When Ash & Iron went live earlier this week, many of you quickly hit the new expanded power band of 450+ and started reporting that it felt off... way off.
We fully agree.
We are planning a series of fixes to make earning power from 450+ more in line with expectations, as well as to improve how earning power and rewards feel for all players.
We are prioritizing these fixes as soon as we can safely get them in and are electing to make as many through Live Updates (LUPs) as we can in the short term. Some things can't be changed with a LUP, and we will follow up in larger upcoming patches.
First off: climbing from 450-500 needs to be better. In fact, we want to make the power climb better in general, so we are not solely focused on the 450-500 band but also want to target how players move up from 300 all the way up to 500 in a way that feels better to play through.
This upcoming LUP is just a first step. This will help smooth out the journey from 400 to 500 and help put players within striking distance of earning Tier 5s. After this, our priorities will be on the bands below 400 to help players feel constant progress towards endgame power bands.
Live Update Reward Adjustment
On top of these changes, we also need to fix scores required to earn the associated grades. The below changes will relieve the pressure on getting higher scores by requiring fewer modifiers, and therefore lower the power delta needed, to get an A grade.
Live Update Scoring Changes
We will post on our D2 Team accounts when it's live. We are targeting to ship this by the end of this week, but may need to delay depending on validation efforts. As mentioned, this LUP is the first step. It will not get us to the place we want to be yet, but they should be a good kickoff in the right direction.
As we shared in last week's TWID, we already have some changes in flight for Update 9.1.0.1 next Tuesday to help us reach the goals of improving the power climb in the Portal.
First, we are making changes to Prime Engrams.
Next, we are increasing the number of drops for many activities in Fireteam Ops. Here is the full breakdown on which activities are getting an additional activity completion reward (which have a chance to drop as Prime Engrams).
| Activity | Current Reward Count | New Reward Count |
|---|---|---|
| Battleground: Conduit | 1 | 2 |
| Battleground: Delve | 1 | 2 |
| Battleground: Oracle | 1 | 2 |
| Liminality | 2 | 3 |
| Proving Grounds | 1 | 2 |
| Savathun's Spire | 1 | 2 |
| The Devils' Lair | 1 | 2 |
| The Glassway | 1 | 2 |
| Fallen SABER | 1 | 2 |
| Insight Terminus | 1 | 2 |
| The Inverted Spire | 2 | 3 |
| Hypernet Current | 1 | 2 |
| Onslaught: Midtown | 3 | 4 |
| Onslaught: Widow's Court | 4 | 5 |
| The Coil | 3 | 4 |
| All Expeditions | 1 | 2 |
| Contest of Elders | 3 | 4 |
Next, we have heard some timers in recently added Portal activities that are too low. We are increasing two of these very soon:
Finally, we have been hearing feedback that Reclaim rewards feel undertuned. We're looking into this along with reports about other timers that may need adjustment. As our planned LUP goes into effect and the additional improvements go live next week, we will continue to monitor feedback and make adjustments.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
This Week in Destiny, we gave a first look into Renegades and launched the Ash & Iron major update, all while we keep working on making meaningful updates to the Portal and other systems in the game. Here's the list of topics for today.
We hope you enjoyed our latest livestream and that first look into Destiny 2: Renegades, our next expansion launching December 2. Although we know most of you have watched the Infiltrating The Lawless Frontier ViDoc, we wanted to share it one more time. It shows the new Lawless Frontier game mode, new characters, the new Tharsis Outpost social hub, and believe it or not, Vex with clothes doing crime.
After messing with the Nine, the Conductor has a new goal: steal Golden Age tech to empower herself. We have to stop her Vex and Cabal forces, of course, and conquer the Plaguelands once more in a new activity, Reclaim.
Reclaim is available as three separate Fireteam Ops and requires focus and good coordination. You can fight as a team in one position or split up to conquer more territory faster. There's up to four different locations to play before having to face a final boss. Put on your best builds and fight on.
While you fight on the Plaguelands, don't forget to check on Devrim Kay on the EDZ, as he is leading the efforts of our New Territories event. Visit the Event Home to earn new rewards, including some Holofoil weapons.
Ash & Iron brought several updates to the Portal, like Expeditions from Season of Plunder, two more strikes, Exotic missions and Dungeon Lairs. More content will be coming in the next few weeks, like the upcoming Epic version of The Desert Perpetual raid on September 27 and the Exotic Mission, Warsat Heist, launching on October 7. Festival of the Lost will be back not much later, on October 21, with a new six-player activity to earn exclusive weapons. And last, we have Call to Arms starting on November 11, which will prepare Guardians for Destiny 2: Renegades, coming December 2.
Our folks in the Sandbox Team are working hard on some new tuning for all three classes, several subclasses, and a bunch of abilities. Their goal is to implement these in the Destiny 2 Update 9.1.5 coming October 7. Some of them you already knew about, others are new. Check them out below.
During our livestream for Renegades and Ash & Iron this week, we mentioned a few other buffs and changes we are exploring. We're still working through that space and when we have more details, we'll communicate before they go live in Renegades.
Trials of Osiris is changing a bit now that the Ash & Iron major update is live. After several weeks where all weapons were available in the Trials pool, we are going back to featured weekly rewards.
This week, the featured weapon will be Everburning Glitz, a totally new Kinetic Rapid Fire Auto Rifle. Along with a reprised Burden of Guilt (still a Stasis and Adaptive Fusion Rifle), they are the two weapons that have entered the Trials loot pool along with Ash & Iron.
If you are looking to get them, be warned: the map this week will be Rusted Lands. Be careful around corners, don't push that nasty corridor unless you are certain, and keep an eye out for Sniper Rifles since they are getting more ammo after our latest sandbox update. Make Saint proud!
After short hiatus, Iron Banner will be back for the first time during the Year of Prophecy during the week of September 16. Lord Saladin will be back at the Tower with a renewed PvP event to honor the old heroes and train the recently raised ones.
In this iteration, Iron Banner is a one-week event with its own Event Home. That means it has a Reward Shop, an exclusive Reward Pass with an emblem, a shader, weapons, and more to earn, as well as a renewed Title to unlock and gild. Play Iron Banner to earn experience that progress your Reward Pass, to complete challenges that grant even more XP and, of course, to earn the new gear available.
We have a reprised armor set with some new set bonuses if you wear two or four pieces together. Check them out below.
Iron Chromate Set
Along with the new armor, completing Iron Banner matches have a chance to award a returning weapon, the Finite Impactor, an Adaptive Solar Hand Cannon with some interesting perk combos for both PvP and PvE. And along with it, the Phoneutria Fera Spread Shot Hand Cannon and the Ribbontail Trace Rifle can also be earned as post-match rewards. And don't forget about the Submersion Crossbow, which has a low chance to drop from any Portal activity right now.
One more thing we have seen players asking about. Those of you who reach the highest highs of the Crucible Competitive playlist, here is your next reward: the Great Pulse emblem.
It will be available when Destiny 2 Update 9.1.5 launches on October 7 and it's earned similarly to the previous one: you need to reach Ascendant III in the Competitive Playlist. If you have already reached or surpassed that rank at any moment during Season: Reclamation you will be able to just grab it from Shaxx at the Tower.
It's once again time to gather your fireteam, head to the Crucible and fight it out for a good cause. The Bungie Bounty for Good returns September 18 at 10 AM PT, benefitting our Hispanic Heritage Month partners El Centro De La Raza, a nonprofit organization that strives to empower communities through its programs in workforce development, advocacy, culture, and much more.
If you match our Bungie Foundation team and secure the win OR help lead the Foundation team to glory, the Faster Than Light emblem + lifelong bragging rights shall be yours. Stay tuned to the Bungie Foundation social channels for more details as we get prepped for the Bounty Livestream next week. See you in the Crucible!
Known Issues List | Help Forums | Destiny 2 Team BlueskyKnown Issues List
General
- Focusing engrams at a vendor can cause the reward to drop at a lower Power level than what was displayed.
Armor and Perks
- Some Exotic armors are displaying an incorrect stat instead of its Power level. This is a visual bug and will not affect the gear's performance.
- The Vigilant Seraph Robes Warlock chest piece will clip into the player's POV when aiming down sights on some weapons.
- The Obsidian Durasteel, Cyborg Nemesis, and Marauder Progeny universal ornaments cannot be equipped.
Activities and Portal
- We are aware of an issue where players will sometimes all respawn dead after moving to a new activity area in Reclaim.
- Rewards earned for completing the Fallen Sabre Grandmaster Conquest are going directly to the postmaster.
Abilities
- We have identified an issue where ability cooldowns are not working as intended.
Systems
- Due to an issue where inspecting the Holofoil versions of the Folded Root and Romantic Death weapons are causing crashes on Xbox, we have temporarily disabled the Holofoil versions of those weapons.
- We are actively pursuing temporarily changing the visuals of these weapons as soon as possible so that players can equip them without crashing. In addition, we will be reverting these changes back to their expected look as soon as we have identified and resolved the root cause.
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While we close on this TWID, the dev team is working hard on making improvements and changes to the game, first through the live updates we shared above and then with Update 9.1.0.1 on Tuesday. The work does not stop there and we will review the feedback and reactions closely to keep moving in the right direction. We are very aware that no matter what we say here, it's what you experience when you play that matters but know that we really value your passion for Destiny 2 and that we want it to feel rewarding every single time.
Thank you for your patience.
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