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I missed Destiny 2’s coolest reward because I just had to be a scrubThanks, Mountaintop

Thanks, Mountaintop

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Prophecy is a playable vision of sort, an attempt to interpret the impending Darkness in a form we daft wizard corpses can understand: a space to shoot stuff and do sick hoverbike tricks. It’s chuffing gorgeous. In a game full of grand sci-fi vistas, Prophecy has been my favourite space this side of The Whisper. One section sends us through a neon blue spiralling rectangular tunnel, headed towards a pink light, and that’s the moment captured in this perfect emblem:

The cool emblem for completing Destiny 2’s Prophecy dungeon.

Beautiful. Why would you want anything else as the background for your nameplate or menu screens. Prophetic Visionary genuinely was the best and most-coveted item this whole season.

Regular three-player Prophecy is great fun, a challenge which takes teamwork but can be bumbled comfortably in 40 minutes. Solo Prophecy removes the breathing room, with every enemy focusing solely on you as you try to juggle all the moving parts of the puzzles. It’s really satisfying to do well. But to do it without dying and using checkpoints? That’s rough.

Octahedrons hang in purple-pink space in a screenshot from Destiny 2’s Prophecy dungeon.

When Prophecy does return, I hope not only will the emblem come with it, but Bungie will have rebalanced it for the new meta. The anti-Taken mods which make Prophecy a lot easier won’t be an option, because they’re becoming exclusive to Last Wish raid armour. And Mountaintop will… well, even if Mountaintop is still an option, I know I shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Please Bungie, save me from myself.

For the curious: I was running top-tree Nightstalker Hunter coupled withWormhusk Crown, meaning dodging would cloak and heal me. With a 100 Mobility stat, I’d go invisible any time things got hairy. I had Taken Barrier, Concussive Dampener, Minor Resist, and Major Resist mods for defence and still hit 70 Recovery. Basically, enemies had to do a lot to kill me. Unfortunately, all I had to do to kill me was click once. I used aGnawing Hungerauto rifle throughout, theWitherhoardgrenade launcher andFalling Guillotinesword for the first boss, and for the rest I pulled out the zaptrap launcherAnarchyandspitMountaintop. Idiot.