Among a wide variety of major, sweeping changes to how the game works and plays, the release of Witch Queen DLC for Destiny 2 is also going to bring about some changes to its Eververse cosmetics store. One particularly noteworthy change is that old Year 1 shaders will no longer be available for sale via Bright Dust.
Namely, the old Year 1 shaders have been a point of contention in Destiny 2, specifically because many players may not have known that they could buy them for Glimmer, rather than spending the comparatively extremely limited Bright Dust currency on them. This was an issue because Glimmer can easily be farmed at any point, while Bright Dust is significantly more difficult to get.
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Thankfully, this should no longer be the case, as these shaders are being taken out of the Bright Dust cosmetic rotation, and will now be exclusively available via the special Year 1 shader bundle. This information has been made available via one of the official Bungie Twitter accounts, highlighting the fact that none of the game's Year 1 shaders would be completely taken off sale, thus letting unaware players spend their Bright Dust on Destiny 2's 30th Anniversary items, for example.
The confusing part about Year 1 shaders was that they have been on sale in a bundle for a mere 1,000 Glimmer ever since Beyond Light came out, but they could also pop up as part of Destiny 2's weekly Bright Dust cosmetic lineup. This would mean that players that weren't aware of the bundle would end up spending Bright Dust, which is particularly hard to stockpile for newcomers to the game, whereas Glimmer is easy to get in Destiny 2.
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