Steelfeather God Roll

Last night was my second night of playing through the new seasonal content in Destiny 2, and immediately it feels like there are a lot of comparisons between this and the Season of Opulence. In that season it introduced the concept of the Chalice, which is a quest item that you effectively unlock various functions of over the course of the season. Additionally there is a runes mini-game that allows you to forge specific weapons in a new game mode called The Menagerie. This mode sent you into the Leviathan where you participated in a randomized sequence of encounters, the number of which you have to do depends on just how successful you are at each of them. The runes slotted into the Chalice dictated what sort of rewards you were able to get in this game mode.

For those who are playing this season, that is going to seem really familiar because the Obelisks that we unlock around the locations are more or less serving the same role as the Chalice, giving us something to keep unlocking as the season goes forward. The improvement this time around is that they jettisoned the runes mini-game and instead simply allow us to choose a specific weapon upon each completion of the Sundial event. Which weapons you get to choose from are determined by which Obelisk you have linked the Sundial event to. I’ve been running with the Tangled Shore event linked in an attempt to get really good Auto Rifle rolls. In theory at some point I will swap over to Mars where I can get a Grenade Launcher or a Linear Fusion Rifle. Next week we apparently get a new set of destinations and with it brand new weapons to try for.

In my journey to get a god roll on the Steelfeather Repeater, I think I may have just gotten one. This weapon is amazing, and is rapidly becoming my favorite Auto Rifle. The roll that I managed to pull is Multi-Kill Clip, Feeding Frenzy, Ricochet Rounds and Hammer-Forged Rifling. Feeding Frenzy and Multi-Kill Clip work so well together on this weapon with Multi-Kill Clip giving you a buff for killing multiple targets with this weapon before reloading and Feeding Frenzy making that reload after a kill way faster. The cadence that you can fall into this weapon feels so good and the sound and speed… just makes you feel like you are wrecking everything in sight.

Another interesting weapon that I picked up last night is this curated masterwork roll of Last Man Standing. I took down an invading Guardian in Gambit Prime and saw this drop into my inventory. I like the gun an awful lot, but the biggest problem that I have with it… is the magazine size. I still use my Ikelos shotgun almost entirely because of the fact that it has 8 rounds in the magazine. Were this a different element… then it might have gotten some play. The biggest thing this weapon has going for it is auto loading holster, allowing me to swap over to a primary and have this reloaded when I need it again.

The absolute BEST part of this season however are the changes made to Escalation Protocol. You can now get relevant armor each time you take down the wave 7 boss without having to go through the key upgrade minigame. As a result folks are playing this game mode again and this morning when I dropped onto Mars to check that Obelisk I happened to random into a successful Wave 7 kill. That is something that used to happen back when Escalation Protocol was active content, but has not happened for a very long time. Now however… I am super pumped to have this back in the rotation of things that I can do. I hope to finally get the weapons I am missing as a result.

All in all I am pretty excited for this season and the way they are tweaking things to revitalize older content. Destiny really is in and excellent state, and I think Bungie as a whole has a pretty firm grasp on how to make this game successful.