New Features in Destiny 2: The Final Shape (2024)

You have to reset Rahool’s reputation once. Then you can buy new Armor.

I got the old Legacy bundle with the Epic store giveaway in December and started playing the tutorial on Sunday. Is it no longer relevant and kind of pointless? I see it is now $60 for the 2024.

I want to do almost exclusively PVE. Do I just follow the guide and buy The Final Shape since it's the current expansion as my way to get into Destiny and just get additional stuff from there? The 30th anniversary is on sale for a few bucks.

Edit:, I could switch to Steam and get the legacy collection 2024 there.

I think that the Legacy 2024 vs Prior Legacy has 30th anniversary, Foresaken, and Lightfall added to it.

Two questions:
1.I beat legendary campaign on a completely random build, and my friend does miles more damage than me. What’s the go to recommendation for learning to build properly? I’d like to get into raids.
2.After Icol…? The fight where you kill two subjugators while the witness attacks you, how much more content would I need to complete before the raid, in terms of a continuous story? Don’t want to spoil anything for myself.

Thanks!

The devs have already confirmed this is NOT the end of destiny…. There will be more content , just not the light / dark saga.

To be fair there are plenty of other story arcs which can be explored / revisited / expanded upon.

DESTINY 2 SPOILER ALERT******************** READ AT YOUR OWN RISN(I doubt at this point a spoiler but just in case)

I mean I have had no problems with playing the betas I have taken part in and find it way more enjoyable then what's been done with destiny the echos episodes is the worst thing plus we killed the witness in act 1 to is that so rest is just seasonal bs

For strictly new content, yeah, the new patrol space, any public events and the new strike in the vanguard playlist only.

Shadowkeep and Beyond light’s campaigns as well as stasis will also be F2P permanently. The battlegrounds from the past year will also be F2P permanently and added to the vanguard playlist.

Those who own Lightfall will also gain the ability to play star crossed and the vexcalibur exotic mission in the rotator.

This week in Destiny 4/25/2024

If you complete the campaign on Legendary difficulty, you’ll be rewarded with an entire gear set at 1960 Power (+20 into the Powerful band), giving you a great head start towards being raid-ready for Contest mode (1965 Power)!The resulting Power Bands in The Final Shape will be:

Power Floor: 1900

Soft Cap: 1940

Powerful Cap: 1990

Hard Cap/Pinnacle Cap: 2000

The resulting Power Bands in The Final Shape will be:

Power Floor: 1900

Soft Cap: 1940

Powerful Cap: 1990

Hard Cap/Pinnacle Cap: 2000

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/this_week_in_destiny_04_25_24

A 10 year story, been playing since the D1 beta.

I can’t wait to see how it ends.

I'm trying very hard to dampen my expectations, but every single one of bungies trailers always gets me hyped. I'm really hoping this expansion can live up to its hype and end the light and darkness saga in a amazing way

Edit: dang it, Bungie did it again. They got me super hyped. Trailer looks awesome, cinematic team did amazing.

One thing that's important is that the Vex have been sidelined for the past couple years realistically because they've been saving them to be the "next big bad" after The Witness. And because the Vex time travel, it allows for a very easy narrative hook for us to lose all of our stuff - Our Guardian acts like Elsie and jumps to another timeline, leaving all of our loot behind. Maybe Elsie would come with us too, giving us an explanation for who exactly Elsie was talking to in her intro cutscene in vanilla D1 (i.e., it was us from the future / another timeline).

It also is a useful hook because it lets Bungie re-use assets in a way that makes narrative sense. We'd still be fighting Cabal cause we haven't made friends with them yet, we'd still be fighting on Mars because it hasn't been frozen yet, etc.

To me it seems like the most plausible path forward that's actually interesting. The episodes will be us cleaning up loose ends (Xivu) and introducing the new threat of the Vex, and then D3 would start with us jumping into another timeline and soft-rebooting everything and starting our character's loot vault fresh

There will still be a few loose ends thay need to be dealt with after The Final Shape and the 3 Episodes.

Biggest one is Clovis Bray AI which we more or less left seething on Europa. I could see an episode where we've got to deal with whatever is still hidden deep within Europa.

One place I would like to see is us breech into the Distributary and find out what's happening within it. The way time passes, it could be a completely alien world for even Mara Sov to return to.

It’s a free promo to get people back into the game.

After TFS launches, if you don’t own any of the content you are temporarily allowed to access, you’ll lose it.

That being said, Stasis was just made permanent if you unlock it.

Strand will be locked again after TFS launches if you don’t own Lightfall.

Any exotics or weapons or armor you earn are yours to keep forever though—-so play as much as you can.

You can only use stasis or strand if you own the Beyond Light or Lightfall campaigns. Right now everybody owns Beyond Light and therefore access to stasis. Everyone will keep that access to stasis forever. PS+ members have free access to Lightfall right now, and therefore access to strand. When Lightfall eventually comes off PS+ then those players will need to buy LF to keep using Strand.

Anybody who owns the DLCs outright now will own them forever

Whatever you heard doesn't sound quite right

Bounties involving vanguard, crucible and gambit will be deleted once the dlc launches. So if you have them saved, claim them between now and when the dlc starts.

Any other bounties will remain untouched.

The crucible, vanguard, and gambit bounties aren't the ones that you stack first for bounty prepping, you fill with them after you've done all the better ones.

If you can't use those to fill, a ton of other bounties in the game will still offer the same xp.

Claim the orange + green + blue ones, and find other bounties

You just do anything that says “Weekly Bounty” that isn’t tied to a Seasonal, Event or Ritual activity on all 3 characters. This is stuff like Dares of Eternity, Destinations, and Hawthorne’s Clan Bounties. You can also have multiple weekly Dreaming City Ascendant Challenge bounties prepped for each Ascendant Challenge.

Again, don’t know how necessary this will be given what they told us about TFS.