Future 2 Reveals Extra Particulars About Lightfall Weapon Crafting Adjustments

After revealing that the best way gamers craft weapons can be evolving after Lightfall’s launch, Future 2 has given us extra of a peek at what that may appear to be. A brand new blog post has launched three new crafting capabilities that can be launched to the sport over the approaching yr: Weapon Enhancing, Deepsight Activation, and Weapon Degree Boosting.

The primary of those to be launched to the sport can be weapon enhancing, which can drop “just a few weeks” after the Lightfall Grasp raid and can be out there just for a choose few weapons–initially solely Adept weapons acquired in Lightfall’s Grasp raid can be out there for enhancing.

The method will permit Adept weapons to be upgraded with enhanced traits, a stage, and a memento socket, with the enhancement working on a three-tiered system as detailed beneath:

• • Enhancement Tier 1:
    • Replaces the prevailing Masterwork. Grants an enhanced intrinsic, weapon stage, “first enhanced” timestamp, and memento socket.
    • For raid Adepts solely: permits full choice over the barrel and journal perks (these perks are individually gated by stage, identical as crafted weapons).
    • The price of weapon enhancing tier 1 will fluctuate primarily based on the Masterwork tier that’s being changed. Enhancing a weapon that has a Masterwork tier worth of 10 can be less expensive than enhancing a weapon with a Masterwork tier worth of 1.
  • Enhancement Tier 2:
    • Weapon stage 11 requirement. Permits enhancing of the left column trait perk.
  • Enhancement Tier 3:
    • Weapon stage 17 requirement. Permits enhancing of the precise column trait perk.

Bungie has warned that this function could not be capable of be utilized to a broad vary of current weapons “till we examine additional,” however can be added for all raid Adepts following Lightfall.

The opposite two new crafting options are because of be applied in Season 21, the Season of the Deep. The primary is Deepsight Activation, which can permit gamers to use Deepsight to any weapon that has a crafting sample out there. The function can solely apply Deepsight as soon as per weapon, and solely on weapons that have not beforehand rolled with Deepsight. Bungie warns that the flexibility can be “tightly managed,” with the price depending on the weapon.

The ultimate new function, additionally deliberate for Season 21, is a brand new approach to improve a weapon’s stage with out having the weapon geared up. A brand new mod can be added that may stage up a crafted or enhanced weapon utilizing customary currencies. “Whereas this is not going to be initially positioned as the one technique for leveling up a weapon, it might be a handy technique for unlocking early perk selections and an outlet for any spare currencies you’ve gotten stockpiled,” the submit explains. Gamers will nonetheless be capable of stage up weapons the identical method they do now.

Together with these new options, Bungie may also be eradicating some previous ones, together with Deepsight Attunement aims, resonant parts, and Resonant and Harmonic alloys. Deepsight may also now solely drop on weapons with a crafting sample, making red-bordered drops really feel extra priceless. Whereas most of those modifications will not be utilized at Lightfall’s launch, they are going to be launched over the subsequent few seasons.