70 Ways You Might Be Playing Destiny 2 Wrong 

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"Xur often has amazing rolls." I am considering taking Xur to court because his rolls have been so bad.

12:02 For Number 32, Dont delete the Planetery Material. You can store it in vault and exchange it for glimmer later at rahool. 20 PM for 2,500 glimmer.

The tip of invading at the beginning of an enemy's primeval spawn is actually sabotaging people. The Primeval Slayer buff you receive from kill envoys improves damage output to the boss and future envoys. If you can slow down the start of the primeval chain as much as possible, it will be harder for the enemy to get going; also just waiting a couple seconds isnt bad at all bc they will likely have killed the first envoys and are just getting to damage which you can stall out even more

Bro. So many of these I didn’t know. The tormentor tornado is helpful as hell. Also clearing all the stuff at one time by main screen clearing. Omg. Thank you so much. Lots of these are gold.

I did three nightfalls with randoms last night, and each time we passed the orb for max damage. It was beautiful

(4:28) For number 59. Realistically all you need is a artifice class item for the free +3 stat boost , and a Iron Banner class item. Incase you didn't know if you put a IB ornament on a IB piece of armor it counts as 2 armor pieces so you could run a exotic and still get the 5/5 for the increase in rep gains in IB .

Tips For Gambit to make life easier, have more success or less stress but also more fun: 1: ALWAYS prioritize getting the next invasion ready for your teammates over getting a bigger blocker. If you can see that your next set of motes can lead to having a portal open, you'll do so much more for your team than sending a blocker that will be killed in seconds. just got 4 motes but those get a portal? BANK! Blockers are severly overrated. A good first invasion can steamroll the entire enemy team or turn the tide from a steamroll into something winnable after all. 2: For getting invaded: Don't kill enemies and don't hide. Try to activly seek out the invader and fight them. Never expect your teammates to just fix it for you. If all 4 players focus on the invader, they'll be struggling a lot to cause disruption or even get a kill in. Also you avoid losing potential motes that could have been lost because you died or couldn't pick up the motes. Leave the enemies be. Kill invader. then kill enemies. I've seen way too many people do this and make the match much more frustrating than it really has to be. 2.5 For getting invaded with primeval out: Don't rush on triggering the damage phase of the boss if you haven't been invaded for a while. A mistake a lot of players do is trying to hurry up on the whole damage phase which often leads to an overlap of you being able to damage the boss and you also getting invaded at the same time. Good invaders attack you right there and distract you from dishing out damage. Best case scenario. Leave 1 wizard around. Wait for the invasion, handle the invasion, then go for damage phase. Even if you got completly wiped, you can then peacefully continue your damage phase after. 3: Motes: Don't try to rush in and get your slice of the pie that is a sea of motes. Sometimes its best if you let your teammates collect them. With only 3 people sharing a pool of motes instead of 4 people, the 3 people will get higher stacks of motes much faster and they're more likely going to bank their motes earlier than if you tried to get your share. If you got those goblins in your team, let them be the goblins. You just get your kills and run to the next spawn while they're busy still collecting. It'll speed up the process dramatically. And hey, if you're really fast, you can collect 15 motes all by yourself on the new wave while the rest of the team is trying to catch up. 4: Builds: Do not treat Gambit like its a Strike. Gambit has its own balancing and damage values where some guns are better or worse than in pure PvE content. Especially with the PvP component, you're well adviced to make a setup that takes that into account. Believe it or not, people used a ton of scout rifles in Gambit for years before they got buffed in PvE. In other cases exotic weapons like Black Talon were really good too as hybrid weapons. Even glaives which at the beginning weren't that popular in PvE, were great in Gambit because they can tackle blockers really well. Gambit has its own metas and isn't bound to what the Crucible or the Raiders and Conquerers have to say. Try out your own stuff and invest into a proper build tailored for Gambit and you'll find yourself in a spot with more success and hopefully more fun as well.

Something I haven't seen anyone talk about is how you can use Blinding GL to stop thrusters shooting at you for like 5 seconds, and it's very helpful useful in GMs

12:00 Rule 32: As of Season 21, you can still sell planetary materials to Master Rahool for glimmer. Buy a bunch of raid banners, shaders from Ada-1, exotics from the kiosk, or just keep them for emergencies.

#51 - holding forward while on your sparrow actually shifts your weight towards the nose of the sparrow. This is extremely noticeable on sparrows with the perk "Air Control". Holding forward while clearing a small gap will influence the sparrow to hit the ground quicker which actually makes you a little faster. Same if you clear a gap and hold back, this will shift your weight to the back of the sparrow and make it take longer to hit the ground.

On the mote banking, I see a lot of players who, when your team is within 10 motes of getting the primeval, will run to try and get to 15 motes. Bank and get your primeval, and then invade every chance you get. The fact that you're invading is enough to put 1 or 2 players on the other team on edge enough to slow down their mote gathering and banking process. So, just bank the motes.

On class items you are missing a few. I keep an Iron Banner class item, the specialty class item for an event, and one artifice class item. Each one has it's own special properties.

Most of these seem fine and all, but have that feeling that you MUST be as efficient as possible in every single thing you do in this game. Open your director faster, break habits that cause weapons to fire a fraction slower, etc. If you want to be the most efficient go for it but the game already plays with the idea of feeling like a job enough as is with the amount of stuff to do on reset, pushing yourself to be the most efficient or the best in every regard is just unhealthy after a while, but that's me lol. Happy gaming everyone :)

The thing with the exhaustion mechanic and falling off example is that a new player at that point in the game might not know your character is scripted to stumble forward as well as when the exhaustion will trigger.

These are all good tips, even for experienced players. 3 caveats: 1) The old planetary materials he mentions to discard, are actually turned in at the Tower Cryptarch for large amounts of glimmer. You may need this as a returning player to afford new fragments through Ikora Rey. 2) Bubbles in PvP are susceptible to certain supers, which are extremely effective at taking down the bubble and killing everyone inside. Every strategy and build has a counter. 3) People treat the game like a job, because they profit from playing, from things such as posting videos on RU-vid...

7:11 The cool thing about Witherhoard and stacking the two direct & pool DOTs is that when the enemy dies, the direct shot drops _another_ fresh pool DOT for anything around it. The first one should be spent by that time, so you get a freebie with no additional ammo. If you manage to get a direct shot in Crucible, and they run back to group up before they die, I've seen people accidentally kill their whole team before.

#22 and #15 are great pieces of advice to all players that I cannot recommend enough. For #22, there have been so many times where a RU-vidr will talk about a meta weapon/perk and I'm just like, 'meh, it's not for me'. Unless I'm doing a solo dungeon or a Day 1 raid, I'm usually running sub-optimal loadouts that are just fun or low maintenance. For #15, too many players get caught up in the 'Destiny grind'. Let's be honest with ourselves, you don't need to get every Pinnacle every week, you don't need to play everything the minute it comes out, you don't need to grind for every Triumph. While I am still pretty active in the game and try to get every Triumph/Seal, there are still many days where I hop on and just decide to play something fun that provides zero benefit to my 'progress', whether it's doing a repeat raid I enjoy or just going on LFG to help someone out in a dungeon or campaign mission. Destiny is meant to be a place to have fun, so HAVE FUN. Also, shoutout to all of the Gambit advice, unfortunately all of the blueberries I play with will never see this video... (or at least it feels like it)

Rule 59: it is good to hold onto different class items that boosts your stats in other content. I have one for Iron Banner, one for seasonal content, and one for holiday content. The iron banner rule still applies where you can swap to full iron banner gear with iron banner ornaments at the last 20 seconds of the game to get tons of Iron Banner xp Rule 32: hold onto the materials, you can trade them in at the cryptarc for glimmer whenever you get low.

56 When you bring out your ghost it also sends out a visual pulse that highlights things. Scannable items as well as invisible platforms that only become visible when you get close (the ones in hive areas, lets you know where to jump without going blind or knowing where ahead of time).

For rallying flags, keep a 2nd chest piece on you with 9 energy. Set it to have ammo reserves and then use it as a swap before rallying. Rather than swapping out the mods on the chest you want to use

Holding forward on a sparrow actually adds a bit of ground suction to your sparrow, and while it doesn't affect your speed, not holding forward will allow your sparrow to fly slightly farther off of jumps

One thing I want to add about the double special weapons. Bungie has a feature that gives you more heavy ammo if you have double special! So your heavy could technically be your ad clearing weapon, as you will get a lot of heavy ammo.

Small extra point about class items: if you want to leave only one class item: leave any one from Iron Banner because it has traits useful for any Iron Banner event.

There are several weapons that are significantly harder to control and more annoying to use with full auto on if you are used to tap firing them, my favorite example being drang, and some other sidearms that i always forget the name of. They will almost always fire 2 bullets instead of 1, making vex more annoying to deal with due to your shot landing outside of their vex core. Also, if you only need 1 shot, you still fire 1 after, and end up having to reload more. I know it's just nitpickind, and it's entirely possible to mitigate the recoil through using the gun more and getting used to it, but I can entirely see sidearm users not being a fan of the full auto option.

“Don’t treat destiny as a job”, says someone who literally does destiny as a job

When using a sparrow, I'm pretty sure that holding forward does help you from getting stuck on rocks and other map geometry. I could be wrong, but it feels like it helps.

Bro guy on 49 was having an identity crisis 😭

One thing I'd like to add: have a legendary chest armour you can switch to that has reserve mods on it, so you can switch to it quickly and pick up heavy bricks off the ground for more ammo in damage phases in raids and dungeons. If you run double special like the video says, there'll be more than enough heavy ammo around. Been using double special since the start of last season, and it's really been a great improvement. You really only need it for end game content though, I still use exotic primaries for easy activities.

Those nods are very useful, double sniper resistance can mean the difference between getting one shot by a enemy sniper and taking 3 to 4 shots, especially in legend lost sectors if you are under leveled and it's as long as an enemy is 28 meters away or is using a sniper, same goes for melee but it's 14 meters away and concussive is any form of dash damage amd aoe such as explosions and burn damage. Also boss melee are typically aoe and melee split damage.

In rule 32 don't delete unimportant useless items instead convert them to glimmer from rahools item conversion

I was doing the jumping wrong for sure, I figured out the ad thing yesterday to eliminate them before enraging the boss and spawn more ads but this whole video has been so important to me Ty Ty Ty

Good videos. I don’t play very much, so it’s like starting over. So your videos are very informative. I like co-op the most, just because I’ve had strange things happen during pvp matches. Like getting shot through corners or walls. Thank you. I would love to do a raid, but I’m still working up to that.

"tip number 1 you can shoot the tormenters tornade attack" me: YOU CAN SHOOT THEM!?!

Shadow is the only person that'll make a second channel to create smaller vids and then makes a 23 min one about 70 different things lmao Joking of course, love the high quality content keep it up!

I've been playing destiny since 2016 but took a break in 2021 and I'm finally back. These were definitely helpful. thank you!

#43, I did not even know of another way in the beginning. That is why I struggled with lfg at first, since I did not figure out how to join a fireteam.

I wish I had thought of the deadfall tip back when I was working on the fighting lion. Don't get me wrong, taking the long approach increased my skill with it, but it took way longer than it should have. Leviathan's Breath took forever too, mostly because of the ammo.

18 is actually a bad tip, don't use the loadouts screen to swap reserve mods. even if it's an identical loadout, the only difference being the chest mods being reserve mods, when you equip the other set using the loadout screen it will take away your extra ammo you got with reserves due to the game "applying" the loadout. you wont have this issue if you just unequip the mods, or have a seperate chestpiece with reserve mods you just swap to when rallying then swap off.

Awesome tips! I didn't know many of these. Couple things you had wrong (or wern't clear on): 67: Fallen drop ships have a place to delete their turrets (front orb thing). Not sure on the other. 59: Iron Banner class items give you higher chance for ascendant shards while in IB (could have mentioned in 31) 49: You can freeze an enemy at the end of the strand duration to immobilize them longer. But yeah, your point is still true 46: In your example, stats ending in 8 or 9 are great as you had one armor piece NOT masterworked. MWing it would give +2 to all stats and would bump up 3 stats to the next tier. 36: Also Major, minor, and boss spec don't work in PvP (right?). This could be a video in itself. Also, could you make a video specifically on #12? And #9. Havent seen one before.

Great video, thanks man! Much appreciated

I'm sure someone will have pointed this out already but holding the forward button on the sparrow actually does do something, it leans your sparrow forward slightly which in most cases is completely irrelevant but at the last jump of the sparrow run in Grasp of Avarice it will send you right into the rocks instead of to the flats just beyond it. I learned that the hard way... now you can still sometimes explode because Destiny physics but hey, it might save your solo flawless. The reverse goes for holding down the backwards input, that'll pitch the nose up slightly making it easier to clear smaller obstacles like the speedbumps on Neomuna.

At the beginning, that event, don’t immediately kill the blights. Walk in them and then put and shoot big ball in the middle. Then you can make it heroic

I do not know how I am just discovering your channel, but you are already my favorite Destiny RU-vidr after watching this one video. Been playing since 2014 and there were 16 things on your list I had never heard of before! The Hobgoblin one literally made my jaw drop lol

Thanks for the tips man

I’d definitely hold onto a seasonal class item to swap to for xp/bonuses in that given season.

Another good tip is to use the change character screen to leave activities while you're flying in

Thanks dude I did not know I could shoot the tormentor void tornado and the thresher rockets this changes everything

This video has me more hyped to play than any reveal trailer ever has. Thanks!

the thing with the new full auto setting is that it makes sidearms really wonky to get a single shot of, unless you time it basically perfectly whenever you click the game will auto que another shot to go over and this can feel really bad sometimes, I've sorta stopped using sidearms I otherwise loves cause of this setting since it makes so many other guns like scouts and bursts feel much better just something to consider if you use sidearms quite often

I returned to Destiny after 2 years. I hate it when blueberries race through a strike especially when I haven’t seen said strike before.

Wow ty so much for the video. Helped alot

one of the best videos on Destiny gameplay! thanks!!

Regarding #3 - It's not fun when you're consistently matched against high-skilled elites, especially those in stacks who have the advantage of coordination and communication. It explains why so many solo players - who, if I'm not mistaken, make up a sizable number of Destiny 2's player base - don't like or play pvp. Of course, it's understandable why elites think pvp is fun under CBMM. But in reading and listening to their labored defense and rationalization of CBMM, they've revealed that they don't like playing other elites (i.e., players of similar skill as themselves) either. AFAIC, pvp is among the least enjoyable activities in D2.

The exotic armor one... I'm guilty of that one because I didnt own any. A few of these i didnt know you could do like the tormentor one, I generally avoid pvp like the plaugue due to having abysmal reaction time and more often than not, doing 0 damage when I fire at people.

dude your video helps big time, never knew this about the game, thank you for the heads up on what i’m doing wrong

I keep a class item for each raid and one artifice one. Great video.

In regards to the pass the ball thing, make sure the person you're passing it to knows that you're doing it, so that they don't accidentally waste it because they were firing their weapon and got blindsided by an object they didn't know they were supposed to catch

63 is important for some, but I’d say it really depends on how experienced a trials player you are. I don’t play trials in D2 but when I played in D1 I looked up every opponent, it never effected my gameplay poorly and always gave me an idea of what to expect.

Great video. I've just started playing the last few days and honestly I have no clue what I'm doing 😂 this stuff helps. Thanks.

I've learned so much thanks 😊❤

love finding out that i'm making at least 50% of these mistakes, haha - appreciate the video dude, ty!

#16 you're partially correct; it's not worth collecting planetary chests and materials for glimmer, but it is DEFINITELY worth it for the XP. With the ghost mod on, you can get around 300 XP for every chest/material looted... There's #71 for you!! 😅

Dude - I had no idea about the jump button 🤯. These videos are amazing!!!

Holding forward on ur sparrow actually helps u control the direction u are moving if u look instead of turning with ur movement options like left stick and WASD hope u can test this and find it informative love u shadow :)

planet materials can be turned in for glimmer

Imagine bungie doing this for destiny but they are busy smoking money.

as a kinda new/returning player this was super helpful man, keep up the work bro

Hi shadow, just found your channel and i have a question: should i buy lightfall for 89 bucks or a bundle with shadowkeep, beyond light and The queen witch for the same price? Im getting back to play the game after a year and I dont know wich option is better

What did the ghost do wrong in the thumbnail☠️☠️☠️

I wish you could give these kind of tips in dating.

I love the bit about using the weapons you like. I use all sorts of unpopular weapons on a regular basis. I love them and Im having fun so to hades with anyone that doesn't like it

Omg the tormentors tornado thing got me bro good one there thanks

CAREFUL! Turning on full auto mele will mess will all skating techs (wellskating and shatterskating) My friend and I found this out 2 days ago.

as a returning player to this game , i still see some mistakes i used to make back in the days , thank you so much for making this video this really helped alot! :)

I didn't knew the one with the tormentor ones and also didn't thought of the way of putting reserve mods for changing it later.

I love Witherhoard for dealing with Titan bubbles and Warlock Wells. Works like a charm and they usually don’t expect it.

So, about the planetary materials/chests…this can actually be super lucrative, you just have to know what you’re doing. If you’re doing any of the Moon weapon quests, it’s a good idea to use a resource detector with bountiful harvest on your ghost, go to the Anchor of Light, and run around blitzing the patrols and grabbing materials. Picking up materials counts towards the completion, and you regularly net 1k glimmer. The “find Toland” patrols are fast, there’s a “destroy stuff” patrol, a “collect” patrol that’s almost always for Shanks, and the public events are easy to do (and make heroic). Swap your ghost to one with public defender whenever you’re about to finish the public event, btw. Oh, and the super easy K1 Communion lost sector is right there, and you can easily knock out all 4 daily gunsmith bounties in it while speed running through it. Quest is done in 10 minutes with little effort and you’re usually 30k+ glimmer richer, with a chance at an armor or weapon of your choosing. Honestly, I’ve been using this farm for times when I’m kinda tired and I want a shot at like Dream Breaker or Every Waking Moment. Another good one is the Dreaming City in the Divalian Mists. Put on the resource detector with bountiful harvest, do a quick lap around collecting 5-6 resource nodes (ending at the doorway to Blind Well) and then fast travel back to the start. When that daily bounty comes up to collect materials, I knock it out in less than 10 minutes by just running that circuit 3 times, and I’m like 15k richer. The trick to resources is the location and the mods. Certain places have 1-2 resource spawns, certain places are too big or convoluted to be feasible, and some aren’t easily accessible for repeatability. Doing a lap through the Anchor of Light, which has like 4/5 spawns, then fast traveling to Sanctuary and doing it again, is time efficient. Circling The Mothyards, Forgotten Shore, or The Divide is just not time efficient. Oh, side note: if you’re resorting to resource farming for glimmer because you’re low, getting a Stasis build together and using a precision Stasis weapon in the Europa Eclipsed Zone (and more specifically, the super easy lost sectors) while using an Ultimate Glimmer Booster mod will make it extremely easy to generate Herealways Pieces, and 25 of those is 10k glimmer. If I ever get that low, I grab Ager’s Scepter and start speeding through - Ager’s is extremely easy to land precision final blows with when tap firing, so you can generate a TON of Herealways Pieces for little effort. If you’re SUPER strapped, get that Public Defender shell ready and farm some Heroic Public events. EDZ has some of the fastest and easiest to make heroic with the right loadouts - Injection Rig, Ether Resupply, Weapons Exchange, and Taken Blight (seriously, just grab Wardcliffe Coil and rally beforehand, you can melt the big blight in like 30 seconds). Witches’ Ritual can also be done super fast. Warsats, Cabal Intel, Glimmer Drills, the Fallen Brigs, Vex Construction, Resonant Splinter, Dark Ether Ritual - all of these take longer than they’re worth and you can’t speed them up too much. My best advice is to check the patrol spaces and lost sectors, see which are the easiest to get around, get a good idea of their resources/chests spawns, and only farm them if you can do it while doing something else. Otherwise, just do heroic events for a bit and you’ll max out easy, or go for the Europa Herealways farm since it won’t get messed up by people not knowing how to make events heroic and preventing that shift. Non-heroic events are like 5k glimmer, heroics are like 13k. Bonus: find out how many enemies spawn in each lost sector and how to maximize/minimize their spawns. I think there’s a website that lists the enemies in the lost sectors, and you can use that knowledge to optimize bounty farming for XP or seasonal/expansion prep. Perfect example is that K1 Communion and K1 Revelation both have like 100+ enemies and you can easily knock out a bunch of bounties in these areas in a short period of time.

Great video, subscribed. Lot of things i didn't know!

Never realized your Ghost would look in the direction of the scannable. Sick!

There is a purpose for having multiple class as there are ones that provide special buffs to certain activities, so I usually keep an artifice class item along with the seasonal pass class item, iron banner, and usually guardian games since they all have the same roll its best to use these for your bonuses

Great video thank you

Phenomenal video man!

I figured out the inventory -> director thing pretty quick because I hated how long it took to get to the director

thanks for all this advices .. a greeting from France

For tip #23 at around 15:04 is it possible to do this on console or only a pc thing?

51. Holding forward on a sparrow in varying terrain like up hill or over certain objects can actually get you stuck or potentially make you fall through spaced platforms/jumps. Just hold boost and your sparrow control is better and using your camera angle helps make extreme turns and weird jumps more doable

Just started d2 loving it so far ngl and your Chanel has helped a lot too

I literally just figured this out a couple days ago saved a lot of space for mods on my builds. 7:43

So helpful!

Not installing Raid shadow ledgends but this video is awesome great job. Also your voice is easy listening.

Wow this game is just crazy, been playing for so long and it still amazes me

thanks, i learn some things !

with the ghost thing it’ll only look if it’s close by but the ghost will scan the area with a like white burst if you kinda just keep pulling out and putting away your ghost while looking around it’ll highlight the thing you’re looking for with a white kinda outline then once you get close enough the ghost will look at it

On the one about stats being at a number that ends in 8 or 9 (or in what you're about to read, anywhere from 5 to 9), I actually consider this a good thing because this lets you use minor stat mods without making your stats lower since they only shift in increments of 10. For example, if you have 45, AKA tier 4 discipline and you put a major discipline mod on to raise it to 55/tier 5, you can bring the discipline down to 50 by switching from a major discipline mod to a minor discipline mod, allowing for more mod space on whichever armor piece the discipline mod is on while not compromising stats. Another recommendation in this same vein to optimize mod space while using stat mods is to use the 3/1 slot stat mods (mobility, discipline, and strength) on helmets, chests, and class items, while using the 4/2 slot stat mods (resilience, recovery, and intellect) on arms and legs, although you don't necessarily have to follow this

I love these kind of videos because even as a veteran that knows a lot of these, I still learned some things

Speaking of bunching up back when artifacts where dropped I spec'd out my titan for void and grenades. During iiron banner took out 5/6 (all 5 where in the same clan) with one grenade. He landed the first hit when we started the shoot out so I knew I was dead, but I chucked the Hail Mary and won in the end.

What I found works for bubble is witherhoard the center. Like don’t shoot for the enemy when you rush it, instead run in and shoot the ground in the middle of the bubble then just melee till you die and you’ll get the kill. Haven’t tried it when there is a bubble and well at the same time tho.

21:26 the amount of 'trails' requests back in the day made me quiet rage so much lol

Big tip for gambit with your notes, yes of course deposit your notes but if your with a group that you talk with, talk it out, if one of you have 8 and someone else has 4 perfect that's a medium blocker and a vex to create a shield and if anything gives them 2 things they gotta focus on, If you all have 3 then that's 4 small blockers who just may cause an annoyance, always talk it out and keep track of what y'all have