Here's the stream.

Things to note in a nutshell...

• 335 Light Cap increase
  
• Prison of Elders brought forward to Year 2 (Level 41, with Challenge Bounties)
  
• New Blighted Chalice Strike against Taken boss, Malok.
  
• Winter's Run (Archon Priest strike) brought forward to Year 2 with exclusive drops and Taken Archon Priest variant.
  
• Variks has imprisoned Taken in Prison of Elders, he'll be the main quest-giver.
  
• "Challenge of the Elders" passage similar to Brother Vance.
  
• Playstation exclusive questline with Petra (with unique reward)
  
• Taken shader confirmed.
  
• Tomorrow's TWAB will include high-rez versions of images shown on stream.
  
• All weapons taken to be looked over for rebalancing.
  
• More subclasses being tweaked.
  
• Updated Director (POE Year 2 will be a separate Year 2 playlist)
  
• Y2 PoE has four new bosses, Sterling Treasure has no reward limit per week. Get Rewards as many times as you want (no keys required) (End-of-match and Post-game screen, similar to Trials).
  
• Level 42 Challenge mode for PoE (recommended Light 320), useful for getting to 335 (no matchmaking). Point-based, with four weekly challenge objectives giving bonus points (in addition to modifiers). Two week-long par scores with Guaranteed rewards (up to 335 weapons and armor).
  
• Mention of Professor Bromnigul's terrible PoE performance, lol.
  
• Challenge mode uses variants of the Existing Arena Bosses(i.e. Pilot servitor can now teleport around the map and drop mines). Three Boss rounds instead of five objective rounds w/ Boss).
  
• Five minute timer per round, Variks then starts depleting score (many ways to score points to accommodate all subclasses).
  
• Reinforcement phases based on Boss health.
  
• Bounties and Engrams can be obtained in PoE now.
  
• Exponential score increase per round.
  
• Checkpoints(!) added to PoE
  
• Individual score is for bragging rights, reward-score is team-based.
  
• Wiping resets score for round (no stacking points).
  
• Many ways to pad score (Assists, Orbs, Keeping Boss alive).
  
• 16 weeks of new boss/challenge combos.
  
• Year 2 Queen weapons Challenge rewards with new perk nodes (High impact sniper!)

Seems to be about it.

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Hold on, I need to get a pitchfork.

That was pretty quick for end-game content. About the length of a strike?

Today I noticed that somehow I was right at the edge of leveling up House of Judgement so I played a single matchmake of Prison of Elders. Oh man, I was just completely and totally bored. Not because it was super easy, though it was, but because my teammates were a pair of Stormcallers who at the start of each wave would light up their supers and completely clear every single enemy. For 90% of the time there was absolutely nothing for me to do.

Really, Storm Trance is just woefully overpowered. It seems to last as long as any Super. It is way, way more powerful than most Supers. It is extremely easy to use since it chains from enemy to enemy. And it generates Orb of Light like crazy. Anybody playing a Bladedance has got to be seething my now. Arc Blade struggles to kill a singly yellow bar enemy and might generate an two Orbs while a single use of Storm Trance pretty much kills everything everywhere.

The other thing I'd like to see, of course, is more love given to the Defender Titans. I'll stop playing Destiny until the Fall Update if that graph that showed Defender Usage and Defender K/D has changed from Defenders being basically nonexistent. Giving back a grenade and melee charge when someone has just lit up pretty much any other Super simply does not cut it. I love my Defender. Defender is my preferred class in PvE. But trying to bring a Defender into the Crucible and personally do well is a fools errand. Especially in game modes like Mayhem where all Ward of Dawn is highlight where the enemy should nuke to kill you and your team. Like I said, I love my Defender, but I have given up on the subclass for Crucible action...