Overview

Outlines last-week preparation for Destiny 2’s Renegades expansion, covering bounty prep amid the new Orders system, pre-launch power leveling, portal loot rotation risks, resource prioritization, and expected meta shifts from Bungie’s recent balance articles.

Bounty Prep

• Bounty prep remains valuable even with Orders granting XP automatically based on activity and loadout.

• Do not stock Banshee, Failsafe, or Devrim bounties; they no longer provide them.

• Other vendors still offer daily/weekly bounties that grant XP; prioritize weeklies for the largest payout.

Weekly Bounty Sources

• Weeklies first, dailies second, repeatables last for overall XP efficiency.

• Favor locations with many dailies (e.g., the Moon) to stack progress while completing weeklies.

• Free bounty slots by deleting old, unneeded quests occupying bounty space.

Vendor/Location

Weekly Count

Hawthorne (Tower)

All clan bounties (weekly)

Nimbus (Neomuna) 1

Variks (Europa) 2

Shaw Han (Cosmodrome) 2

Eris Morn (Moon) 2

Lectern of Enchantment (Moon) 2

Petra (Dreaming City) 2

Starhorse (Xur’s Treasure Hoard) 1

Bounty Efficiency Tips

• Don’t overspend time on time-consuming weeklies (e.g., long Gambit chains) if the same time nets multiple efficient dailies.

• Combine Moon weeklies with Moon dailies for a strong XP-per-hour return.

• Ensure you have quest tab capacity before the hand-in window next season.

Power Leveling Before Renegades

• Power will not reset in Renegades; your current power carries forward.

• Push into higher thresholds now to start with stronger drop tiers (e.g., hitting 400+ improves early gear quality).

• Level while tackling bounty prep and loot targets to maximize time efficiency.

Portal Loot Rotation Risk

• Portal loot may rotate or expand in Renegades, potentially removing or diluting current drops.

• Target desired items now (e.g., Bushido set, Mint Retrograde) before they leave rotation or become rarer.

• Pinnacle Ops playlist drops could be replaced or mixed with new weapons/armor; secure current favorites while available.

• Farm featured pieces during leveling and bounty runs to double-dip progress.

Resources Strategy

• Recent season saw currency volatility: unstable cores were added then removed.

• Upgrades currently rely on glimmer and enhancement cores; infusion costs are lighter.

• Lower urgency to broadly stockpile; if near glimmer cap and core-ready, focus elsewhere.

• Ascendant Shards remain helpful for masterworking new gear, but don’t let resource farming crowd out leveling and bounty gains.

Anticipated Meta Shifts

• Weapon tuning: pellet (spread) shotguns receive a significant PvE buff; several exotics see notable improvements.

• Exotic armor changes: broad buffs with no nerfs in that pass; Matadoxia Warlock chest dramatically increases Needlestorm DPS.

• Matadoxia targeting: aim for Paragon archetype for a big super spike; melee is the secondary synergy.

• Ability tuning: Hunters receive substantial buffs; Tether now weakens 5% more than other weaken sources (e.g., Tractor Cannon).

• Golden Gun gains major DPS improvements; acquiring a strong Celestial Nighthawk becomes a high-value play.

• Begin assembling or reserving pieces for builds that align with these buffs; prep shotguns and key exotics.

Practical Prep Sequence

• Grab weeklies from all listed vendors, then stack compatible dailies (especially on the Moon).

• Level power while completing these activities and farming featured portal drops.

• Monitor portal offerings daily; prioritize hard-to-replace sets and weapons before rotation.

• Maintain enough glimmer and enhancement cores for early upgrades; secure Ascendant Shards if convenient.

• Identify class-specific priorities: Warlocks seek Matadoxia and Needlestorm synergy; Hunters secure Celestial Nighthawk and Tether/Golden Gun setups.

Action Items

• Stock weeklies from listed vendors; supplement with efficient dailies to maximize next-season hand-in XP.

• Delete obsolete quests to free bounty slots.

• Push power level thresholds before launch to improve day-one drop tiers.

• Farm portal loot targets likely to rotate or be diluted in Renegades.

• Maintain essential glimmer and enhancement cores; collect Ascendant Shards as opportunity allows.

• Acquire Matadoxia (Warlock) and Celestial Nighthawk (Hunter); prep pellet shotgun PvE options.

• Sketch builds around buffed subclasses, weapons, and exotics to minimize day-one setup time.

Decisions

• Proceed with bounty prep despite the Orders system.

• Deprioritize broad resource stockpiling in favor of leveling, bounty efficiency, and portal loot.

• Prioritize hunting potentially rotating portal loot this week to avoid scarcity after Renegades launches.

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Destiny 2 Renegades Prepared

What is up guys, it's your boy Rick Gackus and today you did it again, didn't you gamer? You saved all of your prep for the upcoming Renegades expansion in Destiny 2 for the final week before it launches. Well, don't worry, because so did I.

So in this video, we're going to be going over everything you can do in this final week. Well, a week plus one day, but who's counting? To give you a massive advantage over...

when the Renegades expansion launches and ensure you're ready for the day one dungeon. And so, let's get started. All right, now, first things first, you're gonna wanna hit that notification bell down below so you're notified of new videos.

Now, how is that prep? Well, guys, I can't give too much away, but let's just say I was recently at Bungie HQ and there might be some very interesting Renegades related content coming soon. I can't say more but please hopefully you guys know what I'm saying. If you're interested in getting ready for Renegades, knowing about Renegades, hit that notification bell.

But aside from that guys, no one wants to do it but we've got to talk about it. Bounty prep. In case you don't know, bounty prep is the process of completing bounties now, but then just leaving them in your quest tab until next season where you hand them all in and get a massive boost to experience, leveling up your, mainly, new seasonal artifact incredibly fast.

Now there's a big question this time around because Bungie's actually introducing, as you can see, a whole new system that is kind of meant to replace bounties. So these are called orders. You're going to get them as you play.

You're going to complete them as you play and just automatically get new ones. They actually spawn according to what you're using. So if you have solar weapons on, you're gonna get orders that have to do with getting kills with solar weapons, for example, and they give you XP. So is there any point in bounty prepping when this system is coming?

Well, it turns out, yes. So Bungie actually answers the question, "Are bounties gone?" and they say the answer is not all of them. Banshee, Failsafe, and Devrim no longer provide bounties, but there are still other vendors that offer daily and weekly bounties. So do not stock up on Banshee, Failsafe, or Devrim bounties, and they say those that remain still grant rewards that they did prior, specifically they even mention you can pay a visit to Variks or Petra to get XP.

And so therefore, we still want to stock up on those weekly bounties before Renegades. Remember guys, weekly bounties give the most experience, followed by daily, and then in last place, you have repeatable, so try to stock up on weeklies mainly. And there's not too many sources of weekly bounties left in the game. Here are all of them. So, starting with the tower, all of Hawthorne's clan bounties count as weeklies.

Then moving on to Neomuna, Nimbus will have one right here. After that, for Europa, Variks will have two. Then, for the Cosmodrome, Sha-Han will also have two. Moving on from there to the moon, we actually have four.

Eris Morin has two right here, and then the nearby Lecture of Enchantment has another two. After that on the Dreaming City, Petra is going to have two as you can see. Moving on from there, you actually have Xur's Treasure Hoard, specifically Star Horse will have one right here. However, a big tip here guys, remember, obviously if you can complete all of these weekly bounties and hand them all in next season, that's a ton of experience.

But, is it really worth spending the limited amount of time you have in this final week getting the clan bounty done to do a bunch of gambit matches, for example? Probably not. Whereas doing the stuff on the moon, well in that case you can grab all of the moon daily bounties at the same time and get those done too.

That is much more, you know, overall experience for your time. So although it's important to know where the weekly bounties are, don't spend hours hours and hours doing one weekly when you can in that same timeframe complete 5 dailies. That's going to be more overall XP as long as you have this space in your quest tab.

And remember, quests actually take up bounty spaces. So if you've ran out of space for bounties, you can actually delete really old quests you have that you no longer need that'll open up space to grab new bounties. Alright, but moving on from there guys, the next thing you want to do in this final week is level up.

Increase your power level. And the reason is that, well, initially Bungie announced that your power level would reset in Renegades, But that's no longer going to be the case. In response to player feedback, now whatever power level you are going into Renegades, you keep that power level in Renegades.

So the higher you get right now, especially if you cross those important thresholds, if you're, let's say, 380 and you can get into the 400s, then you're gonna be able to start Renegades earning better gear. Likely you're going to be getting tier 4s, a chance for tier 5s right off the bat in Renegades. So again, doing some leveling in this final week is a good idea.

Now while you're doing this leveling, another extremely important thing to keep in mind is that the portal loot may rotate. So it is likely that we're getting brand new portal loot within Renegades and so this means if you want the mint retrograde you might want to get it now. We're not 100% sure on the details.

Maybe all this portal loot that's in the game right now, maybe the mint retrograde, maybe all of the different weapons and armor that are dropping from the Pinnacle Ops playlist will just be replaced with new weapons and armor. In that case, how do you get the Bushido set? How do you get the Mint Retrograde? You might not be able to. It might be out of rotation and you're just out of luck, right?

So in that case, you really want to try to get the stuff available in the portal right now. And even if Bungie is just adding new stuff to the portal guys that also massively dilutes the pool. It's going to be much harder to get what you want. So in this final week, if you see any of the loot pieces you actually want being featured, very good idea to go after those, you know, while you're leveling up and doing some other stuff.

But moving on from there, normally I'd have a section on resources, talking about why it's important to stock up on resources in this final week, and that's still a good idea. If you can go out and get Ascendant Shards, that's gonna be great for masterworking new gear in Renegades. However...

Resources have really been turned on their heads within this last season. For example, Bungie added unstable cores as the only currency really you need to level up and then they promptly removed it. So right now it's just glimmer and enhancement cores to level up and so you know if you want to stock up on something like glimmer that is going to be a crucial currency for next season but But if you're already at or near max level, you don't really need it.

And so depending on where your account is, what resources you need, it's gonna be vastly different. And I would say this time around, I would feel much less pressure to stock up on resources than pretty much ever before, guys, right? Like, because again, you know, infusing gear is really not too resource intensive now.

So, What I'm saying is spend your time doing other things like actually leveling up, grabbing those bounties, getting bounty prepped, all that stuff, rather than trying to stock up on every single type of resource. But moving on from there, guys, the last thing I want to talk about is getting ready for the new meta. So at the time I'm recording, Bungie has released 4K. three separate massive articles detailing buffs and nerfs coming in Renegades. So one of them was two weapons.

Linked up above is my full video covering that. Essentially, definitely spread shotguns, pellet shotguns are getting a big PvE buff. You also have a bunch of exotic weapons getting some pretty saucy buffs as well.

After that guys, they then released another article on exotic armor getting buffs and nerfs, but there was no nerfs. It was all buffs. Again, full video on that linked right up above.

The real standout is the Matadoxia Warlock chest piece. This is going to improve the damage of your Needlestorm super up to the levels of Thundercrash with Kyros. This could become one of the most important exotics to get in the entire game for like DPS phases, everyone's hot swapping to Matadoxia on their Warlocks. Very important one to grab.

Try to get it in... the Paragon archetype so you get that big super spike followed by melee because the other half of the exotic has to do with melee. But just earlier today actually, Bungie released a third article detailing the abilities, buffs, and nerfs coming in Renegades.

Again, full video on that linked right up above. And for that, honestly, hunters are eaten good. massive buffs to tether tether now weakens 5% more. You're going to do 5% more damage with tether than any other source of weaken like tractor cannon, etc.

Golden gun hunters buffed to the absolute moon. Like that's looking extremely good as well. DPS output and stuff like that.

So hey, going and getting a good celestial nighthawk, very good idea as well. Stuff like that. So definitely like check out those videos if you have the time and potentially, you know, Making builds that are looking to be very good next season is always a good idea, or if not fully making the build, investing in the things we know are getting a lot better, guys.

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