As soon as it became known how leveling in Destiny 2 will work, hardcore players have already developed a method for getting to the maximum power level faster. But is the backdoor for the triple trick really open?
Attention: The article contains “spoilers” regarding character development in Destiny 2. Officially, these are not known yet.
Triple Trick: Is the backdoor to the maximum power level still available?
Over the weekend, a strategy guide for Destiny 2 was leaked. Since then, it has been known how leveling will work in Destiny 2.
The actual important leveling takes place through equipment. Here, the system is stingy starting from power level 260, and there are only the weekly activities, the milestones, as a source of better equipment. Since players can only complete a few of these activities each week, they face the same problem as in Year 1 of Destiny. That was back in the time of “Forever 29” or “Forever 31”: It was incredibly slow progress.
Back then, there was only one way to improve a character from a certain level: through the raid. Players had only one chance per week to improve their character. Either the boss dropped the needed item or not, and that week was wasted. Because you could only attempt a raid per character once.
But even back then, players found a way to bypass this. Will the triple trick work in Destiny 2 with a small modification again?
Destiny 2: New game, old trick
The triple trick to level up particularly quickly involves creating three guardians of the same class and then switching the equipment among them: this increases the light level from run to run.
This is labor-intensive; you have to get all three characters to level 20 and likely complete the campaign.
- The normal way would be: Character 1 completes the weekly activities and levels up from about 260 to power level 263 (as an example, it could also be 262 or 264 – we don’t know). Then, the character has to wait a week until the reset, then starts at 263 and, for example, goes up to 266.
- With the triple trick, it goes like this: You complete the weekly activities with Char 1 and receive better items (263). Then you send these items to Char 2, who equips them and also has 263. Now you complete the activities again and receive “some better equipment” than before (266). With Char 3, you complete the milestones again (269).
If it goes like this and the item increase per week is roughly as stated, then “normal players” would be at 266 after week 2. Players with the trick, however, would already be at 278.
This way, players who use this technique will be significantly ahead of everyone else at the maximum power level of 300. After that, players can delete the two “duplicate characters” and start anew.
But will the trick work in Destiny 2?
However, we still do not know if the plan will work in Destiny 2. That depends on several factors:
- It would need to be possible again to internally transfer armor.
- And it should be possible to create more than one character of the same class.
- The milestones would have to be limited to one character; if a completion counts account-wide, that would be a problem
The question is: Has Bungie closed this grindy backdoor from Destiny 1, or is it still slightly open?
Mein-MMO thinks: These are topics that we last dealt with in 2014/2015. Back then it was actually clear: They overlooked an error in the system. Bungie should have only allowed one character per class. This backdoor was never closed in Destiny 1 because they changed the whole system.
We will probably find out in the next few days whether the “triple trick” works.
We got the plan to try this trick in Destiny 2 from the comments on our Destiny 2 Facebook page! We told the reader who developed the plan: “That’s pretty nerdy.” He took it as a compliment.
Everything about the launch of Destiny 2 can be found here:
Destiny 2: All information about the release – FAQ on server start & preload
