Destiny 2 Forsaken: How to Raise Power Level Fast & Get Raid Ready
Tip 2: Try to Hold Off on Infusing, Collect Masterwork Cores
Your new god in the Destiny 2: Forsaken endgame is the almighty Masterwork Core. For reasons unknown, Bungie has decided to make them a required ingredient in infusion. Meaning, the old days of constantly infusing your favorite gear is over unless you’ve amassed a stockpile of them pre-Forsaken. Planetary materials are also a requirement as well now, but that’s not too bad to farm as long as you have ghosts that can detect caches for you on each planet and do the daily challenges on planets received from the location vendor.
Your new routine is to go visit Spider every day, buy two Masterwork Cores for 30 legendary shards (the third brings the overall cost to 70 legendary shards and that’s not worth it), and then pray for drops. You can get them by chance when dismantling legendary gear, although that’s quite rare so don’t hold your breath. Finally, you can also rarely get an item called Finest Matteweave from dismantling gear, but again, quite rare.
Because of this, it’s best that you just keep/wear whatever your highest equipment is, even if it’s not your favorite, right up until it’s time to jump into the raid. Use all those hoarded Masterwork Cores to get your favorites to the highest power level you got, and then give the raid a go. There’s nothing other than high-end blind well tiers and possibly the Nightfall that you really need to be pushing your power level for. Don’t waste these crucial materials as they will help in making sure your gear is the way you want it, and that you’re raid ready.
