Great news, Destiny fans: identifying your new loot in Destiny 2 no longer benefits from the tedious process of re-dressing your Guardian in all of his or her best gear.
Let me explain.
Destiny loot comes in the form of glowing objects called "engrams." They're color-coded by rarity and fall into different categories — helmets, boots, power weapons, that sort of thing — but you don't know what one actually is until you visit the Cryptarch to get it decoded.
You can find these vendors in all of Destiny's social spaces. The game doesn't even know which piece of gear you're getting until you decode the engram, at which point an invisible dice roll determines your actual loot drop. Read more...
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