Destiny: Rise of Iron
Destiny: Rise of Iron - The one with Iron Lords.
General
- Rise of Iron campaign unlocked
- Requires Destiny: Rise of Iron and minimum Character Level 40
- Max Light increased to 385
- New Vanguard & Crucible Bounties are now available
- Year 2 Moments of Triumph will end at 10:00am PDT on 9/20/16 and cannot be progressed
Activities
- Daily Heroics
- Will now include selections from Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3
- Increase Light to 350
- Vanguard Strike Playlists
- Vanguard Playlist is now called The Taken War Strike Playlist but is otherwise unchanged
- The SIVA Crisis Playlist consists of Taken King and Rise of Iron Strikes at 320 Light
- The Taken War Heroic Strike Playlist is available for players who have not purchased Rise of Iron and is accessible in the Vanguard Strike Playlist page
- No longer rewards Vanguard Marks
- The SIVA Crisis Heroic Strike Playlist is now available to players who have purchased Rise of Iron
- This Playlist replaces the Taken War Heroic Playlist in the Vanguard Strike Playlist
- This Playlist is also the Weekly Heroic Strike featured Playlist
- Recommended 350 Light
- Nightfall
- Requires Rise of Iron
- Recommended 360 Light
Economy
- Activities
- Normal Strikes will now grant rewards up to 340 Light
- Heroic Strikes will now grant rewards up to 365 Light
- Strike-specific Skeleton Keys now drop in the Nightfall Strike and the SIVA Crisis Heroic and Taken War Strike Playlists
- Skeleton Keys allow you to open Strike Hoards to guarantee a Strike-unique reward
- Strike unique rewards will now drop up to 385 Light
- Nightfall will now reward the player with Ghosts less often so other rewards will drop more often
- Players can receive one free Radiant Treasure per account through their first Heroic Strike Playlist completion per week
- Variks will now grant Weapons and Armor for Challenge of the Elders scorecard completions up to 365 Light
Engrams
- Fixed an issue where, after enough kills were accumulated, players would never see Uncommon item drops again
- This resulted in players being starved of weapon and armor materials
- Uncommon drops will be in addition to, not in place of, Rare and Legendary drops
- Rare and Legendary Engrams will now attempt to give you rewards equal to or higher than your current Light
- Rare Engrams can now decode up to 340 Light
- Legendary Engrams can now decode up to 365 Light
- Legendary Engram Light value will slow from their fast progress at 350, up to 365
- Within that range, Engrams will grant the player something with higher Light about half the time
- Exotic Engrams can now decode up to 385 Light
Faction Packages
- Faction Packages now drop items up to 385 Light
- Fixed an issue where vanity items (Ships, Sparrows, Shaders) were dropping less frequently than intended
- Queen's Wrath faction packages now contain Queen's Guard armor and Chasing Infinity
- Previews have been added for the Queen's Wrath and Crota's Bane Factions
- House of Judgment Faction Packages now grant a Weapon each time
- House of Judgment Class Items now drop in addition to Weapons rather than in place of
- Dead Orbit, New Monarchy, Future War Cult, Vanguard, and Crucible Packages now allow the player to choose one of three options: Weapons, Armor, or Chroma Armor
- New Faction Ghosts and Sparrows have been added to these Packages
- They can be found in all three Package selections (Weapons, Armor, and Chroma Armor)
- TTK Armor and Weapons have been removed from the Faction Packages and are replaced with new ROI Weapons and Armor
- The following Weapons will remain in their respective Faction Packages (Crucible and Vanguard):
- Shadow Price
- Badger CCL
- Lord High Fixer
- Grim Citizen III
- The Saterienne Rapier
- The Devil You Know
- The Swarm
- Zombie Apocalypse WF47
- LDR 5001
- Y-09 Longbow Synthesis
- Two to the Morgue
- The Comedian
- Armsday/Gunsmith
- Removed the SUROS TSR-10 Rocket Launcher Test Weapon that required Crucible kills
- Removed the Häkke Test-A Shotgun Test weapon that required Crucible kills
- Vendors
- Vendor items purchased for Legendary Marks have been increased to 350 Light
- Xur's exotics for sale have been increased to 350 Light
- Xur now sells two Exotic Weapon Ornaments per week for Silver Dust
- Xur can now carry Legacy Boot Engrams
- Items
- Year 1 Class Items are now available as new Rise of Iron Legendary Class Items. This does not include Year 1 Raid Class items. The new Class Items are found in the following locations:
- Strike Hoards
- Crucible End of Match Rewards
- Legendary Engrams
- Iron Banner
- Trials of Osiris
- Faction Packages
- Rise of Iron Vendors
- 22 Exotic Weapon Ornaments have been added
- Applying an Exotic Weapon Ornament has a cost of the Exotic Weapon Ornament and 1 Silver Dust
- Players who have obtained Laurels can apply them to their corresponding Armor set to unlock Armor Ornaments
- Armor Ornaments cost 1-2 Laurels plus 5 Silver Dust to apply
- Trials of Osiris Laurels can be obtained from Trials Flawless Chests, 1 per character per week
- Raid Laurels can be obtained from the Heroic Raid challenge modes, 1 per character per week
- Iron Lord Laurels can be obtained from Radiant Treasures. Additionally, players will obtain one Iron Lord Laurel from the Rise of Iron Record Book
- Record Books now appear in their own section on the character progress UI screen
- Eververse
- Silver Dust is now available
- Obtained from Radiant Treasures and by sharding Exotic Weapon Ornaments
- Used to purchase unique Eververse items, purchase Chroma from Eva Levante, purchase Iron Engrams from Lord Saladin, and apply Ornaments to Armor and Weapons
- New Emotes have been added to the Eververse Store
- April Update Emotes have been removed from the store and added to the new "Spring 2016 Emotes" bag
- Radiant Treasures can now be purchased from the Eververse store
- Radiant Treasures contain Exotic Weapon Ornaments and Vanity Items
- Reputation Boosters are now available for direct purchase on the store
Crucible
- Private Matches
- Rise of Iron Maps and Modes are now available (Requires Destiny: Rise of Iron)
- Playlists
- Supremacy, Clash, Control, Rift, Skirmish, Rumble are now core Playlists
- Elimination will be available every day of the week until Trials of Osiris returns on 9/30
- Rise of Iron Crucible Maps Floating Gardens, Last Exit, Skyline, Icarus (PS Exclusive) added to core playlists with strong weightings to feature them (these will normalize over the course of a few weeks)
- The Taken King Crucible maps added to Classic playlists (These are now free for anyone who owns the base game)
- Rotating featured playlists updated to include Rumble Supremacy, Inferno Supremacy, Salvage, and Combined Arms
- Rewards
- Core playlists now reward a new collection of Crucible Legendary Weapons:
- Hex Caster ARC
- 77 Wizard
- Ill Will
- Unending Deluge III
- Hopscotch Pilgrim
- Steel Oracle Z-11
- Cryptic Dragon
- Matador 64
- 20/20 AMR7
- Classic playlists now reward the Year 2 collection of Crucible Legendary Weapons
- Red Spectre
- Eyasluna
- In Times of Need
- Split Shifter Pro
- The Revelator
- The Ash Factory
- Party Crasher +1
- Spare Change.25
- NL Shadow 701X
- Crucible Class Items added to the Crucible Legendary loot pool
- Crucible Legendary drop rates slightly increased
- Quests and Bounties
- New Supremacy Quest is available from Lord Shaxx
- New Supremacy Bounties are now available when Supremacy is the daily featured playlist
- Shaxx Weekly Bounty design has changed and now features a single multi-objective Bounty for a specific featured 6v6 mode
- Daily Crucible Bounty availability updated for Rise of Iron
