Destiny 2 — New Max Level and Power Level Cap
New to Shacknews? Signup for a Free Account
Already have an account? Login Now
Learn what the new max Power is in Destiny 2, along with any new increases to the level, as well as a history of each season’s Power cap.
0
Every time Destiny 2 releases a new expansion, expect the max Power level to increase to a new cap. This has been the case with every new DLC and season (as well as with some limited-time events). When Destiny 2 first launched, the max Power was 300 (305 with mods) but now, all these years later, Guardians have grown fat with strength. With the release of each new DLC, players want to know the new max Power level cap and whether there are new levels to chase. The latest expansion, Season of the Seraph, will continue the trend of increasing the max Power.
Last updated on December 6, 2022.
The Power cap in Destiny 2 increases whenever a new expansion or piece of DLC is released. Previously, Destiny 2 also raised the player level (a now defunct system). The last time “levels” were involved was the release of Destiny 2: Forsaken, which saw the level cap raised to 50. Since then, the level system has been scrapped, meaning players only need to focus on Power.
The new max Power is 1580 (1590 with Pinnacle gear) as of the latest season. The following table shows what the max Power is for the new season as well as what it was for previous seasons, DLCs, and events. Check out our guide on the Destiny 2 season release dates for a deeper look at each previous season.
| Content | Max Power |
| Destiny 2 base game | 300 (305 with mods) |
| Curse of Osiris | 330 (335 with mods) |
| Warmind | 380 (385 with mods) |
| Moments of Triumph event | 400 (405 with mods) |
| Forsaken / Season of the Outlaw | 600 |
| Season of the Forge | 650 |
| Season of the Drifter | 700 |
| Season of Opulence | 750 |
| Shadowkeep / Season of the Undying | 950 (960 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of Dawn | 960 (970 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of the Worthy | 1000 (1010 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of Arrivals | 1050 (1060 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Beyond Light / Season of the Hunt | 1250 (1260 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of the Chosen | 1300 (1310 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of the Splicer | 1310 (1320 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of the Lost | 1320 (1330 with Pinnacle gear) |
| The Witch Queen / Season of the Risen | 1550 (1560 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of the Haunted | 1560 (1570 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of Plunder | 1570 (1580 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Season of the Seraph | 1580 (1590 with Pinnacle gear) |
| Lightfall / Season of [REDACTED] | Unknown |
It’s important to note that all these figures do not take into consideration the seasonal artifact.
Every new season (as of Shadowkeep) introduces an artifact along with a Power increase. This artifact is used to gain additional Power through XP acquisition.
For those that are curious about the aforementioned levels that were removed, here is what they were over the course of the first year and a bit of Destiny 2:
- Destiny 2 base game – Level 20
- Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris – Level 25
- Destiny 2: Warmind – Level 30
- Destiny 2: Forsaken – Level 50
While the max Power will likely increase with every new season and DLC, it’s safe to say that there will no longer be a player level like there was with the base game. This streamlines the experience, allowing players to focus on completing new content (like the campaigns) and then shifting focus to Powerful reward drops and Pinnacle activities to reach the new max Power in Destiny 2. Take a moment to look over the Shacknews Destiny 2 complete strategy guide to make sure your Guardian is fully prepared to take on the next threat.
Bill and Sam are the two Shacknews writers who handle the bulk of the Destiny 2 content. As a Hunter and Warlock main respectively, they can cover a great deal of ground with whatever is happening in Destiny 2 today. What they don’t know they can find out thanks to their all-star lineup of Destiny 2 friends.
Filed Under
Destiny 2: Forsaken — How to Reach Level 50 Fast
Loading
•
If you’re coming into Destiny 2 Forsaken fresh, here are some tips on how to reach the max character level of 50 as quickly as you can.
Subscribe to IGN Prime to access HD video downloads
Already a Prime member? Please .
Did you enjoy this video?
In This Video
Destiny 2 – Expansion III: Forsaken
Bungie
Rating
ESRB: Teen
Platforms
Xbox OnePlayStation 4PC
Destiny 2 Why We Don’t Care About Grandmaster Nightfalls — Fireteam Chat Ep.
295
Destiny 2: Adored vs. Beloved and the Many Interesting Changes — Fireteam Chat Ep. 277
Destiny 2: Why the Solstice of Heroes Grind is Rough w/ NemPlays! — Fireteam Chat Ep. 273
Destiny 2: Can Trials of Osiris Be Fixed? w/Aztecross + Kujay — Fireteam Chat Ep. 270
Destiny 2: Please Make Iron Banner Armor Cool Again — Fireteam Chat Ep. 268
Destiny 2: What’s Working Best in Season of Arrivals — Fireteam Chat Ep. 267
Destiny 2: Should You Return in Season 11? — Fireteam Chat Ep. 266
Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Season of Arrivals and 3 More Years of Gameplay — Fireteam Chat Ep.
265
Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Season of Arrivals and 3 More Years of Gameplay — Fireteam Chat Episode 265
Destiny 2: Almighty Tower Explosion Full Live Event
Destiny 2 Reacting to Eris and Drifter on Europa — Fireteam Chat Ep. 264
Destiny 2: Reflecting on Season 10 and the Season 11 Silence — Fireteam Chat Ep. 263
Destiny 2: Weapon Perk Nerfs (Longer Reloads + Less Damage) — Fireteam Chat Ep. 262
Destiny 2 Coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X + Transmog on the Way! — Fireteam Chat Ep. 260
How Destiny’s Seasonal Model is Changing — Fireteam Chat Ep. 259
Destiny 2: Trials Fixes & Guardian Games Reactions — Fireteam Chat Ep.
258
Destiny 2: How Bungie is Handling Trials Cheaters — Fireteam Chat Ep. 255
Destiny 2: PVP Continues to Carry the Season — Fireteam Chat Ep. 254
How to Use Cross Save in Destiny 2
Destiny 2: Why Season of the Worthy is Losing Our Interest Fast — FIreteam Chat Ep. 253
Lost Ark — What can you do at the moment after reaching level 50
Story and side quests
Sooner or later, no matter what method, each player will reach a certain maximum level mark, which is equal to 50 here, and will think about what to do in general further. Please note that below in the description of various content, we will not take into account such a factor as “Where to go to get new equipment”, as this, of course, is an obvious fact when reaching the cap.
This article can be considered as a kind of preview — what generally awaits users in addition to the gradual promotion from level 1 to 50, but please note that the content that is currently available is described below, and, for example, with the release of the euro version it may become more.
During the journey from one continent to another, each player chooses the path of development, which is divided into two options: “I do side quests \ do only the main quest”. And, for example, I personally reached the highest possible level at the end of the technological mainland. And also I skipped a very large part of the various quests and sometimes ignored them altogether, hence the first point appears, what you should do at all. However, in the beginning, as I indicated above, even if you have already reached 50, it is best to complete the main quest line to end. Here I mean all the tasks that are marked with a planet icon, because the story quests for collecting parts of the ark stop at a certain amount and it is impossible to continue them.
At least you will have to close two more continents, after which, of course, you can already start closing various yellow and purple quests, and it is the latter category that has a higher priority, because very useful items are given as a reward. It is during the passage of the global line (the quest with the planet) that, as far as I remember, the final ability will become available to you, since it is initially blocked and you can test it only through the training system. The exception is a special purple quest from the goddess, which can be obtained as soon as you reach the city of Bern. The fact is that after passing a small chain for your character, his ult is unlocked, which consumes special charges to use. And the completion of the usual yellow quests is needed for the adventure log, which we will talk about next.
Start closing the book and gold coins at the NPC
As you explore the various locations of each continent, all your findings are recorded in a special adventure diary, opening it you will find various content that must be closed on a particular continent.
This is exactly what you can do after reaching the maximum level, since this process is not very fast, if only because you need to kill one or more world bosses. Gradually, when the conditions are met, each individual page of the diary will be filled with a certain percentage, which is necessary to receive various rewards.
In just one page, you can get ten different rewards, which are tied to percentages in increments of 10, most likely, as your character develops, each page is about 30+ percent closed. Moreover, the assortment of these awards varies greatly from mainland to mainland and, for example, at first you can be given feathers for res, and then just books with various chests. However, the most delicious, so to speak, already starts closer to 70 — 100%, where there are various legendary red items and sometimes even unique mounts, for example, for 100% there is a red frying pan, which is most likely used in crafting.
Further, most likely you have already noticed this, but almost every NPC with which you can develop relations has special gold coins as a reward for the first level.
One such coin can be sold to any seller for a thousand silver and the reward is given at least five of these coins, and the king — as many as ten, which will help you make an initial budget. Simply put, by opening a special interface, look where you have not yet reached the first level, and if there are such coins in the reward, it is best to start developing relationships with this NPC.
Daily tasks
As soon as your character completes a special quest and unlocks this system, you should immediately start completing these quests, or at least have time to complete them before the reset, which occurs every day at 0:00 Moscow time. The fact is that you have the limit is 3 quests per day and again it does not stack. And what exactly to do is up to you, for example, among the quests there is always a special one with a reward in the form of boxes of runes that will be useful to you in the long run. The quests themselves can also be very difficult or, conversely, relatively easy to complete, and there are those that, to put it mildly, will make you kill thousands of mobs to get to your goal.
Chaos dungeons (two types)
As soon as you come to Bern according to the storyline, after a small quest, a system of chaotic dungeons will open for you, which are best visited every day. But at the very beginning, it is important to take the initial quest for the guardians, since in it you just need to use this system.
Every day the game system automatically updates a special restriction on the passage of these dungeons and, of course, they do not stack, so it’s best to go through them first. You can do this safely with a group of random players or with your group of friends, but it’s important to remember that if you get kicked out of the game for some reason, you can’t go back (at least my character just appeared near the statue).
At the end of any chaos dungeon, you will be given a chest with a random reward, where there is a chance to get golden tickets, you will need them for a special chaos dungeon, where you can already receive as a reward, for example, sharpening reagents.
Tower, Cube and Platinum Fields
Compared to all previous parts of the closed beta testing, the ordinary tower has changed quite a lot and, for example, now, apparently, the special set of equipment has been completely removed from it. Although this is not entirely true, because for example, for the 25th floor, as a reward, you can get a special weapon, sort of like 305 GSa level.
However, the developers have replaced various rewards with more useful items, such as, for example, banks for skill points / gathering, which the user will receive almost at the very beginning. At a minimum, you need to get to the 25th floor to unlock an activity like Boss Rush, although it seems that in addition to this, it also needs to reach level 300 GSa. There is already a pretty good picture in English that will help you get through certain floors of this tower, as they have their own special mechanics that allow you to simplify the battle process itself.
The Cube is almost the same system as in all CBTs, except that now everything will become a little more difficult due to the general complication of opponents, and of course, the human greed factor also affects what reward you can get. At least in OBT, my experience of doing this activity with the Koreans turned out to be much better than at all stages of the closed beta test, where we died because of the greed of most of the users in the group.
Platinum fields are a great opportunity to upgrade your crafting professions, provided that they are of the right level, since almost all the resources in this activity are high-level. It is also the main source for the extraction of special currency for exchange for certain resources, for example, for crafting various equipment.
Island Hearts and Mococo Seeds
These two activities are quite interesting and take up a lot of free time, because you have to travel from point A to point B for a long time, or collect certain items.
Hearts are mainly obtained by completing various purple quests on the islands and can sometimes be very interesting even if you don’t understand Korean, but on the other hand, they can be boring to you. In fact, in simple terms, this is now not a currency, but a kind of numerical achievement that is constantly increasing, and depending on how much you have collected, you can get a certain reward (for example, a whole set of 280 GSa).
Mokoko is already a longer term goal, because if I’m not mistaken, there are only 999 of these seeds in the game that you need to collect. We can say that the phrase “I will collect them all” is appropriate here, and, it seems, you can also receive various rewards for this. And yes, if any player wants to collect them all, he should understand that this will take a lot of time, since the seeds are scattered throughout all locations in various places. Even if you follow the instructions that I leave below, it will take a long time, so if you get tired of the eternal process of grinding better equipment, you can do just that.
The two links below are topics in Korean with pictures, where various places with Mokoko seeds and hearts are marked, open the links and just look for certain locations in the game.
http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=210427&site=lostark
http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=210430&site=lostark
http://www.inven.co.kr/board/lostark/4821/1957
World Bosses and Guards
In conclusion, the game has two rather initially difficult content, although this is not quite so, to put it bluntly. The first such content is world bosses, the main difficulty of which lies only in the required level of GSa, because even with a crowd of people with inappropriate equipment, you most likely will not be able to kill the boss in the allotted time.
But on the other hand, the chance to get red equipment that will significantly increase your GS is worth it. For example, in this way, one person from the guild with which I am currently playing has already reached the threshold of 300 GSa and, accordingly, more content is available to him.
Guards is already an activity that is more focused on the coordinated actions of a group of people that you will need to recruit, of course, in the Korean version this is quite difficult to do for obvious reasons. However, in all others, according to the standard, there will always be players near this activity, which you can join through chatting.
Thread of Fate server guide — Gameplay and guides
1. Character leveling
Create a character for the League or the Empire, go through the starting adventure and find yourself in the capital of your faction. Then you can shout in the zone that you are looking for a guild to level up. In the league it is Austeria, Execution, the Collapse of the World; in the empire — Siberia, Sky Inhabitants, Vitruvian.
Now let’s talk about further ways to achieve the maximum level. There are only 3 of them:
P.S.: upon reaching level 85, take the starting equipment from Naya Vikhreva at the Astral Academy.
She will help you move forward.
Rebirth
How to open rebirth, I described above, but I will also add. Rebirths are needed to get Astral Horns on Thursdays (given when entering the maximum level rebirth), to transfer class skills and to farm gold. In total, at the moment, the maximum number of rebirths is 7. Vessels with sparks can be bought during the celebration of the Jubilee for 1 platinum coin.
2. Farm
So, you have upgraded to level 90, filled the build and stats, thanks to the quests you have 109 green gear.
1. Ruins of Al-Riat
Now your path lies in the Ruins of Al-Riyat or to the auction. You need to raise the item level to 110, and the quality to blue. To do this, you can go in two ways — make dailies every day and save sovereigns for items (600 sovereigns — 1 item), or buy items from the auction (important clarification WITH ARROW). The remaining 6 items will drop out to you in the astral plane or from the observatory.
As soon as you bought the gear, you go to increase the effectiveness of the stat from 90 to 100% (attack and defense), can also be raised to 109% with the help of insignia, which are mined in the Ruins of Al-Riat (from the vendor, or from chests that can be collected every day).
2. Astral Keys
Immediately after that, run to fly off the keys to the 3rd sector. You can buy replicators from the auction for faster knocking down keys. Also, the keys can be knocked down in the observatory, but only on the first passage; buying chests for duel emblems (6×6 and 3×3), astral nuggets (Astral hunting + blue squares in AA). Also, in order to farm yourself (Enchanted Pollen — needed to increase% stat in equipment that is created with the help of an anvil), you can put on a special buff (Disinterested Help — stops wasting keys and instead of equipment fragments, Enchanted Matter falls, which can be broken with the blacksmith next to the anvil.) and you can also use replicas so that the extraction of matter is x2 from the boss.
3. Observatory
In the world chat, they often look for slots in normal / hard mode for bosses. Do not rush to plus, if you are at least not full blue from Al-Riat. Often they look for slots in order to get through faster. However, there are limitations here — most often if you do not go with a guild, then you will not be able to freely roll DOs and ethereal items. Also, the observatory is a great way to farm dust, which is needed for up to 100% crafting items (with arrows). Obs regulate every 10 minutes. Your task is to find the «Disinterested Help» skill in the skill book and activate it. Then you will not get anything other than «cookies». If you have already closed this raid with someone in a party in normal or in hard completely, then you can not hang this buff.
4. Rating fights 3v3 and 6v6
For now, you can think of 3v3 as a simple 10-fight quarter, which is taken from the combatant.
6×6 farms steadily on Sundays starting at 12:00 Moscow time.
During this activity, you can farm extracts (for +40 stat), (in order to break and, and (gives 10% to defense and 10% to damage dealt, only works in battles and duels), and (insignia of attack and defense on 30 days, allow you to redistribute the characteristics in things with any% of efficiency, are not consumed upon application) and the most important consumable is (Essence of Fates, needed to create and improve artifacts).
An important clarification — the number of extracts, tinctures and fish depends on the rating. The higher the rating — the more you have a limit on the purchase of these things per week.
5. Order and prestige
When you go through the entire storyline on Ammr, you will be asked to choose one of three orders (blue, red and green). Choose any — there is no difference. After joining the order, you have to earn prestige. Prestige is needed in order to buy various useful things from the quartermaster. For example: Astral Aegis Decoction — reduces damage taken by 30% for 8 seconds, supplies of the order, Aedic fire — deals damage and stuns everyone for 4 seconds, supplies of the order, Barrel of dragon tears — in one barrel 500 purple dragon tears, a minimum of 5 can be obtained of such barrels, Meteorite Fragment — is required for the task of building a personal allod, Increases the received achievement marks by 100%, Increases the number of duel emblems received by 100%, Increases the number of received sporting achievement marks by 100%.
All these rewards can only be received once every 2 weeks on Mondays. Your task is to take the top 100 in the prestige table and the top 10 in the Trial of Blood in your class.
6. Farm gold
There are the most primitive ways to farm gold: CA, Ruins of Al-Riath, battlegrounds, rating fights (50 small gold symbols once a week on one character, i.e. no one forbids farming on an incarnation with 0 rating), professions, IC (in 00:00 Moscow time give marks for reaching x3 of your rating (you can farm it with the help of training), blue quests in the astral academy, selling rarities from the observatory, etc.
3. High content
Now let’s move on to the very last part of the guide. I will skip the stories about the goodies that migrated from free servers to the subscription (sorcerer emblems, danas, treatise, sacrament scrolls, lightning-shifter, DOSH amulets, armor and modules + augmentations), because. There are already many guides about this.
1. Heroic Adventures
This is an integral part of the game, thanks to which you can increase the effectiveness of your item to the maximum value (115%). It is important to note, do not rush to conquer this content if you are not equipped and without level 2-3 artifacts. You can fly from 1 to 5 compass approximately to somehow get used to it. Over time, you will go further and further.
Up to 109% the item of the current layer can be improved with the help of 6×6 duels:
fill 1200 rate and you can buy 109 insizhki. It is better to open under replicators.
2. Dragon Form
With update 11.0, so-called mini-seasons for DOs are introduced. Every 2 layers there will be new DOSH, which will give an increase in power and endurance.
The current Draconic Skin can be obtained in three ways:
-
For 6×6. Keep 1250 rating and you have a stable 2500 Dragon’s Blessing currency every 2 weeks. You also need to have 2500 duel emblems in stock.
- Citadel of Nihaza. It’s already hardcore. Only dressed and handy people are taken there.
- For realgar — 1 Doshka costs 75 relgar (in an average guild you can loot ±40 realgar per week).
The old dragon form drops in the observatory from all bosses, 3 pcs. The number does not depend on the level of difficulty.
3. Artifacts
Now we come, perhaps, to the most important thing. Artifacts are the main part of the game, rather than items. The maximum level is 10. The level increases with the help of artifact pieces, essences of fate and gold. Each pieces are mined in different activities.
There are currently 7 artifacts:
- Cross of Victory. Required for most classes, tk. it’s a damage artifact. Parts are mined in the observatory and in the citadel of Nihaz, it has 5 ranks.
-
Aspis dragon. Needed by all classes, tk. it’s a defense artifact. Parts can be obtained from weekly quests for 10 wins on 3v3 and 6v6, has 5 ranks.
- Wanderer’s Crown. A universal artifact, useful both in pvp and pve. Parts can be obtained for dailies in the Elemental Realm, has 5 ranks.
- Triquetra of Unity. The artifact is needed for supports — engineers. Also suitable for other classes with Aspect of Support. Obtained from weekly quests for 10 duels 6×6 and 3×3, has 5 ranks.
- Grail of Awakening. Needed by everyone. This is a farm artifact. With the help of rank 5, you can have 10 realgars per week. Has 5 ranks, mined per square on Al-Riat. (I recommend making it faded, because the difference is only in the chance of gaining currency. For currency, only buy realgar)
- Genesis Code. Khilovsky artifact. Useful for both the sick and the rest. With the help of rank 5, it makes it possible to heal an ally even with an alchemy jar to restore health. Has 5 ranks. Gathered for a quarter from a combatant for 10 wins 3×3 and 6×6.
-
Mirror of freedom. An artifact that reduces control and gives the ability to use the second strength of the ox with a cooldown of 6 minutes, has 5 ranks.
Dropped for the first victory in a random battle and chaos.
After you have made the 5th rank of the artifact, then with the help of one thing you can make the 10th level of the artifact. For an artifact above rank 5, only percentages change, i.e. +% Defense, Damage, Heal, Speed, Control Decrease, Support Efficiency. It’s about the Plan of Perfection (allows you to raise the level of the artifact by 1 from 5 to 10). In order to create this item, we need:
- Dust of creation (obtained by killing Guardians in 2 parties, as well as by converting pieces of artifacts 3d1).
- 170k Essences of Destiny.
- 1,100,000 gold.
This is perhaps the most expensive part of increasing the level of artifacts, but nowhere without it.
4. Dominion and battlegrounds
In order to go to the dominion, you need a constant party and a guild, respectively. At the moment, there are 2 top gis on the server — the Golden Horde (League) and South Park (Empire).
