For both newcomers and longtime players, there are some major changes coming toDestiny 2to get excited about throughout the coming year. Things kick into high gear on July 15 withDestiny 2’s The Edge of Fate expansion, and two major updates as well as another expansion will arrive by the end of 2025. Not only will there be all-new content for players to dive into throughout each of these new updates and expansions, but some of the changes and new features coming to the game will forever change buildcrafting inDestiny 2.
After being teased for a while now,Destiny 2’s Armor 3.0 system will finally arrive in the upcomingThe Edge of Fateexpansion. More specifically, every new legendary armor and weapon inDestiny 2from this point onward will have reworked stats, new set bonuses, and gear will be categorized by a new loot-tier system.
Breaking Down Destiny 2’s Armor 3.0 Changes and The Edge of Fate’s New Gear and Loot Features
Destiny 2’s Reworked Character Stats Explained
InThe Edge of Fateexpansion and beyond, the character stats that come fromplayers’ armor inDestiny 2will be completely reworked to provide new effects. The hard cap of 100 in each character stat is being raised to 200, so players will be able to take advantage of further benefits and additional, enhanced benefits from any character stats that exceed 100.
Destiny 2’s Legendary Armor Set Bonuses Explained
The gear sets shown inDestiny 2’sThe Edge of Fatereveal offer bonuses for wearing two and four matching pieces from a specific set of legendary armor, which leaves room for players to take advantage of a four-piece bonus or mix and match two two-piece bonuses, while stillwearing an Exotic armor piece. However, one of the set bonuses revealed so far has a four-piece set bonus that requires activating the two-piece set bonus in order to work, so some armor sets are better off being used as a full set or not at all.
Destiny 2’s New Armor and Weapon Loot Tiers Explained
As players grow accustomed to the difficulties of exploringthe new planet, Kepler, and other endgame activities inDestiny 2, higher tiers of legendary gear will become available. So far, there are said to be five tiers of gear available in The Edge of Fate expansion, though this may expand in the near future.
On weapons, higher-tier weapons will generally be stronger, and tier-five weapons will be distinguishable via a unique shader system and a visual on-kill effect. While it hasn’t been confirmed yet, higher tiers of weapons will presumably be more likely to have multiplerandom weapon perk rollsavailable in each column. For armor, higher tiers will correlate to the armor having higher overall character stats, and more energy for armor mod slots.
