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Bungie Destiny 2 has now made crafting a little bit easier. Over the past few seasons they’ve been less stingy with how to get red frames for the system (minus uh, Neomuna weapons for whatever reason), but now there’s a new “Deepsight Activation” system that’s…a little weird.

There is a new currency that is only available in the battle pass called a “Deepsight Harmonizer.” There are six of these, mostly in the later tiers of the battle pass. Three are in the paid track, three are in the free track. I supposed we can debate whether that’s “pay-to-win” crafting another day, but whatever.

ADVERTISEMENT The weird part once again has to do with Bungie’s desire to hard cap currencies. Players have been dealing with this for years with Prisms and Alloys, and more recently with seasonal currency as well. Sometimes this is a technical thing, sometimes it’s just to encourage spending things instead of hoarding them endlessly.

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Bungie The currency cap for Deepsight Harmonizers is…one. You can only hold one at a time, meaning you have to spend one before you can pull out the next one. That may sound logical, as you’d use them one a time anyway, but this creates a bit of a weird situation. The cap means you should be spending them all before the end of the season, on whatever weapons are available to you to use it, ahead of the next battle pass bringing in more. It’s more pronounced than even the transmog 10 per season cap, and I don’t know why they’re doing it this way.

ADVERTISEMENT There is, however, a workaround. One that I’m guessing like 90% of more casual Destiny players don’t know. For whatever reason, Bungie does not do this = in-game, but there is a way to claim previous sesasons’ rewards outside of the game, at least for that year.

There are two ways to do this, one is to use the Bungie.net mobile app. You can click on the current season and go to battle passes from past seasons where it will show unclaimed rewards.

The other way is through your web browser, but it’s no longer a simple process and you have to either install extensions onto your browser to locate the hidden webpage or do shenanigans with the APK. I’m not sure why Bungie made this purposefully obtuse instead of just letting you claim from the seasonal page, but they did put the functionality in the app, which I guess is what they want you to use. So I would just do that.

What this means is that even if you did not spend all your Deepsight Harmonizers, which I believe is now the rarest currency in the game, you should be able to go back to past seasons on the app and pull them out one a time later. So, if a new season drops a raid weapon you want crafted, you could theoretically save some from this season and get all five done as soon as you get the drops.

ADVERTISEMENT Why is this such a weird system? Why can’t you just claim the stack? I have no idea, but this is the way it works, and I mainly want to write this to let you know you don’t have to spend them all in one season, even if it looks like that.

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