Destiny 2 Patch Finally Adds A Way To Keep Track Of Crafting Materials

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The latest update to Destiny 2 brings a whole lot of fixes and changes to the game, but the most notable is a quality-of-life adjustment that makes the new weapon crafting system a little less annoying. It adds a new item to your inventory called the Relic Tether, which lets you track just how much of all the different crafting currencies you've accrued--something you need to know when chasing specific upgrades for your crafted guns.

The Relic Tether is just a small part of Patch 4.0.1, but it's probably what players will notice most. Destiny 2's weapon crafting system runs on a variety of currencies called «elements,» each needed to add different specific mods to your guns. To gain those currencies, you have to use special «Resonant» weapons you receive from random drops--use them enough, and you'll unlock the ability to gain some elements from them. Most Resonant weapons give you a choice of which kind of element you want to receive, but since The Witch Queen launched, your stores of each currency have been hidden whenever you're not actually in the menu to craft weapons. That meant players were never quite sure how much of a given element they might already have when making the choice of which to take.

You can get the Relic Tether from the Relic Conduit at the Enclave, and it'll appear in your inventory on the consumables page. Over your cursor over it and the Relic Tether gives you a full account of all the elements you currently have in your inventory, making the choices of what to take from Resonant weapons a little clearer.

The addition of the Relic Tether is handy, but you shouldn't necessarily need it for long--Bungie is removing several of the element currencies from the game with the start of Season 17,