In Destiny 2, Guardians can enjoy a new event activity during the ongoing Spring celebrations – the Greenwood. Interestingly, it pays off to fail early there. But why?
Destiny 2 celebrates spring: Currently, Guardians are celebrating the arrival of spring during the Revelry. They can take part in a new activity that is only active during the spring event – the Greenwood.
All the important information about the spring event can be found here: All info on the Revelry event – How Destiny 2 celebrates spring
What is the Greenwood? It is a modified and beautified version of the Infinite Forest on Mercury – similar to the Haunted Forest from the Festival of the Lost. It consists of a multitude of randomly generated and interconnected rooms filled with different enemies.
The goal is to fight through as many rooms (called branches) as possible. The more branches you master, the more time you will have at the end to face the 5 bosses of the activity and grab the loot – especially the coveted Revelry Essence.
Why should you intentionally fail in the Greenwood? The Greenwood can essentially be played infinitely with the right performance. There are indeed teams that have cleared 500 or even more branches in one run.
However, this effort is not really worth it. Because no matter how far you get in the forest, whether branch 5 or 500, you will face the same bosses with identical difficulty and loot every time. The forest does not get harder or more rewarding with increasing progress.
If you want to grab rewards like the Arbalest or the Revelry packages from Eva as quickly as possible (which is what most players want in the forest), it hardly pays to go beyond the 20th branch once you have settled in there.
20 rooms should give you about 2 minutes for the boss encounter – more than enough to send all 5 bosses to the virtual afterlife before the timer runs out. Because if you kill enough small enemies during the final fight, your timer will keep extending. Even with a random team, you should be able to take down all 5 bosses on time.
Once you have defeated all 5 bosses, you will receive from the 5 chests among other things 55x Revelry Essence (10 per chest, 15 from the last), the most coveted reward of the event. After that, just restart the event if you need more essence.
Progressing further into the branches is not really worth it, as it is not particularly efficient. You simply spend more time – basically in the end for the same reward.
On your way through the various branches, you will occasionally randomly come across chests from which you also receive Revelry Essence. However, in the end, you get less this way than if you play until level 20 or 30, defeat the 5 bosses, and then simply restart the forest.
There are indeed some triumphs that require a multitude of melee kills or sphere generation, but you can also achieve all of that if you fail in the forest in time and then just run it again. You don’t have to progress as far as possible in the forest.
In short: Unless you just want to have fun with your friends and see how far you can go in the Greenwood, it is worth failing intentionally in this activity to receive more rewards over time.
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