Where to collect Pinnacle gear weekly reward after earning it?

[Natty Boh man]

I've completed the vanguard weekly challenge twice and haven't gotten anything yet. I'm supposed to earn pinnacle gear. The challenge progress bar updates and when I finish, the little yellow ball disappears, but no reward !!
I hear some people say that you go the the mail bot to get it and others say that you need to pick it up from Zavala or Shtaxx, but they don't seem to have it.
UNLESS its so useless that it's just blending in with the other junk gear that I'm picking up. I've been scrutinizing every gear piece that I get trying to find a piece that says "Pinnacle" in the description or some other indication that it's special.

Could someone be kind enough to tell me how I actually get my hands on the gear after I've supposedly earned it?

Thank you.

[Ja'Crispy]

It drops right into your inventory at the end of the strike. No need to pick it up from anywhere unless your inventory is full and it gets sent to the postmaster.

[Maxine]

Pinnacle gear is legendary gear that have higher power level.

Soft Cap - 1500
Hard Cap - 1550
Pinnacle Cap - 1560

You get it as a reward at the end of the mission. If you have full slots/engrams it goes to postmaster.

[Natty Boh man]

Originally posted by Ja'Crispy:

It drops right into your inventory at the end of the strike. No need to pick it up from anywhere unless your inventory is full and it gets sent to the postmaster.

Thanks for the fast response. How do you know when you have it? I just see all of the regular stuff that I've picked up during the Vanguard. Nothing jumps out. Does it at least tell you that it's pinnacle gear somehow?

[Maxine]

Originally posted by Natty Boh man:

Originally posted by Ja'Crispy:

It drops right into your inventory at the end of the strike. No need to pick it up from anywhere unless your inventory is full and it gets sent to the postmaster.

Thanks for the fast response. How do you know when you have it? I just see all of the regular stuff that I've picked up during the Vanguard. Nothing jumps out. Does it at least tell you that it's pinnacle gear somehow?

Anything higher then 1550, you need to check power level of the gear.

[Natty Boh man]

Originally posted by Rayz:

Originally posted by Natty Boh man:

Thanks for the fast response. How do you know when you have it? I just see all of the regular stuff that I've picked up during the Vanguard. Nothing jumps out. Does it at least tell you that it's pinnacle gear somehow?

Anything higher then 1550, you need to check power level of the gear.

I'm definitely not getting anything that high. My current power level is around 1498.
When I didn't get any pinnacle gear reward for the second week in a row, I really combed through my new items. Nothing was more that 1506 PL.

So there's no way to tell what's a pinnacle gear or powerful gear in the game? No indication at all? I feel like I'm doing these weekly challenges and not getting any reward.

[Maxine]

Originally posted by Natty Boh man:

Originally posted by Rayz:

Anything higher then 1550, you need to check power level of the gear.

I'm definitely not getting anything that high. My current power level is around 1498.
When I didn't get any pinnacle gear reward for the second week in a row, I really combed through my new items. Nothing was more that 1506 PL.

So there's no way to tell what's a pinnacle gear or powerful gear in the game? No indication at all? I feel like I'm doing these weekly challenges and not getting any reward.

You need to have everything with highest level equiped. Tools like DIM have option to equip it. Other than power level there is no other indicator.

idk if you are new, but this site might help you https://www.blueberries.gg/leveling/destiny-2-max-power-level/

[Ja'Crispy]

The different drop types just tell you how high above your current light level the gear will drop. It's just normal gear and won't tell you it's a pinnacle item. If memory serves, pinnacle drops +3 from your current light level.

Edit: Until you reach the soft cap, 1550 this season, then pinnacles will drop +1

[Natty Boh man]

I see. So just make sure that I have the highest level everything equipped and Pinnacle will be 3 higher.
I am a returning player from a long way back and a lot seems to have changed.
I haven't been keeping the highest PL gear on since I don't want to use up all of those cubes to upgrade my stuff. (I don't have a ton of them)

Thanks a lot for all of your help.

[Ja'Crispy]

Originally posted by Natty Boh man:

I see. So just make sure that I have the highest level everything equipped and Pinnacle will be 3 higher.
I am a returning player from a long way back and a lot seems to have changed.
I haven't been keeping the highest PL gear on since I don't want to use up all of those cubes to upgrade my stuff. (I don't have a ton of them)

Thanks a lot for all of your help.

Supposedly as long as you have it in your inventory it should count for the drop calculation. But I never trust it, so I just keep the higher stuff equipped just in case.

[trukr]

Originally posted by Natty Boh man:

I've completed the vanguard weekly challenge twice and haven't gotten anything yet. I'm supposed to earn pinnacle gear. The challenge progress bar updates and when I finish, the little yellow ball disappears, but no reward !!
I hear some people say that you go the the mail bot to get it and others say that you need to pick it up from Zavala or Shtaxx, but they don't seem to have it.
UNLESS its so useless that it's just blending in with the other junk gear that I'm picking up. I've been scrutinizing every gear piece that I get trying to find a piece that says "Pinnacle" in the description or some other indication that it's special.

Could someone be kind enough to tell me how I actually get my hands on the gear after I've supposedly earned it?

Thank you.

When you go there in destinations, does it say you get Pinnacles? There is a minimum level to get them, 1500?

Edit: I just looked with a character at 1493, no pinnacles.

And no, you don't have to have the highest light level gear equipped or even in your backpack, it can be weapons on another character or in the vault, the game goes by the highest you CAN be now.

[Animal85]

First you dont need any pinacle gear since you not yet 1500 light
1500 light you can get with blue gear without any powerful drops just run publick events in edz its realy fast to make 1500
And yes you need in inv your highest light items for each slot

[mark1971]

OP, what you really need, to progress, are simply items with a high number of light level, every activity (RNG) can give you that. These days, it's very easy to improve.

But to answer your question, for example, a pinnacle simply drops after the latest mission, of the three vanguard strikes, into you inventory, or if it's full, into the postmaster.

Originally posted by Ja'Crispy:

Supposedly as long as you have it in your inventory it should count for the drop calculation. But I never trust it, so I just keep the higher stuff equipped just in case.

I play since 2017. I started with a maximum of 40 items for my vault, today I have not more than 100. Same goes for my 3 class inventories, I delete a lot, and I see my progression continue without gear I don't like, even gear with the highest stats.

Keep it : ) if it feels better, but it's not really necessary.

[Natty Boh man]

Thanks for all of the info everyone! I'm having a great time since coming back to Destiny 2, but it's a bit confusing occasionally. I feel better knowing that I really haven't been missing out.

[Razgar Voxel]

Usually it goes straight into your inventory unless of course that slot is full say for example your chest piece. then it would be in the post master.

[Nibbie]

Originally posted by Rayz:

You need to have everything with highest level equiped. Tools like DIM have option to equip it. Other than power level there is no other indicator.

Incorrect, as long as the equipment currently exists somewhere in your account it counts. It can be in your inventory, in your bank, or even on another character, as long as you could theoretically equip it, it counts. This is easiest to see when you level one character, then swap to another character without swapping anything over; the power of your new character will climb extremely quickly because the high level guns on your first character bring the new character's power level up, so you only need a few armor drops in each slot to get them levelled to the same point.

But yeah, how the drops work is there are different power ranges that you need different drops to progress in. This season (all these numbers change every season), the soft cap is 1500. Literally any gear that drops will be higher than your power, up to the soft cap. Once you get there, regular drops won't increase your power, only Powerful sources (mostly labelled on the Director as Challenges, but also a couple other sources like Prime Engrams) and Pinnacle soures (I think exclusively Challenges, the engram a Challenge drops is stated in its details) will increase your power up to the Powerful Cap at 1550. After that you have the last range, where only Pinnacle sources will increase your power up to 1560, the Pinnacle/hard cap.

An important thing to note about drops is that they are based on the average of the highest power level equipment you could equip in each slot. They are not based on the power level of the slot you get the drop in. Thus, for example, you could get several drops in a row in the same slot or two, and that may not be enough to increase your average power, so even though you are getting the powerful/pinnacle drops you are supposed to, they can drop at the same power as your current equipment. It is not a bug, just very unfortunate RNG, and there is not much to do about it but keep rolling until it works.