8 insider tips that will quickly turn you into a PvE endgame pro in Destiny 2

On April 16, 2022By Garmin Philip

Destiny 2 is a game of repetition. If you play an activity over and over again, you will automatically get better at it. But that’s not the only reason that makes a player a PvE endgame pro in Destiny 2. Destiny streamer Above captured this well and put it together in an insightful video for the community.

Who is the Destiny 2 player with the good tips? The tipster is the Destiny 2 streamer “Above”. He likes to play activities as a so-called “low-man challenge” and is always available for crisp endgame activities.

In his video, he not only gives important tips on damage buffs and resistance mods.
He also explains the 40/60 rule, which is little known to Destiny 2 players.
He also has helpful tips on how to always have enough power ammo
and why blaming the game for everything isn’t always a solution.

MeinMMO has looked at his tips and summarized the most important ones that “Above” presented in his video for you.

Tip 1 – Understand the gameplay in Destiny 2 better

You won’t be told how things work in Destiny 2. Instead, Bungie likes to use subtle in-game cues to alert Guardians to certain things. You have to find out for yourself how something works. The more difficult the activity, the more complex and interesting the mechanics tend to be.

In addition, a lot of things in the game try to distract you from the really important things. This should make it even more difficult to stick to the actual task.

Longtime players in Destiny 2 know that you should learn to ignore irrelevant things. This includes, for example, opponents who spawn again and again. Your focus in the first step is therefore on your own actions in the game. They pay attention to changes in the game.

When do which enemies spawn?
Will the in-game music change?
Do new hints or buffs appear with certain actions?

Here it is often noticeable that they initially rely less on DPS weapons and more on grenade launchers with flash grenades, for example, in order to keep an activity going for as long as possible. Only when they know how something works is the loadout optimized for damage.

Tip 2 – Stop blaming the game

Every player, not only in Destiny 2, has certainly been guilty of this point at some point. You blame the game for your personal fail.

Of course you get upset when you die, but that usually doesn’t happen because the game stalls. Rather, it’s because you either positioned yourself poorly or heroically launched what was actually a frivolous action that ended up getting you killed.

Even if “the architect” in Destiny 2 sometimes disagrees here, you should use every death to learn from it. Think about what you did wrong and then focus on simply correcting the mistake next time.

Use your deaths for constructive adjustments: As mentioned, Destiny is a game of repetition, but if the player refuses to use that repetition for anything constructive, it will be difficult for them to improve. However, if you change this way of thinking, your own game will improve in no time.

Tip 3 – How damage stacking works in Destiny 2

Many players do not yet have much experience with damage stacking, i.e. with the stacking of damage. This is made more difficult by the fact that there are tons of stackable buffs and debuffs like charged with light, elemental sources, artifact mods and various damage perks.

There is hardly a player who was not confused by this at one point or another.

Here are the basics for buffs and debuffs:

There are damage buffs that always stay in play.
- This includes, for example, the Void Titan’s “Ward of Dawn” buff. The “Bubble” grants a 35% bonus for every 15 seconds. The buff can also be refreshed by going in and out of the bubble again after it expires.
- The Solar Warlock’s Fountain of Radiance is also a permanent damage buff. It offers standing players a 25% damage bonus for 30 seconds.
- The higher damage value always has priority.
Debuffs make enemies more vulnerable to incoming damage.
- Debuffs use abilities such as the Void Hunter’s Shadowshot, the Titan’s “Raging Flame”, which lasts 6 seconds and deals 50% additional damage to a single target hit with the melee ability.
- Alternatively, weapon exotics such as the “tractor cannon” and “divinity” can be used. They weaken enemies by up to 30%.
- Debuffs themselves cannot be stacked, but they can be stacked with the above damage buffs.
- So players can always use a basic damage buff with at least one debuff.

It gets more complex when the various armor mods are added. These currently include the Light Mods, Warmind Cell Mods, and Elemental Source Mods.

Some of these, like the High Energy Fire light mod, stack weapon damage. However, it does not work with the Titan’s Void Bubble damage buff.
The Elemental Source mod Source of Power and Rasputin’s Might, a Warmind mod, on the other hand, do stack with the Void Bubble. Perhaps because they are more complex in setup than the light mods, so Bungie allows them to be stacked.

Always use the seasonal artifact mods: Last but not least, the seasonal artifact mods also offer more options. These are seasonal and therefore temporary mods that change from season to season. Because of this, however, they also have a significant impact on the meta in the game. Recently, the seasonal mods “Breakthrough and Clearing” and “Particle Decomposition” were absolute must-haves in the game.

Seasonal mods offer unusually large damage bonuses.
They stack with everything mentioned so far and can therefore make a huge difference.
They often also provide weapon-specific damage benefits that stack with other sources as well.

Some of the most popular options in Season 16 for optimal damage stacking is the combination of Rifle Line, Vorpal Weapon, and Get Along. It means everything listed so far will make your heavy weapons hit 4.9 times harder.

Knowing this, players can, at least fundamentally, stack together buffs and debuffs that suit their playstyle and that ultimately also help their team tweak damage whenever it’s needed.

Tip 4 – Understand and use resistance mods

For a long time, the guardians have been able to upgrade their armor with numerous so-called resistance mods. Some of them are now almost indispensable and therefore it is important to know and own them. If you want them all, you have to invest some time.

So if you’ve been wondering why you’re always a one-shot kill out of all the enemies in the endgame, then pack some of these mods into your armor. After that, you will ask yourself this question much less often. This includes, for example, the light mod “Protective Light”.

The Guardian Light mod ensures that when your shields break and your health goes red, you get a free 50% damage resistance. This helps to survive a lot of things in the game that you normally can’t survive.
“Sniper resistance” can be a bit misleading. The resistance mod does not only protect against snipers. It protects you from attacks from a distance of more than 29 meters. So if you are shot by a sniper from 28.5 meters away, this mod is actually of no use to you.
The Shock Absorber resistance mod applies to all AOE damage, including grenades, area damage from enemies like witches and knights, general fire attacks, and even boss stomp attacks.

“AoE damage” means so-called “area of effect” damage. What is meant by this is the area damage from individual opponents.

This is why you should always equip resistance mods: All of these mods can also be stacked. This can thus give you additional benefits of up to a whopping 40% reduction in damage. If you combine it with “Protective Light” you even get 90% damage resistance.

Where do you get these fighting style mods from? You can buy all so-called fighting style mods on the tower. Ada-1 and Bashee-44 sell random combat style armor mods from the Charged with Light, Elemental Sources, and Warmind Cell mod groups every day. This allows players to progressively acquire all sorts of armor mods that they don’t already have. The offer of the NPC traders rotates daily.

On the next page you will learn how to always create heavy ammo in Destiny 2 and how the 40/60 rule works.

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