The much-requested weapon crafting system lastly got here to Destiny 2 with this yr’s Witch Queen growth. But what began as a promising addition has began to grade on gamers within the latest months — particularly with how a lot further grinding the system has added to the sport.

However, in Thursday’s weekly Bungie weblog, the studio detailed some main modifications coming to the system in February 2023’s Lightfall growth, and in addition introduced that craftable weapons will lastly come to Beyond Light’s Deep Stone Crypt raid later this yr.

Starting with Deep Stone Crypt crafting, Bungie introduced that gamers will be capable to craft weapons from the two-year-old raid beginning Dec. 6, with the launch of the sport’s subsequent season. As regular, gamers might want to gather Deepsight Resonance (purple border) weapons from the raid as a way to extract that weapon’s Pattern. Once they’ve unlocked the Pattern, Guardians will be capable to craft that weapon and put particular perks on it.

Bungie famous within the weblog that it’s reconfigured a number of of the perk swimming pools for these weapons, that means gamers can anticipate extra combos than what has existed on these weapons for the previous two years. Finally, Bungie revealed it received’t add a puzzle chest that ensures a purple border weapon every week — like Vow of the Disciple and King’s Fall have. However, gamers will be capable to buy one Deepsight Resonance weapon from the ultimate chest as soon as every week. On weeks the place Deep Stone Crypt is the featured raid, gamers will even be capable to run the raid again and again for an opportunity at Patterns.

The studio additionally revealed some main plans to remodel crafting in Lightfall — which will likely be nearly a yr because the system’s debut. Bungie feels that Deepsight Resonance weapons are too widespread, so weapons that may’t be crafted will now not drop with a purple border. Guardians will even have a means to decide on a weapon sample to focus on in Lightfall, and have extra methods to realize weapon Patterns.

One of the extra attention-grabbing factors within the weblog can be the least fleshed out. Bungie notes that grinding kills in raid encounters like Shuro Chi is a boring solution to stage up weapons (which, talking from private expertise, is correct). In the longer term, the studio needs to cut back “loadout stress” by not forcing gamers to make use of suboptimal/underleveled crafted weapons. This means that there will likely be one other — hopefully quicker — solution to stage up crafted weapons in Lightfall.

Bungie will certainly reveal extra particulars about the way it’s altering crafting forward of Lightfall’s launch on Feb. 28, 2023.