In today’s This Week at Bungie, Destiny 2 has confirmed that the upcoming The Final Shape expansion will be completely reversing sunsetting and removing the Power limit on all legacy items. This change is coming alongside several other massive alterations to how Power works in Destiny 2, including the introduction of both Fireteam Power and Account-Wide Power Level.
The most significant, and slightly heartbreaking, announcement from the 25/04/2024 TWAB was the reveal that, in The Final Shape, Bungie will be removing all of the Power limits they imposed on legacy gear from Beyond Light. This means that once The Final Shape launches on June 4th, you’ll be able to pull any sunset guns you’ve kept in your Vault and level them up to the new maximum Power level (which is 2000), allowing you to use them in any piece of Power Enabled Content like raids, dungeons or Nightfalls.
Bungie did stop sunsetting guns shortly after the initial wave of limits back in Beyond Light, but they didn’t undo the caps for fear of Power Crept weapons like The Mountain and The Recluse. Those limits have endured until today. Unfortunately, because this was an unexpected development, there isn’t a way to reacquire any sunset guns you’ve previously deleted: Bungie does commit to bringing back alternative sources for these weapons in the future, where they will be bought up to update Destiny 2 sandbox standards with Origin Traits and new perks.
Fireteam Power System
Bungie is explicitly removing the sunset caps in aid of a new system they revealed last August called Fireteam Power. In The Final Shape, the Power of your fireteam will be dictated by the player with the highest Power on the team, with every other player being bought up to 5 below their Power unless, of course, they already meet it. This will allow lower Power players to avoid the arduous grind to participate in tougher bits of endgame and seeing as it would allow people to sidestep the sunset limits, Bungie decided to remove them.
Alongside the reversal of sunsetting, the other massive change announced was Account-Wide Power, meaning that gear across all three characters will drop at the Power level relative to your highest Power character, drastically shortening the Power grind for alts. Additional changes coming include a change to Activity Power with new, clearer difficulty modes and explanations for Power Enabled activities and an increase to Reward Power so every reward source in the game has a chance to award gear between the Soft Cap and Powerful Cap.
The Twisted Pale Heart
These changes are massive and completely change how Guardians will approach the game. While some players likely kept ahold of their old beloved weapons, many more deleted them after being told that sunsetting was not going to be reversed. Additionally, this also means that crazy strong weapons of the past like Revoker are going to return to prominence in modes like Trials, potentially unsettling the sandbox.
However, based on what we’ve seen from both the BRAVE Arsenal and the new Prismatic subclass, perhaps Bungie is less concerned with power creep and more focused on uniting the player base around this last stop on Destiny’s 10-year journey.
Destiny 2: The Final Shape launches on June 4th 2024.
SOURCE: This Week In Destiny 24/04/2024
