What Is Being Vaulted In Witch Queen

Here's five things you need to know before Destiny 2: The Witch Queen launches

In a new video, Dorrani takes u.s.a. through the five most important bits of info y'all'll want to know ahead of the expansion launch

If you've been reading our ongoing Destiny ii coverage, or take been keeping tabs on the game in even a limited capacity, y'all'll know the the newest expansion The Witch Queen is right around the corner! As any expansion earlier it, the release will supercharge the game with a vast array of new changes, updates, and features.

All in all information technology tin be a lot to take in and research on your own, which is why Dorrani has created a succinct video taking y'all through many of The Witch Queen's most of import additions. You lot can check that video out correct now embedded but above - a must spotter for anyone looking to dip their toe into the game next month.

We're getting new Dungeons and a new Raid

Now, as you'd expect from a big new expansion like The Witch Queen, we're getting lots of new co-op and PvE content, and that – of form – includes some new dungeons. Even so, there are a few caveats.

For one, the dungeons aren't due to come out on The Witch Queen'southward launch date. At the time of writing, nosotros all the same don't have whatever concrete release appointment out there for this content, and then amend your expectations before you leap in. At least you won't employ up all that precious content on Mean solar day I, right?

These dungeons also aren't available to those who buy the standard version of Destiny 2's Witch Queen expansion, instead beingness paywalled behind the Deluxe Edition. Information technology is what it is unfortunately, so if you lot want to leap into these dungeons when they eventually release, it may exist best to save some cash now and get the more expensive version of the game.

There'south also a mysterious new raid in Destiny 2 that fireteams of up to half dozen players tin jump into. We don't know its name, or anything similar a full layout of the raid, but if you've watched the recent trailer you would have caught a peak at the raid (probably without knowing it).

The every bit-yet-unnamed raid takes identify in a giant black pyramid send that has sunk into the swamps on Savathun's throneworld. Players that take kept up with Destiny 2 ever since its launch volition be enlightened of these giant ships and the fact that they're mostly bad news, so we'll have to look and see what will exist lurking around downward there. Don't expect it to exist easy.

The expansion will drop some big story beats

The Witch Queen expansion centres around, well, the Witch Queen! Savathun is i of the three original leaders of i of Destiny'south major factions – The Hive – and we're heading off to her throne world to have her down. This is basically an entire planet where she has total control, so it's safe to say that the odds are stacked against us. Just how Guardians like information technology.

If that wasn't bad enough, The Witch Queen has somehow managed to use the same powers we've been using for years – the Light, a gift from The Traveller – and managed to buff upwardly some of her forces with our powers. Like resurrection, if the trailer is on bespeak. Gulp. Expect what we learn in this expansion to set up the tone for enough of upcoming Destiny 2 expansions and story beats. We've got the power of the Darkness, and at present The Hive have the power of the Light. Where could it go from hither…

For those who want to read deep into the lore, you tin can leap into Destiny 2 right at present for tons of content surrounding the adjacent expansion'south big bad with The Flavour of the Lost, but you lot'll have to practise it apace because…

Things beingness vaulted (again)

A bunch of story content that you can play in Destiny 2 correct now is being vaulted abroad forever when The Witch Queen launches. Now, this has happened earlier with the original Destiny 2 campaign (when a lot of the early on Destiny 2 campaign got rotated out of action), and we're going to see the aforementioned thing happen again with some loot and seasonal content with this new expansion.

So, if you do want to hop into Destiny 2 with some background data about who Savathun is, and some of the horrible things she has done, you actually have to become to it soon. The adjacent wave of content vaulting is coming on The Witch Queen's release engagement, February 22. If you want to really, thoroughly bone upwardly on your D2 lore, you've got about a calendar month to exercise information technology.

We're finally getting weapon crafting

Enough virtually stuff getting taken out, allow's go back to the new stuff that'south getting put in! 1 of the new headline features is weapon crafting, which will let players to build new and old weapons from scratch, while beingness able to add certain stats they're aiming for, rather than praying to RNJesus for the perfect weapon curlicue. In theory, this volition salve a lot of fourth dimension in the long run, and will save you churning through dungeons but to go your favourite gun with that lesser-seen perk you've been jonesing for for weeks.

Any of yous who have jumped into Destiny 2 recently would have used the H.E.L.K and umbral engrams that allowed players to craft certain items with specific stats equally the main focus. It stands to reason this weapon crafting system will build on the foundations these seasonal items established. We don't know but yet how much we'll be able to customise our new loot, simply this should hopefully take some of the randomness out of Destiny 2.

Say hi to the Glaive

To wrap everything up nicely, we're getting a new melee weapon type with The Witch Queen'southward release. This new weapon type – the Glaive – volition follow the sword as an option if you want to get up close and personal in the Crucible or with the hordes of Hive you lot'll exist butchering, planet-side. Simply, unlike the sword, you stay in offset person when y'all equip and use the Glaive. Considering first-person melee combat has always worked and so well…

Interestingly, Glaives will sit in the energy weapon slot rather than the power weapon slot, perhaps hinting that there'due south going to be more of a focus on melee in this expansion (which makes sense if you need to butcher a load of Thrall every fourth dimension you wake upwardly the Hive).

If that doesn't sound exciting plenty for you, Glaives will as well allow y'all to shoot out projectiles, giving the weapon both offensive and defensive capabilities, as well as oversupply control utility. Talk near a jack-of-all-trades. And so if you're somehow tired of zooming beyond the map with the Eager Edge perk, maybe the Glaive will reignite some of that crunchy hand-to-mitt passion nosotros all felt back when Swords were added to the game in The Taken King.

Permit us know below, are you excited to jump into The Witch Queen February 22, and which of the new additions mentioned in the video are y'all especially looking frontward to?