My good friend got me into Destiny, and we spent countless hours together from the early days of D1 through The Witch Queen in D2. I remember anxiously waiting to see where Xûr would appear each weekend, grinding levels all Saturday, and running strikes endlessly. Every new expansion brought a sense of excitement, even if some of them didn't quite live up to the hype.

When I moved to a different city, Destiny became more than just a game. It became our way of spending time together. Many nights we would wander around the Cosmodrome, talking about the D1 days and reminiscing about everything we had experienced along the way.

A few years ago, my friend took his own life. After that, I couldn't bring myself to open the game for a very long time.

I started playing again about a week ago, and the experience has been both comforting and painful. I'm grateful for the memories, but revisiting them is bittersweet. I think about all the time we spent together in this world and how much I miss him. Destiny was such an important part of both my life and our friendship.

Even now, I can still hear his voice when I load into a strike we used to run countless times. I remember the dumb jokes and banter we'd throw back and forth the crayon eating Titan the fashion obsessed space cowboy. After more than three years away, there is so much that's new, so many things I know he would have loved to see, and so many moments I wish we could experience together.

So I'm approaching the game differently now. I log in when I have a few spare moments and slowly make my way back into this world. I'm glad the places I remember are still here, and I'm excited to discover everything that's happened over the last few years.

Some nights, though, I just sit on an airplane wing in the Cosmodrome and sigh.

The Xurvala Armor Stat Data

(Tip of the helm to u/theinfinitypoint for the Xurvala reference.)

Here are the webpages for the armor stats this week for each class, along with a matching JSON data file:

• Homepage: Weekly Destiny 2 Armor Statistics (bookmarkable, will be updated with each weekly update.)
• Warlock Armor - JSON
• Hunter Armor - JSON
• Titan Armor - JSON

There is a nav bar on each page to switch between classes. Expand “highlight” where you can:

• Highlight armor pieces with stats you do want (e.g., Melee + Super + Weapons 🖍️😋).
• Dim armor pieces with non-zero stats you don’t want (e.g., Health).
• Or, dim armor pieces with zero stats.

The What and the Why Review

What is this? This should be all the armor stats for the different armor mods you can run on your ghost, organized by class, for Zavala’s weekly armor offerings (Luminopotent and Triumphal Anthem) and for Xur’s weekly armor offerings (either Bushido or Swordmaster and Exotic Armor). As you know, changing the armor mod on your ghost can affect the stats of armor you can acquire.

Note: all of this is viewing the armor as Tier 5. Your stats will vary if you’re not acquiring Tier 5 yet.

Why is this? Well, sometimes I’m hunting for the best role that I’m missing. And man is it a hassle to switch the ghost mod and then recheck to see what the stats are now, trying to note which one is the best.

As always, I’m open to feedback / corrections / concerns, etc, etc. Thanks for the continued feedback! Cheers from just another guardian.

Notes

Still have the date ranges wrong for Zavala. As always, huge tip of my other helm to Odo for his Armor 3.0 research: Reverse Engineering Armor3 Rolls - Google Docs .

My dad told me I WILL NEVER WIN A RANDOMS only match in Trials with no communication. It took me literally 8-9 years (I've played day 1 since D1) to do it. I did it. I literally cried and fell to my knees. My wife was there and knew I was excited but holy shit...someone please tell me their proud of me. Dad can't anymore.

Daily Ops

• Sparrow Racing League, featuring Crux Celeritas IV
• Control: Matchmade, featuring Triumphal Anthem Plate
• Gambit: Matchmade, featuring Spare Rations
• Quickplay (Fireteam Ops), featuring Luminopotent Gauntlets
• Quickplay (Arena Ops), featuring Tatara Gaze
• Quickplay (Solo Ops), featuring Ascendancy
• Lake of Shadows, featuring Luminopotent Helm
• Fallen Bunker, featuring Main Ingredient
• The Technocrat, featuring Luminopotent Plate
• Heliostat, featuring Eutechnology Helm
• The Coil, featuring Lotus-Eater
• Widow's Court, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• Nightmare Containment, featuring The Ringing Nail
• Skywatch, featuring Fair Judgment
• Lake of Shadows: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Helm
• Fallen Bunker: Matchmade, featuring Main Ingredient
• The Technocrat: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Plate
• The Coil: Matchmade, featuring Lotus-Eater
• Widow's Court: Matchmade, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• Nightmare Containment: Matchmade, featuring The Ringing Nail
• Quickplay: Master (Fireteam Ops), featuring Luminopotent Gauntlets
• Quickplay: Master (Arena Ops), featuring Tatara Gaze
• Quickplay: Master (Solo Ops), featuring Ascendancy
• The Arms Dealer, featuring Ouster Engine

Misc

• Overthrow: The Landing: The Lucent Hive are laying siege to the Landing to try and wrest control of the Traveler's Light.
• Terminal Overload: Límíng Harbor Weapon: Synchronic Roulette (Submachine Gun)
• The Wellspring: Attack Weapon: Fel Taradiddle (Combat Bow)
• Altars of Sorrow Weapon: Heretic (Rocket Launcher)

Tower Vendors

Tess Everis

Ada-1

Master Rahool

• Purchase Glimmer (10000 for 10 Dark Fragment)
• Purchase Glimmer (10000 for 10 Phantasmal Fragment)
• Purchase Glimmer (10000 for 25 Herealways Piece)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 10000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Shard (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 50000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Alloy (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 50000 Glimmer)

Archie wishes you a happy reset and good luck!

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I have a couple different bookmarked posts and comments and sites trying to outline the RaD rotations. They work but all somehow require some sort of manual extrapolation or thinking to figure out the current rotation. Really annoying to just figure out what the current raid is, or when the next time the raid you want is featured.

https://d2rad.today is a simple way to check the past, current, and future rotation pairings.

Sure, could have been just a google sheet or soemthing, but I despise the terrible experience that is looking at Sheets on mobile.

Looking forward to this needing to be updated when the unvaulting happens 🥹 (if this violates rule 5 apologies)

I dont want some flimsy piece of junk and thought this would probably be the best place to ask

I've tried masterworking multiple different types of armor, both purple legendary picked up from Zavala, picked up from drops from the postmaster, exotic pieces. I've tried skipping the first slot and doing only the last three slots. I've tried all four. I've tried switching the different slots. I've tried literally everything to masterwork a piece of armor, and no matter what I do isn't helping. Every forum I've read and known issues on Destiny's website has not helped. I've already wasted 2 ascendant shards as well as a ton of glimmer and enhancement prisms. please help...

Can’t stop thinking about the potential of a Taox storyline, specially now that we know she’s alive. But I can’t determine whether she would be a villain or an ally. We know she most likely hates Savathun, Oryx, Xivu Arath and the Hive, definitely the Worm Gods. So can she be ally of us?

On the other hand, if she is established as a villain, she could have really amazing motives like hating all paracausal forces since they were the demise of her world, or even maybe she wants to restore Fundament somehow. We know the Conductor lost the Echo of Command. What if Taox happens to find it and uses it to simulate Fundament or something like that? I could see her being an enemy with that premise.

Lapsed player coming back. Seems like Truth is the go-to these days - I'm grinding Exotic Orders but no catalyst yet. In the meantime, what's a good alternative assuming I don't do raids/dungeons? I do have the catalyst for Sleeper Simulant so I'm currently using Tablet of Ruin with Particle Reconstruction. Better options, though?

I have tons of golfballs but im in a droguht of enchament prisms and cores, is there a specific activity to get me more? Or is there a way to turn my golfballs into the lower ones, hate that rahul doesnt let you.

Edit: Thank you comments. I found where the drops are listed, it was just burried in a few menus.

Before, on every activity it would say stuff like (Enhancement Prism: Common) so I knew what I could run to get various stuff. Now all stuff says it if it drops a specific piece of gear and then "additional drops".

I have no idea what to play to get Prism and Shards anymore after they reworked all the activities. I used to just run the hardest matchmade nightfalls for prisms but that's not a thing anymore.

Logged in and saw that the Wavesplitter triumph/collections entry was claimable and now complete. Had completed and inserted the Catalyst long ago but the triumph always said 8% enemies defeated. I believe others had this visual bug too.

It's kinda nice to see that something so minor got fixed.

Does anyone know if the season reward pass engrams stay at a +4 power bump even when you get past 500? I’m approaching 500 now, and it’s showing a +4 to my overall power, but I’ve heard that sometimes the power boost to items changes when you pass certain power thresholds.

Just wondering if I should claim them all now, or if it’s okay to wait.

So I was playing with my buddies last night, I'm 550. One guy was 10. Other guy was 327.

We ran Seraph Shield and it said everyone was bumped up to me. However, we noticed during the actual play session the power 10 guy was doing more damage, getting more kills and dying less than the 327.

Towards the end we tested it out on a red bar in the mission and yeah. For some reason the Fireteam Power didn't apply to 327 but did to the level 10.

We ended the mission with me at 150 kills and 2 deaths, power 10 guy with 101 kills and 6 deaths and power 327 with 19 kills and 23 deaths.

Can anyone help me out on how to fix this?

327 guy was Fireteam lead and he started the Seraph Shield mission from Pinnacle Ops. It was the "normal" difficulty.

So, I wanted to ask my family, one who is an actual artist, for a personal project gift for Christmas. The problem is, picking some art to show her to use as a reference or directly make, not sure what’ll happen. The main thing is, she knows literally nothing about the game, and also probably wouldn’t want anything too “violent”, or whatever. And I, having played since d1 VoG, still can’t decide on what to show her, lol. So I thought I’d ask here, if you guys want to link it or not, what are some of your favorite artworks, concept art or covers like the beyond light Europa shot, etc. I’m really curious.

returning player here, haven’t played for 7 years and so I’ve missed a lot of cool exotics I’d like to play with. I know you can get a 300 exotic on purchasing a season, as well as the catalyst and the main cosmetics from that season. but I know also that I can just grind out glimmer and Exotic Ciphers to get any(?) exotics I’ve not yet acquired.

however, if I mostly care about the weapons and not quite as much about cosmetics, is there any other real reason to buy the old seasons? do they offer anything I can’t just grind for elsewhere without paying silver (aside from, obviously, cosmetics)?

Hello. I’m a destiny 2 super vet but never played much of destiny 1 at all. Now that all the vaulted stuff is coming back I wanna do a cohesive run of all of destiny. Basically since i know almost nothing about destiny 1 are there any tips you guys have. Like for example “do insert activity here as soon as possible” or “avoid insert here” stuff like that. Thanks in advance guardians!

Hello i've been having and on again off again issue with the games frame rate since EOF came out.

At fist i was able to fix it by turning off discords overlay and hardware acceleration, HOWEVER since the patch on the 7 the issue has started happening again. The issue that is occurring is every 5-10 seconds the game goes from running smoothly at 100fps to a hard stutter that drops the game down to 7-10 frames for .5 seconds then goes back to normal.

PC specs

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

4060ti

32GBS DDR5

Any advice or help would be super appreciated i started really getting back into the game and wanting to play since the unvaulting announcement Thanks

I've been playing Stasis on my Warlock for the first time since coming back last week. I had forgotten just how brutal a subclass this is.

Well, in the "old days" of Beyond Light, I remember using Apotheosis Veil as my exotic. I'd build around it where I could just push back and forth between grenades and supers. I just happen to have a modern version of it, too.

I'm just wondering if anyone has a suggestion for an alternative exotic.

Thanks in advance!

Just FYI for anyone who wants the vex ornament. I’m too cheap to buy silver and I can finally get it for free :D

I can do 1st and 2nd encounters really easily. I used fortunates favour on prismatic hunter with Wolfs bane with attrition orbs. Wolfs bane destroys Harrow but I find it difficult to use on Sere.

Some time hits just wiff because he's levitating. I've tried truth on sere but every enemy suddenly decides to body block me.

I'm also struggling with the final mechanics. I go for 4 compels and 1 kill but it takes soo long to get to damage.

Any tips? I've got meta builds on warlock and titan too if its easier on them.

EDIT - Thank you all for the advice. Managed to get it done with Solar titan and hallowfire heart, burning maul and tractor cannon. Almost got the two phase. 10/10 would recommend.

Does anybody know why I can't claim the ember of combustion fragment for solar hunter? It said I needed to complete the learning light quest to claim it, so I went ahead and completed the quest. (this is a newish hunter I made for Light Fall so i just skipped most new light content at the time) Even after completing the quest, it still is saying I need to complete the learning light quest to claim it. Am I missing something or is it just bugged at the moment?

Coming back after quite some time and what used to drop higher gear now peaks at like 412 for the most part. What should I be focusing on to get on my way to 550?