Actually, Destiny 2 had good news this week when it made key armor perks available to all players for free. But many Guardians were also becoming suspicious because one thing about Bungie’s announcement seemed to reinforce their fears of hard nerfs in the upcoming Lightfall DLC. MeinMMO tells you what fears and why this is so.
A Warden in Destiny 2 is stronger when they lock their armor to a build, specifically using the available armor mods. However, up until this week, many of these important ability options were only available to Guardians who had played through all of Destiny 2’s content.
Up to now, however, it has not been possible for new players to get these important mods and thus advantages when entering the game after Season 11 or to earn them afterwards. You could only buy the mods in small bits and pieces, and that was not only expensive, but also RNG-based.
Bungie had this good news to announce: As a result, many Guardians have long wanted Destiny 2 to make these important mods better and more directly accessible. The player request was complied with this week.
A short message on Twitter announced the change that the important standard armor mods will now be released free of charge for all players.
As a taste of what’s to come in Lightfall, we have some exciting updates for you. We’ve unlocked all the default armor mods for everyone!
As major changes in build crafting go live with Lightfall, we want to give everyone the ability to use all mods in their current state. Focused like crazy.
announced Bungie on January 12, 2023 via Twitter
Destiny 2 solves the biggest problem new players face today – just in time for the next big expansion
Understand Guardians: “Use the mods while you still can!”
This made the guardians suspicious: So it was actually excellent news, were it not for that one small, frightening addition to Bungie’s message. The developer also cryptically stated in his Twitter message in the last paragraph: “[…] use all mods in their current state.”
In particular, the two little words “current state” caused many experienced Guardians to turn up their noses. They think they can already smell the hard nerfs for mods for Lightfall.
This is how they interpreted the well-intentioned hint in the Destiny Reddit statement: “Use the mods while you can”. Especially knowing that Bungie has a habit of often significantly rebalancing things with such systemic changes.
Commented player StochasticSquirrel: “I strongly believe that the current system, which is painful for new players, will be replaced with a new system, which is painful for all players.”
Another guardian named Dominate_on_three also comments on reddit:
Giving everyone a “chance” at the last minute is, to my ears, the language of the [Abschieds]. “We’re going to visit Grandma because we want you to be able to see her again before the big surgery. Also, it’s weird this “opportunity” so close [Lightfall] close. Seems kinda cruel. “Here’s what you’ve always wanted. Enjoy it for a month, after that it’s gone forever.”
commented the player Dominate_on_three
Lightfall could bring drastic nerfs to mod perks
Particularly popular mods are the so-called combat mods such as elemental sources, “charged with light” and warm spirit mods. There is hardly a build for many players where the first two are not used. Only the Warmind mods have not been as popular and effective since their nerf in Season 15.
Lightfall brings a new system: It has been known for some time that Bungie is planning its own internal mod and build system for Lightfall. You could already admire the first images in the showcase, where the elemental source mod “Elemental charge” can also be seen in use.
At least these mods don’t seem to disappear from the game entirely. It also looks like the mod and build system will allow you to better assess the effects of the mods on your own character in the future.
However, it is questionable whether they will be preserved in their current state. Bungie appears to be planning to use the system to change the way players use mods. For example, the system could be simplified drastically to make it easier to understand. More accessibility to content for all is something that has been improved many times before and that Bungie is also striving for.
Bungie may have planned these three options:
No matter what Bungie will announce. The community has already pricked up their ears and is looking forward to more information about this Lightfall system and how much weaker or stronger their guardians might become with it.
When will there be more information about this? In the next “This Week at Bungie” blog, the developer wants to go into detail about mods and builds in Lightfall. So next week, more precisely on January 19th, there will be more information about the planned changes for buildcrafting and mods in the new DLC “Lightfall” and thus Season 20. Guardians will then be able to explore the new content beginning February 28, 2023. MeinMMO will also keep you up to date on what’s new in Destiny 2.
What is your opinion about this? Do you also think there will actually be hard nerfs for the old mods? Or will Bungie just simplify the system a bit and streamline it to better cater to casual gamers? Write us your view in the comments.
Some players would prefer a fix for PvP or other problems instead of nerfs for mods, such as this one:
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