Bungie Nerfs Popular Destiny 2 Renegades Farming Spot
Bungie has made interacting with the Tharsis Outpost junk vendors very expensive while the studio works on a proper and more permanent fix for the popular Destiny 2 farming spot. The expansion has largely been well received by players, adding in a fully licensed, yet technically non-Star Wars content to Destiny 2. Either way, players have been able to explore the new content and areas in the expansion, even finding a player-friendly glitch along the way.
Tharsis Outpost is the new social space for Destiny 2‘s Renegade expansion, modeled after a traditional Star Wars Cantina location, such as the one seen in Mos Eisley. It’s here that players can interact with various factions, as well as the returning NPC Spider, while taking on quests and spending their credits on new gear at various vendors. However, it seems players have found a convenient way to earn some impressive, yet random gear for a much lower cost.
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Destiny 2 Junk Vendors Are Now Wildly More Expensive
While also exploring the space, players have other locations where they can spend hard-earned credits outside the three Destiny 2 Renegades Syndicate factions. While seemingly appearing randomly around the Tharsis Outpost map, players can find an NPC character that looks to be an Eliksni Dreg laying on the ground. Through this Junk Vendor, players could spend 100 Credits to purchase randomized “junk” or loot that ranged from useless items like a “miniature broom” to the highly sought-after Refraction Core piece for the Praxic Blade.
Players were also seemingly earning sets of armor, ranging from Tier 3 to Tier 5 that also dropped with some truly strange and, what some would call illegal, stats. Players noted that the armor typically dropped with 2 stat spikes for things that normally don’t go together on normal loot. It’s likely due to this, as well as an attempt to protect the fairness for the upcoming Equilibrium dungeon race, that Bungie has massively increased the cost of doing business with these vendors to 7,777,777 credits, a sum that is out of reach for most, if not all, players. The price will remain in place until a more permanent fix can be applied.
Reaction to the change has seemingly frustrated most players, who have again called out Bungie for removing a fun aspect to the game. Many were disappointed to lose an easy way to unlock Destiny 2‘s Refraction Core for the Praxic Blade exotic sword, which has a random chance to drop after making purchases at the salvage exchange. Others pointed out that in addition to the illegal armor stat values being potentially problematic, the other big issue is that the armor could drop in bunches all at once and, for those who don’t have room, could easily flood their Postmaster and push all potential saved items out entirely.
Even with Destiny 2 Renegades being received much more positively than The Edge of Fate, there remains an uneasiness around the future of the game due to the continued drop in player numbers. Bungie revealed a limited Destiny 2 roadmap, but as for longer term plans, not much is yet known. Rumors have continued to swirl that a Destiny 3 is currently in early development at Bungie, though an official announcement is likely far off as to not step on the upcoming launch of Bungie’s Marathon in 2026.
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August 28, 2017
- ESRB
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T For TEEN for Blood, Language, and Violence