How to prepare for Destiny 2: The Final Shape

Making ready for The Last Form, Future 2’s upcoming enlargement that can function the finale of the Gentle and Darkness saga, goes to be fairly a bit of labor. However I’ve two items of fine information for you on that entrance. First, there’s solely a lot you are able to do in a given week. And second, relying on what you love to do within the recreation, you may not must prep in any respect.

On this Future 2 information, I’ll stroll you thru what you have to do earlier than leaping into The Last Form, clarify what’s going away on June 3, and, most significantly, if any of this issues to you in any respect.

Observe: Whereas the discharge date for The Last Form is June 4, Bungie will shut the servers down 24 hours early, on June 3, with the intention to put together the sport for the enlargement. Don’t plan to cram final minute the night time of June 3 or you can be very, very unhappy while you discover the servers are offline.

Do you actually must prep earlier than The Last Form?

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Whether or not Future prep is a factor you want in your life is a query that solely you’ll be able to reply, because it relies upon closely on what sort of participant you’re.

Are you planning on leaping into The Last Form day one, taking part in the marketing campaign on regular, exploring the brand new vacation spot, grabbing a number of of the brand new Exotics, after which transferring on to a different recreation for a bit? If that describes you, you completely don’t must prep in any respect for The Last Form. Even should you’re intending on ultimately taking part in by way of the brand new raid as soon as the Contest mode leaves, you continue to don’t must prep. Benefit from the closing weeks of the Into the Gentle replace stress free.

So, if even regular raiders don’t actually need to prep, who does? Endgame gamers and raid racers, that’s who.

For these of us who wish to push into troublesome content material instantly in Future 2, supplies are essential, as you’ll need to have the ability to rapidly Masterwork new Exotics or different objects earlier than diving into new content material. However the XP grind is the actually huge one, as dropping tons of bounties on day one is how one can rapidly entry the brand new Artifact perks.

The early perks will probably be helpful should you’re planning on taking part in the Legend marketing campaign, however actually not essential. The place you’ll actually need these perks is within the day one raid race for The Last Form, as they’ll make an enormous distinction in your harm. Bungie hasn’t introduced the Artifact mods as of this writing, however there’s all the time one thing helpful for a day one raid in there, and so they sometimes come towards the tip of the Artifact’s improve observe, so that you’ll want numerous XP.

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To throw only one extra small caveat in right here, Bungie is introducing the brand new Fireteam Energy system in The Last Form, which you may be questioning about as you’re beginning your prep. Nicely, Bungie has already clarified that Fireteam Energy received’t apply in the course of the Contest mode interval of The Last Form raid. So even when you have a chosen Energy grinding machine in your group, you’ll nonetheless wish to prep your bounties and collect some supplies.

For these not within the know, Fireteam Energy permits the member of the Fireteam with the best whole Energy stage to share it with their allies — though gamers who’re sharing that energy will probably be 5 ranges beneath the chief. This will probably be helpful for the traditional model of the raid as soon as the Contest modifier is off, however as I discussed earlier than, you shouldn’t must prep a lot anyway in case your solely objective is to finish the raid on regular.

Even should you’re a really assured raider and endgame participant, prepping is extra essential than ever earlier than should you’re planning on leaping into that raid race. As a result of The Last Form raid launch launches solely three days after the enlargement — slightly than the customary 10 days — you’ll have little or no time to grind out XP and sources as soon as the enlargement is in your palms.

prep your Future 2 character for The Last Form

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Prepping your Guardian for an enlargement is an enormous job, however it’s a ritual Future gamers have been participating in for years now. The thought right here is to spend the previous few weeks earlier than an enlargement comes out operating across the worlds of Future and loading up your character with bounties, supplies, and nice weapons. It’s doing the busy work now so you do not have to do it when there’s new content material to concentrate on as a substitute.

What supplies must you hoard?

With Legendary Shards going away in The Last Form, it’s arduous to know precisely what the financial system goes to appear to be on June 4. Nonetheless, there are nonetheless some supplies you positively wish to attempt to max out earlier than the enlargement launches:

• Improve modules (25 max)
• Ascendant Shards (30 max)
• Ascendant Alloy (30 max)
• Enhancement Prisms (100 max)
• Enhancement Cores (no max, however attempt to retailer a number of hundred)

Lastly, let’s speak about Glimmer for a second. Glimmer has been given elevated significance in Future 2 over the previous few years, and that’s a development that can seemingly proceed in The Last Form. The issue is you’ll be able to solely maintain 500,000 without delay.

So how will you fill up on one thing with a finite cap? Nicely, some gamers are taking their extra Legendary Shards and utilizing them to buy Phantasmal Fragments on the Lectern of Enchantment on the Moon for 10 Legendary Shards a chunk. Rahool, the Cryptarch within the Tower, will can help you trade 10 Phantasmal Fragments for 10,000 Glimmer.

Take into account that Bungie might completely take away the power to trade this stuff in The Last Form. However give it some thought this fashion: What else are you going to make use of these Legendary Shards for? It’s price exchanging them now on the off probability Bungie doesn’t change something right here.

How and why it is best to put together bounties

Bounty prepping is its personal beast, and is extraordinarily helpful for juicing your XP the second an enlargement comes out.

There are positively proper methods to do it — as Skarrow9 particulars in his video above — however you can also’t actually go fallacious with it. Weekly Bounties just like the Ascendant Challenges are ideally suited, however dallies additionally give nice XP. Simply avoid repeatable bounties, bounties related to seasonal content material (as they’ll disappear out of your stock on June 4), and hoarding greater than seven Crucible, Vanguard, and Gambit bounties.

You probably have any bounties to show in on Last Form day, wait till you’re given the Artifact, group up with some pals on a vacation spot just like the Moon, put an XP increase mod in your Ghost, and simply dump all of them without delay.

Observe: Bungie talked about a possible change to the bounty system months in the past, referred to as Pathfinder, however haven’t mentioned the rest about it. Whereas there’s nothing to counsel bounty prepping received’t work in The Last Form, it’s price holding in thoughts that Bungie might change this course of anytime and invalidate all of your arduous work — particularly with no matter Pathfinder is on the horizon. Now, there isn’t a lot proof to counsel that your bounties will probably be nugatory on June 4 — and I’d wish to assume Bungie would’ve mentioned one thing by now if that was the case — however it’s price holding in thoughts all the identical.

clear your Vault

Extra vault house is essential at the beginning of a brand new Future 2 enlargement, because it enables you to hoard new stuff into your financial institution earlier than anybody has determined if it’s any good but. There’s nothing worse than getting a brand new gun or perk, pondering it’s ineffective, sharding it, after which discovering out it’s truly wonderful 24 hours later.

We’re getting extra vault house in The Last Form, so cleansing out your outdated junk is much less essential this time round. Nonetheless, I’d nonetheless intention to have anyplace between 50-100 open slots out there. It’ll most likely take you a bit to replenish 200 open slots as soon as The Last Form arrives, which ought to offer you a pleasant break from vault administration for not less than a few weeks.

One closing factor to remember right here is that Bungie is un-sunsetting all of you sundown weapons in Future 2: The Last Form. Should you’ve gone this lengthy with a bunch of outdated weapons nonetheless cluttering up your vault — particularly those you at present can’t improve, with the grayed out seasonal banners — don’t delete them. Bungie will can help you improve their energy once more in The Last Form, which means you’ll be capable of use all of them as soon as once more. Should you’ve sadly deleted numerous your nice, outdated weapons — like I’ve — don’t have any concern, as Bungie has assured gamers that it’ll add new strategies to reacquire these outdated weapons sooner slightly than later.

All the pieces leaving Future 2 on June 3, 2024

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Even should you don’t care about making ready for Future 2: The Last Form, you would possibly wish to go expertise the Lightfall seasons earlier than they disappear for good. Positive, there’s some respectable loot to have right here, however actually you wish to soak within the story and vibes when you have the prospect. Whereas every season solely has a second or two that actually issues — like the large lore cutscene Bungie dropped throughout Season of the Deep —there’s nonetheless some essential stuff so that you can know earlier than leaping into the newest enlargement.

Beneath, I’m going to put out what all is leaving and what’s price spending time on when you can.

Lightfall seasons

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As normal, the seasons from the yr of Lightfall will all disappear as soon as The Last Form comes out. Which means all of their story content material, their actions, and their craftable weapons will probably be gone. And whereas Bungie likes to reprise a handful of outdated weapons each season or place them into the Unique mission rotator, there’s no telling when any of that can occur.

If you wish to get caught up on the story and expertise all the assorted actions, you wish to do it earlier than The Last Form. For reference, the 4 seasons are:

• Season of Defiance
• Season of the Deep
• Season of the Witch
• Season of the Want

If all of that feels slightly too intimidating, open up your menu, go to the Journey tab, and choose Titles. You’ll discover the Moments of Triumph 2023 badge there. Work your means by way of the Triumphs, as they do a very nice job of pointing you towards all of the stuff that’s about to go away, and it affords some enjoyable rewards as properly.

As for craftable weapons, there are some actually good ones this yr and a few actually not good ones. I’ve combed by way of every of the 4 seasons and chosen two weapons from every that it is best to actually concentrate on for PvE (non-competitive or Crucible content material).

A few of these weapons — like Scatter Sign and The Eremite — are unimaginable for endgame content material. And a few are simply distinctive weapons that supply some uncommon rolls. Seize all of them should you can:

• Regnant (Void grenade launcher, Season of Defiance)
• Imperial Decree (Kinetic shotgun, Season of Defiance)
• Till Its Return (Strand shotgun, Season of the Deep)
• Skinny Precipice (Strand sword, Season of the Deep)
• Semiotician (Strand rocket launcher, Season of the Witch)
• The Eremite (Photo voltaic fusion rifle, Season of the Witch)
• Scatter Sign (Strand fusion rifle, Season of the Want)
• Appetence (Stasis hint rifle, Season of the Want)
• Subjunctive (Arc submachine gun, Starcrossed mission)

Unique missions

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We acquired three Unique missions in the course of the yr of Lightfall, with Season of the Witch being the one season with out one.

The destiny of those missions is at present unknown. Sometimes, Unique missions disappear together with their season. Nonetheless, Bungie has not too long ago added the Unique mission rotator to the sport, which lets you dive into outdated Unique missions like Presage or Operation: Seraph Defend.

Nonetheless, even when all three of those missions go straight into the Unique rotator, you’ll nonetheless want to attend for them to return round if you wish to replay them or get their rewards. Now could be the time to get your fill and craft these Unique weapons.

Into the Gentle

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Among the Into the Gentle replace is leaving, and a few of it’s staying. It’s slightly weird, so let’s get into it.

Right here’s every little thing leaving from the Into the Gentle replace on June 3:

• Pantheon, the endgame raid gauntlet, in addition to its Godslayer Title
• The Restricted Editions of the Courageous Arsenal weapons
• The Corridor of Champions, together with the Arcite 99-40 quests, the Tremendous Black shader quest, the Parade Armor chests, Trophy of Bravery tokens, and the weapon attunement system

So if all that’s going away, what’s staying from Into the Gentle? Mainly every little thing else:

• Onslaught
• The non-Restricted Version Courageous Arsenal weapons (Bungie has talked about re-adding the weapon attunement system in someday after The Last Form)
• All three PvP maps
• “The Whisper” mission
• The “Zero Hour” mission
• The Parade Armor and Tremendous Black shader (Bungie mentioned it is going to add new methods to get each of those after The Last Form)

Now could be the time to farm for all the objects above. Even for the stuff sticking round, it will likely be harder to do all of it after June 3 than it’s earlier than.

Should you do all or any of the above, you’ll be forward of the curve for The Last Form when it launches on June 4.