In Destiny 2, at the start of Season 15, the deletion of all your thousands of Vanguard Tokens is imminent. Guardians must invest a lot of time now or lose the supply accumulated over 4 years.
What will be deleted? Destiny 2 is currently warning Guardians in Season 14, saying: Redeem your Vanguard Tokens! Bungie shared this in the TWaB blog post on July 9. The reason: all tokens will soon be deleted, irretrievably, and you will not receive any rewards for them anymore.
When is this happening?
- With the start of the new Season 15 – that is, on August 24, 2021 – the tokens will vanish into thin air.
- You have just over a month to spend your supplies at Commander Zavala.
- Easier said than done, as many Guardians have thousands of such tokens stacked up, and redeeming them turns into hours of mindless button mashing.
Destiny 2 wants to make the dull Zavala cool again
Bungie is not deleting your unredeemed tokens out of malice. Rather, Commander Zavala in the Tower is getting a much-needed rework. After the update of the Vanguard ranks and adjustments of Season 15, there will be no space left for tokens in the game.
A similar rework was already given to Lord Shaxx and the vendor in early 2021. For those who remember, back then you either had to painstakingly redeem all your tokens or live with the deletion. Even then, Bungie hinted that Zavala would also be revised sometime in the future.
How exactly the “new” Zavala will look in Season 15 is currently unknown. However, we assume that Bungie will take inspiration from Shaxx and the vendor:
- You level up automatically just by playing the respective activities.
- There are fixed rewards to aim for that dangle in front of you like loot carrots.
- Rewards include rare upgrade materials, even an Ascendant Shard.
- You will still receive packages with random weapons and armors for your rank ups.
- You can even reset your rank and then enjoy exotic engrams.
Dilemma in Destiny 2: Waste time or tokens?
Many players are surely wondering now: should I turn in the tokens to Zavala, or would it be easier to simply let the items expire and save a lot of time this way? However, you risk discarding your supply that was collected over years.
As you can only turn in tokens in increments of 10, this will likely be a mammoth task for many Guardians. However, it becomes a true time sink when you constantly have to run to the Postmaster in between because your inventory is overflowing. Then you sort out there, dismantle unwanted weapons and armor, and stash good rolls in the vault.
That’s why players hate the tokens: Upon release, Destiny 2 fully relied on the token system. However, this was poorly received by players. They constantly had to go to the Tower to hand in the items that cluttered their inventories. After a boss fight, they didn’t want to open a chest and receive tokens, but rather see their new weapon immediately.
- If you want to read how our Destiny author Philipp Hansen spent 5,000 tokens for the new Iron Banner shotgun and how long it took, here you go: The new Iron Banner shotgun cost me a fortune in Destiny 2 – This is how powerful Riiswandler is
- Alternatively, you can use external applications for Destiny 2. DIM – the Destiny Item Manager – offers a “Farming Mode” where everything unnecessary is directly sent to the vault. However, for many Guardians, the vault is also chronically full.
The phrase “2 Tokens and a Blue” has burned into the collective memory of Guardians as a synonym for bad loot. With the new system, you will finally receive rewards directly, and when you happen to be in the Tower, the activity leads will reward you for playing.
If you go through the process of turning in all Vanguard Tokens ruthlessly – if so, how many tokens have you collected? Or is it not worth your time, and you are just happy that Zavala will soon be more useful? Let us know in the comments.
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