Destiny 2 players will lose a major resource next season

Bungie finally ends its ten-year long reign. Destiny 2’s planetary materials.

In its usual Thursday blog, the studio revealed that starting in season 19 — which starts Dec. 6 — the various collectible materials found on in-game planets will be going (mostly) away. Since the first game, some players have collected these materials such as Spinmetal. DestinyThese materials have been used in a wide variety of ways over the course the series. These materials can currently be traded for GlimmerDestiny 2’s default money) and Upgrade Modules, which players use to level up their gear.

Starting next season, players will still be able to turn their old materials in for Glimmer, but they won’t be able to earn anymore. The catch-up kiosk’s upgrade materials and exotics will not require any planetary material. Instead, players will need more Legendary Shards which can be obtained by dismantling their old gear.

Bungie says that it is simplifying the economy to help new players. Players will be restricted from picking up six planet materials starting December.

• Dusklight Shards
• Datalattice for Microphasic Applications
• Helium Filaments
• Baryon Breads
• Spinmetal Leaves
• Glacial Starwort

Once players have exchanged all of these materials, they’ll instead be able to exchange other resources for Glimmer, like the Dreaming City’s Dark Fragments or Herealways Pieces from Europa. Glimmer-starved players will be able dive on to planets for Public Events. In season 19, Heroic Public Events are now available. Each completion will earn between 10,000 to 12,500 Glimmer. The average run will bring players less than 5,000 Glimmer.

Players will still have the ability to gather the material nodes found on planets. However, instead of picking up the material and putting it in their inventories, the game will automatically exchange the pickup for Glimmer and XP — much like Fynch in Savathun’s Throne World. However, old planetary vendors won’t be getting the same planetary reputation system that Fynch has — at least not just yet.

As for the rest of the blog, Bungie revealed some great artwork for the new Gundam-inspired skins coming to the game with next week’s Halloween event, Festival of the Lost. (We still don’t know much about what players will be doing in Festival of the Lost this year). A host of PvP-focused weapon variations were also disclosed by the studio to specific weapon archetypes. We suggest checking out our blog.