You’ll still be completing quests, exploring the storyline, farming raids and strikes, and boosting in Destiny 2 to achieve new upgrades and unlock new lands and territories.
Start and character selection
When you first log into the Bungie server, you will choose one of the three proposed characters, who will become your main character.
You will be able to choose between a defender, a support character and an attacking class, although these are not absolute values and each class will have all the necessary capabilities to defend and attack and contribute to the battle against monsters and other players.
Titan
This is a hero who combines the capabilities of a marksman and a full-fledged defender who can use his shield to protect himself and his allies from monsters and other players.
It has heavy armor, which is quite difficult to penetrate without a special weapon and concentrated damage, so in PVP tanks are often the last to be killed.
You will have steel fists that will allow you to go into close combat and deliver a powerful blow to the ground, which will knock over all enemies who are at close range, which will unbalance them.
Warlock
You can choose the Warlock class, if you want to have good attacking potential, but at the same time be able to help yourself and your allies, then you need to choose this class.
You will have the opportunity to use enhanced magical attacks to cause massive damage to opponents who are standing next to each other.
Hunter
This is a full-fledged attack hero who can easily handle any type of weapon and provides himself with a D2 boost in melee and ranged combat.
You will be able to penetrate the target’s armor, which is especially useful during raids, PVP and solo hunting.
Subclass system
Each character can use unique bonuses that the subclass system provides if you choose this path.
To do this, you will need special cartridges that correspond to the subclass and are dropped from monsters during hunting in all locations in Destiny 2.
There are four subclasses in total – void, lightning, sun and stand.
The Void allows you to enhance your skills, which is great for Warlock and allows you to increase damage from mass skills and incoming healing when creating zones.
Lightning allows you to add magic damage to all targets that are at close range, which is perfect for titans, who will deal their share of damage even while in deep defense.
The sun allows you to concentrate energy and deal increased damage to the target, which is best used by hunters, because they deal damage from a long distance and very rarely go into close combat, which is especially effective in reducing the health of bosses in raids and during solo grind, or PVP.
The Stand is a new subclass that has appeared in Destiny 2 since the release of the major Lightfall update and which can be useful for all classes without exception and will help boosting in Destiny 2.
For the Titan, this is an opportunity to equip his steel fists with daggers and give them a bloodletting effect.
For a warlock, this is an opportunity to change the effect of mass damage and give it a shrapnel effect, which will create the area with small fragments and cause damage to all players and monsters that are in this radius.
For the hunter, this is a combination of ranged and melee mechanics using ritual Chinese weapons with quick switching.
Quests
The most common way to gain experience and glimmers in Destiny 2 is through the quest system.
These are tasks that local NPCs offer you as part of repelling an alien attack and protecting your home planet.
Quests are systematic and require the player to destroy a certain number of monsters and deliver messages to commanders like Saint 13.
Story quests are long and often follow each other to ensure the player progresses through levels and moves on to new upgrades. The current addition is called Lightfall and will take you to the planet Neptune, where you will continue your leveling in Destiny 2 under the leadership of Saint 13.
If you carefully monitor NPCs in locations, you will find special marks above their heads, which mean that your level is sufficient to take on their quests.
Often they are completed in the same location where you take them, and if you combine them with story quests, you can get a good boost in Destiny 2, especially if you continue to grind until your inventory is filled with resources, or local monsters outgrow the level.
Hunting
In Destiny 2, all three heroes can perfectly level up by shooting monsters in locations.
To do this, you don’t even have to use special class skills, just shoot in the head and all enemies will quickly lose their health.
For many players, this will be a great relaxation and an opportunity to accumulate level in Destiny 2 and glimmers simply by shooting and enjoying this process, even without being tied to quests and contracts, but it is better to combine them – it’s more profitable and useful.
Contracts
D2 has a contract mechanic, which is similar to quests, but their objectives are less focused on specific goals.
Contracts reward game actions and the use of mechanics, rather than killing monsters and delivering errands.
This can be the use of certain weapons, ammunition, shooting at heads and other tasks that open up new mechanics for players and offer to add them to your gameplay.
As a reward for completing contracts, you will receive a boost in D2, but it is extremely important to complete the contract on time – within a day or week it will be updated and there cannot be an intermediate result – the task is either completed or not.
The contract can be renewed ahead of schedule if you have already completed it by simply paying glimmers to the contract master in the capital. In this way, you can get leveling in D2 by simply exchanging money for the opportunity to gain experience.
Raids
Each player, as their levels increase, should begin to go to raids and strikes in order to receive weapons and armor of the Mythic and Legendary level, which have the best characteristics for attacking and defending your character, taking into account the class, with an advantage in the direction of damage or defense.
All dungeon content will begin with strikes – these are mini-raids that are designed for three players, but it is quite possible to complete it alone, although this will not be an easy task.
Strike is a linear dungeon where you need to follow a straight path and destroy all the monsters and then switch your damage to the boss.
Keep your distance and use your skills to reduce the boss’s health and dodge his main skills. As a reward, you will have a chance to receive weapons and armor and, most importantly, a cheap boost in D2 and not share it with other players.
A raid is a zone that requires a minimum group of three people and can go up to nine depending on the difficulty of the dungeon.
The normal difficulty level is quite easy to complete and serves as an introduction to the zone and the opportunity to obtain weapons and armor for a higher difficulty – heroic.
The heroic difficulty level increases the health and attack of the boss, but the rewards also become better and approach epic, which will allow you to prepare for the most difficult and profitable type of raid – Mythic.
Mythic difficulty level, the most difficult and rewarding type of raids, because it allows you to get legendary weapons and armor and the most experience for killing the boss, even taking into account the large number of players who take part in it.
The disadvantage of such raids is that the reward is randomly distributed among all participants, but experience and boosting in D2 go to all players in equal amounts.
Of course, people go to raids more for drops than for experience, because they have a good chance of getting the best types of rewards.
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