Destiny 2: Abandoned Power Leveling Guide

For the most part, the expansion of Destiny 2 Forsaken has streamlined the power upgrade process. The new level limit is 50, and the new power limit (or speed) is 600, with a soft limit of 500, in which case only "powerful" equipment rewarded with weekly and daily challenges will increase your level. If you wish, you can simply accomplish all the powerful challenges that are offered each week and gradually increase, but there are several ways to optimize this process to get faster and bigger gains.

Hit 500 power

Note that your power level is calculated using all the equipment you own, not just what you have equipped. So, if you do not like a high-level gun, having it on your character or in the vault will benefit your drops. Or you can infuse it into the weapon you really want to use, which brings us to Forsaken's new economy.

The infusion guns are much more expensive now – it costs even the hearts of masterpieces! As a result, you should infuse sparingly, especially when doing upgrades. You will have new powerful gear frequently, so if you try to infuse the same gear after every fall, you will quickly run out of gear. You better wear the new stuff for a while, even if it makes you look awful. The good news is that you can brew the same items at a discounted rate. So, if you have better low level Devils with a good roll, and you get a Better-Devils level with bad rollers, you can infuse your old Better Devils just because it's the same gun . This can seriously reduce costs, so try and blow using duplicates as much as possible.

Start by reading the Forsaken campaign (and unlock a new subclass en route). You should end around level 47 of XP. To reach level 50, I recommend finishing the quest to unlock the dream city because this area will be important later. Talk to Petra and Spider in the Tangled Shore after the campaign to launch this quest. You should be near 50 by the end here. If you are a little short, make some public events. Make sure that the Fireteam medallions sold in the Eververse store are still active. These each cost 50 brilliant powders and increase your experience gains.

Once you reach level 50, you will receive legendary drops that will quickly propel you to 500%. You can speed up this process by exchanging vendor tokens. Once you reach the power of 500, you will have to move on to powerful challenges to increase your level. It also means that you should not have to face significant challenges before you reach 500, because you will lose them essentially. This includes performing exotic quests like that of the ace handgun of spades.

Powerful rewards and where to find them

Powerful challenges can reward weapons or armor and, depending on the type of equipment you need, your reward might not increase. For example, if you have powerful weapons but weak armor and you pull another Edge Transit heavy weapon from a challenge, you probably will not gain any level. In the end, it comes down to RNG, but you can tip the scales in your favor.

Crucially, all powerful drops are not equal: some reward larger power jumps and they become less powerful as your level increases. Different powerful engrams have their own internal soft caps, and once you reach these uppercase letters, they will only drop items one or two levels above your overall power level. So, first group all the powerful challenges according to their power.

Small power (soft cap at 520)

• Crucible: weekly and daily matches (ranking rewards are high power)
• Gambit: weekly and daily matches (ranking rewards are high power)
• Strikes: weekly and daily races
• The weekly bonus of the spider (the one that costs five fragments of ghosts)
• Heroic Mission Missions
• Planetary Flashpoints
• The weekly challenge of Ikora
• Engrams of the Hawthorne Clan

Average power (gentle capped at 540)

• Nightfall Strikes: Weekly races and 100,000 points (note: a rare blue gear that falls in the Nightfall can fall up to five points below your overall level, which can help you fill your gaps), as much as you can repeat the nightfall as many times as you can).

Major power ( sweet capped at 560+)

• Rewards of Petra's Dreaming City: Complete daily bonuses, Weekly Ascents Challenges and make an offering to the Oracle (the description of the Oracle Bid Reward is incorrect: it gives you two high-powered coins)
• Raid last wish
• Prime Engrams (these are somewhat unpredictable, but still give a significant boost)
• Exotic weapon quests (they can be completed on other characters even after unlocking the weapon)

There is not a universal order to accomplish these challenges, but there is a golden rule to follow: if all your equipment is relatively close to your overall power level, get a medium power reward or high, ideally one of Petra's premiums. . This will increase your power using only a few pieces of equipment, allowing you to use small power rewards to fill the gaps in your other equipment. Let's look at an example.

Let's say I have 520 power points in general and all my equipment is between 519 and 521 power points. I complete the bonus of Petra's Ascendant Challenge and I get a 528 weapon. Now I have 521 power points in general. As a result, my small power rewards will drop to 522. If I had cashed in my small rewards before making the Petra bonus, my small rewards would have dropped to 521, so I have practically doubled their value. Now I can get some small rewards to get my old equipment up and increase my power level before my next big drop. If I had gotten another average or wide drop before filling those gaps, it would not be a big jump, and if I had got another heavy weapon, it would not help me at all. .

In other words, if all your equipment is close to the level, you should get a medium or large drop to give you a boost. If a lot of your equipment is below your maximum power level, you should get small drops to equalize things. Again, it all comes down to RNG: it is quite possible to get helmets of all your big rewards for the week, or to get boots from a small reward just for after shooting big rewards. This is only part of the problem, but by chasing big drops with small drops, you can maximize your overall power gains.