Poor Mod Availability Is Leaving New Destiny Players Behind

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Playing Destiny 2 with a new player will quickly open your eyes to how arcane and unapproachable the game has become. It’s easy to take the language of Destiny for granted once you’ve learned to speak it, but try to teach someone else how to play and you’ll quickly see how hard it is to catch up. We like to make a big deal out of the content vault because it excludes so many new players from important narrative moments, but to be honest, there’s people in my clan that have thousands of hours in the game and still have no idea what’s going on in the story.

The biggest barrier for new players is without a doubt the poor availability of mods. Many mods have become practically essential, and the process for obtaining them hasn’t been updated in years. Destiny 2 is long overdue for an overhaul to mod acquisition, because the current system is leaving new and casual players behind.

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Early on in Destiny 2, mods were pretty straightforward. Weapon mods provided stat boosts to your guns by improving their recoil direction or ready speed, while armor mods gave you useful perks like better target acquisition or more frequent ammo drops. With the introduction of Charged with Light mods in Season of Dawn, mods started providing more powerful synergies that influenced playstyle. Charged with Light mods quickly became core to many builds and mandatory for high-level endgame content like Grandmaster Nightfalls. A new mod category, Warmind Cell mods, was introduced in the following season, and a third type, Elemental Well mods, was introduced during last year’s Season of the Chosen. All three types have come in and out of the meta from season to season, but there