 What is going on guys, today I am back with another Destiny 2 video and today I want to talk about being prepared for the raid, things you can and need to do to be ready for the Leviathan. But before we go any further guys, I am giving away a Rockstar Destiny 2 in-game gear called to win one, simply drop a like on the video and leave a comment down below. Ok so the raid will be here within a few days, giving you plenty of time to get a few things done so you are ready for it. The first thing to talk about is getting up to a level which you feel you won't be a liability to your team. Now first up I think I owe you guys a little apology, the other day I uploaded a video talking about the most efficient way of getting up to that highest power level possible. The way I mentioned was to create three of the same character class. Once you have completed all on one, transfer your level gear over and run the activities on your second and third characters with this higher gear, in turn giving you better gear. And while this does indeed work to a certain extent, after much, much research and going on other players' loot drop statistics and testing it myself, I can confirm that creating three of the same characters isn't the best and most efficient way of levelling up, I will explain. The loot system in Destiny 2 is smarter than ever, we knew this as bunch of confirmed that loot would work in a way like never before, so for instance if you have three hunters, the loot that drops on your third will drop at a level which matches your best loadout across the board on all three of your hunters. Bungie actually mentioned this within a weekly update before the launch of Destiny 2, also Mark knows whether he tweeted out this, but to go into more detail on this matter we have to check out the weekly update on what was mentioned, the following was stated. They were asked and replied to, tell us about this new system, when do rewards determine their power and how is it determined? Bungie go on to say, rewards determine their power at the time they are earned, that means when an engram drops in Destiny 2, it decides its power at the time it drops, also when we roll rewards, we look at your characters level and your best possible gear to determine the power of that reward. This is true for crucible end of match rewards, engram drops, strike rewards etc etc. Not that some sources still produce better gear than others, once you are exploring end game content, look for the powerful gear rewards in tooltips if you are hunting the best drops. Here they confirm that it does look at your other characters, it just isn't clear in which characters it looks at, obviously it won't look at your titan's armor level when trying to determine any armor reward for your hunter, that would be silly. What it does do though, is if you have two hunters, both at a level 20, the power level of gear drops after hitting set power level will drop accordingly. Also, and this is actually interesting and I don't think many people have covered it, it makes sense with this new smart loot system, and this is a true example. I started my second hunter yesterday, I ranked him to a level 20 and completed the story. I then equipped all my gear from my first hunter, which instantly put my second hunter to around a power level 273. What I did then was open that savala exotic which you are rewarded for completing the campaign, which dropped a couple of power levels above my current level, but nothing major. What I then did was redo the weapon quests from each planet quest line, that being the mida multi tool, the mida mini tool, the mana war, the stern and so forth. What I noticed was, these weapons were dropping a lot lower than my current power level on that 270 plus hunter, it was this which actually started me and my research into this matter. What actually happens is, because I run these very quests on my first hunter, literally when I first completed the story, as I was none the wiser on how the power level system works, all my planet quest reward weapons were kind of a low level, but it was my own fault, but the interesting thing here is though, when running these quests again on my second hunter, which was a much higher power level before starting these on my first hunter, the rewards from these quests were dropping at the same level I initially got them on my first hunter. That being much lower than I expected from my 270 plus power leveled hunter, and this is another instance of how this smart system works. It remembers the initial drops on that character class and sets that as the average number of that very reward if done again on another character of the same class. It truly is a smart system and I have seen many many people say to me that after really running these weapon quests on a second character of the same class, they are dropping much lower than they should be and this is that very reason why. So what can you do here? The answer is this, create new characters of new classes, have one of each character, one warlock, one hunter and one titan. What you then need to do is, obviously you have your main which no doubt will be at a high level, keep him aside for a second. The second character class you create, run the story and get to that level 20. Once that is obtained, transfer all your high level weapons from your first main character. This in turn will give you a second character with an initial head start, an other loot to grind for and the drops of higher levels which will come. Important thing here is though, when you actually finish the story and hit that level 20 on your second and third characters, their armour will still be the same rubbish you have when you complete the campaign as obviously you can't switch armours across as there will be different classes and you also can't infuse them across characters either. So upon completing the story and reach a level 20 on your second character, you will then be at a place where your weapons from your first character will be at a nice high place but your armours will still be keeping you quite low. So what you need to do is, not open that survival exotic waiting for you, keep that for later. In doing this though, you won't see any planet quests and so forth but that doesn't matter as your goal here is to grind engrams and get higher power leveled armour. This can be done by chess farming, public event farming and so forth. Also vendor legendary gear which is capped to your current level will help. So if you have tokens, spend them, if you have gunsmith materials, spend them. These instances are really easy to grind for so they don't really matter and you don't need to save them. And doing this shouldn't take you long at all and will definitely be worth it. Once you are at a power level of 265 or thereabouts, you can then head to survival and crack open that exotic. Hopefully it gives you something which helps but it isn't the end of the world if it doesn't. Upon opening survival exotic you will then open up other things to do on other planets in terms of weapon quests, nightfalls, the crucible weekly, clan rewards, flashpoints and so on. All of these will help you level up in the direction we all want to go. The weapon quest though if I were you I would save until last as weapons ain't your issue at the moment but obviously you will know your lore that better than anyone else. If it is a weapon that you feel is holding you back you can do a weapon quest first. Remember also which weapon quest will help you out with them slacking weapons. The meadow mini tool is an energy weapon which is from the EDZ quest so if it's an energy weapon letting you down you can always get this. The manor war is a power weapon, the drain from neces is another energy weapon and then we have the meadow multi tool and the stern which are primary kinetics which help there and we also have the racking which is a kinetic weapon. So if weapons are what you need go for what's there. If not and armours like in the cases of mouse people are holding you back go and complete things which can drop you armours, the nightfall flashpoints and so forth. Also grind exotics via hurled public events while used in fire team medallions this can really help. Now it's also important to mention here that muds can help you level up to that higher power level. Exotics come standard with the 5 plus mud, some legendaries do and some don't. I would however keep the ones that do but it's also important to mention that if you have a character which is a 290 but 6 items within his gear slots have 5 plus muds on them. Your actual level is a 260 so when you are getting certain activities drop around that level it's for this very reason. Exotics, luminous engrams which are obtained from doing the flashpoint, clan ranks etc do account for your gear with muds so expect these to drop at a much higher level as well as the nightfall and that prestige version. Also important to mention which that or did a great video on are the actual muds and the infusion confusion around them. If you are infusing items with 5 plus muds into other items the 5 plus muds do not account towards that infusion it only goes on base power that is important to remember. Muds do however become more of a thing when you hit a power level of 280 simply head to the gunsmith and create some 5 plus muds to apply to your gear and this is a great way to get you up to about 300 but yes guys this is definitely the best way in ranking up. Create 3 different character classes, apply all your highest leveled weapons to your 2nd class, on that 2nd class then grind for better armor until you reach a 265 then you want to open that savala exotic. In doing this it will open up weapon quests, nightfall, flashpoints and so forth, these being other great great activities to give you that high leveled armor which you will need. Once high leveled armor is obtained you can then grind those weapon quests which in turn should drop higher for you to put in place on your 3rd character class which you will rerun this whole process on to be even more of a higher power level than your first 2 characters. And on weekly refresh you start with your highest leveled character and repeat the process backwards meaning then your first main character will end up being the highest leveled at the end of the week which is what we all want. Now this was supposed to be a raid prep video but we have spent most of the time talking about level but in actual fact it's the most important part. I would also recommend a variety of weapons but to name a few that you must have would be silly, anyone doing this ain't got a clue what's coming so stating certain weapons as a must have is definitely not the case and definitely misinformation. Just make sure you have a variety of weapons and you should be fine. Another thing you should definitely do though if you haven't got it already is go and find the starting quest to the legend of aqueous from the planet neccess. Head there, eliminate as many kobble as you can possibly see until you get the under coms item drop. This is actually a weapon quest and after you do the first initial challenge on this quest the next step is raid related so it's definitely worth your time going and grinding for. But other than that guys there isn't much prep you can do other than to make sure you're at a decent level and you have a great selection of weapons, maybe even a few energy drinks too but on that note guys I am out and I hope this helped. If it did leave a like really helps me out. If you are new around here and enjoy daily destiny videos be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one.