Destiny 2’s current season, Season of the Seraph, is the final season for the game’s fifth year and will set the stage for the coming battle with Calus and The Witness in Lightfall. The season tasks players with rebuilding and reawakening the Warmind Rasputin with the aid of the Brays, Mara Sov, and Osiris to aid in the coming battle with The Witness and its disciples. However, the Hive god of war Xivu Arath is also looking to claim the Warmind’s dormant armory to turn it against The Last City and its allies, along with the treasure trove of secrets inside Rasputin’s databanks.

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Bungie has already been making changes to the game in preparation for the next expansion’s release on February 28, 2023, with more set to come over the coming weeks. In the latest TWAB post, the studio said one of these changes will see blue engrams stop dropping from world drops for players once they hit whatever the soft cap for gear power for that expansion or season. Instead, a Glimmer bauble will drop in its place holding the equivalent amount players would get for dismantling the blue gear outright.

The change to blue engrams also brings with it an adjustment to gunsmith leveling, as dismantling blue gear contributed to players working to rank up their gunsmith level with Banshee-44. Bungie acknowledges this and, in response, will be increasing “Gunsmith reputation gains by +25%” The studio also acknowledged the change may not affect every blue drop in the game, but it should cast a wide-enough net to help alleviate player frustrations.

As mentioned above, the change has been one that longtime players have been asking for from Bungie for a few years now to help make gear and reward management easier. It was due to blue gear effectively becoming useless once players hit the soft cap and simply took up space in the inventory, potentially costing players gear they have been chasing from certain activities. That said, it would not be surprising to see players celebrate this change along with the coming changes to buildcrafting in Lightfall that Bungie recently outlined in a standalone blog post.

Destiny 2 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Source: Bungie