Destiny 2 Returning Player Guide
Getting Ready for Shadowkeep Endgame
If you feel pretty good about your gear and want to start getting ready for Shadowkeep endgame content here’s what you’ll need to do.
Complete the Shadowkeep Story
First things first, complete the main campaign of Destiny 2: Shadowkeep. This will fully unlock all of the game modes that are currently available such as Adept Nightmare Hunts and will unlock more as Bungie releases them.
Completing the campaign will also ensure you have as many powerful engram sources as possible.
Getting to 950+ Power
Before you start knocking off the weekly powerful engram sources and using up your Upgrade Modules, you should first get to the soft cap of 900 if you’re not there already from doing older stuff.
Completing the campaign and just naturally finding new rare and legendary quality gear will get you pretty close to 900 from your starting point of 750.
If you’ve done that already, just grind a bit of Crucible, Strikes, Gambit (whatever your favorite is of the three, the fastest is Crucible).
Completing these activities will drop something for you every time that will increase your overall power up to 900. Go ahead and grind out an exotic quest step or something while you do it.
If you have a bunch of tokens, turning those in will instantly drop you something that will increase your power level as well, again, up until the soft cap of 900.
After you hit 900 overall power level, then you have to start doing your weekly engrams to level up.
Simply use your director to find all of the weekly sources and grind them out since powerful engrams will always give you something that is higher than your total power.
You’ll also find prime engrams randomly while you play which work similarly.
Endgame: Vex Offensive, Garden of Salvation, Nightmare Hunts and Collecting
While we don’t know exactly what the Vex Offensive and Garden of Salvation will entail at the time of this writing, we do know that they are going to be the high-end PvE activities during the Season of the Undying alongside Nightfall: The Ordeal, and the most difficult Nightmare Hunts.
As a raid, Garden of Salvation will be the toughest challenge. I recommend joining a clan and trying to find a chill group of people that are happy to take on new players and teach them the ropes once, you know, the ropes have been established for Garden of Salvation.
Otherwise, you should download the Destiny 2 app and use the LFG feature built into it as that’s where the wide majority of players set up groups now.
If raids are too intimidating for you, challenge yourself with the other content such as the highest difficulty Nightmare Hunts and Nightfalls which only need a group of three instead of six.
Finally, if you’re not into any of that might I suggest just trying to fill out your exotic collection or going for Triumph/Seals.
There’s something cathartic about just checking things off a list, and other than a few Triumphs/Exotics, most things can be done without having to dive into super hardcore content.
I could go on, but let’s not overwhelm you any further. Hopefully, this returning player guide for Destiny 2 was helpful for you and if you have any additional questions, feel free to leave a comment down below and I’ll get back to you.
