Patch Note Archive
20 September 2016
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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