The Revelry

[GazzaGarratt 11,037]

The Revelry begins on Tuesday, April 16 and ends on Tuesday, May 7.

 

THE REVELRY

Apr 10, 2019 - Destiny Dev Team

 

“Spring is in the air, Guardians! It’s time to kick up your heels, celebrate, and break a few rules! The people of the City love this time of year, and I wanted to share their joy with you, my good friends. Come to the Tower. Smell the flowers. And revel in all we have together.”—Eva Levante

 

The Revelry is a new event available to all Destiny 2 players that celebrates the joy of Spring. The Tower is overflowing with colorful arrangements, and Eva Levante has a new activity for you to enjoy with new rewards to claim. But that's just the beginning—the celebration spans across the solar system, offering ways for your character to feel more powerful in every activity Destiny 2 has to offer. 

 

Verdant Forest

 

The Revelry grants you access to the Verdant Forest. It may conjure up memories of the Haunted Forest from Festival of the Lost, but you’ll find it in bloom to fit the season—and in combat, you’ll discover new twists to fight through. The objective is to clear as many rooms as possible. The more spaces you clear, the more time you’ll have to defeat the onslaught of five different bosses and claim your reward. 

 

If you want to fight with a team, you can bring one with you or let us matchmake one for you. If you want to go it alone, it will be dangerous, but that choice is available to you as well.

Abilities and Orbs

The Revelry is a chance for every Guardian to break the rules about how Light is wielded as a weapon. When you first visit the Tower, Eva Levante will grant you a Reveler’s Tonic. Fill your tonic with Reveler’s Essence by killing bosses in the Verdant Forest or completing other activities. Three different tonics will reduce the cooldown of your grenades, melee, or class ability. Choose which buff you prefer and let the sparks fly.

 

The more pieces of Inaugural Revelry or Vernal Growth armor you equip, the more potent the tonic will be. The powerful effect applies to every activity in the game except Private Matches. Revelers will even be more dangerous in the Crucible.

 

The Reveler’s Tonic is not the only way you’ll increase your output of space magic during this event. Everywhere in the game, Orbs have the chance of being generated by precision kills. The best place to create tons of Orbs will be in the Verdant Forest, as that's where they'll drop most often. 

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Rewards

The Revelry will feature the new Inaugural Revelry armor set. You can earn pieces of this set by defeating bosses in the Verdant Forest. The more bosses you defeat, the greater your chances to receive a drop. Eva will also have five weekly bounties that award Inaugural Revelry armor as a powerful drop. Each piece of the set you equip will boost the effect of your Reveler’s Tonic.

 

You can also turn in the Reveler’s Essence you earn through activities to Eva in exchange for packages containing assorted rewards, including world drops, Enhancement Cores, and ornaments for the Inaugural Revelry helmet.

 

Each ornament will grow in size depending on how many pieces of Inaugural Revelry or Vernal Growth armor you have equipped.

 

Are you in need of some extra firepower? Complete Triumphs and turn in Reveler’s Essence to Eva to earn a new Exotic Kinetic Fusion Rifle, Arbalest. It’s the first weapon of its kind and does extra damage against enemy shields.

Double Drops

Similar to other recent events, Bright Engram drops will be doubled. Players at max level (depending on what content they have access to) will receive both a Bright Engram and a Revelry Engram every time they level up. There will also be a “knock-out” list for the Revelry Engram, preventing you from receiving duplicates until you’ve earned all the new items.

[GazzaGarratt 11,037]

 

Some of the armour ornaments look pretty cool for this event. They're trying to get nearer to the awesome armour ornaments we saw in all the D1 Raids when they were reprised at the end of Year 3.

 

Arbalest, the new exotic Fusion Rifle is kinda not a quest which is disappointing although it is pretty clear what you have to do to get the weapon from Eva Levante.

 

The Winter event was done really well so for once, I'm looking forward to this free event.

 

If they can make the Infinite Forest resin feel new then they will be on the right track again with content.

 

[techno 3,509]

Next time bungie does an event which uses buffs they need to leave it in pve instead of infecting PvP with aids and full late stage cancer....invisible hunters and grenade spam so much fun 

[GazzaGarratt 11,037]

They said they wanted to see what a global change could do in a free event lasting 3 weeks. Whilst I think most people that understood what to do were having fun in the first 24 hours of PvP, you can see why you can't have something like that for a long period of time. It impacts too many people's progress on certain quests and activities. I've not really been playing any PvP since I heard about this. Thankfully PvP will be back to its usual self next Tuesday.

 

I still need to get back on and get Arbelest, even if its just for my collection of dusty Exotics.

[Baabcat 1,646]

2 hours ago, GazzaGarratt said:

They said they wanted to see what a global change could do in a free event lasting 3 weeks. Whilst I think most people that understood what to do were having fun in the first 24 hours of PvP, you can see why you can't have something like that for a long period of time. It impacts too many people's progress on certain quests and activities. I've not really been playing any PvP since I heard about this. Thankfully PvP will be back to its usual self next Tuesday.

 

I still need to get back on and get Arbelest, even if its just for my collection of dusty Exotics.

 Arbrlest is worth getting , quite a fun gun

 

ive not done PvP during revelry mainly cos be grinding PvE and Gambit and the revelry booms have been really helpful.

Finally dropped Jotunn this morning as well. So OP in crucible looking forward to giving it a spin 

[techno 3,509]

On 5/2/2019 at 1:38 PM, Baabcat said:

 Arbrlest is worth getting , quite a fun gun

 

ive not done PvP during revelry mainly cos be grinding PvE and Gambit and the revelry booms have been really helpful.

Finally dropped Jotunn this morning as well. So OP in crucible looking forward to giving it a spin 

I tried it in crucible for a few games then put it away it really doesn't fit with the whole 2 shots better my trust. As for arbelast I really have no use for it in d2 it's bygones for crucible and crimson for everything else for me nothing beats these.that I've tried.

[GazzaGarratt 11,037]

Well I missed the chance of getting Arbalest so hopefully will get it in a random world drop in the future.

 

Overall I think it was a fun event, if they have a couple more versions of that infinite forest made, I wouldn't mind it becoming available permanently. The boss phase at the end can get pretty intense trying to kill 5 bosses in such a short space of time.

 

The buffs were fun as hell to use but I think they know for next time just to keep it available for the chosen activity and not everything else (looking at you PvP).