DESTINY 2 ... For Noobs 

Hello from the future! 2024 is meh. Okay so, you don’t have to buy the Bungie 30th anniversary for the BXR BUT there are some guns that are “pay to win,” just not THAT gun 😆 that’s why I put it in “quotes”

Welcome to Destiny 2. Where our vaults are full, and wallets are empty

RIP Cayde-6, you will be remembered. Well, not by Macro.

I've been playing Destiny since 2015 and Destiny 2 is very, very hard to understand and especially hard to follow because there's so much that always comes in a DLC. But I must honestly say that this video is one of the best I've seen so far when it comes to explaining the game to new players. Good work.

I know you did not just say that Forsaken was an OKAY story, that story was FANTASTIC

Damn, he just started and he’s already not over Cayde’s death. A true Hunter.

Minor correction, the bxr (battle rifle) can be earned without the 30th pack

Destiny 2’s free-to-play experience is really more of a demo in my experience. There’s a lot of fun content for new players, and playing through it is a good way to see if you actually want to invest in the game. If you enjoyed the free-to-play content, here’s my suggestion on what expansions to get in what order. 1.) *Lightfall:* It’s D2’s newest annual dlc. It comes with a new campaign, a new destination, a new subclass, a raid, new strikes, lots of new gear and more. 2. *Witchqueen:* This expansion is a lot like Lightfall in terms of the amount of content you get. There’s a great campaign, a new patrol space, strikes, a raid, and cool gear. 3. *Beyond Light:* This one is solid and adds the same types of content. The campaign for this dlc is pretty good. The biggest buying point for this expansion is *Stasis,* a new ice themed subclass. 4. *Shadowkeep:* This dlc is mediocre if I’m being honest. It’s much older than the others, Bungie hadn’t yet settled into their current style. It’s campaign feels like a prolonged list of chores, rather than a collection of cool story missions. There are other dlc’s too that include different pieces of content. The *30th Anniversary Bundle* grants you access to a pirate themed dungeon and a host of reprised Destiny 1 weapons (including a powerful exotic rocket launcher). The *Forsaken Pack* unlocks a bunch of exotic weapons, includes a dungeon and really cool raid. The *Season Pass/Annual Pass* allows you to play through seasonal content. Each season there’s a new story with unique missions, quests, activities, and loot. Annnd the *Dungeon Key.* Buying this grants you access to 2 new dungeons that Bungie releases each year going forward. In March, there’ll probably be another one. Hope this comment was helpful.

I never thought I'd hear fun and Gambit in the same sentence

Watch him decent into madness trying to get a godroll Thanks for all the likes

Seeing a new player's perspective always feels strange but also makes me smile.

Thank you! This was helpful as an actual noob playing for the first time. The last game I played was Overwatch back in 2019.

i want to tell you, the 30th anniverssary dungeon is actually one of the best, you just need to have patience or have someone in you fireteam that know's what you're doing

ive played over 2k hours of destiny and i still enjoyed this video

Would love it if you made videos on each classes

12:54 Macro you dont actually need the dlc to get this halo weapon. The only gun exclusive to the dlc is gjallarhorn (a rocket launcher). You can just get that weapon by playing dares of eternity and opening the chest in the treasure hoard.

thank you for the nice segmented layout of the video it's not that we skip through it, im sure many watch the video in its entirety but the option to do so is nice, and just by the segments, it's self evident a lot of thought and work was put in this

13:01 wait until he hears that you don’t need to pay anything to get the BXR, not to mention that the Forerunner exists

I would pay money to watch macro do legendary witch queen. What a fantastic campaign.

Just a little FYI. The bxr battler is free for everyone in dares of eternity. It's not locked behind any paywall and you dont need the dungeon. But there are some weapons and armors that are behind DLCs but you can absolutely do fine without em

As someone who started playing in d1 beta its always fascinated me listening to new players explain the game I guess it just make me change my jaded view of the game I like it.

For a "free" game, you definitely pay a price for playing it. But by far my favourite game.

It’s always fun to watch new lights learn how the game works as someone who’s been playing since the 2017 beta.

I started when D2 dropped with Red War, fell off completely and then got back with season of the lost and I have played it virtually every day since. I love this game even with all the flaws. For me its the perfect balance of feeling grindy enough I always feel like I am working towards something without me feeling guilty for putting it down, phenomenally customizable both from a build crafty standpoint and a ascetic one and the story having so much depth and lore behind it. Hyped af for Lightfall

Yoo macro quick tip if you do garden of salvation at the end of an encounter there will be a portal with a secret chest right ahead of the 1st chest go through that portal and u get an exotic

Exotic armor and weapons are an interesting topic, since they’re more powerful than normal stuff (in most cases) but you can only use one exotic weapon and armor piece at a time, so it’s not about if you have exotics or not, but instead which exotics do you pick.

"You have the power of light and fight different races and the darkness" had me laughing so hard

Happy that you finally decided to try destiny. it's like full circle! You made me play apex, and now you're finally playing my main game! :)

5:50 no way this dude called shadowkeep well made and called forsaken meh. for destiny 2 players that played during both times, this is known as blasphemy

I'd absolutely love a warlock for noobs also, quick tip: there is a shader bundle for glimmer in the eververse store

Macro, I loved this video, been waiting for it! Please release a for noobs video for all the 3 roles 😅

I've been looking for a video like this for ages! This cleared up a bunch of things for me.

Props to macro for time traveling into the future to give us this video

MACRO RUN BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, ANY MORE AND THE GAME WILL CONSUME YOU

dude, I've been waiting for this for like 2 years, Thanks!

Im so excited for Macro to slowly descend into madness over the course of every upcoming Tuesday for the rest of his life. This game is like Hotel California, good luck getting out now champ🤞

You get Treasure Keys for playing Dares of Eternity, and you can use them at Xur's Treasure Hold to get for example the BXR Battler. The 30th Anniversary expansion is just for the Dungeon and the Gjallarhorn rocket launcher, which might be meta in the next big expansion: LIGHTFALL. Update: Lightfall sucks, Gjallarhorn is good but not the 100% meta.

More d2 content please bro. I would love to see your reaction to doing raids and dungeons for the first time, and there’s a bunch of super nice and cool d2 creators to collab with. Embrace the addiction!

6:28 that was personal💀

Long story short: Omolon: best weapons (besides seventh seraph saw and ace of spades) Lion Rampant are the only boots you will need literally any sparrow upgrades you get will make it faster WATCH OUT WHEN BUYING ORNAMENTS!! If you don’t have the armor price or weapon that an ornament is made for, you will not unlock it by buying the ornament. I learned that the hard way. Ghost shells do have uses. Another edit: Macro, you can get the BXR from dares if eternity 😂 Magnum too

As someone who started Destiny 2 in July of 2019, I am so glad you made this.

I've been playing destiny 2 for a year and i swear i will NEVER find a better breakdown of it then this Thankyou and amazing video!

It’s nice to see destiny from a new players eyes. I would love to see you try destiny 1 if you haven’t already in the past, in my opinion that’s really where it’s at. Me and my friends played D1 from launch till finish with taking occasional breaks when there was content droughts. We’ve tried on multiple occasions to do the same with D2 but it’s just not the same. Enjoy it guardian, keep making these vids!

As someone who has played the game for about two years, the best content are definitely the raids and Dungeons, as well as high difficulty strikes. While the mechanics can sometimes be annoying,discovering them and mastering to some is a lot of fun.

I can’t wait for Macro to descend into madness and insanity the longer he plays this game.

More D2 content please! Glad people in the comments let you know the BXR-55 and the rest of the Halo weapons were free - I’d love to see your play through of Lightfall when it comes out!

Awesome intro man had me geeking for sure

It’s really refreshing to see someone experience the game from this perspective

This is great, I never thought I'd see you playing Destiny. You really did a great job of summing up all the core mechanics.

Another thing to mention, there is a soft power and hard power cap every season, before i quit, every new guardian started at 1100, and it takes a little bit of grind to get to 1270 (the soft cap), after getting to the soft cap, every gear drop will no longer drop at 20 something levels above your current power, something that commonly occurs on the way from 1100 to power. After getting to the soft cap, you will have to start looking for specific daily or weekly objectives that will grant powerful or pinnacle gear, this will all be listed on the mission select screen with all the different planets and locations. Once you start getting to the hard cap, i think it was around 1320 power at the time, only pinnacles will grant you higher power. Each power cap will greatly slow down the rate of which you gain higher light levels, thus creating a very tedious "grind" for all players to go through once they pass a certain power level. Every new season raises the base power, soft cap, and hard cap by a certain amount, Currently i think the starting power is 1600, soft cap is 1750, and hard cap is 1810? I'm not quite sure. Also a helpful thing to note that Macro left out, grinding up new classes to be on par with classes you have already leveled up is not as tedious as it seems, yes the vault exists, but that can only be used to share weapons, as each class has their own unique sets of armor pieces. However, there is a way Bungie makes the process a lot easier. For example, is your Warlock was at 1790 power level, and you create a Titan, every gear drop you receive until you get to 1790 will be far higher than your current light level, basically the same as grinding from base power to the soft cap, except since you have one character leveled beyond the soft cap, the process goes much faster, your other character's power level basically becomes the new soft cap for the new class. Yet ANOTHER thing to mention, weapon and gear rolls. In the destiny 2 community, you'll hear the term "roll" a lot. This is referring to the magical dice of RNG every weapon drops with. Basically, a roll is a set of perks that the weapon can receive, most legendary weapons get 4 perks, and each perk corresponds to a different part of the weapon. For example, an Auto Rifle can drop with perks for Stocks, Barrels, Magazines, and other stuff, a really good combination of perks generally favoured by most of the community is called a god roll, you can check a lot of different videos and websites to find out what a godroll is, and generally which perks are better than others. Yes, this also means that the same exact weapon can drop with different perks, meaning if you get a "good" weapon based on its stats, the roll might not be favorable, causing a lot of frustration for many. The same applies for armor, with rolls not granting perks but rather stat rolls. The stats in destiny 2 are Mobility, Resilience, Intelligence, Recovery, Discipline, and Strength. Some are self explanatory, some are not. Mobility is how fast you run and how far and high you jump, resilience is basically how much health you have, recovery is how fast you regain health, intelligence is how fast your super ability charges, discipline is how fast your grenade recharges, and strength is how fast your melee ability recharges. Each class also has its own "Class ability, hunters get a roll that has utility, warlocks get a circle on the ground that can heal you or increase your damage, and titans get a shield they place on the ground, the speed of which these class abilities recharge is also based on stats, hunters get faster roll recharge with a higher mobility stat, warlocks with a higher recovery stat, and titans with a higher resilience stat. You can tweak these stats to match what kind of playstyle you have, and good armor rolls are rolls that give stat points to the category you want them to be in. You can also artificially add these points with armor mods and other things. These points contribute to a scale of 1-10, if I have 10 mobility points, my mobility level is 1, if i have 20, its 2, if I have 30, its 3, and so on until 100 points, making 10. Nothing will actually change to your guardian if the stat points do not achieve a higher number on the scale, for example if I have 76 mobility points, the actual power of that number on the scale will still be 7, same with 89, it'll be 8, the number only affects your character if it breaks the 10 points required to raise it to a higher number on the scale. This all sounds stupidly confusing, and that is simply because it is. Without the help of experienced players and friends, Destiny 2 is basically a mess of words that you don't understand and stats you don't care about. I think that is the reason a lot of players get turned away and alienated from the game. Anyways, I hope this verbal vomit of information helps, good luck guardian.

You’re so lucky you didn’t go through the trauma of losing cayde… Man I quit the game for a year and a half cause he died

So happy that your making videos on destiny 2!

Imo the raids are the most satisfying and challenging content, I recommend having a consistent group of friends to help you understand the raid mechanics. Dungeons too

honestly, you fit more into this video than i though you could. well done macro. i just really thought you would talk a little about exotics.

Macro showing Shadowkeep Footage while talking about "Really Well Made" Campaigns and then showing Forsaken and saying it is "Okay" means he is willing to start a war in the comments section

Me and my brothers are all separated geographically now, across countries, but we all bonded on this game over lockdown. And now it's probably one of the greatest gaming experiences we've had of all time. There's nothing like going thru dungeons and raids with buddies in this game. Also, no other game developer makes Handcannons feel good like this game can. The sights and sounds are an experience, guns shoot gud which makes up for all its problems. But you're absolutely right, the fun in this game is directly proportional to how many friends you have. Playing this game solo is just not the way and you will hate it if you do.

12:45 (misinformation): The BR from Halo can in fact be acquired from dares of eternity regardless if you buy the dlc or not

40 hours? Rookie numbers xD In all reality, most people find it hard to forget this game after you've done some of the multiplayer stuff. Glad you could find some enjoyment in a game close to many players' hearts!

The single most wanted video of mine. Thank you Macro, for spending 72 hours without standing up.

Video on each class would be dope as for new players choosing a character can be daunting with all the customizing etc. Hope your enjoying the destiny grind!

I play warlock and tbh turning into what feels like an eldritch god with ur super is kinda nice.

I love that I’ve played D2 since it came out and I still love watching this

Tip for anyone lacking on cosmetics: In the store archive theres a pack that comes with almost all the shaders from the first 3 years of Destiny that only costs 1000 Glimmer.

Loved the stream and can't wait to see you do more in the game like raids or other things

This was a great video! A destiny noob making a destiny 2 for noobs video helped to break down this mammoth of a game into smaller chunks that's easy to digest, without getting caught in subconscious bias that us who have played for a long time would make

I just got into this game. At first, I was sooo confused. Now I'm getting into it and having fun

From someone who’s been playing since destiny 1 beta I think this is really informative for the new people. great job

This is possibly the best thing to see as a fan of macro and a destiny player

I love how we started playing at the exact same time vigilance wing was my first exotic thanks xur

This was a great video!

Glad to see Macro play Destiny 2 finally. There are a lot of other games which I am sure you will love, like Sea of Thieves and DeepRock Galactic

I just started playing again a week ago. Last time i played was Forsaken. I quit the game because the grind was eroding my faith in humanity. Fast forward to last week, I was bored and decided to see what was new. Like an addict believing they are fully recovered and immune to temptation I am back on the grind. God help me.

I can’t believe I didn’t know that Macro had a Destiny 2 video. I’m so glad he does

"CAYDE-6 is DEAD!" - and it was at this line right here that I started crying like a baby...

For the next video it feel it's extremely important to mention how much your quality of life in this game improves with software such as Destiny Item Manager (DIM) or similar, saves you a lot of time and energy when playing, especially for moving gear between characters

I agree the game can be confusing at times when you first start off, as it gives little to no direction after you complete the tutorial. But as you stated, it certainly gets much easier with a fireteam as you can take on harder challenges and have actual direction towards what to do. Also I'm totally expecting you to get a raid exotic after a single completion lol

Thank you so much for doing this dude. I really wanna play this game I literally just don’t know how.

I needed this video 3 years ago

Yeah a class guide for each would be cool.

Btw your character looks good but if you want to increase your drip game go to Ada-1 at the tower next to drifter and I'm sorry what they're called but if you do the white bounties and complete them you can go to the giant machine in the back and turn in (Syntowave I think, probably spelled it wrong) so you can turn your legendary armor into ornaments. Oh yeah and if you go to the Eververse store you can find and buy a Year 1 Shader pack for Glimmer.

Been playing since D1 alpha yet here I am watching this in it’s entirety.

You should do the for noobs for the classes. I just downloaded the game and that would be great to see!

This is an amazing review from some one who is new to the game, it's great to see a fresh take. I've been playing since Destiny 1 beta and this is the most fair review of the game in it's current state

The motto of a titan is if It doesn’t die with one gun, use more gun.

I played for the first time yesterday, after months of my friends pestering me to play it, and we squadded up, they helped me with some of the tutorial missions, and do a strike, and it’s got me hooked. Bungie did a great job.

10:21 macro with the resident evil 4 reference, you love to see it

I would rate it a 10 just cos I have 900 hours and every dlc. So it’s really fun after the paywall for the great content and gear, and the feeling of getting better and doing harder things feels amazing, couple weeks ago I did my first Grand Master nightfall (one of the hardest activities), I’ve never felt a rush that good to get adept versions of weapons and a bunch of exotic materials.

As someone who has been playing Destiny since it first came out in 2014, this is a good review. It is unfortunate you happened to start playing at a time when the bugs and glitches were particularly bad.

Great vid mac don’t forget Xur.

As a destiny player who knows all lot. this was still extremely entertaining to watch, would love more destiny content from you!

As someone who has played since destiny 1, I can definitely confirm that trying to get friends to get into it this late is nearly impossible. Especially as functioning adults in society. I can't even deny the issues with the game. But theres something about it that will always keep me coming back for more. I feel like 99% of the player base are people who have already been playing for years, and I'm honestly impressed you became addicted without having tried it before. Its definitely a gamers game, but I like games like that as a fan of MMO's AND shooters. And I also totally agree that having people to play with make it 10x more enjoyable. Its possible to have a good time playing solo, but the game wasn't designed with solo play in mind.

Macro seems like such a fun person to do raids with, I wish more people were like him, doing LFG because you have no friends can has its complications

I remember back in the day doing strike missions with the boys, Reo would lead us and was the strongest, Rift always died but was still good when we needed him, Uncoiled was always afk for 8 hours and had the trashiest wifi. I miss playing Destiny 2 but I none of them even wanna play destiny anymore

My experience has been interesting I have loved it but stopped playing it but this video made me want to re-download it and I will make sure I know what im doing so even if Macro wont see this I still want to thank him so, thank you Macro

8.5 is actually pretty accurate. Bungie was always strange in that they never see things through the player's perspective (like grind time, blue gear clogging up inventory,...), but the game could easily be a 10 with some changes. Lately, there have finally been some steps in the right direction for once (balanced exotics, subclass improvements, and many other things). I also think that the Lightfall expansion will be as good or better than Witch Queen. I'm really stoked for the new urban synthwave vibe of the new area coming to the game.

Welcome to destiny, when killing a titan running at you, shooting you with a shotgun and shield bashing you at the same time is the most rewarding experience in the game

More destiny 2 content please. I convinced my buddy to get into it

YESSSSSS GIMME THE CLASS VIDEOSSS

The thing with destiny is that it asks you for dedication, time and money, but if you give it that it becomes a very good game

I LOVE destiny 2, but quite frankly bungie also owns my wallet because I love it so much