Bungie Details Destiny 2: Lightfall's Weapon Crafting Changes

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Destiny 2 developer Bungie has provided an in-depth look at some of the many changes coming to the game's established weapon crafting systems. Having originally been introduced alongside the Witch Queen expansion pack, Destiny's weapon crafting has already received several disparate updates, but the most comprehensive one is yet to come alongside the upcoming Lightfall DLC.

While Destiny 2's simplified weapon crafting has already been announced, Bungie hadn't gone into substantial details on the what and why of the upcoming changes up until now. Over the past couple of weeks, the developer has been consistently releasing more and more in-depth information on what, exactly, is coming alongside the Lightfall DLC, and the new announcement is therefore well within precedent.

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According to Bungie's new weapon crafting blog post, Destiny 2 players can expect a whole slew of changes come Lightfall. The biggest change is also the simplest: only craftable weapons will be eligible to drop as Deepsight (red border) items, making them more interesting and meaningful whenever the player gets one. Bungie has also identified the fact that unique weapon crafting resources aren't integrated into the Destiny economy, and will remove them from the game entirely. Weapon crafting will now instead leverage regular resources, such as legendary shards, enhancement cores, and other such items.

Bungie's response to the Destiny 2 community's feedback on weapon crafting continues, however. In Season 21, players will have the option to apply Deepsight to specific craftable weapons, providing yet another way of unlocking crafting recipes. Better yet, players that want to upgrade a crafted weapon but