The State of Destiny 2 Free-to-Play in 2024 

GO WATCH MY ULTIMATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE FOR DESTINY: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ADFJul3WnqU.htmlsi=D-URoWWA73sawwSz

Destiny is one of those games where you absolutely NEED a friend that is willing to walk you through everything. The game relies heavy on its community to guide new players rather than investing into having a decent new player experience.

When Destiny first came out you had story missions, and there were lots of hidden things to investigate. Those were the days.

The question mark enemies were amazing in D1 when coming across them, it made you want to get higher power gear to be able to go back and kill them later.

I am a returning player introducing my fiancé to Destiny 2 for the first time and this video is EXTREMELY ACCURATE!!! A lot of our own sentiments were voiced during this video. From the story feeling very disjointed for a new light (I explained to her who Cayde was and after doing the mission that included him she was just like "Well that sucks I didn't even get to know him and he's just dead" and the lack of telling us how important guardian rank was. After watching a different video when searching YT for "what to do as a new player in Destiny 2 f2p" we were like "Ohhh that's really useful actually, why wasn't that more obvious??". As well as what the heck artifacts were. (They SHOULD be introduced with the battle pass or something)Also, I don't know if we missed it but WE think they never told you how to get your mount out. We had to Google it. AND WHY did they omit the information on ENERGY WEAPONS it's such useful info and it used to be apart of the original Red War tutorial. I love how thorough you were in this experiment. You've earned a sub for me for this great, honest and unbiased take on the current new player experience.

New light experience will never feel right without the earlier campaigns imo

As a newer player, it’s incredibly confusing to start this game. I couldn’t have done it without help from friends who have been playing for a while.

I remember when not only was the opening story more coherent and fun (got ship by finding it and escaping last second), but also had red war as a very good story to open with for tension

I’m about a week into playing destiny 2 for the for first time and you’ve hit pretty much every issue I ran into. So many unexplained features and countless times when I started feeling like I understood what was happening just to have that story cut short because the character isn’t alive anymore or the newest expansion has changed the story. I only now know what artifact level is because of your video.

I love this game with a burning passion but every time I watch a “new light experience” video, I can’t help but think that all my friends are right when they say destiny 2 is garbage. How is this possibly going to get people interested in the game? Buggy, no true guidance on enemy types, build crafting, etc. It’s honestly sad to see. Especially considering that bungie is catering to “newer” players with their easy to play content. It’s getting harder and harder to stand by this game.

I will say this, the Riskrunner tutorial room did actually do well to show its power to new players. My 2 friends who are completely new to destiny came into this room and were shown the power of the exotic without needing to take damage on purpose

I knew the game went through changes but I didn’t realise it was this significant. I remember playing it at release. It was designed specifically for new players that the OG’s from the original were annoyed. It’s crazy that those very friendly and narrative based missions are now gone. And now turns out the DLC I purchased but never played is now unplayable.

Omg, I just started this game and you hit everything right. I thought I was alone in this. Everything feels so overwhelming, from the gameplay to storepage. Hell even the quests and certain bounties (everything nightfall related). I try to start a quest, only to be told I need to buy an addon. It's so confusing, now I only do public events and vanguard.

I still think a f2p/new light players needs their own campaign like in y3 Red War + CoO + Warmind. Those stories might not be perfect and confusing by some, but it was a perfect length to make new lights understand the basic of the game at the end of those 3 campaigns. With some tweaking and all, Red War alone could be a better experience to introduce light subclasses for new players, plus they can add legendary campaign for it so those players can also have a weekly pinnacle/loot grind every week.

This has always been my biggest challenges about trying to be a casual player as a Dad. Everytime I come back to the game something more confusing an unexplained comes up and recommendations are all over the place. A linear presentation for campaign as at least an option would be great.

Me as a returning player i also had no idea about the fusing, havent played this game for years, i still have some issues about understaning what some stuff means but this video helped me a lot

One of the things that constantly bug me are the popups that do NOT go away until you do a specific thing...I have had them on the screen through entire strike missions...

New lights would’ve had a better interaction if Red War and Forsaken was kept in the game

I think your B for New Light is EXTREMELY charitable. the number of times you pointed out how a truly new player would be justifiably entirely confused as to what the hell was happening on every level, gameplay, core systems, customisation, story puts it at an outright F for me. a D is as high as I would go. recently came back to Destiny 2 after not playing it since a little ways after launch, and the only way I could really grasp certain systems was by searching them, even with a foot in the door, a defaulted Guardian Rank at 6, and numerous other advantages, the new light experience is extremely discouraging. particularly on the story side, the fact that we go straight from Destiny 1's Intro level repackaged as the New Light intro to the next story content we can access in the chronology being WITCH QUEEN, is utterly insane, new players aren't even given an INKLING of how this world functions.

I love this video! I picked Destiny 1 back up a little bit ago and hadn’t played Destiny 2 since the first months it came out so I tried D2 again as well. I gotta say getting back into D2 is even difficult and confusing for a veteran Destiny player. Hopefully they do something to help that, but I appreciate the quick rundown of stuff I didn’t even know about!

i remember playing Destiny 1 on xbox 360.. it was really fun having a sense of direction and completing the campaign (i never played online). i wish i could have that experience again with destiny...

I remember when I started playing last year, I was so confused after the guardian rises quest. I had to get so much help from my dad who has played the game since destiny 1. But after getting all the help, gotta say one of the favorite games right now. So to all the new lights out there, push through it and you'll have a blast!

As a recent new light myself probably the most confusing thing was just how the actual quest system works through the story. It's told in such a slapdash way when it immediately sucks you into the Neomunda campaign that I still don't really remember the character's names and get them confused when talking to veteran players. It feels like I'm trying to figure out why Zettadongu wants the sphere of Water Wisdom from the Chakakra plane to complete the Glue Confusion and I'm just sitting here wondering if this is supposed to be on the moon or the sun. This is on top of trying to figure out; the whole quest/bounties interface, when to upgrade or ditch certain armors, what even are public events, how many times can I die to jumping puzzles. I was convinced for two weeks that "Divinity" was a hidden stat for people who ran Raids because I was told to "at least start getting it" which was hilarious to a few buddies. I'm slowly getting better but it's been really rough, I still mash through both of the menus from time to time when I need to find something and it's hard to remember if I need the one that starts at the character menu or the one that starts on the map. It's been fun though, so I can't complain too much.

getting the riskrunner was the very first instance of my interest peaking and me feeling like a god. its the very reason i decided to play destiny even more, it made me want to grind for other exotics

I got my friend into destiny, Its fun watching him learn and we recently did a master dungeon too. Crazy how far he came from being a new light :,)

For new lights i think the best way to be approachable is to give back the earlier campaings combined with the ranks so they can understand what is going on with the game

i think a big part of what makes new light feel weak in tutorialization is the fact that so many new systems were introduced in the last years and their explanation was in content removed from the game like seasons or are just placed too late/early for when they are useful

As a new player to this game, I must say you make a whole lot of valid points. I actually was giggling a few times because some of the stuff you mentioned, I actually was struggling at myself, like Armor mods. I think Destiny is a fun game, but definitely a bit overwhelming for newbies. I think it needs more a linear system for new players. There’s too much freedom and choice in it for people like me and it can be really confusing. I am figuring the game out now with each day, however I just think it needs more structure. Let the veterans of Destiny do whatever they want, but “Keep it simple stupid” for noobs like me 😂.

I was a returning player coming back from when Shadowkeep just came out, and I agree with everything you said. It was sooooo confusing on what everything was.

In the ever-verse archive there is a shader pack for 3,000 glimmer. Lots of old shaders for newbies to experiment with

This is a great video! As someone who took a break from Destiny 2 for a couple years since Forsaken and has only returned within the past 3 weeks, this video is how I learned that I could get the seasonal artifact without paying for lightfall 😅

i've reach ranked 5 and still have no idea what I'm doing, this really helped

I just started playing Destiny 2 about a week ago. I want to add some comments based upon what you experienced! I'll try not to repeat what you all ready say. * This game was picked because of it's multiplayer aspect, so right after we met Shaw we jumped into a game together. Took a hot minute to figure out how to get that accomplished. * Since we were in a fireteam, we couldn't do the rest of the tutorial where you were meditating... So yea, we were just confused for a while, and then we went back after the fact after we knew what was what. We didn't notice the trap glitches because we were just impressed to see traps in the game. * I forgot about Amanda until you mentioned her. Didn't even notice that there was a memorial, but I never go to the hanger. * There are just too many advancement tracks. I confused the Season with the Halloween event, I didn't know that overall power level even meant anything -- I just assumed if I had good guns I'd be good and if I had bad armor I should just git gud and not get hit, and I saw bounties at different people and assumed they all were quests that leveled you up (which I suppose is true, but I thought it would raise your guardian rank or something). * No one has celebrated my ranks ups with me :( * I knew Cayde was a big deal because of the massive amount of marketing around his death when that was the main storyline. * I had a bad taste about the eververse because that is 1/2 of what I remember people complaining about when the game first launched. * Outside of seeing a few exotics locked behind expansions, I was having A LOT of trouble figuring out why I needed to buy an expansion at all - the free roam was amazing and all the things to discover gave me and my buds more than enough to do up to this point. Not so much a complain but commenting on how much there is to do in the game for new players - and comment on how confused I was that certain story things seemed to be super important than just cut out or stop. * The Timeline is something I blocked from my memory, because it was just yet another new menu to add to the myriad of menu choices I'm all ready struggling with. Is it quests? Just text? A campaign access point? I'm just going to do another public event, I get those... * I deleted an exotic because of lower power... But I got some kind of special loot for doing it so I assumed that it was OK to do that. YT is what taught me about infusion, once I knew what to ask about. * I only knew about Xur because of YT. Honestly sorta felt like cheating the first time I found Xur. * I still find PvP to be intimidating. I'm just sooooooo glad you can accomplish quests just by trying instead of winning or even killing honestly. I have like 3 kills total in 5 matches. :( BTW, your beginners guide was crucial. Thank you.

I love this new mini-tradition of celebrating new lights getting to higher ranks. Saw a level 3 go to level 4, me and some other player ran over to him and started dancing totally unprompted. Small parts of this community like that make me happy.

I feel the community plays a huge role for new lights like myself. Starting Destiny was very confusing but the tutorials, explanations and constant beginner suggestions I found it enjoyable. I felt comforted knowing that I could search something up when not sure of an unexplained feature.

Hey thanks for this vid, I haven't played Destiny 2 in a long while and this was very helpful!

I just started a few days ago, and it was indeed a bit overwhelming, and i needed a few hours to understand what i am supposed to do besides running around in the cosmodrome and killing these random spawning dudes. but now that i got a bit into the mechanics i really enjoy the game Edit: Also it needed about 5 hours of playtime until i discovered that the sparrow has a boost...

People have complained about Warframe's poor tutorials or years but from the -I think- beginning you had tutorials, help screens, and descriptions that all help players understand what's going on. There's a clear path to follow and objectives required to complete before moving on to more difficult or complex content to make sure new players knew the basics of what was going on.

Ghost mods are also super important for xp(through modularity or prosperity)but never get mentioned (especially when they were random rolls)🎉

I'm a relatively new player, and played through the same exact experience you walked through. I didn't have the glitchy experiences you had in "learning light", but I had no idea what was going on besides killing things. I didn't learn about lost sectors until I went exploring Nessus and Exodus black. I actually had to google what a lost sector was to progress in a bounty. I was confused with all of the characters in the tower because there was no story, and I didn't understand who they were until I watched some videos. I don't remember ever seeing a timeline. Learning subclasses was another challenge because I had no idea what to do with the aspects and fragments.

I did leave this game at that quest. But after years.... I want to try the game again. Thanks fot the vid!

The biggest issue is that the “Basics” was placed in d2 during the Red War. It’s not a new thing for new lights, they just added it in because it’s easier to do that then make a new map. There’s a reason why you don’t have basic training on how to craft, how to obtain bounties, how a clan works, what do mods do.. the tiny things that make up the Whole of destiny

I recently started WoW because of how biggy Destiny is, and I was blown away by how easy it was to learn how to play. I was queuing for dungeons by the second day. The number 1 thing destiny needs is a tutorial system that you can go back to and review. Something like they have for previewing finishers and emotes but for wverything from dunking motes to dealing with champions, to capping a control point.

Very good video. Hopefully someone on the team sees this and takes something into consideration… it’s definitely a tough fix and I feel like a new game is due to almost reset and restart. Especially with how much content has been left behind. I can see how a lot of people would have a very hard time playing destiny and staying after their first 1-3 times playing. Very nice video showing the issues well done

This video helped tremendously for me. I was/am still confused some. i just started playing a week ago and was VERY lost of what everything was. I was super overwhelmed and starting to get very agitated lol Thanks for the vid. If i didn't see this i probably would have stopped playing.

Hello, new player here. I started playing roughly a week before lightfall came out, here was my experience: 1. Experienced the cold start bug, was super confused. 2. Experienced an additional bug in that mission that left me even more confused. 3. All the weapons and armor things were super confusing, as well as the term “class ability.” I’ll add in here that I still have no idea what a “catalyst” is. 4. Been playing since that point and your mention of “turning a public event into a heroic” was the first time I have heard this is a thing (it’s been what, 3 months?) 5. I started the forsaken campaign and after the update it was gone, I was SUPER confused until I found out it was removed. 6. Everytime I log in I still feel like I’m missing something important lol.

13:00 locking mods behind a guardian rank is something i had not known until now. That may be the dumbest change ive heard them implement and i cannot seem to understand why. Maybe to not overwhelm new people, but the ability to equip weapon based mods and stat mods would be better than locking them along with buildcrafting mods behind a time/grind wall

I started playing Destiny 2 last week and that bug you mentioned while collecting scraps is still there. I re-logged in and and ran around for AGES trying to figure out how to continue. I almost stopped playing then and there until the game randomly fixed itself.

the one thing that pushed me far from Destiny was a content purge. i bought Destiny with its all packs around month-two before New Light came out and after month or two I was told that all my expansions all exotics everything i bought and didnt make in time to unlock cause i was new player will be erased... It was rly frustrating, but I'm thinking now to come totally full ftp while waiting for First Descendant or project LLL

When I started to play Destiny 2 a few months ago, my main problem was that you would be introduced to a timeline which exists before all the expansions happened and then the next time you'd log on, you'd be bombarded with taster missions for 5 different expansions with wildly different stories. It was really off-putting but I just suffered through the intros of the Witch Queen, the Red War, something random about Bray Tech and a few other missions I forgot about. At least I kept playing and was able to find out how amazing Destiny 2 actually is.

As someone who played Destiny 2 for only a month last December I can say this video was pretty spot on with how I felt, but there was still a lot you did that I never even knew about until the end of my stay like Infusing/Build Crafting/Artifacts (I remember the cringe I felt when I realized I was throwing away so much crafting material after a week of playing). I got instantly lost after my first mission and could only enjoy playing with my friend because he already knew where to go from there. I've played a lot of MMOs before and Destiny was one of the most fun new player experiences I've had but I couldn't get into it in the end cuz I got into the habit of only playing with the friend and by the end of my stay I actually had no idea what to do on my own LOL (no fault of my friend he was very patient through all my questions). Great video, the same friend mentioned Destiny again so I might hop on again :)

I recently started Destiny 2 and I this was very accurate, especially with Amanda because I saw that she was gone, I was very confused then I wanted to unlock the new artifact and that quest had Amanda in it so it went from her being alive to being dead and then being alive again. But this video was very helpful and cleared things up.

I agree with what you’re saying About the Confusion on the mods artifacts etc even as an player who’s been there at the beginning and then went inactive till end of 2023 I’m still confused about a lot things

I miss when ghost would talk to me. I felt like during lightfall you never hear from him. And in witch queen he had fairly limited dialog compared to beyond light and earlier. Granted I didn't start playing till beyond light and going through all the campaigns back to back while doing new light stuff I heard from him a lot. Nolan's voice is super comforting. What a great character design.

Agree with everything! I started my "Free to Play" experience a few months ago. Had I not any experience with D1 (albeit VERY little) I would have been even more lost. I'm still very confused about some things, and don't have any friends who play D2, so I'm still trying to figure things out on my own. A bit more tweaking of the current tutorials, limiting hints and such based on Guardian rank (and perhaps free vs paid content) would help immensely. Overall, I love it, and keep crawling back for more

8:27 that is so wholesome!!! My server is def like this. Everyone seems so uninterested in eachother and doesn’t even interact with eachother.

watching this video as a beginner was very helpful thanks alot :)

My brother and sister both started playing just after Lightfall came out, the amount I have had to to explain is unreal. I feel that if they hadn't had someone to sit down with them and explain how most of the game works they wouldn't have continued to play. They were really confused by some of the ranks, especially the mod system as it was bugged and didn't unlock the mods until a hotfix came out

I feel like the tips appearing and disappearing quickly is purely due to your computer, on ps4 the tips were there for ages and you could read multiple on ps5 i can usually read one and im in

My first time playing destiny 2 was only a year ago when my friends told me it was like playing Halo and it even had the Magnum from the 1st Halo in it. I was pretty happy once I got it. The only thing I'm missing is the Covenant and Flood 😮‍💨

Shadow you are simply one of the best d2 RU-vidrs and people out there. You have actually played other games like wow and just understand how to really judge things.

I like how you show the good and bad of f2p Destiny 2, and that your criticism is calm and understanding instead of bashing on it, it's very refreshing and I agree with all of what you've said !

Dares of Eternity should be used as the next step of the New Light tutorial where they create a modified version of the game mode that teaches players about subclasses, mods, weapons, armor, bounties, etc.

I’ve never played destiny for more than 30 min and this vid really opened my eyes

playing for a year, didn't know about crit spots, ty

I wish to add that two new Guardians I'm currently training spent hours in this game and never once did they realize you have to match your energy weapon type with the energy shields enemies have in order to knock the shield off faster. I never realized that the only time I think Destiny EVER mentions this is back in D1. It's incredible how much this game fails to explain anything important to new comers.

I want Red War, Curse of Osiris, and Warmind back. Because then, Destiny 2 for new players would actually make sense.

I’ve been playing this game since it came out and I’m still learning everytime I play it (D1 included)

Never played the game before pretty much had to learn on my own going through it! Did a lot of google and RU-vid searches!

Amanda is alive shadow bc on the F2P account you wouldn’t have done the seasonal mission yet where she dies so like with cayde (if you had a character who hadn’t done forsakens first mission he’d still be alive and you could interact with him although he’d have nothing to offer) but basically bc you hadn’t done that mission yet shed be alive. And she’s apart of the new light quest to introduce her but after that they should have a pop up saying she’s gone but nothing so it will be very confusing to new players.

I never really considered how awful it was for new lights until the dares of eternity incident that happened a while back. Back then I never put much attention into the new lights since I was still doing end game content. I mean, playing the red war, osiris and the warmind DLC was more important to me and when it got vaulted I focused on what was available to me. Being a veteran can have its flaws, means you sort of become blind to the reality that new lights don't get to experience the same stuff as us veterans because we've already gotten so far into the endgame content so we know what we're doing. And usually we think "Well if we can get this far then the new lights will have no problem following." The dares of eternity incident put that perspective out of the window, I realised just how bad it was when new lights were forced into dares and the whole community had to band together to help the blueberries. I definitely tried to help as many as possible and once bungie resolved the problem I began to help some of the new lights in the cosmodrome and.. wow... it was much worse than I imagined, I played with some and asked them questions and they didn't really know anything about the director menu (i dont mention guardian ranks because this was before lightfall came out) or what to do next, the game barely even gave them a direction as to what to do, its like bungie expected them to open up the menu and go to the quest category. I had to literally guide them myself and while it was tedious since I barely knew what the new light quests were at the time since I had never once touched them, eventually I memorised them and thats not even the worst part. So parkour.. lets discuss that, naturally hunters have the easiest jump mechanic, just press A or Space if you're on PC and you'll jump, press A again and you'll double jump. Very simple for new lights. Here's the issue, if you choose a warlock naturally you'll think it'll be easy since you've seen your friends float in the air, but for new lights they don't know anything about this, so I guided some through the riskrunner mission and when we got to the parkour section... it was a rollercoaster, every warlock new light I met could not even make the first jump because they didn't know how the warlock jump even worked (I don't blame them either because bungie actually suck at explaining the jump mechanic in detail) It did take a while since I had to talk about timing the jump but I eventually helped a couple of warlock new lights through the quest, at that point I felt like I was trying to do bungie's job for them since bungie clearly didn't put enough effort into explaining each of the classes abilities in detail. I mean.. jumping? Like thats the most used mechanic in destiny 2 and here I see new lights struggle because bungie can't even explain it properly to them. Basically all of this is to show that even with every new update given to new lights, bungie just can't get it right because they're so used to the veteran community that they have that they disregard the new lights so easily as well. This is incredibly sad since my actions are mere proof that the guide doesn't always work and its easier to have someone guide you through the tutorials rather than read things. Quick message to every veteran: Some of you won't care and thats fine, I understand that many do hate new lights and I've encountered haters, I have no issues with that because even I used to despise them, but for those who feel they wanna do some good, help the new lights, they are confused blueberries because bungie won't teach them how to walk before running. On a sidenote, removing the red war campaign was the biggest mistake bungie ever made, it was literally a whole tutorial put into a massive story, the red war needs to come back, it literally is more helpful than the new light quests.

Hi bro, thx for sharing your experience, i'm a new player, and it help me a lot! Would like to see some guide about the best dlc's to get first, or something like that...

This is SO spot on! I first tried Destiny like 2 months ago... I spent 1 hour inside Cosmodrome - The Steps, thinking I was locked inside a tutorial, but it was actually a playable zone already. I resumed 1 week ago thanks to a friend. It is still confusing as hell, with lots of quests with paywalls that they don't mention...

As a new player, the new light experience made me want to just quit the game. I was lucky and had a lot of friends help me understand it all so i cant imagine someone w/no help.

by now, in my opinion they should just give forsaken and shadow keep free, since year 1 is entirely removed, i think giving shadow keep free would be an nice prolouge on the light&dark saga so they may have incentive to buy the rest of the dlcs

Just started you nailed every reaction LOL!

This was very well put together, straight to the point, and extremely detailed at the same time. Man this is a top tier Excellent video for any D2 newcomer out there, thank you!

7:05 This is why the seasonal story should be free, never mind the fact that the quest hasn't changed to reflect the current story

Former new light with 200+$ and 200 hours 5ish weeks and loads of ptsd. I'd say buyer beware thankfully I could spend that and move on. Honestly though if a friend doesn't play just don't waste your time and especially your money. You need freind"'s" 14 browser page's 400 RU-vid videos and lots I mean lots of patience.

As a player who started last week I spent so much time figuring out what the heck is going on with quests, plants, bounties etc. Just a lot going on with knowing who to talk to, where to go, what to do…lot of time spent googling lol

I'm a new player, got introduced to Cayd with a really nice mission celebrating his memory.

Everyone avoids letting new lights know xur isn't ftp😂😂😂

Make Red War the new player experience. Enough said.

I'm a new player and this video was pretty spot on, there were admittedly several things I just learned from this video. I'm guardian rank 5, and only just learned from this video that artifacts exist, and I still have no idea what they are or how to get them.

I just started playing destiny I was so lost and confused your video helps I know what to do now

someone hand this video to bungie

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Bungie should have a brief voice acted cut scene to narrate the events of previous dlc content and seasonal content, especially for anything that was removed, I started playing during season of the lost and I had no idea what was happening until watching roughly 12 hours of byf content

As a new player who only recently made it to rank 6 (and did my first raid) I didn't do the majority of this stuff in the video, I'm lucky because I met someone who was willing to be patient and explain how the game works

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Destiny 2 isn't free to play, it's free to try XD

When I started the game I didn’t know energy weapons did extra damage to shielded stuff until I was past power 1700

I wish this was as covered as Aztecross video was. Both of these videos were gold in telling what I've been saying for a couple years now.

"In 2024" - Made in April of 2023

New player here, and heres some of my experiences minus the almost every other day server kick. My onboarding into this game was and continues to be really rough. I'm still pretty early into your video so I'm gonna edit this later to add some other points. Firstly I had several bugs in the Cosmodrome zone, I got locked out of the room during cold boot then kicked but logging back in fixed it and I could progress. Plus a later quest where you have to activate the force field tower to open the way bugged and wouldnt let me progress, again closing the game and logging back in fixed it. When it comes to the menus in this game my philosophy so far is this: click the shiny, make them not shiny. Wait! Amanda died? When? How? Why did I have to meet her? Why did she seem so important but I only just said hi to her? Over 70 hours in and I'm just now learning from this video that you can INTENTIONALLY make events heroic, I had no idea, guess I'll look that up later. I didn't start actually looking at the effects on legendary weapons until like 50 hours in. I was always "well this number bigger than that number and I like this weapon type so bye-bye old one, get dismantled". I have some okay builds for my hunter and warlock, I tried titan but didnt really like it. In the end I bought the Legacy Collection (on sale for half price, theres no way I'm paying $60 for an old dlc pack plus its asking me for another $50 for Loghtfall?) and have been slowly working through those quests. I constantly have questions and confusion about things but theres no real in-game resource for finding answers, which leads to frustration. To be completely honest I'm still so confused about a bunch of things it's hard to find the motivation to play Destiny 2 instead of anything else. The gameplay is fun, the weapons are great, the movement is stupid floaty at times but overall decent, but theres so many confusing things about it that never get explained (dont know what you neant about energy weapons and shields) that I feel lost and unsure of what to do. I finished your video and finised editing my comment. Thanks for taking the time to see things from a new players perspective. Now I'm off to eatch your guide video.

When I started, I got a tip about stasis damage, and I had no clue what that was until I was like halfway through the beyond light campaign

Almost too soon! 😂

This video has nothing to do with being a "Free to play" player, the stuff you mentioned happens to every player

I started in season 20 as a F2P player with no Destiny friends for help or explanation. It is pretty rough coming in brabd new but its also very fun and interesting. I ended up buying a couple expansions and that season pass by end if my first month. It is overwhelming at times for newbies but this has quickly become one of my favorites, crazy i never played this before but i guess i just never wanted to drop the $60 first without playing it.

I can say that when I was a new player, I remember not being able to find that initial Lost Sector. Seems silly to me in hindsight but I remember struggling