Destiny 2 Taking Steps to Eliminate Easy Artifice Armor Farming

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Bungie has made it effectively impossible to continue abusing Destiny 2's weekly dungeon rotator, thus eliminating the ongoing Artifice armor bonanza which allowed players to effortlessly farm high-end gear. Since it can be quite challenging for players to get their hands on properly rolled armor pieces while playing regular content, mechanics that make the process easier and more streamlined are highly sought after, which can sometimes force the developer's hand.

Efficiency is an important aspect of farming endgame content in Destiny 2, and whenever there's a better way of doing things to prepare for the game's most difficult content, players will jump at the opportunity to use it. The latest example of this being the case, however, seems to have been a bit excessive for Bungie's taste.

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Specifically,Destiny 2 players could farm the Duality dungeon for easy and fast Artifice armor drops all week long, due to the fact that it came up as the featured piece of weekly content. It didn't take long for the community to figure out that it was possible to bug out the boss in the first encounter, Gahlran, and then quickly reset everything to try it all over again. Setting up such a fast and streamlined Artifice farming method was apparently too much for Bungie's taste, however, and the developer has now disabled the activity rejoin checkpoint to slow things down.

Despite its buggy nature, Destiny 2's Duality dungeon has always been a popular spot for armor farming. It's a relatively simple and easy dungeon that doesn't take long to complete with a competent fireteam. Even now that Bungie has disabled the dungeon checkpoint everyone was gunning for,