There is always something exciting coming to Destiny 2 in the span of a few months, and it's great to keep playing or just go back and go through new additions. November was a rather void month for Destiny 2 players due to it featuring no particular events nor things like the epilogue to Season of the Lost, but that is changing soon.
In a week's time, Destiny 2 will be updated with the launch of the 30th Anniversary Pack, a celebratory release to commemorate 30 years since the foundation of Bungie and the years spent together playing its games. After that, The Witch Queen yearly expansion will release in February of next year, and it will likely revolutionize the game, even more, thanks to a brand new campaign as well as the introduction of extremely potent Hive Guardians as enemies. The Witch Queen will also come at the cost of Forsaken being vaulted alongside the Tangled Shore, but this, combined with the fact that there will be a "Forsaken pack" for sale after that, makes players confused about subclasses in light of the revamp coming next year.
Destiny 2's Forsaken Pack, Light Subclasses, and The Witch Queen
Forsaken launched alongside three new subclasses per class, for a total of nine more subclasses, commonly addressed as middle tree classes. Destiny 2 players who purchased Forsaken and completed its campaign gained access to each of them on the characters they used, but with the Forsaken campaign being vaulted soon and the subclasses unlocking automatically for new players, now, there are unanswered questions. For starters, because these subclasses were tied to Forsaken, will they go away if players don't own the expansion in the future?
This is a legitimate question, seeing how with The Witch Queen's first season (and for two seasons after that) Light subclasses will all be revamped and adjusted to the current Stasis system. Stasis comprises different Aspects and Fragments that players can choose from, which are the key parts that make each combination stand out from the base class itself. With this being the plan for Light subclasses too, players are confused about what it means to own Forsaken content for the sake of customization once the Void 3.0 changes go live (and Arc and Solar too, later on).
As it stands, Destiny 2 players who don't own Forsaken can either pay for the whole expansion or wait until the Forsaken pack comes out and purchase it separately, at a cheaper price. This does provide access to the Last Wish Raid, the Dreaming City, and everything in between, but it's not yet specified whether it does grant players the ability to use some of the upcoming Light subclasses' Aspects and Fragments. Separating them from the bulk of the new Light subclasses would be bad, especially because the community is still not completely over the Dungeon debacle for Year 5 and The Witch Queen.
Right now, it's hard to understand if the Light subclasses' revamp will mean that all options will be available to players who don't own the Forsaken pack or expansion when Year 5 kicks in. Seeing how Destiny 2 players will lose access to Beyond Light on Game Pass in just a few days, and considering that not owning the expansion also means not being able to use Stasis, the same principle could very well hold true for Forsaken and Light subclasses - even after the revamp. Ultimately, however, Bungie is likely to shed some much-needed light on the matter in this week's TWAB.
Destiny 2 is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
