Destiny 2’s new transmog system to change the appearance of items has come under further fire from fans, following its general release.
In the run up to its long-awaited launch, players despaired at the announcement of its grind-heavy mechanics. Now it’s actually out in the wild, the criticism has continued.
Chief among the complaints is the fact that Synthstrand, the base tier of three transmog currencies, appears to be time-gated.
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Whatever you do in-game, however many enemies you defeat, Synthstrand will not drop more than once every two minutes. This development was first spotted by alonie-homie on the Destiny reddit r/raidsecrets and has now been widely tested. (Eurogamer’s Matt Reynolds has also spotted it in his own gameplay.)
With this information detailed, players began to run the numbers on how long it will actually take to grind out enough Synthstrand to spend on bounties which award Synthcord, which you can then convert into Synthweave.
A separate, enormous thread by I3igB on the main Destiny reddit works out that it would take nearly seven days of non-stop in-game play to reach this season’s transmog cap for an account with three characters, or 53 hours of gameplay for one character. Polygon, meanwhile, broke this down to 25 hours of gameplay to transmog a single outfit.