One of Destiny 2‘s most coveted weapons, a deceptively small grenade launcher named The Mountaintop, today became a whole lot less frustrating to earn. The Mountaintop is one of the most powerful weapons in the MMOFPS at the moment across both PvE and PvP but it’s locked behind a protracted PvP quest involving grinding out a whole bunch of grenade kills. No extra! Bungie have massively reduce The Mountaintop’s quest necessities, and the identical for unlocking the Wendigo GL3 grenade launcher.
Today’s replace additionally begins a week-long group problem, providing gamers a particular emblem if they assist grind out a complete lot of homicide on Mars.
The Mountaintop is a stupidly good wee grenade launcher, dealing a great deal of injury with grenades fired on a straight trajectory extra like a rocket launcher. It can one-hit-kill in PvP, it trashes each massive teams and huge enemies in PvE, and it does a quantity on raid bosses when boosted by autoreload talents like Rally Barricade. Other weapons edge out The Mountaintop in particular conditions but it surely’s a phenomenally good all-rounder. It’s enjoyable, too!
The Mountaintop can be an actual grind to unlock. The most irritating quest step calls for an enormous variety of grenade launcher kills in PvP: 750 GL kills, 200 GL double-kills, and 100 ‘Calculated Trajectory’ medals earned by killing three individuals in a single life with GLs. Given that almost all grenade launchers are kinda unhealthy in PvP or reliant on the restricted (and hotly contested) Power Ammo spawns, that is gradual and never enjoyable. Heck, even with The Mountaintop itself I’d discover it tiring to attain that many kills.
With in the present day’s patch, these necessities go means down. It’s now 75 double-kills and 25 Calculated Trajectory medals, and the multiplier from kills in Competitive has gone from double to triple. That’s nonetheless a climb however doesn’t really feel spiteful prefer it as soon as did.
Bungie have equally massively reduce the variety of grenade kills in Strikes required to get this season’s pinnacle Vanguard weapon, the Wendigo GL3. It’s no Mountaintop but it surely’s nonetheless fairly good. And now Bungie have boosted progress on its goals by 50-100%.
Having unlocked each Mountaintop and Wendigo the arduous means myself, I’m not remotely bitter about these modifications. I really feel large aid for individuals being spared the grind, you fortunate canine. And given how essential The Mountaintop is to the present PvE meta, it’s good that monstermashers who dislike PvP however need/want it face much less of a chore.
See the v2.5.2.2 patch notes for extra specifics on modifications to each these quests.
Also, excellent news: the stock stack dimension cap has gone from 999 to 9999 for planetary and gunsmith supplies in addition to Vanguard, Crucible, and Iron Banner tokens. Odds of getting Reckoning weapons are higher now too.
Speaking of grind, Destiny 2 in the present day launched a new community challenge on Mars. Until 6pm subsequent Tuesday, all gamers are challenged to succeed in collective targets: kill 300 million Hive on Mars; kill 175ok Wave 7 Escalation Protocol bosses; use 300ok Override Frequences (unlocking these hovering technodiamond doodads); and in Nightfall Strikes, get 150ok Nokris kills and 100ok Xols.
Should we hit these, Bungie will begin growing rewards from Menagerie mode. The last chest will begin paying out two gadgets, and that can improve by one every Friday till the tip of the season. That sounds good. I gave up on Menagerie after Bungie fastened the bug that allow us open the chest a number of instances per run, and that is frankly long-overdue. Rather than make individuals play extra Menagerie, I think that ‘fix’ made many outright cease. I personally gave up after it grew to become too tedious to grind via for my dream rolls, an excessive amount of time for too little reward.
If we make it, Bungie can even give a nifty unique emblem to people who performed a minimum of one Nightfall this week:
Yeah, that’s not unhealthy. Not as good because the Dreaming City’s cat emblem, however what’s?
This occasion isn’t vastly thrilling however I suppose is one thing to maintain individuals occupied now that this season is drawing on longer than deliberate, because of the Shadowkeep growth and accompanying free-to-play relaunch being delayed into October.
