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Pedro Peres

Should you do the Destiny 2 Renegades campaign on Legendary or Normal?

Destiny 2's Star Wars-inspired expansion is finally here. Renegades offers a campaign available in Legend and Normal difficulties, as has been standard fare since the wildly popular The Witch Queen started doing so in 2022. This presents a choice: should you do the campaign on Legendary or Normal?

Completing the campaign in either difficulty gets you access to most post-campaign activities, and in Renegades, this opens up the Lawless Frontier activity. It takes after The Nether in Heresy, lack of health regen included, and you can get a slew of goodies there by siding with different factions.

What do you get by completing the Renegades campaign in Legendary difficulty?

The rewards for the Legend Renegades campaign in Destiny 2 include 550 Gear and an Exotic.
We're already at 550, so that's why the tooltip says we're getting gear this high. Screenshot by Destructoid

Based on the tooltip, completing the campaign on Legendary gets you a set of Powerful gear and the Renegades Exotic for your class (Deimosuffusion for Warlocks, Praxic Vestment for Titans, and Fortune's Favor). This means you'll get one set of armor at five levels above your maximum account level.

In The Edge of Fate, you could obtain the expansion's Exotics on your main character by doing the Legendary campaign, then unlock the others through the Sieve, Kepler's post-campaign activity. Renegades could see a similar formula.

Can you change the Renegades campaign difficulty in Destiny 2?

How to change your difficulty in Destiny 2: Renegades
Click that node to open a list of selectable missions and difficulties. Screenshot by Destructoid

Going by The Edge of Fate, you can change the difficulty for the Renegades campaign before launching a mission. This lets you rerun missions in a different difficulty even after you've cleared the main story, so there's no harm in changing your settings along the way.

To redo your missions, click the node with the Renegades symbol in Tharsis Outpost. This opens a list of all missions, allowing you to retry them individually and change their difficulty. There are six main story missions, with some runs of Lawless Frontier sprinkled in between.

You can get all rewards from completing the campaign even if you change your difficulty along the way, but you must finish every mission on Legend difficulty to unlock the additional goodies.

Is it worth doing the Renegades campaign in Legendary difficulty?

Stone statues of Drifter, Eido, and Eris.
That's a hard-hitting crew. Screenshot by Destructoid

There's no set answer for this since it depends on your skill level, your tolerance for a challenge, and how quickly you'd like to complete the campaign. If you can take on the Legendary campaign on your first try, it's worth accepting the challenge. If you're torn, give it a go and adjust the challenge as you see fit, and if you're just aiming for a quicker, more relaxing clear, normal can do the job just right.

The post Should you do the Destiny 2 Renegades campaign on Legendary or Normal? appeared first on Destructoid.

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