5 Things to Do After Beating Destiny 2: Forsaken (Endgame)

Destiny 2: Forsaken gives Guardians a chance to return to the game they know and love with gusto. There’s plenty to see and do already, but if you beat the main game, you’re probably wondering what you should do for the endgame content. Here’s 5 things you can do after beating Destiny 2: Forsaken, to dive into its post game content.

5 Things to Do After Beating Destiny 2: Forsaken (Endgame)

Unlock and Explore The Dreaming City

Without a doubt, the very first thing you want to do when you beat Destiny 2: Forsaken’s campaign is to go straight into working on unlocking The Dreaming City via the post game quest from Petra. While Ikora and Zavala might be satisfied with Uldren’s death, Petra is not, and you have more to do. You can follow our guide for how to get to The Dreaming City it if you need help with that.

If you’re planning on sticking with Destiny 2 for the medium term at least, this is where your $40 is going to get put to work. This is a Dreadnought-like area with lots to see and do. When you get settled in and are able to travel there, go visit Petra and start getting a sense of what she has to offer you. There’s a bunch of bounties both daily, and weekly, which will reward you not only with the usual stuff, but also materials that you’re going to need to for the higher level events such as the Blind Well. Of course, there are also new public events that can be turned heroic, and lost sectors which are much more interesting than they have been thus far in Destiny 2. More on that later.

The Blind Well is a Court of Oryx-like event that takes place in the large palace in The Dreaming City and is another source of equipment upgrades and important materials. You can get the items you need to start that from Petra (Charges of Light). Ideally, you should come with a three person fire team and hope to run into others too while you’re there to make it a lot easier, but you can show up solo and assist another group that is going at it just like in Court of Oryx.

Aside from bounties, the upcoming raid, and the Blind Well, as we’ve touched on there are just lots of secrets to find that the community is still sorting out. For example, the other day a secret cave was discovered with a mysterious cat statue that people can present a gift to get a free legendary. There’s lots of little stuff like that you can get into as well if you like pushing the limits of where you are/aren’t allowed to go

Finally although we’re still a couple of days away, The Dreaming City will “change” on a week to week basis, and that might bring a whole host of new secrets to discover, as well.

5 Things to Do After Beating Destiny 2: Forsaken (Endgame)

Visit Spider, and Master the New Economy

Destiny 2’s post game economy is very different from what it was prior to Forsaken. Tokens are still around in some ways, but emphasized more, and in its place are planetary materials, Legendary Shards, and Masterwork Cores. Your routine for getting, and upgrading gear is different now.

You’ll need to make regular trips to Spider, your buddy on The Tangled Shore. In addition to bounties (which we’ll get to in just a second), he also deals in… well, the three things we just mentioned above. Every day, you should visit Spider and buy at least one Masterwork Core for the low price of 10 Legendary Shards. It’s worth it because Masterwork Cores are very hard to get otherwise. However, try to avoid buying more than one because he jacks the price up until the daily reset. If you need to, you can also dump glimmer into planetary materials to save some time farming, however you’ll still probably going to need to farm occasionally if you infuse a lot.

Farming for planetary materials is way easier with a Ghost that detects caches which contain two planetary materials each. Have one for each location. Did you dismantle one that you need? You can go into the Collections tab and pay to restore it if you need to.

Finally, bounties are not only back, they are very important. Bounties often have really solid rewards such as Glimmer (that again you can dump into materials you need at Spider’s hangout), Legendary Shards, and even Legendary Gear and Powerful Engrams.

5 Things to Do After Beating Destiny 2: Forsaken (Endgame)

Start Building Gear Sets & Get Raid Ready

The raid is coming next week, and it’s going to be really rough for all but the most skilled of Destiny 2 players to jump into blind and be a worthwhile team member. This is because you’re going to need to have done every weekly and daily challenge in the first and second week in order to maybe be at the recommended power level, and even then, it will be tough without having an established strategy out in the open.

The best thing you can do after reaching the post game, whether you’re a PvE or PvP player, is to start prepping up your gear and ensuring that you’re “raid ready.” Do every single weekly and daily challenge that you can handle. They are marked on the Director with a gold star. Some of them might be tough – grab a buddy if that’s the case – but get them done because the reward of Powerful Engrams (AKA, gear that actually pumps your power level up) is worth it.

Also, bounties are way more important than they were previously, like we already mentioned. Not only do they sometimes contain valuable rewards such as Legendary Shards, the more difficult ones offered up by Spider and Petra may even contain Powerful Engrams. Don’t overlook them just because in Destiny 1 they were kind of pointless other than leveling up. They aren’t useless anymore. The Wanted Bounties from Spider reward legendary gear that you can do to try and get yourself a nice amount of them to either dismantle, or find something you like that’s new.

Sort through your armor and try to find pieces that support your preferred playing style. Even if you think it looks cool, try not to use Gauntlets that boost something about the Arc subclass, when you play Solar. It’s a wasted mod slot. Also, some weapons and armors are clearly designed for PvP, PvE and/or certain subclasses. Yes, maybe you have a high power level exotic or legendary that you really like, but if it doesn’t really fit for your subclass or the activity you’re trying to accomplish, then that’s something that’s probably worthy of being infused into something more useful.

On the flip side, though, keep in mind that Infusion is expensive now. It requires Masterwork Cores which are not easy to get unless you are flushed with Legendary Shards. Save them for the equipment that you really cannot play without, your favorites from the last two expansions or vanilla Destiny 2. Try to experiment with new Forsaken weapons, you might find that you like them as much if not more than some of your old favorites, and it will save you from having to waste Masterwork Cores.

If you want free stuff and don’t mind putting the work in, you can knock out some of the new exotic quests such as the Ace of Spades.

And, of course, once the Last Wish raid is out that’s something you’ll want to do post game if you have any interest in PvE.

5 Things to Do After Beating Destiny 2: Forsaken (Endgame)

Check Out the New Strikes, Lost Sectors, and Wanted Missions

Oddly enough, some of the best new content in Destiny 2: Forsaken is hidden away and not required. Strikes, Lost Sectors, and the already mentioned Wanted Missions are technically not required. Although not ideal, you could skip them entirely and still eventually be high enough power level to do stuff like Gambit and the Raid.

However, by skipping it you’re doing yourself a disservice because it’s some of the most original and best content Destiny 2 has gotten in a while. Lost Sectors have gotten way more love this time around. The rewards are sligthly better and they are commonly tied with bounties now, but it’s more about the aesthetic and experience. One new Lost Sector sees the Fallen meddling with a stereo system and playing music. Another, has you interrupting some sort of weird Scorn ritual.

There’s one at The Dreaming City, which features a misty beach-like area that is among the prettiest locations in Destiny 2 period. There’s actual charm and personality to the new Lost Sectors other than just being some secluded place. Also, it’s worth noting that the hardest Wanted bounties from Spider appear to be located in Lost Sectors and have an actual strike-like boss fight at the end.

Speaking of strikes, the ones added in Destiny 2: Forsaken are so much better than the “strikes” AKA, 3-man story missions that were featured in Warmind and Curse of Osiris. If you’re a Destiny 1 fan, running Warden of Nothing is mandatory.

Finally, there’s a lot of opportunities to combine all of these things through the new bounties, including the Wanted Mission Bounties, and be super efficient about gaining rewards. In one strike, you could knock out Vanguard, Eververse, and Clan bounties while taking out a Wanted enemy hiding in a strike and of course reap the reward at the end of the activity.

5 Things to Do After Beating Destiny 2: Forsaken (Endgame)

Go Back and Smash Unfinished Older Content & Work on Your Triumphs

It’s worth noting, especially if you’ve been gone for a while and are coming back for Forsaken, that you shouldn’t completely ignore the content that was featured in Warmind and Curse of Osiris.

Warmind, in particular, has two exotic quests that reward you with Sleeper Simulant and Polaris Lance. These are two guns you do not want to skip out on. Curse of Osiris, on the other hand, has a bunch of legendary weapons that you obtain through the Forge quests offered by Brother Vance at the Lighthouse that you may want to try out. Also, Escalation Protocol on Mars, is a lot more enjoyable and accessible now that the power level has been raised up. Consider running through all of that again with some friends or pick-up groups if you skipped it the first time around.

Finally, in case you didn’t notice, there’s a new Triumph section in the main menu, which gives you a boat load of objectives and achievements to try and accomplish. For you completionists out there, it may be fun to try and tackle some of the more difficult ones, and knock out entire sections of the new Triumph books.