Summary
Destiny 2’s Coil activity is widely considered one of the best seasonal activities the game has ever seen. Introduced in November 2023 at the start ofSeason of the Wish, The Coil tasks players with navigating several pathways in Riven’s Lair, each filled with surprising death traps to avoid, platforming puzzles to traverse, various debuffs to manage, and increasingly challenging enemies and bosses to defeat. Along the way, players collect a currency called Wishing Glass that they can then spend on temporary upgrades at the end of each pathway, thus improving their chances in the next. It is without a doubt one of the most varied and challenging seasonal activities the game has ever had, and players aren’t ready to see it go.
Unfortunately, as is tradition,Destiny 2’s seasonal activities are rotated out of the game when a new expansion arrives. However, Season of the Wish has been confirmed to beDestiny 2’s last season before its highly anticipatedFinal Shapeexpansion launches in June, so Bungie could afford to do something different this time. While it would make sense to remove The Coil onceThe Final Shapelaunches, it would arguably make more sense to keep a version of the activity in the game given its massive popularity.
How Destiny 2 Could Keep The Coil Activity Beyond The Final Shape
AsDestiny 2’s story evolves withThe Final Shapeand beyond, the lore surrounding The Coil activity likely won’t fit the game’s overarching narrative. However, perhaps the activity could evolve along with the story, especially withDestiny 2’s new episodic format that will launch alongsideThe Final Shape. There seems to be near limitless potential when it comes toDestiny 2’s episodes, but that may only be a notion inspired by the very small amount of information currently disclosed about the new format. Still, Bungie could certainly take advantage of this restructuring by opening upDestiny 2in a way it has not been in a long time — specifically, by allowing both past and present story arcs to simultaneously coexist in the game.
It may be a tall order, but retaining The Coil would undoubtedly be a feature welcomed by theDestiny 2community at large.
If Bungie wishes to avoid the complexity that would inevitably come with mixing old stories with the new,Destiny 2could still retain the format of its Coil activity and simply evolve it with the story. After all, it is largely the structure and gameplay mechanics of The Coil that players enjoy, not the story it is founded upon. As such, The Coil could afford to abandon its narrative roots altogether and simply be the same activity it has always been, but with a different story twist asDestiny 2’s episodesare introduced. This would likely see The Coil regularly updated with new enemies and bosses, and new rewards to fit the theme and loot pool of each episode. It may be a tall order, but retaining The Coil would undoubtedly be a feature welcomed by theDestiny 2community at large.
Lore issues aside,The Coil activitycould just remain as it is inDestiny 2for the long run, with little or no changes regularly made to it. However, it would likely eventually grow stale, and updates would be requested anyway. Either way, its unprecedented popularity makes it deserving of an ongoing role inDestiny 2’s legacy, even if that means it is no longer called “The Coil” and is instead reintroduced with the same DNA and a different name. At the very least, the hope is that Bungie has taken note of The Coil’s acclaim and plans to design and implement more activities like it in the future.
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