Destiny 2’s newly launched Forsaken expansion does a lot to improve the game’s overall ease of use, making it particularly appealing to existing players. However, even an expansion as ambitious as Forsaken has blind spots, and it has become pretty clear that one of those blind spots is the new Clan XP system which has essentially hamstrung smaller clans who want to progress.
Before the launch of Forsaken, Destiny 2 clans mainly earned the Clan XP needed to level up and unlock new clan perks by finishing the weekly Clan XP milestones and by completing the activities that granted more incremental Clan XP payouts (such as public events and strikes). Now, however, the weekly milestone has been done away with and Clan XP is instead earned via a series of new daily and weekly bounties given out by Hawthorne in the Tower.
Bungie no-doubt meant for the new bounty-based system to give clan members clearer goals to work towards in their bid for Clan XP, but as this recent post on the official Destiny subreddit points out, it has also essentially made it impossible for smaller clans to consistently progress their overall clan rank. The bounties essentially put a hard cap on the amount of Clan XP a single player can earn in a given day and/or week, which means that only very large clans ultimately benefit from the new system.
Granted, the old system had XP caps as well, but they weren’t nearly as stringent as the new bounty caps, and they also didn’t essentially force players to participate in PvP activities as many of the current Clan XP bounties do. In short, the new Clan XP bounty system sucks a lot of the joy out of progressing your clan’s rank, especially if you’re not in a mega-clan with hundreds of members. Of course, this isn’t the only problem players have found with the Forsaken expansion, which makes us hope that Bungie is actively listening to player feedback.