Destiny 2 Witch Queen\u2019s most exciting feature is still a complete mystery BungieDestiny 2\u2019s Witch Queen expansion arrives next month, but its weapon crafting feature remains under wraps. Could it be a game-changer? We\u2019re just over a month away from the next big chapter of Destiny 2, the Witch Queen, and there\u2019s plenty that we know is coming. We know to expect a new campaign, and a recent trailer showed us Savathun\u2019s Throne World in more detail. We also know that there will be a Raid and that Season 16 will arrive alongside the new expansion. And yet, we\u2019re still waiting to hear more about what is potentially the most exciting new system in years: Weapon crafting. As we\u2019ve covered in the past, Destiny 2\u2019s next expansion will add a new form of weapon crafting to the game. Revealed during Bungie\u2019s Witch Queen reveal, and with a Polygon interview filling in some of the blanks, here\u2019s what we know so far. Upgrades won\u2019t come from finding resources (as in Destiny 1) – Weapons can be upgraded after spending more time with them – All Throne World weapons, including raid weapons, will work – The system will let players \u201cforge new weapons and level them up with customizable perks\u201d – Weapon crafting \u201cwon\u2019t be like other MMOs\u201d – Why Destiny 2 Witch Queen\u2019s new weapon crafting could be so important Even with those pieces of knowledge, there\u2019s an awfully large gray area in there. Destiny 1 perks were unlocked through piling Motes of Light into perks, while Destiny 2 allows for swapping between perks as soon as you pick up a gun \u2013 something which I think has been received much better. We know that the new Glaive weapon type will be crafted (at least initially) using the system but will our existing arsenal be getting more customizable when Destiny 2 The Witch Queen arrives? Bungie has long had a tricky balancing act between making the grind for a \u201cGod roll\u201d weapon rewarding, and not just a continual gamble for your time and energy. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to get some decent rolls, sure, but I\u2019m also not the kind of player that ran Presage ad nauseam to get the perks I wanted on the Dead Man\u2019s Tale. Should I be able to re-roll my Servant Leader in the hopes of a better perk, or do I need to keep grinding Gambit for a different version? These are questions Bungie is likely asking itself regularly, but I think The Division may be a good place to look for inspiration (no, really). Once players gained access to a Recalibration station in the first game, they were able to re-roll armor perks within reason. Maybe Bungie could require that you burn a certain number of legendary shards or other rolls for the privilege or something, but there\u2019s got to be a way to make it happen. Bungie has seemingly committed to Destiny 2 as an RPG almost as much as Destiny 2 as a shooter, but it\u2019s also been careful not to make many concessions to the more casual player base. Still, our Guardians are getting much more customizable. Sure, we have to earn Stasis Aspects to tweak that subclass, and it\u2019s likely Void abilities will get that same system when Witch Queen arrives. Still, with Bungie opening up more customization options across the board, it feels like weapon tweaking could be a natural extension of that. We can already re-roll Vault of Glass exotics, lest we forget. Aside from all of this, being able to re-roll current weapons would go some way to stymying the constant outcry for more vault space. Would you really need half a dozen \u201cnearly\u201d rolls of a Bottom Dollar if you could get an ideal roll by mixing and matching them? All of this is speculation at this point, but it seems that Witch Queen could make considerable changes to loot farming. There are still an absolute ton of questions over how it\u2019ll work, so here\u2019s hoping for a TWAB soon with more information on whether this could be a mammoth shakeup for Destiny 2 weapons and armor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 Witch Queen\u2019s most exciting feature is still a complete mystery BungieDestiny 2\u2019s Witch Queen expansion arrives next month, but its weapon crafting feature remains under wraps. Could it be a game-changer? We\u2019re just over a month away from the next big chapter of Destiny 2, the Witch Queen, and there\u2019s plenty that we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}