How To Get Past 1250 Destiny 2

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The inflow of the Beyond Light expansion for Destiny 2 has brought a new Power level grind to the table, and players will want to go through it as fast as possible and then that they're prepared to tackle the brand new Deep Stone Crypt raid coming on November 21. This time around, the grind starts at ane,050 Power and ends at 1,260 (though 1,250 is a fine stopping betoken). That may seem like a alpine order, especially if you're trying to get through it before the raid arrives, but it volition go by surprisingly quickly if you go about it the correct style. Here'southward our guide to raising your Power level fast in Destiny ii: Beyond Calorie-free.

Wield the Darkness

Destiny two: Beyond Lite

Welcome to Europa, Guardian...

In Beyond Light, players will encounter a nighttime Fallen faction, travel to new locations, and go beyond the Calorie-free to wield the ability of the Darkness.

Beginning, focus on farming blue gear

To get through the first 150 levels of the Power grind quickly, y'all should prioritize hunting for blue (Rare) gear drops. This is because from ane,050 to 1,200, blue gear will drop with a Power level that'south college than your Guardian'due south. Too, blueish gear drops often and can be farmed easily, so it's a great fashion to get a large chunk of your progress out of the style early.

In general, the all-time mode to get blue gear consistently is to consummate Public Events and Lost Sectors across Destiny's patrol zones. Both only have a couple of minutes to exercise, and they almost always drop a piece of blue gear (or Legendary/majestic gear, if yous're lucky). Lost Sectors are superb for blue gear farming, as you tin normally speedrun past all the enemies and impale the boss in under two minutes, run out, and then run back in for a echo run. Additionally, you should try and make Public Events you practice Heroic when yous can (you can practice this past executing a hidden mechanic) since this gives you lot a run a risk to go more than one gear drop per completion.

Information technology'due south also worth hunting downwards each patrol zone's Region Chests, which are golden chests that take a plus sign symbol on them. These tin can only be opened one time, but they're guaranteed to drib a piece of blue gear and the Ability level of it will exist even higher than the gear you get from Public Events and Lost Sectors.

Grind activities that drop Powerful Gear next

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Once y'all reach the soft cap of Power level 1,200, the next footstep is to focus on completing activities that driblet Powerful Gear. This is considering from here, random drops of blue and imperial gear typically won't provide whatsoever Power increases; Powerful Gear drops always will.

Here are all the current sources of Powerful Gear:

Completing Nightfall: The Ordeal Strikes. (refreshes weekly)
Winning seven rounds in Competitive Crucible/Survival (refreshes weekly)
Completing eight bounties for each vendor on the Tower (refreshes weekly)
Completing eight bounties for Variks on Europa (refreshes weekly)
Gear drops from the Season Pass
Finding Prime number Engrams
Getting random Exotic drops
Exotic quest completion (the Exotic drops with a college Power level)
Clan activity completions (refreshes weekly)

It'south also worth noting that with Beyond Low-cal, Bungie has made it so that you lot can occasionally go small Ability increases from gear that drops from Strikes, Gambit, and Crucible. Therefore, grinding these activities can be a good idea if you lot have no other Powerful drops to earn elsewhere. Powerful Gear drops besides equally these smaller ones will both increase your power up to 1,250. You can also randomly get Powerful drops from ranking upwardly in Gambit and competitive Crucible, then while playing those modes, do your all-time to win then that you lot tin boost your rewards even further.

While at this stage, if you're having trouble getting a piece of Powerful Gear to drop for a specific armor or weapon slot, I recommend keeping an middle on random drops you get. This is because even though dejection and standard purples will no longer drop at levels higher than your average Power Level past ane,200, they notwithstanding might drop at your level, which can be useful if i of the pieces of gear you have equipped is lower than the rest and is pulling down your boilerplate a bit. Therefore, make certain to take advantage of instances where normal dejection and purples can be used to residue your average out.

Don't forget about Acme Gear drops

The hard cap for the Ability grind is i,250, simply players tin can go upwardly to 1,260 past earning Superlative Gear drops. Additionally, you can cull to become Elevation drops earlier reaching the 1,250 mark if you desire, which essentially makes them extra Powerful Gear drops. This is what you should do if you're planning on completing the Deep Stone Crypt raid as shortly as information technology comes out, as you'll only demand to accept a Power Level of 1,230 to exist able to finish it. It's recommended that you go for Pinnacles after you finish all of your Powerful drops to maximize your gains.

Activities that reward Pinnacle Gear include:

Completing iii Strikes while matching the weekly elemental burn (refreshes weekly)
Completing a Nightfall: The Ordeal Strike with a score of 100,000 or higher
Completing three Gambit matches (refreshes weekly)
Completing three Crucible playlist matches (refreshes weekly)
Winning seven rounds in the Trials of Osiris (refreshes weekly)

Additionally, the Deep Stone Crypt raid itself is expected to drop Pinnacle rewards from each encounter.

Throughout the entire leveling process, nosotros highly recommend picking up and completing as many bounties as you can. This is because while the bounties themselves don't drop Powerful Gear, they practice provide a lot of feel — and experience is what you need to level up your flavour artifact. Doing this gives yous boosts to your Power level so that information technology's always a little higher than what your gear is. Additionally, information technology also allows you lot to unlock mods that will be important to use during Nightfall: The Ordeal runs. Experience is also what you level up your Season Laissez passer with, and so there'due south actually no reason not to practice bounties when yous can.

Destiny 2: Beyond Light is available now on Xbox Series Ten, Xbox Series South, Xbox Ane consoles, PlayStation iv and 5, and Windows 10 PCs. It costs $40. The base game is costless-to-play, and I highly recommend trying it out if you haven't already. Destiny 2 is easily one of the best Xbox One shooters on the marketplace today.

Wield the Darkness

Destiny 2: Beyond Lite

Welcome to Europa, Guardian...

In Beyond Lite, players volition run into a nighttime Fallen faction, travel to new locations, and go beyond the Light to wield the ability of the Darkness.

Brendan Lowry is a Windows Cardinal writer and Oakland Academy graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he'southward been an avid fan since childhood. You lot'll discover him doing reviews, editorials, and general coverage on everything Xbox and PC. Follow him on Twitter.