Rise of Iron Lords Patch Update

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Rise of Iron Lords Patch Update

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 OrnamentsArmor 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