DESTINY 2 POWER LEVEL 270 MOD
DESTINY 2 POWER LEVEL 270 MODS

This will likely also have pushed your BPL to 276 (Remember Kinectic has a high weighting). You get a 291 Mida drop (Yay!) and this pushes your Power to 283.

DESTINY 2 POWER LEVEL 270 MODS

All mods are worth an extra 5 power, so everything will read as 280 and your Power level will show as 280.

DESTINY 2 POWER LEVEL 270 MOD

You have 2 exotics (1 weapon, 1 armour) and a mod on each piece of armour and weapon as well. You have your highest Power items equipped. So to illustrate this, we'll assume you have 1 character and nothing in the vault.

To maximise the potential of your Powerful and Quest rewards it's best to space them out, and grind out (yes, D2 has grindig too!) your BPS, between drops. You'll definitely get this feeling about 265 ish, whne the blues stop dropping higher than your BPL and then once you've exhausted all the high level rewards each week, and to be honest, there are not many high level activities in the game. You will defintely hit times when you seem stuck in quicksand, not being able to increase your Power level. Exotic quest items and Night fall rewards etc also drop at 7 higher, but the Exotics will have a built in mod so this might look like being 12 higher. Powerful engrams drop about 7 higher I think. So blues will drop at your BPL, Legendary engrams will drop at this and rank ups from all planets and tower NPC's will drop at this too. So, once you go over Power 265, your BPL will be the number that all your drops are based on. It looks to be similar to D1 in that the Kinetic weapon has most affect (maybe 1.25x) and the class item least (maybe 0.75x) but I do not have specifics right now. Now, it's not clear at the moment how the different armour and weapon slots affect light level or exactly how Bungie calculates this with not equipped gear. In old speak this is your max light level with all your best gear on. Now this is absolutely crucial and everything drop level wise comes from this.

So from now on I'm going to talk about Base Power level. I'll try and explain how I think it works. This is great in that you don't burn an exotic because you've got blue pants on, but it also makes things a lot less transparent. The confusion stems from Bungie's awesome smart tech that determines what your base Power level taking into account all your gear. I'll attempt to share with you what I've learned and it might help you level smarter. There's a lot of misinformation out there surrounding how loot drops work in D2 once you hit 265. Hey guys, now that the spoiler ban is listed, I tought I'd share this I wrote for a mate the other day. Understanding Leveling, loot drops, Exotics and Mods post Power 265. Thought you guys might be interested as there are a few posts up that have it wrong.

Destiny 2 power level 270