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Destiny 2’s third major release in The Witch Queen era is Season of Plunder, which takes players aboard Fallen Ketch ships to collect new enticing loot and retrieve powerful artifacts before the enemies do. Season of Plunder starts with the revelation that Beyond Light’s main enemy character, a powerful Stasis-wielding Fallen named Eramis, has been freed from her glacial prison and is now roaming free in the Solar System under direct orders from The Witness.Destiny 2’s new Season does keep the usual gritty and dim tones that Bungie’s narrative is known for, and it brings back into the action characters like the Drifter, the Spider, Mithrax, and his daughter Eido.
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Coming with a complete rework of the game’s Arc subclasses, Season of Plunder is the last entry in Year 5 ofDestiny 2to feature major changes to the various elemental classes, with the Lightfall expansion introducing Strand, a brand-new damage type. In Season of Plunder,Destiny 2players will go up against Eramis' crew and probably the Shipstealer as well, and the story will most likely have some kind of tie to Lightfall and theoverarching Light and Darkness saga. This guide will help gamers toget startedin Season 18, complete theseasonal activities, and approachendgame content.
Getting Started in Season of Plunder
Much like every seasonal release inDestiny 2, Season of Plunder starts with a story cutscene and introductory mission when players first jump into the game. Completing this first mission is what provides the seasonal artifact, which players can level up by completing Bounties and playing through all activities inDestiny 2, be it seasonal content, Raids, Dungeons, or anything else. Season of Plunder also comes with a new vendor and more currency types to hoard and spend, which can take a bit of time to grow accustomed to.
This section of the guide will focus on the basics, withHow-to guidesgoing over new additions, like the aforementioned currency types, and how to spend them to upgrade the Star Chart in the HELM. New and returningDestiny 2players also will also findtips and tricksfor Season of Plunder, a compilation of thebest builds and modsto use, and all thePowerful or Pinnacle gear sourcesin the game.
Main Story Walkthrough
After the events of Beyond Light,Destiny 2players left Eramis thawed in an icy prison that enveloped her body and left her for dead on Europa. The so-called “Kell of Darkness” was not really dead, however, and Season of Plunder begins with The Witness releasing Eramis from her Stasis cell with an ultimatum: either she cooperates and retrieves powerful relics or she will be detained once more. Players put up an improvised pirate crew to take on Eramis' fleet, with help coming from the Eliksni of the House of Light under Mithrax’s guidance, the Drifter, and the Spider.
Rather than providing players with a whole set of missions to play from the get-go,Destiny 2’s Seasons typically have a weekly approach to story content. This section will go over the weekly steps added to the Sails of the Shipstealer overarching story mission and how to complete them. It’s worth mentioning that while the story missions come out on a weekly basis, players can start the quest chain at any given point in time.
Raid and Activities Guides
Back when Bungie announced The Witch Queen expansion, the company stated that every Season in Year 5 would come with either a new Raid or a Dungeon, and in Season of Plunder,Destiny 2players can jump into King’s Fall. Originally aDestinyRaid, King’s Fall now features some new mechanics, better perk pools on the weapons, and massive improvements to its graphics. Season of Plunder also came with brand-new activities in the form of Ketchcrash, Expedition, and Hideouts, each with its own mechanics.
Both the Raid and the seasonal activities have their respective challenges for players to complete, with the former now being available only in Normal Mode, whereas Ketchcrash and Expedition can already be accessed in Master Mode as well. This section will feature a walkthrough ofKing’s Fallencounters, from Totems to Oryx, and a complete guide to Season of Plunder’s mainactivities.
New Weapons and Crafting
Just like every new Season since the release of The Witch Queen expansion,Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder comes with exciting new weapons that players can acquire while playing through seasonal content, the King’s Fall Raid, or from the world loot pool. This includes six Season of Plunder weapons, six King’s Fall weapons, a new pinnacle weapon from all playlist activities, and much more from the shared world pool and game modes like Trials of Osiris and Nightfall Strikes.
Not all of these weapons are craftable, but a good chunk of them are, including the newly released Ammit AR2 and Taipan-4FR. This section will cover all the Season of Plunder-exclusive weapons that come from the various activities inDestiny 2and guides that go into detail about thebest rollsto craft, including guides onhow to get weaponsthat might have different requirements or quests to unlock.
Endgame
After playing a given Season for a while,Destiny 2gamers will be able to access all the hardest activities to show their combat prowess, be it in PvE or PvP content. By acquiring all the gear Season of Plunder has to offer and mastering all the difficult activities it features, players will then be ready to take on everything else. This includes Master Dungeons, Master Raids, Trials of Osiris, Grandmaster Nightfall Strikes, and more. Each activity has its own set of challenges for players to tackle, and most of the time an important requirement is going to be Power Level.
For example, Season of Plunder’s Master content is generally set at 1600 Power Level, which means thatDestiny 2players will have to get as many Pinnacle rewards as possible while also leveling up their seasonal artifact to be on par with the requirements. Grandmaster Nightfalls are an exception to this rule, as they have a set Power Level cap that makes the activity always much more difficult regardless. This section will include guides about the variousendgame activities,farming tips, and explanations on how to unlock the game’s hardest-to-getSeals.
