In the image above, I’m at a +8 Bonus for the season, which means the game is taking my Gear score, then adding 8 Power Level points to it. Earning XP throughout the Season will gradually tick that number up. How the Bonus is calculatedĪs mentioned earlier, the Bonus comes from the Seasonal Artifact you get at the start of each Season. If you have a mishmash of different Power Levels, all of those will be added up and then divided by eight (the number of items with a Power Level you can equip). So if every item you have equipped is sitting at a 1310 Power Level, your Gear score will also be 1310. The Gear part of your Powel Level number is an average of all the combined Power Levels of the weapons and armor you have equipped. You’ll take a lot more damage than if you were even with or above the Power Level an activity recommends. If there’s a Raid that has a recommended Power Level higher than the one you currently have, for instance, the enemies within will be more powerful than you. Using that total Power Level number, you can get a sense of how ready you are to enter certain activities. That screenshot above up in the header? That’s the character screen, and the number I’m hovering over there is my Power Level.Īs you can see, the Power Level is actually the result of two numbers: there’s a number for Gear, and then another number that says “Bonus.” (More on those later.) Before we get into the intricacies of how Destiny 2 Powel Level works, it would help if you knew how to see it.

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