4 days ago
Why Your ‘Destiny 2' B+ Portal Ranks Are Failing To Hit A Rank
Once again I begin a Destiny 2 article with a sigh, as I keep trying to give the Edge of Fate and its new era the benefit of the doubt, but every day we find some new bug or bad decision that's happening and messing up the experience.
If you've played any Portal activity, you may understand the following (or not):
But if you've tried to implement this, you will sometimes find that you are still getting B+ rewards, which is a lower tier of gear and if you have any bonuses active, will also downgrade all those drops and waste all of them. Why? Why does this randomly happen?
It's not random, really, it's just extremely poor communication of results. I found this out through an Esoterickk video that was very frustrating to watch:
The highlights and takeaways here:
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The problem here again is that the forecast does not take into account other bonuses, but also that there is little way that even with this knowledge, you can do anything to change this unless you simply throw on more modifiers just in case. You can also miss this by something as simple as missing a miniboss kill or using a single piece of non-New Gear. The only way to combat this is to really just over-estimate the score, moving the B+ bar over more. But that will almost always involve ramping up the difficulty, and you have no real idea if you might have still gotten the A even without that. You can do the same run and miss by a sliver one time and not during another, despite no changes.
Awful system. Just awful. Bungie has said they're looking into it, but I remain skeptical they can fully fix this, as most of their fixes are only halfway to solutions anyway so far. But as of now, this is the explanation as to why things seem to randomly screw you over.
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