can deal more than 33% extra damage.
Especially with weapons like Izanagi’s Burden (with Catalyst), even the final raid boss becomes almost a walk in the park – even if only a part of the group pulls off this trick.
When will this be fixed? This is currently unknown. However, the more players address the issue, the faster Bungie will likely respond. Usually, the studio reacts quite quickly to such glitches. Therefore, this trick should not be possible for much longer.
Since this is a pure PvE trick that does not hurt any other players, we have also decided to report on it.
Hand on heart: What do you think of such glitches? Is it okay to use them as long as they don’t directly hurt another player? Do you view such tricks critically in general? Or do you not care at all? If you’re still looking for a regular boss killer, you can find more information here:
