Bungie is shaking up Destiny 2’s economy in The Witch Queen
Destiny 2’s The Witch Queenexpansion is only a few weeks away, and Bungie is ramping up its weekly blog posts. The studio revealed on Thursday that the game will get some major economic shifts when the new expansion hits on Feb. 22, as well as the date for the next raid — Saturday, March 5, a little less than two weeks after release.
The biggest reveal around the economy is that Bungie will decrease the amount of “blue drops” in Destiny2. Blues are “rare” weapons and armor in Destiny, and they’re largely useless. They serve a purpose when players are first leveling up, but quickly clutter players’ inventories during the weeks and months between a new season or expansion.
Starting in The Witch Queen, blue engrams won’t drop in playlist activities (Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit) for Guardians who have surpassed the Power “soft cap” — the point where blues stop being useful. While this means that players will still stumble on more blues when exploring the world around them, it should make inventory management much more streamlined.
Banshee-44, the Gunsmith, will also see a big rework for The Witch Queen. Like Zavala and Shaxx before him, Banshee will get his own reputation track. Players can level up Banshee’s rep — and presumably get some rewards — by dismantling Legendary or Exotic weapons and completing his specific bounties. Because of this change, veteran players will need to spend all of their Gunsmith Materials and Weapon Telemetries before the expansion hits, as they’ll disappear on Feb. 22.
Mod Components, which players currently use to buy old weapon and armor mods from Banshee-44 and Ada-1, are also going away. Players can instead buy mods with Glimmer, and both vendors will sell four mods a day instead of just
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