With excitement aboutDestiny 2’sWitch Queenexpansion pack at an all-time high, the most dedicated players have now started stacking bounties for fast Season Pass progression when the DLC is released. However, it would seem that the release of Xûr’s Treasure Hoard as part of the 30th Anniversary content brought with it a way to stack more XP than ever before, side-stepping a part of the early-season grind.
Bounty stacking is a practice that some players use to quickly get through the early levels of a newDestiny 2Season Pass once it’s released. The game doesn’t automatically complete your bounties, which means players can finish their objectives and keep the bounties around for as long as they need, which means they can turn them in for XP after a new Season comes out.
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As useful as bounty stacking may be, it is also limited by the fact that players can only have a total of up to 63 bounties and quests at the same time, which means that the potential XP gains were limited by this cap as well. Still, the release of 30th Anniversary content brought with it the Paraversal Haul, which are loot boxes that drop after completinga round of Dares of Eternity, and just so happen to grant XP upon being opened.
Since a player can have up to 999 Paraversal Hauls at the same time, this means that this could potentially be a great way to take bounty stacking to a whole new level. By using this practice, particularly hardcore players could quickly get a bunch of level-ups to progress through the Season Pass quickly, as well asbursting throughDestiny 2’s Power Level grindsince each Paraversal Haul drops an item, to boot.
Power Level upgrades are particularly important since Bungie seems to bedoubling down onWitch Queen’s difficultywith a Legendary mode campaign. A word of advice for players that aim to stack up bounties and Paraversal Hauls: it is ill-advised to turn it all in for XP and loot as soon as possible. Instead, the smart play would be to finish the Season 16 intro quest (separate from theWitch Queencampaign) to get the seasonal Artifact, which will upgrade a Guardian’s Power Level even further, as well as unlocking new seasonal mods.
Though the majority of evergreen bounties (Vanguard, Crucible, destination, etc.) have always transferred from one season to another, and from one expansion to another, it’s a reasonably safe bet to assume that this will stay the same with the otherwisegame-changing release ofWitch Queen. The Paraversal Haul is technically a new type of item, however, so players may wish to keep a pinch of salt at hand just in case.
Destiny 2is now available for free on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Stadia platforms, with the paidWitch Queenexpansion set to launch on February 22nd.
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