Seriously, How Do Mods Work? (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Sunday, September 17, 2017, 19:40 (2421 days ago) @ Morpheus

Looking at the vault on DIM, I have approximately nine hundred thousand, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion mods in my possession. But so far, the game hasn't explained how I can use these things or where. So far, it seems like Rares can't be modified at all, and Legendaries can only modify the elemental damage type. How does this all come together? Is there a website where I can learn more about this stuff? Can anybody here tell me what I can do with them?

Honestly, don't bother placing blue mods on anything. Once you hit 280, you can turn in 3 of any of the same blue mod to get a random legendary mod from the Gunsmith, which adds +5 to the Power Level of whatever you put it on, so it's a decent little bump up.

Mostly, they don't seem that useful, and seem to be a pretty poor substitution for the old perks that were on gear in D1.