D2 · Bungie · 2017
Destiny 2
Bungie's looter shooter: weapons with personality, tier-1 raids, and a near-decade-long universe
Bungie's looter shooter, launched in 2017 and free-to-play since 2019. Pairs competent FPS with MMO-style loot and endgame: 6-player cooperative raids, dungeons, Crucible PvP, and Trials of Osiris. Continuous universe with yearly expansions and episodes.
Tools
14Loadouts & Inventory
1
Player Tracking
3
Weekly Tracking
4
Looking for Group
1
Lore & Reference
1
Comparisons
3Destiny Item ManagervsBraytech
DIM for actively managing your inventory: moving gear, building loadouts, and cleaning the vault. Braytech for auditing your progression: vendor checklists, triumphs, and collections. They don't compete head-on; many players run both in the same session.
light.ggvsD2 Foundry
light.gg for quickly appraising a drop: full catalog, community-voted god rolls, and vendor rolls. D2 Foundry for when you need the exact number: TTK and damage against a specific target with the math exposed. They're almost always used in a flow, not as rivals.
Trials ReportvsDestiny Tracker
Trials Report when you play Trials of Osiris with flawless ambition and want real-time matchup analysis of the enemy fireteam. Destiny Tracker when you want a broad overview of your stats across every mode (Crucible, Gambit, PvE) with match history and leaderboards. The former goes deep on one mode; the latter goes wide across the whole game.
Tool stacks
1Latest news
Creators
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Cammycakes Gaming
Destiny 2 creator with a relaxed editorial tone and curiosity about experimental buildcrafting. Rather than tier lists or news coverage, his videos explore ideas — 'is this weapon secretly good?', 'does this synergy work?', 'what happens if we combine these two weird things?'. For players past meta builds who want honest experiments, Cammycakes offers that perspective.
Ehroar
Prolific Destiny 2 buildmaker focused on PvE endgame. His builds tend toward pure optimization — precise DPS rotations for boss damage, sustain builds for GMs, exotic synergies the community rarely matches. Every new exotic in the game usually gets a dedicated Ehroar video within 48 hours analyzing whether it's worth the chase. For players who want to maximize endgame performance, he's a primary reference.
KackisHD
One of Destiny 2's most active creators with nearly daily cadence. His content centers on game news, weekly reset coverage, Xur reviews, and patch note reactions. If you want to stay current on every change in the game without investing time hunting for sources, KackisHD is one of the most comfortable options — his videos are short, frequent, and focused on 'what happened this week'.
Plunderthabooty
Build maker dedicated to Destiny 2 focused on builds that work in real endgame (Grandmaster, raids, dungeons). His library covers all three classes regularly — Hunter, Titan, Warlock — and designs specific synergies rather than generic presets. For intermediate or advanced players who want to copy a build with confidence it'll survive endgame, he's one of the most reliable sources.
xHOUNDISHx
Daily coverage of Destiny 2's state: weekly resets, Xur, patch notes, leaks, and reactions to Bungie announcements. His editorial tone is direct and tempers expectations — distinguishes between promised and delivered features, what the community has been asking for years, and where Bungie is or isn't following through. For players who want editorial framing on top of news, xHOUNDISHx complements purely informative creators.
Resources
Beginner Guides
Essential resources for new or returning Guardians
5 resources
Current Episode
Coverage of the current episode or expansion: activities, loot pool, meta
5 resources
Build Guides
Standout loadouts and builds by subclass and archetype
5 resources
Raid Guides
Walkthroughs for raids and endgame PvE dungeons
5 resources
PvP Guides
Crucible and Trials of Osiris coaching: positioning, weapons, and maps
5 resources
About the game
What Destiny 2 is
Destiny 2 is Bungie's online looter shooter, blending solid FPS combat with progression and endgame systems inherited from MMOs. Launched in 2017, free-to-play since New Light in 2019, with an expansion-and-episode calendar that keeps the meta moving every few months.
Unlike most looter shooters, Destiny 2 puts heavy weight on gunfeel: every weapon archetype has distinct recoil, cadence, and damage curves, and good perk rolls turn average weapons into irreplaceable pieces. Combined with subclasses sporting grenade, melee, and super kits, build crafting is where most time between activities is spent.
Why we treat Destiny 2 as a separate game
This section covers Destiny 2 only. It does not include Destiny 1 content (2014, sunset when D2 replaced it) nor spinoffs like Destiny Rising mobile.
- Different engine and platform — D1 ran on legacy consoles and never came to PC. D2 is a new game with an updated engine, not a patch.
- Its own API and tooling ecosystem — every tool in this codex (DIM, light.gg, Raid Report, etc.) consumes the Bungie.net API which only serves D2 today. D1 was frozen.
- Independent loot pool and meta — weapons, armor, mods, and subclasses evolved separately. D1 instincts help with feel but don't transfer mechanically.
If a guide or creator primarily covers D1 or mixes the franchise indistinctly, it stays out of this section.
The expansion and episode cycle
After The Final Shape (2024), Bungie shifted from "annual + seasons" to major expansions + episodes. The approximate rhythm:
- Expansions — major releases with new campaign, raid or dungeon, subclasses or supers, and system reworks. They close long-running narrative arcs.
- Episodes — temporal drops (ex-seasons) that extend the current expansion with new activities, artifact, seasonal mods, and a dedicated loot pool. Each episode runs ~3-4 months.
- Dungeons — some live behind a separate dungeon key, sold apart from the expansion.
The tools curated in this codex update at the game's pace: what we say about the meta shifts each episode, but the fundamentals (DIM, light.gg, Raid Report) are stable and remain relevant across cycles.
Who this section is for
If you're returning after months or years, the first useful thing is catching up on the current episode and reorganizing your vault — DIM and progression trackers are built for exactly that. If you play casually an hour a night, loot and roll tools speed up "keep or shard" decisions. If you chase serious endgame (Day 1 raid, Flawless Trials, contest mode, solo dungeons), the raid-report + trials-report + LFG triad is where it happens.
Every tool and resource listed here is specifically curated for Destiny 2 — no Destiny 1 content, no spinoffs, no adjacent franchises.
