Destiny 2’s strange Best in Tower Guardian Games buff can be safely ignored

Destiny 2’s annual Guardian Games event returned to The Tower on March 4 alongside a strange buff that you may have noticed when dunking Medals for Eva Levante.

Following the same format as previous iterations of the event, Warlocks, Titans, and Hunters can obtain various grades – Bronze to Diamond – of Medallions through Ritual activities as well as event-specific modes, Supremacy and Rushdown.

Depositing Medals at the Tower’s repository increases your class and individual standing, and it’s the latter that ties directly into Destiny 2’s odd and largely pointless Best in Tower buff.

What does the Best in Tower buff do & how do you get it?

Put simply, the Best in Tower buff recognizes the single Guardian with the highest personal Guardian Games score of any player in that individual instance of the Tower social space.

Any Guardian recognized as the best among their peers will be hard to miss – they’ll be sporting a unique glow and leave behind a blue trail of light whenever they move. It’s worth noting that this is purely a cosmetic-only buff, intended to give players with the highest Guardian Games score bragging rights.

The Best in Tower buff is awarded to the Guardian with the highest event score in that instance.

Want to be in with a chance to be recognised as the Best in Tower? The absolute best way to do so is by depositing high-grade Medals and completing weekly Rushdown and Supremacy quests to obtain the highest score possible. These will put you on the right path, but probably won’t give enough points on their own.

That’s where Contender Cards come into play. These Bounties are given out by Eva and award Medals of varying rarities. The harder a Bounty’s objective, the greater its payout. If possible, you’ll want to take the weekly Diamond Contender Card, which requires completing any Raid with a full Fireteam of the same class.

Repeating the above as much as possible will not only increase your chances of being recognized as the Best in Tower, but score you some excellent loot along the way, including the new Keraunios Trace Rifle and returning weapons with refreshed perk pools, such as The Title.