We’re lower than per week away from Future 2: The Witch Queen’s launch. Arriving on Tuesday, February 22, Future 2’s subsequent growth will take gamers to Hive god Savathûn’s Throne World, to face off in opposition to her Lucent Brood. However as Bungie provides, it additionally takes away, and which means a lot of Past Gentle’s seasonal actions are being taken away—together with the Tangled Shore and the Forsaken marketing campaign.
With that in thoughts, there are a handful of issues you need to do to organize for The Witch Queen. This is a run down of a very powerful steps for preparing, from weapons that you must get, to the supplies you need to stockpile.
Be certain that to seize one of the best seasonal weapons
When the Witch Queen launches, the entire present 12 months’s seasons shall be shuffled off to the Future Content material Vault—which is a pleasant means of claiming they’re going to be faraway from the sport. And whereas that does not essentially imply their respective weapons will change into unavailable, it is extremely probably that there shall be no straightforward technique to farm good rolls.
Provided that, make certain to spend any Umbral Engrams you acquire this week on chasing good perks for one of the best weapons of the season. You are able to do this by way of the Prismatic Recaster within the Helm. Simply head to the Season of the Misplaced submenu the place you may discover a choice of focus choices for earlier seasonal weaponry.
This is a number of that you need to look out for, sorted by the place you possibly can focus them.
Instruments of the Hunt:
Deafening Whisper is a wave body grenade launcher that does Void injury, which implies it might be fairly tasty given subsequent season’s Void 3.0-focused artifact mods. For perks, maintain an eye fixed out for Formidable Murderer and Rampage. Auto-Loading Holster if you cannot stand reloading breach grenade launchers.
Instruments of the Chosen:
SMGs are getting anti-Overload mods subsequent season, which makes Extraordinary Rendition a stable loadout selection. It will possibly roll with Subsistence and One for All, which might be my go-to selection for higher-end content material. However the fourth perk slot additionally accommodates Rampage and Multikill Clip in the event you choose.
Threaded Needle has been a beast this season—held again solely by absolutely the dominance of Unique heavies like Sleeper Simulant and One Thousand Voices. And whereas linear fusion rifles will not be pretty much as good subsequent season—goodbye, candy Particle Deconstruction—a Frenzy or Vorpal Threaded Needle continues to be going to hit laborious. With the buff to Unique primaries, there will be extra motive than ever to run a Legendary in your heavy slot.
Instruments of the Splicer:
When you spend your whole remaining Umbral Engrams making an attempt to get a god roll Ignition Code, I would not blame you. A breach grenade launcher with the blinding grenades perk stays probably the greatest sources of crowd management within the sport, and I am planning to let mine carry me by way of the brand new Legendary marketing campaign. You are greatest off with perks like Formidable Murderer, Slideshot or Discipline Prep within the third column, and Vorpal within the fourth column. However actually, if it is obtained blinding grenades, it is value hanging on to.
Splicer additionally gave us Chroma Rush, the kinetic auto that—whereas in all probability not your best option for high-level nightfalls—completely shreds enemies in just about all the things else. Auto rifles are additionally getting an Overload mod subsequent season, so it will not damage to have an excellent roll. Preserve an eye fixed out for both Subsistence/Rampage or Feeding Frenzy/Kill Clip.
Wayfinder’s Concussion:
Truthfully, I do not love any of Season of the Misplaced’s weapons, however PvP gamers may do worse than snagging a Fractethyst shotgun. Perk smart, you may need the usual shotty combo of Quickdraw and Opening Shot.
Outdoors of the particular seasonal weapons, there are a number of different weapons to seek out. Scout rifles are going to be the play in Grandmaster Nightfalls subsequent season, because of them getting the anti-Barrier Champion remedy. And whereas the Evening Watch you possibly can earn from doing the New Gentle quest is already nice, for your best option you may need to leap into this week’s Grandmaster Dusk. Bungie have gifted us Lake of Shadows this week, the best of the bunch, and working it has an opportunity to nab you an Adept Hung Jury scout rifle or Hothead rocket launcher. (It is considered one of solely two rocket launchers at the moment within the sport that may roll the Explosive Gentle perk. Nice with both Discipline Prep or Monitoring.)
When you actually need to get into the weeds, head to Future Recipe’s pre-season checklist, which rounds up a number of the greatest varieties of every weapon to arm your self with for the brand new growth.
Only one extra roll of Lifeless Man’s Story
Between the 40% buff in opposition to pink bar enemies and the actual fact scout rifles are getting anti-barrier mods subsequent season, Lifeless Man’s Story goes to be a beast of a weapon for PvE content material. The one factor higher is a Lifeless Man’s Story with Vorpal Weapon, which—on main weapons—provides a 20% injury improve to bosses.
Sadly, DMT is not farmable. You may solely earn one per week by finishing the Presage mission. However, in the event you’ve but to earn the Vorpal roll, you’ve got obtained yet another shot. Additionally ensure you’ve unlocked the catalyst by finishing the Grasp issue model of Presage—it provides a considerable improve to the hip-fire.
And hey, when you’re at it: Harbinger will provide you with one other shot at a top quality Hawkmoon roll, too. This appears like much less of a precedence—that is already a sport with numerous 140 hand cannons—nevertheless it’s a stable selection nonetheless.
From subsequent season onwards, Xur will start bringing a randomly rolled Hawkmoon and a DMT as a part of his weekly wares, however they are going to be costly.
Flip in these weapon components
When you’re like me and have over 22,000 weapon components, now’s the week to show them in. Subsequent season, Banshee is getting a vendor overhaul, switching over to the identical rank system utilized by Zavala, Drifter, et al. Which means he’ll not be accepting components, and consequently they’re going to be deleted from the sport.
It is tempting to simply let this occur, however do not: for one, you may simply snag a god rolled weapon from the world pool. For an additional, there’s an opportunity a number of the weapons you obtain and subsequently dismantle will grant enhancement cores, that are one of many supplies wanted for weapon crafting subsequent 12 months.
One fast time-saving tip: while you’re delivering weapon components to Banshee, keep watch over the weapons he sells. If any change into greyed out, that signifies that slot of your stock has crammed. Simply pop into your character menu and delete any trash weapons you’ve got been given earlier than you hand in any extra components. This may guarantee your drops do not get despatched to the postmaster, forcing you to run forwards and backwards throughout the tower to handle the a whole bunch of weapons you may be given.
As soon as you’ve got completed with weapon components, you also needs to take care of your stack of Etheric Spirals. The Tangled Shore goes, and so too is the Tangled Shore’s materials of selection. Test in with Spider every each day reset to see if he is buying and selling Spirals for glimmer. When he does, promote all of them off.
Hoard some bounties
If you’d like a fast headstart on XP good points subsequent season, it is value grabbing and finishing some selection bounties this week. Crucially, you do not need to truly flip them in. As an alternative, maintain onto them till you choose up subsequent season’s artifact.
Seasonal artifacts supply a few advantages: first, they unlock that season’s mods, which on the low finish offer you methods to counter Champion enemies, and on the excessive finish supply some absurd buildcrafting utility. Additionally they offer you an account-wide bonus to your Energy degree, which is useful for extra rapidly reaching endgame content material. By delivering your saved bounties after you’ve got secured the artifact, you may earn a pleasant, fast increase to its unlocks and bonuses.
However which bounties to truly save? You must keep away from any seasonal bounties collected from the helm, as they’re going to be deleted when their respective actions are eliminated on Tuesday, with The Witch Queen’s launch. The identical is true of Spider’s bounties: the Tangled Shore is leaving the sport, and so too are his companies. Banshee’s gunsmith bounties are additionally probably getting reworked as a part of his vendor replace, so keep away from these too.
For probably the most XP, concentrate on weekly bounties from the next sources:
- Moon
- Lectern of Enhancement
- Europa
- Cosmodrome
- Hawthorne
- Starhorse
- Iron Banner
The Iron Banner bounties have the attainable further good thing about possibly giving out new Iron Banner weapons from the brand new season, earlier than it truly launches.
If you wish to go additional nonetheless, seize some dailies too. Simply keep away from the Dreaming Metropolis bounties as a result of their XP rewards are dire. Additionally: watch out hoarding exercise bounties for Crucible, Gambit or Strikes. When you flip in eight, you may full the weekly problem and get a Highly effective reward—one thing you need to maintain off on triggering till you are previous the delicate cap.
For a simple visible information to what bounties to focus on, try Future Recipes’ pre-season checklist. Hit the ‘Present Bounties’ possibility for an expanded take a look at what’s accessible for every of your characters.
Financial institution some supplies
When The Witch Queen launches, everybody goes to enter at Energy degree 1350—pressured to start the gear grind yet again. Which means, in the event you’re at the moment at max degree proper now, you are going to should put within the work earlier than you possibly can reenter the highest finish content material like Grasp Nightfalls.
Which means it is value placing in a while to fill your stock stuffed with top-end supplies now, because it might be a number of weeks earlier than you are again on the pinnacle cap subsequent season.
Fortunately, this week’s Dusk can be the best: Lake of Shadows. When you’re not but stuffed with Ascendant Shards, make certain to do a number of runs to fill your stock. This will provide you with an ideal headstart in the event you get some nice rolls on subsequent season’s unique or legendary armour units. Replenish on Improve Modules and Enhancement Prism’s too. Simply watch out if you find yourself going over the stock restrict. It is tremendous to carry a few of every materials in your postmaster, nevertheless it does carry a component of hazard: if the postmaster fills up, the oldest gadgets shall be misplaced, regardless of how beneficial they’re.
You also needs to refill on Paraversal Hauls, which you should purchase from Starhorse for the Unusual Cash you earn from actions. Likelihood is they’re going to at the least improve your energy till you hit the delicate cap, and past which may be helpful for levelling out your energy ranges earlier than incomes new Highly effective engrams. Plus they’ve a uncommon probability of dropping exotics.
Lastly, in the event you actually need to go deep, get farming some Spoils of Conquest. These are the raid foreign money used, on this 12 months’s raids at the least, to get new rolls on weapons and armour you’ve got already unlocked. Likelihood is the system will return for subsequent growth’s raid, which means a stack of Spoils will allow you to get an additional probability at some higher perks on one of many new weapons. You may earn spoils from finishing raid encounters, however in the event you simply need the total grind, you need to discover a group doing Spoils farming on Templar in Vault of Glass. It is a fairly straightforward one-phase making it a fast supply of additional raid money.
Get your gear proper
When you’ve adopted all that, you are practically prepared for The Witch Queen. There are only a few extra issues to care for earlier than you stop out the evening earlier than launch.
Step 1: Be sure to take away all seasonal artifact mods out of your gear. A bug final 12 months precipitated a few of them to get caught in mod slots, unable to be unequipped till a hotfix was deployed. And whereas lightning in all probability will not strike twice, there is not any must take the prospect given that they’re going to be faraway from the sport regardless.
Step 2: Get your greatest weapons out of your vault and onto your characters. Destiny Item Manager—also called probably the most important software within the sport’s historical past—can typically buckle below the extra strain of a brand new launch. Which means you will not essentially have a simple technique to switch gadgets out of your Vault.
Step 3: Equip your greatest trying armour. Future loves to drag you straight into a brand new mission when an growth launches. And so take the time to ensure you’re trying sharp for that opening cutscene.
