One of the headline features of Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate is a new armor upgrade system that overhauls the traditional way of raising your character’s power level. In this guide, we explain how to progress beyond level 200 and make the most of the new material you’ll earn while playing the expansion’s content.
How the new seasonal leveling system works
The Edge of Fate resets everyone’s soft level cap to 200–Bungie basically reduced leveling by a factor of 10 to make the numbers less huge. Up to that point, leveling works essentially the same as always: activities grant new gear at slightly higher power numbers than your current gear. If you want to keep your current gear, you can feed new drops of the same kind to it by paying with Enhancement Cores, and any old Upgrade Modules can be safely dismantled. You can earn Enhancement Cores through dismantling unwanted loot, activity drops, and from vendors.
Once you hit 200, though, a new system comes into play. Exceeding the soft level cap is now temporary–it resets at the end of the currently active season. This means that when the next expansion hits, everyone will be reverted to 200; this was implemented by Bungie out of an effort to finally end the level inflation that has been characteristic of Destiny for its entire lifespan.
