Destiny 2 Plans To Fix Weapon Crafting Next Season By Eliminating Elements

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Crafting hasn’t been as successful as Bungie had hoped. When weapon crafting was first revealed to eager Destiny 2 fans, Guardians thought it would finally let them craft the perfect weapon, making all others inferior and opening up some much-needed vault space. Players also thought that weapon crafting would allow for greater experimentation, letting Guardians swap between perks to see what version of the weapon they prefer.

None of those expectations were met when weapon crafting arrived in The Witch Queen expansion. Rather than open up vault space, Guardian vaults are now more jam-packed than ever as players are required to use Deepsight Weapons in order to first unlock their blueprints and then extract necessary crafting materials. On top of that, reshaping a weapon requires even more hard-to-acquire materials, which disincentives experimentation.

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Along with problems with the new enhanced perks and Deepsight weapon drop rates, weapon crafting is easily the biggest pain point of what was otherwise a stellar Destiny 2 expansion. However, Bungie has been listening to players over the past several weeks and is starting to share its plan to save weapon crafting.

In today’s TWAB update, Bungie confirmed changes are on the way for weapon crafting. Starting next Tuesday, the weapon element caps that have stymied players for so long will be increased so players won’t be forced to save Deepsight weapons in their vaults in order to stockpile crafting materials. And starting next season, the Ruinous, Adroit, Mutable, Drowned, and Energetic elements will be removed entirely so only Neutral elements remain

This is only a partial fix of course, but