Thanks to a very simple method, veterans can immediately increase their Power level to 900 in no time at the start of Destiny 2. We present to you who benefits from this approach and what exactly needs to be done.
What is the Power level? Your Power level essentially determines how strong your Guardian is. The Power level results from the overall value of your equipment. This means that both your 3 weapons and all 5 armor pieces with their values contribute to it. To effectively fight against powerful enemies or to undertake certain activities, you should have a correspondingly high level.
This is how the Power level behaves in the current season:
- 750 has been the universal starting Power level for all Guardians since Shadowkeep.
- 900 is the so-called Softcap. Up to this point, you level up in every activity and through almost every found piece of equipment.
- 950 is the Powerful-Cap. To reach this value, only Powerful Items and Exotics help.
- 960 is then ultimately the Hard or Pinnacle Cap. You can only reach this level through the hardest tasks like raids and pinnacle activities.
- The seasonal artifact plays a special role for the Power level. With it, you can essentially increase your Power level far beyond the Hard cap – but only within the framework of a season.
Who is this approach suitable for? This method is primarily aimed at veterans and returnees who have caused havoc in Destiny 2 before Shadowkeep. Because for quick leveling, you need a lot of Crucible and/or Vanguard tokens.
New or relatively fresh players won’t really benefit from it. But not all veterans like such methods and prefer to level up regularly. However, if you want to shorten the grind a bit, you can use this approach.
This is how the method works: You go to the Tower – either to Lord Shaxx or to Commander Zavala. With both, you can rank up in exchange for 20 Crucible or Vanguard tokens each and receive rewards with equipment.
This equipment increasingly rises in Power level and thus provides you with continuous progress up to Power level 900. The grind to the Soft cap is quickly done without stress, but depending on your previous status, it may cost you several thousand tokens.
Keep in mind:
- Make sure you have enough space in your inventory and regularly delete over-leveled equipment.
- If you use this method, you can completely avoid Powerful rewards until you reach Power level 900 and only claim them after reaching Power level 900. Then it will go faster towards the Power Cap, and you will not waste valuable resources for Power upgrades.
- You can currently easily secure a free Powerful Engram, which you can redeem for an additional boost after reaching Power level 900.
Is your Power level raid-ready? If you haven’t really leveled up yet, but want to join the new raid on October 5th? Then you can use this method to quickly catch up to Power level 900 if you have enough tokens.
Then at least you’ll be prepared for the first raid encounter. Because there you have no advantages already from Power level 890. In the final encounter, this threshold is at 920. However, you would still need to regularly level up with the Powerful items.
More about the new raid can be found here: Destiny 2 Shadowkeep: Raid launch time – what can we expect?
Enjoy the story first and level up regularly or take the shortcut towards endgame – what do you think?
