Weapon crafting in Destiny 2 is going to be much easier next season. In the meantime, the limit for weapon crafting resources will be increased in an upcoming update. The recent “This Week at Bungie” also reveals the roadmap for the rest of the Season of the Risen.
Weapon Crafting Changes
One of the best things about The Witch Queen expansion is weapon crafting. Simply put, weapon crafting requires you to obtain Deepsight Resonance Weapons to extract their patterns and resources. Then, you head to the Mars Enclave to “Shape” the patterns, thus creating the weapons you want.
That said, developers saw that many people are maxing out their crafting resources quite often. To address this, they’re going to increase the limits with Hotfix 4.0.0.4, which will be deployed this coming Tuesday. Element caps will be increased to 1,000, while the Neutral Element cap to 10,000.
Furthermore, elements other than the Neutral Element will be removed next season. This means that Ruinous, Adroit, Mutable, Drowned, and Energetic elements will no longer be needed to craft weapons in Season 17. The reason is that some specific ones, such as Ruinous and Adroit, became redundant and are in conflict with Neutral Elements and Ascendant Alloys. In other words, the devs just want to streamline weapon crafting moving forward.
While they have not disclosed anything specific, developers have some areas they’re looking to improve. First, they will look into giving you more control over unlocking patterns from Deepsight weapons. Second, they are finding ways to make Deepsight weapon stockpiling, acquisition, and progression better. Third, they’re internally discussing feedback from the community about reshaping costs, so that you can experiment with different trait selections more frequently.
Season 16 Roadmap Revealed
It has been almost a month since the Season of the Risen started, but developers want you to know what’s in store for you for the rest of Season 16. Some of the events that you want to take note of are the release of Grandmaster Nightfalls, the Master Difficulty for Vow of the Disciple raid, and the Guardian Games. Here is a full rundown:
- March 15 (This Week!): Iron Banner and a New PsiOps Battlegrounds Location
- March 22: Legend PsiOps Battlegrounds, Vow of the Disciple Challenges
- April 1: Trials Labs - Zone Capture
- April 5: Grandmaster Nightfalls
- April 8: Trials Labs - Freelance
- April 12: Iron Banner
- April 19: Vow of the Disciple Master Difficulty
- April 22: Trials Labs – Zone Capture
- May 3 – May 24: Guardian Games
- May 6: Trials Labs – Freelance, Community voted map
- May 10: Iron Banner
- May 20: Trials Labs – Freelance and Zone Capture
So, which of these upcoming events are you most excited about? Besides that, what are your thoughts about the proposed changes to weapon crafting in Season 17?
