Future 2’s Season of the Plunder has been a tough one, as Phil defined in his article on how Bungie’s present mannequin is resulting in participant burnout. So I would not blame anybody for having peaced out already. However with the subsequent season beginning tomorrow, for those who are planning to come back again, I implore you to do that straightforward piece of housekeeping at present: Strip the artifact mods out of all of your armor, particularly items with the additional ‘artifice’ slot.
Artifact mods—ie, the particular mods that come from the Seasonal Artifact—have precipitated a number of points previously after they’re routinely deprecated on the finish of the season. These issues have included locking out the common model of a mod and utterly deleting the additional ‘artifice’ slot that comes on armor looted from the Grasp issue of dungeons. That is precisely what occurred to me earlier this yr, and having spent an inordinate period of time grinding for the gear, you may think about how I felt about dropping the only motive for proudly owning it.
Again in July, Bungie stated that the problem with Artifact mods and artifice armor was proving extremely difficult to resolve. It wrote: “We’re engaged on a repair for this to make sure that the whole lot registers as meant, however these little sockets are craftier than they seem. The true work comes with the subsequent repair, which incorporates utilizing a script to comb by means of all characters on all accounts to reinitialize particular parts that make up these specific armor gadgets, thus restoring all these misplaced sockets. As you may think about, this takes time and it is a difficult street.”
5 months later, my slots are nonetheless lacking. So I assume we’re nonetheless on that winding street. Bungie did appear to unravel the problem affecting how artifact mods have behaved at subsequent seasonal handovers, however truthfully, why take the prospect? For true peace of thoughts, you must swap out all Artifact mods earlier than tomorrow’s reset time (10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT).
Fortunately, there’s a straightforward approach to do it in a single fell swoop.
To take away all Artifact mods, register to Future Merchandise Supervisor, which is a third social gathering instrument that makes use of Bungie’s API to maneuver and alter gear. Both the app or internet model will work, however in each circumstances you may have to authenticate through a platform related together with your Bungie.internet account. When you’re in, observe these steps:
- Search for the search bar (situated high proper) and kind: “is:armor”
- Choose the column of three dots on the fitting hand facet of the search bar
- Choose the choice Strip Sockets (it has a sq. icon with an X in)
- Choose Artifact Mod
Set that working and in a few minutes each Artifact mod can be eliminated out of your gear. You are actually prepared, technically if maybe not emotionally, to start the grind once more as soon as the brand new, as but nonetheless unnamed, season drops tomorrow.