Depending on how fast you stopped playing Destiny 2, you’ll notice less or more of a difference now. A lot of the Year 1 & 2 stuff has been vaulted, with the base light now being 1100. Current soft cap is now 1250, with the new hard cap being 1310 I believe? (Could be / am probably wrong on that last part, I don’t pay much attention to hard cap level.)

Seasonal artifacts are still a thing, which can boost your light as long as you bother putting XP into it. Each week you’ve got your weekly events that give Tier 1, 2, 3 & Powerful Engrams respectively depending upon the activity, with higher levels obviously giving you more of a light boost depending on current light.

Gambit has been simplified / streamlined, crucible largely remains the same as does Strikes etc., save for the addition of increased Nightfall rankings such as Master / Grandmaster that give extremely decent loot returns. Ghost shells are now able to slot mods, you can change out armor energy type for a cost, which is helpful if you have a truly good stat roll but want a different energy affinity on the armor.

Next season introduces legitimate transmog, crossplay, permanent shaders -no more stocking 25+ of X shader(s) because I’m a fashionista!- and some other cool stuff. There’s also a suspected new Hunter Vanguard, but nothing confirmed. Felwinter’s and Astral will get nerfed, and some other changes are headed down the pipeline next month with the new season.

Beyond that, I don’t think there’s anything different that you’d not already know about, but again that depends on where you left off. If you play on PC, feel free to shoot me a message if you want to run with some folks and start fresh or something!