The new and highly anticipated Destiny Year Two update that takes the form of Destiny 2.0 has now been ruled out by the development team and brings with it sweeping changes that will impact the way all gamers play the game.
Within the update the character level Has now been raised to 34 for all players and if you are purchasing the highly anticipated The Taken King later this week on September 15th the level will rise even further to 40.
Bungie has also separated character Level and Light which are now separate statistics. Light is now calculated by the average of the Attack and Defense scores of all your gear, and Weapons, Ghosts, Class Items, and Artifacts all now contribute to Light.
For a full list of all the enhancements, features and tweaks that have been made to the Destiny game including all the nerf’s and weapon perks jump over to the official Bungie website for a full extensive list of everything that is included in the latest Destiny 2.0 update.
Source: Bungie