Destiny 2 is getting a crafting rework, crafting for old raids

It finally arrived! Destiny 2 with this year’s The Witch Queen expansion. But what started as a promising addition has started to grade on players in the recent months — especially with how much additional grinding the system has added to the game.

However, in Thursday’s weekly Bungie blog, the studio detailed some major changes coming to the system in February 2023’s Lightfall Expandement, as well as the announcement that crafting weapons will finally be available Beyond Light’s Deep Stone Crypt raid later this year.

Starting with Deep Stone Crypt crafting, Bungie announced that players will be able to craft weapons from the two-year-old raid starting Dec. 6, with the launch of the game’s next season. As usual, players will need to collect Deepsight Resonance (red border) weapons from the raid in order to extract that weapon’s Pattern. Once they’ve unlocked the Pattern, Guardians will be able to craft that weapon and put specific perks on it.

Bungie noted in the blog that it’s reconfigured several of the perk pools for these weapons, meaning players can expect more combinations than what has existed on these guns for the past two years. Finally, Bungie revealed it won’t add a puzzle chest that guarantees a red border weapon each week — like Vow of the Disciple and King’s Fall have. Players will still be able purchase one Deepsight Resonance weapon once per week from the last chest. Players will be able run Deep Stone Crypt raids over and over for the chance to earn Patterns on weeks that Deep Stone Crypt has been the featured raid.

Studio also announced major changes to crafting. Lightfall — which will be just about a year since the system’s debut. Bungie feels that Deepsight Resonance weapons are too common, so weapons that can’t be crafted will no longer drop with a red border. Guardians will be able to select a weapon pattern that they want to use. LightfallThere are many ways you can gain Weapon Patterns.

This blog has one of the most intriguing points, but it is not fully fleshed out. Bungie points out that killing in raid encounters such as Shuro Chi can be boring and a bad way to increase your weapon level. This is true, according to my personal experience. In the future, the studio wants to reduce “loadout stress” by not forcing players to use suboptimal/underleveled crafted weapons. This suggests that there will be another — hopefully faster — way to level up crafted weapons in Lightfall.

Bungie will surely reveal more details about how it’s changing crafting ahead of Lightfall’s launch on Feb. 28, 2023.