6 tips to get prepped for Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - A dead ghost

Trying to work out what you need to do before The Final Shape arrives? Bungie has put out a lot of info over the past few weeks about tweaks to weapons and various systems that are getting retired with the new expansion. It’s hard to keep track of exactly what’s staying and what’s going away when year seven ofDestiny 2kicks off.

Rather than trawl through every This Week in Destiny blog post, we’ve put together a little list of the six most important things you need to get prepped for the expansion, whether it’s spending your engrams before they disappear, or unlocking craftable weapons that’ll be much harder to get come release.

Focus your engrams

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - Season of the Wish weapons

At the end of a season in Destiny 2, you usually have a stack of engrams waiting with Zavala, Shaxx, Banshee, The Drifter, and maybe even Saint-14 if you’ve been doing a cheeky bit of Trials. These all disappear when the new season starts, so you’ll want to make sure you focus them into any weapons or rolls you’re still looking for. Since it’s also the end of the year, that means seasonal engrams in the HELM are disappearing, such as:

Luckily, there are still a variety of uses for them. You can whack a stat mod on your ghost and go to town focusing armour, especially if you play multiple classes and want some better stat gear for one of those. You could also focus seasonal weapons for the chance at getting a red border, though that seems like a waste when you can still get multiplefree red border seasonal weapons each day.

What I instead recommend is that you focus those engrams into:

If you already have everything you want from above, you can safely roll all those seasonal engrams into armour.

Spend your legendary shards

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - Phantasmal Fragments

Hold onto your exotic engrams

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - Fallen Sunstar

You’ll also need an Exotic Cipher to do this, but you should be able to grab one from Xur this weekend if you don’t have one already. Once you’ve got your exotic engram and cipher, you’ll be able to gain a good chunk of rep with Rahool once The Final Shape launches.

Don’t worry about vault space too much

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - Racks of guns

You were likely getting ready to clear out a good portion of your vault and all those extraBrave Arsenalrolls in preparation for The Final Shape’s new guns, raid weapons, and exotics. The good news is that the expansion is adding 100 slots to your vault, so you don’t have to worry too much about getting rid of old guns, especially now that the power cap is being removed from all older guns.

Bank a few bounties

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - Commander Zavala

Though Vanguard, Crucible, and Gambit bounties are all being replaced with the Pathfinder system in The Final Shape, destination bounties are still sticking around. If you want to stockpile some bounties to complete when the expansion comes out, so you can quickly gain a load of XP for the new seasonal artifact, head to Variks on Europa, Nimbus on Neomuna, Fynch in the Throne World, Eris Morn on the Moon, Shaw Han in the Cosmodrome, or any other destination vendor. Finish some bounties for them, and then wait until The Final Shape launches to complete them.

Spend your harmonizers and unlock seasonal guns

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Destiny 2 The Final Shape prep - Deepsight Harmonizer

If you’re still on the hunt for red border seasonal weapons, there are few days left in which you can complete activities to get daily red borders. You can get a seasonal red border per day for the seasons of Defiance, Deep, Wish, and Witch, so you might still be able to get a few more craftable guns before the pre-launch server downtime on Monday. Also make sure you spend your remaining Deepsight Harmonizers from the season pass.

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Focus your engrams#

Spend your legendary shards#

Hold onto your exotic engrams#

Don’t worry about vault space too much#

Bank a few bounties#

Spend your harmonizers and unlock seasonal guns#

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals#

Focus your engrams

Spend your legendary shards

Hold onto your exotic engrams

Don’t worry about vault space too much

Bank a few bounties

Spend your harmonizers and unlock seasonal guns

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals