The latest Destiny 2 update adjusted the 30th anniversary acti🐈vity Dares of Eternity to make it more tolerable f🦩or new players.
The Dares of Eternity activity was proving so difficult for new players that Bungie put out a call for veteran Guardians to lower their Power level so that they could matchmake with so-called New Lights and carry them through, or at least give them some time to breathe. Bungie even made a special emble📖m to give out to players who cleared Dares of Eternity in the past week, whether they were a victim or a sherpa.
This noob-stomping was caused by two major issues which have now thankfully been fixed. See, new Destiny 2 players would previously load into Dares of Eternity🐎 automatically before they got a chance to learn the game or even obtain a power weapon. It was literally the first thing they'd experience. Destiny 2 is already an intimidatingly dense and complex game, and opening with an RNG game show run by a horse doesn't make it any more approachable. Do💧ubly so because this automatic induction left new players under-geared and, at the default 1100 Power, woefully under-leveled for the 1150 Power activity.
The good news is that Dares of Eternity is now set at 1100 Power, and it won't immediately draft players who've yet to acquire a heavy weapon. This should give New Lights a little more time to cut their teeth before entering the gauntlet of the unknowable s🍬pace horse.
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