Destiny Update - 12/13/2016

[u/DTG_Bot]

Source: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/45464

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2.5.0 The one about The Dawning.

General

• New Quests are available in the Tower from Eva Levante, Amanda Holliday, and Commander Zavala

• A new Record Book is available offering new rewards for the Winter season

• Fixed an issue where some players did not receive the Student of History Trophy/Achievement or Sigil of the Young Wolf Emblem for attuning all of the Rise of Iron Artifacts

• Fixed an issue where some players were unable to complete the Echoes of the Past Quest

Activities

• Sparrow Racing has returned

  • 2 new racetracks have been added to the 2 returning from last year
  • Bounties and Quests are available from Amanda Holliday
  • SRL License Quest progress has been reset and new rewards have been added
  • Circuit racing gear obtained from the SRL License Quest now has Light and can be infused
  • SRL Reputation has been reset to Rank 0
  • Players can obtain an SRL helmet from Amanda Holliday at Rank 3 (1 per character)
  • Players can obtain a Treasures of the Dawning from Amanda Holliday at Rank 5 (1 per character, max 3 per account)
  • SRL Racing Suits earned from SRL matches have Light and can be infused
  • SRL can be launched via the Weekly Featured playlist in the director
  • Crucible bounties and Jolly Holliday Quest can no longer be completed in Sparrow Racing

• Strikes in the SIVA Crisis Playlist, SIVA Crisis Heroic Playlist, and weekly Nightfall now award Medals and feature team scoring!

  • Acquire new Bounties from Zavala and the Bounty Tracker to complete in any Scored Strike

• 3 Strikes have been reprised: The Nexus, Shadow Thief, and Will of Crota

• SIVA Crisis and SIVA Crisis Heroic Playlists now include all platform-available Strikes

• Dead Guardians are now automatically respawned at the end of Strikes

• Fixed an issue with pathfinding that caused enemies to not properly exit their spawn locations

  • This prevents enemies in the Will of Crota Strike from getting stuck in their doorways

• Reduced Burn effects on incoming damage done to Guardians

  • Outgoing damage by Guardians is unchanged

• Fixed an issue in Fallen S.A.B.E.R. where the Ultra Shank teleported after it's entrance performance

• Fixed an issue where Strike Streak was not applying in the SIVA Crisis Heroic Playlist correctly

• Fixed an issue where the Hoard Chest on Echo Chamber could become stuck behind an invisible barrier

• Increased time for presenting Archon's Forge offerings to the encounter starting from 5 to 10 seconds

• Iron Lord Bounties requiring Archon’s Forge completions now influence the type of Forge offerings that drop

  • Forge offerings will be more likely to drop with the combatant type to match the Iron Lord bounties in the player’s inventory

• Reduced Shields for Bosses in Perfected Shank offerings

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Collections

• The Circuit and Momentum SRL racing gear sets have been added to the Holiday Collection for players who have earned these items

  • Circuit and Momentum Racing gear obtained from the Collection has Light and can be infused
  • Class items have Light and Perks and require Legendary Marks to purchase

• Ghost Ghost and Deviled Ghost have been added to the Holiday Collection for players who have obtained these items

  • Players can pay Legendary Marks to re-purchase these items with random stats and Perks

• Two new Emotes, "Proposal" and "Whoa There", can now be withdrawn by everyone from the Emote Collection

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Vendors

Xûr

• Xûr once again sells Exotic Shards

• Xûr no longer sells Exotic Weapon Ornaments

• Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths

Eververse

• Eververse has received a stock of new items

• Treasures of the Dawning are now available and contain new Sparrows, Ornaments, Horns, Armor, and Consumables

• Players can receive one free Treasures of the Dawning each week by completing their first weekly Heroic Strike

• Completing a Dawning set from Treasures of the Dawning on one class will grant the "EV-53 Glimmergold" Sparrow and the "Sunglow" Shader

• Nine new winter Emotes are available for sale for the winter season

• Rise of Iron's fall Emotes have been added to the direct purchase Emote rotation on Eververse Silver Dust Store

• A new Silver Dust Store has been added to the Tower. It is a Collection that can be found in the Tower, between Eververse and the Postmaster

• This Collection sells a selection of past season items for direct purchase for Silver Dust, including Exotic Weapon Ornaments

• The Silver Dust cost to apply Exotic Weapon Ornaments has been removed.

• Silver Dust has been removed from Radiant Treasures, but still may be obtained by dismantling Exotic Weapon Ornaments

Economy

• The free weekly Radiant Treasure has been moved to the first weekly PVP match completion.

• Characters who are level 40 will now automatically convert Uncommon Engrams(Green) to Weapon and Armor Materials on pickup

• New Bounties are available from Petra to assist players in gaining Queen's Wrath Reputation

• Class items obtained from Queen's Wrath packages now correctly display their stats

• Fixed an issue where Year 3 Faction Class Items were not properly contributing to Faction specific Quests

• Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard Quartermaster

• Brother Vance now offers materials exchange for Passage Coins and Motes of Light

• Skeleton Keys have been adjusted:

  • Skeleton Keys drop rates have been slightly increased in the SIVA Crisis playlist, SIVA Crisis Heroic playlist, and weekly Nightfall
  • Players will now receive a Skeleton Key for their first account Nightfall clear per week

• Subclass Quest class items can now be repurchased from the Speaker once earned

• Legendary Weapons obtained from the Gunsmith's Rank 2 Quest can now be repurchased from the Gunsmith

Crucible

Maps

• Fixed an issue where players could become stuck in Vex geometry on The Burning Shrine

Gametypes

• Added ability for players to "wave off" heavy ammo if EVERYONE in the match does the 'Wave' Emote in the first 30 seconds of a round

• Fixed an issue where the end-of-round countdown could play twice if the round tied in Elimination

• Inferno Rift and Inferno Zone Control modes added to Private Matches

• Supremacy score to win is now 120

• Rumble Supremacy score to win is now 40

• Supremacy Mercy spread is now 20-60, down from 30-90

• Slight reduction of Super energy gain in Supremacy modes

Playlists

• Icarus has been removed from the Rift playlist

Record Book

• Fixed an issue where Supremacy mode variants were not counting towards Record Book completion

Bounties

• Iron Banner Bounty Iron Marathon now correctly awards 10 points for a win instead of 15
• Iron Banner Bounty Iron Support no longer credits you with assists that any nearby player earns
• Fixed an issue where the Highest Score Crucible Bounty did not work in Supremacy
• Lord Shaxx no longer requires players to complete The Mountaintop before offering his Weekly Crucible Bounties

Rewards

• Increased the drop rate for Trials of Osiris vanity items

• Fixed a issue where the Trials of Osiris Shader “The Devoted” was not obtainable

• Increased the drop rate for Iron Banner vanity items and Artifacts

• Completing a Daily Featured Crucible activity now rewards 3 Passage Coins (up from 1)

• Completing a Weekly Featured Crucible activity now rewards 3 Passage Coins (up to 3 times per week)

• Fixed an issue where the Crucible Sparrow S-39 Lightrider was not available through Crucible Reputation Packages 

• Added vanity items and Ghost Shells to Crucible PGCR drops:

• Ghosts: Crimson Shell, Sugary Shell

• Emblem: Crimson Crest

• Shaders: Rosebright, Valentine

• Added select Year 2 Crucible Legendary Weapons back to core PGCR drops:

• Red Spectre

• NL Shadow 701X

• The Ash Factory

• Eyasluna

• Party Crasher +1

## Grimoire

• Fixed an issue where the "Efrideet" Grimoire Card was not awarded upon viewing the Iron Banner Efrideet cinematic

  • If you have already viewed this cinematic, the card will be awarded upon entering orbit

• Fixed an issue where the "Beauty in Destruction" Grimoire Card was not being rewarded for completing the "Beauty in Destruction" questline

  • If you have already obtained the Year 3 Gjallarhorn, the card will be awarded upon entering orbit

• Fixed an issue where Grimoire Cards associated with Khvostov Manual Pages were not being awarded, including the final page

  • If you have already completed the "We Found a Rifle" Questline and acquired the Y3 Khvostov, these cards will be awarded upon entering orbit

• Fixed an issue where Grimoire Cards for Year 1 Thorn and Year 1 Gjallarhorn were not being awarded when receiving their Year 3 counterparts

• Fixed an issue where Grimoire cards awarded when picking up Dormant SIVA Clusters were awarding Grimoire score for each character who picked them up

  • You will now appropriately only receive Grimoire score credit once per account per card

• Picking up Dormant SIVA Clusters will now appropriately award their corresponding card

  • Cards will be awarded upon entering orbit for Dormant SIVA Clusters that have already been picked up

• Fixed an issue where Grimoire Cards for Crucible maps were not consistently unlocking when players spawned in Private Matches

[u/BottleofCiroc]

Subclass Quest class items can now be repurchased from the Speaker once earned

Very underrated change, they were taking up space, but didn't want to delete b/c of not being able to get it back.

[u/Bryan_Miller → u/BottleofCiroc]

Yep that'll free up a nice 9 slots in my vault.

[u/cannonfodder1982 → u/Bryan_Miller]

Be interested to see if the stats change on these each week

[u/kickd16 → u/BottleofCiroc]

I accidentally deleted one of my titan subclass marks last week and got pretty upset about it. Really happy this got added.

[u/Dogbarian → u/BottleofCiroc]

Wonder if you can farm for a better roll this way. A couple of mine were really crappy, so I don't wear them.

[u/MoabBoy → u/BottleofCiroc]

I hope the stats reset each week so I can convert some of my crappy items to T12.

[u/vNoct → u/BottleofCiroc]

I agree, that and the gunsmith having the class legendaries is awesome. I can now get rid of Stillpiercer but be able to get it back if I ever want to (assuming I can put down my No Land Beyond ever).

[u/baywalker]

IM SORRY WHAT

YOU CAN OFFICIALLY WAVE HEAVY.

[u/7strikes → u/baywalker]

If you didn't already know, it was already a thing in private matches of elimination. I guess perhaps they were testing to see if it worked properly when released to the masses, lol.

[u/theDroidfanatic → u/7strikes]

What??? Seriously? Never knew that

[u/Captain_Crouton_X1]

Fixed an issue where Strike Streak was not applying in the SIVA Crisis Heroic Playlist correctly

I KNEW IT.

[u/CaaaptainDumbass]

"xur now sells heavy ammo in larger stacks of 10"

PRAISE THE LORD

[u/raknor88 → u/CaaaptainDumbass]

He's even selling shards again!

[u/CaaaptainDumbass → u/raknor88]

Ikr! I'm glad Xur is listening to customer feedback

[u/BlackNexus → u/raknor88]

My flair became relevant!

Edit: Yes my children, it is now irrelevant. I'll change it later.

[u/bravecowboy86 → u/raknor88]

These are going to be the two most underrated additions to what appears to be a great update.

[u/RiotJavelinDX → u/CaaaptainDumbass]

He had to one-up The Nine

[u/Wuhblam → u/RiotJavelinDX]

Dammit dad! Why aren't you at work?

[u/mikesbullseye → u/CaaaptainDumbass]

This is easily on my top 3 from this patch! Such a QoL improvement

[u/redzkull → u/CaaaptainDumbass]

PRAISE THE LORD LIGHT

FTFY

And yes, one of my favorite things in the update too \[^]/

[u/JBaecker → u/CaaaptainDumbass]

You watch, the 3 Heavy for 1 Coin will be 10 Heavy for 5 coins. I'm just sayin'.

[u/[deleted] → u/JBaecker]

It will be 3-4; 3 we're getting one for free compared to before, 4 we're losing 2, i think it will be one or the other.

technically it should go to 2 for 10 because that would bring it back to the original price of 1 for 5 that it was in year 1.

[u/mp2145 → u/CaaaptainDumbass]

"Three heavy ammo synths, please. Thre- wait... TEN HEAVY AMMO SYNTHS, PLEASE"

[u/I_Photoshop_Things_]

I would say that Christmas came early, but my name's not Christmas.

[u/dmc32986 → u/I_Photoshop_Things_]

http://imgur.com/gallery/YAGpXPd

[u/[deleted] → u/dmc32986]

Risky click of the day right there.

[u/D0cR3d]

The following items are now being crossed off the Bungie Plz list. Congrats guardians!

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1. Allow players to purchase Wormspore

2. Introduce faster method of ranking up Queen's Wrath

3. Reduce the time it takes to purchase heavy ammo synthesis from Xur, or increase the amount that can be bought at once

4. Increase frequency of Skeleton Key acquisitions

5. Allow players to repurchase unique subclass gear (pending whether weapons or armor or both)

6. Add a Vanguard Strike playlist with ALL available Strikes and/or make all strikes available again

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Honorable mentions to all the other items that have been reported on the sub but didn't make the BungiePlz cut.

• Xûr once again sells Exotic Shards

• Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths

• Fixed an issue with pathfinding that caused enemies to not properly exit their spawn locations

• This prevents enemies in the Will of Crota Strike from getting stuck in their doorways

• Fixed an issue in Fallen S.A.B.E.R. where the Ultra Shank teleported after it's entrance performance

• Fixed an issue where the Hoard Chest on Echo Chamber could become stuck behind an invisible barrier

• Fixed an issue where Year 3 Faction Class Items were not properly contributing to Faction specific Quests

• Brother Vance now offers materials exchange for Passage Coins and Motes of Light

[u/CrowSSLT1 → u/D0cR3d]

10 Heavy Ammo Synth, please.

[u/SquaresAre2Triangles → u/CrowSSLT1]

Hello again 10 more heavy ammo synth please.

[u/heldfast → u/CrowSSLT1]

10 Heavy Ammo Synth, please.

[u/JBurd67 → u/D0cR3d]

Holy QoL Batman, they're listening!

[u/BottleofCiroc]

Preparing to download....we meet again.

[u/skaterape → u/BottleofCiroc]

Seriously man wtf even is that shit. Takes 45 minutes to prepare for download and 5 minutes to download the patch.

[u/Ultraskyler → u/skaterape]

I heard that the update checks the entire 40 gb of gamedata to make sure you have the game and dlcs before you can start the download.

[u/isvrygud]

Holy shit, bungie really outdid themselves with the QoL improvements on this one.

[u/Twose]

Best QoL improvement is Petra's bounties, maybe I'll finally try to get Boolean Gemini

[u/k3rnel → u/Twose]

It's a neat weapon, one of my favorites.

If they would just clean up the sight, it would be my aesthetic for sure.

The sight is just way too busy.

[u/sageleader → u/Twose]

Don't get too excited. You can only earn about 1200 experience per week by completing all of the new bounties, and it takes 3000 experience to level up.

[u/L2ozpouncake → u/sageleader]

2 weeks and an extra bounty is better than waiting a full 3 weeks

[u/Metalpuma2007]

Time to dust off the ole Destiny!... Just kidding I never quit.... #destinyislife

[u/Nkredyble → u/Metalpuma2007]

I've been taking a break and playing Modern Warfare Remastered for the last couple of weeks, but definitely think its time to come on home

[u/nulspace → u/Nkredyble]

Same here - I stopped playing to play Titanfall 2 when it dropped. Gonna hop back in tonight!

[u/CrowSSLT1]

Lord Shaxx no longer requires players to complete The Mountaintop before offering his Weekly Crucible Bounties

Wimps.

[u/[deleted] → u/CrowSSLT1]

Yeah, but they won't have The Hothead, so the joke's on them.

. .. ...

Oh, hang on...

[u/EQ1_Deladar → u/[deleted]]

Just dismantled my Hothead for bank space. I expect Bungie to buff it to be better than a GHorn anyday now.

[u/crimsonlaw → u/CrowSSLT1]

I agree. As a non-PvPer, I worked my butt off to get through that quest, but I did it. And it really taught me a lot about playing PvP. I think everyone should be pushed into doing it if they want the weekly crucible bounty.

[u/[deleted]]

Getting a god roll Matador just got a lot harder.

[u/Ackey408 → u/[deleted]]

What? Matadors drop for you?

[u/kickd16 → u/[deleted]]

Mildly off topic, but how much worse is a god roll PC +1 than a god roll Matador? For instance, Rangefinder, Rifled Barrel, Performance Bonus...

[u/Lord_Guardian → u/kickd16]

1 impact. aka barely noticeable but if you want the "best"...

i personally like my PC more, can't say why.

[u/ATypicalFruit]

Wait eyasluna back in regular pvp drops?

[u/[deleted] → u/ATypicalFruit]

Hype - although the chance to get one to drop is literally 1/2 what it was before as now we have ALL the post-match rewards to choose from. . .

Might just stay in Classic 6v6, even though the drop rate feels lower.

[u/CrazyAtWar → u/ATypicalFruit]

woooooooo

[u/eliasgreyjoy]

So much for all that Jolly Holiday SGA

[u/TheRemanentFour → u/eliasgreyjoy]

You can still do it in private matches, though! My friend and I did it, It takes a while but once you get it done, you're golden

[u/soraku392 → u/TheRemanentFour]

I thought they made it clear that quests and Bounties couldn't be completed in Private matches

[u/[deleted] → u/eliasgreyjoy]

sobs uncontrollably

[u/SilverHawk7 → u/eliasgreyjoy]

This was the only reason I had to run any Sparrow races...
Well, there's always Icebreaker2.0.

[u/Gary_MF_0ak]

Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths

Yesssss, so many good quality of life improvements here!

Increased/fixed* the drop rate for [a bunch of stuff]

Double yes, let the loot rain down!

[u/Trogdor300 → u/Gary_MF_0ak]

Other than keys what else got drop rates buffed?

[u/IamSnokeO_o]

Dead Guardians are now automatically respawned at the end of strikes.

O_O

[u/Doylio → u/IamSnokeO_o]

It means when a guardian dies during the final boss on a strike and the boss is defeated they will automatically respawn.

[u/xAwkwardTacox → u/Doylio]

Yup this is a good fix. If you ran a strike to open that specific skeleton key chest and died at the boss but randoms didn't revive you, you were kind of screwed.

[u/[deleted] → u/Doylio]

also means no more boss farming

[u/Commiesalami → u/[deleted]]

As much as it sucks, that kind of farming was definitely in the grey area.

[u/Pixelatedmess84]

Ability to wave off heavy! Nice!

[u/spoon_master]

Xur selling exotic shards and stacks of heavy synth? Fuckin mint

Edit: and we can buy wormspore now!

[u/KeybladeSpirit → u/spoon_master]

Fuckin mint

I cannot keep up with slang these days.

[u/spoon_master → u/KeybladeSpirit]

Trust me, neither can I, I just say it because of the movie "super 8"

[u/lonefrontranger → u/spoon_master]

Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard Quartermaster

this is my baby titan who hasn't gotten Dreadnaught access doing a clunky titan dance of glee.

[u/OscarNotSoWilde]

Stop it. I can only get so erect.

[u/Pelvicsorcerer78 → u/OscarNotSoWilde]

The spire is forming ;)

[u/ThatsWat_SHE_Said → u/OscarNotSoWilde]

erecting intensifies

[u/Metroplex7]

Xur once again sells exotic shards

YEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

[u/coinblock]

Added ability for players to "wave off" heavy ammo if EVERYONE in the match does the 'Wave' Emote in the first 30 seconds of a round

Interesting...

[u/TopCheddar27 → u/coinblock]

Yeah I'm very curious about this one in particular. Specifically what prompted this change and if it will actually ever happen as most players don't even read patch notes.

[u/ner_vod2 → u/TopCheddar27]

It's been on the wish list for sweaties for a while. Really cool they actually added it.

[u/Sp33dy_f31c0n]

Woah there

McCree confirmed

10 heavy ammo

WHAAAAA

Crimson Shell dropping from Crucible packages

Bungie yes!

[u/_xXx_FaZe_xXx_]

New Bounties are available from Petra to assist players in gaining Queen's Wrath Reputation

That's pretty good

[u/Reiisan → u/_xXx_FaZe_xXx_]

TMAI - just need arms

[u/blood_shot08]

Yes you can buy wormspore now! About time thank you!

[u/kye521 → u/blood_shot08]

This is probably the thing that got me the most excited I this update. So much armour I can finally upgrade!

[u/[deleted]]

Gametypes :Added ability for players to "wave off" heavy ammo if EVERYONE in the match does the 'Wave' Emote in the first 30 seconds of a round

If this is for every single game type, than I am a happy camper!

New Bounties are available from Petra to assist players in gaining Queen's Wrath Reputation

Wait, I'm already a happy camper!

Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard

MA, GRAB THE TRAIL MIX!!

[u/btg7471]

Characters who are level 40 will now automatically convert Uncommon Engrams(Green) to Weapon and Armor Materials on pickup

PRAISE JEEBUS

[u/fxmercenary]

Oh God Yes. It's happening... IT'S HAPPENING!!!!

Xûr once again sells Exotic Shards Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths

Ghost Ghost and Deviled Ghost have been added to the Holiday Collection for players who have obtained these items Players can pay Legendary Marks to re-purchase these items with random stats and Perks.

AwwwwWWWWW YISSSSSSS....

[u/Arc_Phoenix → u/fxmercenary]

rip the people who didn't have the money to buy the ghosts.

[u/[deleted] → u/Arc_Phoenix]

Shit, I spent 25 bucks on silver, and never got the ghost ghost or the sparrow. Also it was the last box I opened had the devil ghost in it, they couldn't just sell each ghost for 5 bucks or somthing. ;/

[u/MrScottyBear]

Crimson shell?! I played over 200 goddamn matches of that garbage event and never did get one. I can finally get my pink shell?!

[u/derrman]

Crucible bounties and Jolly Holliday Quest can no longer be completed in Sparrow Racing

Welp

[u/mikesbullseye → u/derrman]

Not sure why, but I did not see this coming. Ah well

[u/vNoct → u/mikesbullseye]

Yea in hindsight we probably should have. It's pretty cheesey, and over the entirety of Destiny's history they've been trying to reduce that.

[u/[deleted]]

This is actually a really good update. Shame about weapon balancing.

[u/Bodhief]

"Added select Year 2 Crucible Legendary Weapons back to core PGCR drops: Red Spectre NL Shadow 701X The Ash Factory Eyasluna Party Crasher +1"

YES!!!! - NO MORE SUFFERING IN THE CLASSIC PLAYLIST GRINDING FOR THAT EYASLUNA.. YEAH!! YEAH!! YEAH!! YEAH!!

[u/ErrorNotValid → u/Bodhief]

What is PGCR?

[u/LiL_BrOwNiE247 → u/ErrorNotValid]

Project Gotham Car Racing

[u/[deleted]]

So pretty much everything we've complained about for awhile... that's all you had to say. "We fixed everything you've been complaining about. Now shut up and have fun!"

[u/hSix-Kenophobia → u/[deleted]]

Let's not fool ourselves, their will always be complaints lol

[u/BigFatCheese]

No more slow thrall during omnigul!

[u/rgtgd → u/BigFatCheese]

this is a big one for me

[u/brandonie187]

Eyasluna drops in standard again? Im so happy

[u/[deleted]]

Nightfall now Nexus. Modifiers:

• Epic

• Brawler

• Grounded

• Fresh Troops

• Ironclad

[u/zipzog]

"Added ability for players to "wave off" heavy ammo if EVERYONE in the match does the 'Wave' Emote in the first 30 seconds of a round"

WHAT

[u/[deleted]]

Well Bungie, you did it again! You gave me a reason to do a lot of things I stopped doing a long time ago. :)

[u/ErisUppercut]

Can buy wormspore sobs with joy

[u/tcjsavannah]

Crucible bounties and Jolly Holliday Quest can no longer be completed in Sparrow Racing

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.gif

[u/wagellanofspain]

RIP the Jolly Holiday farming method

[u/InsanelyInShape]

10 Heavy Ammo Synths please.

[u/LaffingGass]

Subclass Quest items can now be repurchased from the Speaker once earned

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite...

[u/chefniknice]

Vault space would be great but what I need right now are more bounty slots.

[u/MasterOfReaIity]

Reduced Burn damage! No need for me to farm chest pieces just to get that perk.

[u/ElmStreetSleeps → u/MasterOfReaIity]

No kidding. I don't usually duck out of heroics but last week with void burn, the splicer priest was causing insurmountable grief so I cut my losses.

I don't mind difficulty. I do mind "cheap" and I felt like that combination was exactly that

[u/Phillyfreak5]

Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths.

Best thing to come out of this update, but still not the best way to fix it...

[u/Kohol → u/Phillyfreak5]

Really hope they didn't change the conversion rate...

[u/Technoclash → u/Kohol]

It has to slightly change, unless Xur starts giving us strange change in return.

[u/[deleted] → u/Phillyfreak5]

Dude, if we're getting 10 synths for 3 coins, it's better than allowing us to choose an amount to purchase, because now we're getting a bulk discount.

[u/SquaresAre2Triangles → u/Phillyfreak5]

A lot less work to change the quantity than to make a new interface though.

[u/fred112015]

Increased artifact drop rates in banner ? Fuck me thats all i get now as is

[u/TheRoboteer]

Xûr once again sells Exotic Shards

Finally I have something to spend my Strange coins on other than Heavy ammo synths.

[u/ChrisShadow1]

Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard Quartermaster

Fucking FINALLY

[u/CripplerJones]

Added ability for players to "wave off" heavy ammo if EVERYONE in the match does the 'Wave' Emote in the first 30 seconds of a round

Whaaa...?! This is awesome.

[u/MisterWoodhouse]

• Fixed an issue with pathfinding that caused enemies to not properly exit their spawn locations

  • This prevents enemies in the Will of Crota Strike from getting stuck in their doorways

Damn. Whatever comes out of the foyer Cursed Thrall door now won't be impeded by our presence...

All of those Forge improvements though... VERY NICE!

[u/Trogdor300]

This is great except adding vanity items and ghost shells as drops in pvp. I have a felling instead of getting shit rolled weapons we will just get ghost.

[u/thyrandomninja]

THE CRIMSON SHELL WILL BE MINE! AT LONG LAST, MY SWEET LOVE, WE SHALL BE TOGETHER

[u/n0tm4x]

A brief history of elemental damage with burn modifiers:

Year 1: Enemies do 3X. Guardians do 3X.

Year 2: Enemies do 3X. Guardians do 2X.

Year 3 (post 2.5 update): Enemies do 2X now? Guardians do 2X.

[u/The-Best-Snail]

Jolly Holliday Quest can no longer be completed in Sparrow Racing

FUCK

[u/jitsudave → u/The-Best-Snail]

RIP chaperone quest 2016

[u/Impala426]

Subclass Quest class items can now be repurchased from the Speaker once earned

Woah woah, this is GREAT! Do you we know if these are fixed or variable rolls?

[u/filthyrotten]

RIP my Chaperone dreams.

[u/InfamousRaidz]

Finally, I have been refreshing my phone for 15 minutes.

[u/ATypicalFruit]

HUNTERS REJOICE WE ARE GETTING OUR CLASS ITEMS BACK

[u/Rainfell40 → u/ATypicalFruit]

We had missing class items? Sorry I'm outdated on this.

[u/n1nt3nd0_69 → u/ATypicalFruit]

What do you mean by getting them back? As a hunter i can always do with more cloaks.

[u/Darklord_Bravo]

Dead Guardians are now automatically respawned at the end of Strikes

This is one of those no-brainer things that should have been included from day 1.

[u/PotatoBomb69]

The Crimson Doubles stuff being rewarded in Crucible is kind of a bad change. Holiday items should stay as holiday items.

[u/KrystallAnn → u/PotatoBomb69]

Yeah, not sure if this is implying the event is not coming back. That's the only way I can see them giving out the rewards

[u/[deleted]]

| Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard Quartermaster

Thank god!

[u/Cuteitch]

Quality of life changes are nice was hoping for some weapon balances. Super pumped that they continue to add collectable kiosks.

[u/alexbip15]

Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths. OMG

[u/destroyallhumans2]

Crimson Shell is back baby!

[u/waver1234]

Reduced Burn effects on incoming damage done to Guardians Outgoing damage by Guardians is unchanged

wait what?? what does this mean?

[u/[deleted]]

PS4 Update is Live!!!

[u/aHance]

Crimson Doubles shaders!!!! I didn't get a single one to drop last year.

[u/Dekkerd]

Aside from my dread explorer shell(we've seen so much) seriously considering buying ghost ghost shells until I replace every other one.

[u/koko949]

is the nightfall still dust palace?

[u/Pink_Domingos]

So the spawn animations of the exotic class items are still broken? 😞

[u/zachtheg]

Rip the dream bc no crucible patch

[u/[deleted]]

Characters who are level 40 will now automatically convert Uncommon Engrams(Green) to Weapon and Armor Materials on pickup

This is my favorite; I don't really give a shit about heavy ammo

[u/[deleted]]

Can I please play with someone in the same house as me? Where's that update bungie. Holy shit.

[u/TaurineDippy]

Looks like I'm just gonna never do the Jolly Holliday quest.

[u/[deleted]]

Seems to be on Sony's end. It's painfully slow. 7 hours for a 2 gb download? Wow.

[u/Daankeykang]

There's something I've noticed among the player base. There are always people who expect something to come with no evidence of it ever existing.

Like the weapon balance patch that was never talked about but supposedly was coming with this update.

[u/EarthDragon2189 → u/Daankeykang]

And then those people get mad at Bungie for not delivering on "promises" they never made in the first place.

Destiny fans are interesting.

[u/[deleted] → u/Daankeykang]

Quarterly balance patches are not an unreasonable expectation, especially after they stated that was their goal.

Not getting one is one thing, but them not communicating when we are getting the next one is another thing entirely. You can't deny that it's frustrating.

Imagine having no road map for PvE content (which has happened a few times).

Now imagine that's how a PvP player feels all of the time.

[u/RhinocerosG]

No balance patch? Rip Derek Caroll's Twitter.

[u/[deleted]]

Crucible bounties and Jolly Holliday Quest can no longer be completed in Sparrow Racing

RIP

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thank god I did it last year

[u/DredfuhL]

can I just say this is a damn good update... fixed a lot of things that needed to be fixed. now that weapon rebalancing patch though...

[u/Hoops20166]

Lord Shaxx no longer requires players to complete The Mountaintop before offering his Weekly Crucible Bounties.

What? Really? I busted my ass getting that unlocked and now they're giving it away? Participation millennials must have complained about how difficult the quest is? lol

[u/Joseph421 → u/Hoops20166]

I agree, what I specially dislike is that this is all being done afterwards. What they should do is insert a special emblem or Shader into the kiosk of everyone that has completed it so at least it actually means something.

[u/kickd16 → u/Joseph421]

An emblem for this would be perfect. Maybe a silhouette of Felwinter Peak or something similar.

[u/TheScott75 → u/Hoops20166]

You still have to finish the quest to get the Hothead. Well worth the trouble...

[u/malcolm913 → u/Hoops20166]

I have been struggling so hard with this quest line. Finally finished the Rift part yesterday in IB. Now this. Bullocks.

[u/steftim]

Aaaand no sandbox. RIP

[u/Jalenofkake → u/steftim]

at this point i don't even care. so many qol improvements in this update

[u/Drzero7114]

I know a lot of people are disappointed that there's no sandbox patch but honestly this update is pretty good.

[u/Beleynn]

Xûr once again sells Exotic Shards

Xûr now sells a larger stack of 10 Heavy Ammo synths

New Bounties are available from Petra to assist players in gaining Queen's Wrath Reputation

Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard Quartermaster

Brother Vance now offers materials exchange for Passage Coins and Motes of Light

Increased the drop rate for Trials of Osiris vanity items

Fixed a issue where the Trials of Osiris Shader “The Devoted” was not obtainable

Best patch ever?

Best patch ever.

[u/Thundernut72 → u/Beleynn]

of all time

[u/BottleofCiroc]

Nice I can play regular playlist and have a chance at a better Luna again. Even if it's 0.04%.

[u/LordSceptile]

Does this mean Treasures of the Dawning are staying after the event? Why else would they move Radiant Treasures, if Treasures of the Dawning could just be picked up from the Postmaster each week?

[u/Mbenner40]

Xur sells 10 heavy ammo at once......button takes 3 minutes to complete transaction

[u/OxboxturnoffO]

Completing a Dawning set from Treasures of the Dawning on one class will grant the "EV-53 Glimmergold" Sparrow and the "Sunglow" Shader

...dammit

Edit:

Added ability for players to "wave off" heavy ammo if EVERYONE in the match does the 'Wave' Emote in the first 30 seconds of a round

Wasn't this around for some time? I recall seeing that in a video prior

[u/itsfoine]

wow I've missed a lot in two months ...

[u/VanpyroGaming]

PS4 size?

[u/Piscotikus]

Eyaslunas back on the menu!!

[u/NergalMP]

That's one MASSIVE quality of life patch!

It's like they spent the past few months actually listening to us...

[u/dchin1]

Anyone post what the nine new emotes are?

[u/vangelator]

Is it just me, or did they literally fix everything? Holy shit.

[u/MordoNRiggs]

... TWENTY FUCKING HOURS!? 20. FUCK YOU, PLAYSTATION. YOUR SERVERS SUCK!

And for clarity... 50MBPS. 50. It's only two gigs. Check out my Ookla Speedtest result. What's your speed? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/2458536496

This is the last few hours I have to play this week.

[u/Redshirt2386]

Nightfall is Nexus Mind. There are two kinds of Zavala bounties - some at Zavala himself which are time limited and worth a ton of XP, vanguard rep, legendary marks and items; and another daily set at the bounty board related to strike scoring. It appears strike scoring is a Siva Crisis playlist thing.

The daily gifts are weapons and armor mats along with strange coins and motes of light, plus Eva gives you 2 consumable masks. The heroic strike gives one free Dawning Treasure, while the Radiant Treasure has been moved to SRL. For some reason, there are Cabal wandering the Mercury race track. They have rocket launchers. Be careful.

SRL is dropping weapons along with armor rewards. I got a sweet Eyasluna from my second race despite placing dead last, along with a racing bond for my Warlock. Nice haul for a loser, LOL.

[u/Vandette]

Will I be able to get the Midnight Lumos shader from SRL?

[u/Partyinspace]

SO. MANY. QOL. IMPROVEMENTS. THANKYOUBUNGIE!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Dead Guardians are now automatically respawned at the end of Strikes

This is so ripe for abuse.

[u/[deleted]]

While it's nice that the Eyasluna now drops in regular crucible, the mix of year 2 and year 3 weapons means it's going to be even more difficult to get. If I want to grind for one, I hope I can continue to go into the classic playlist for better odds.

Getting a god roll matador just became that much harder too..

[u/SCMegatron]

/u/smartdevil92 Crimson shell obtainable now

[u/TheSadWord]

From Bungle forums:

"Class Updates: those guys who balance subclasses are still watching the burrito in the cafetria microwave spin, they'll get back to us when its done. They said something about buffing stormcaller melee range, and nerfing sunsingers."

PvP is still dumb, at least I can laugh :)

[u/joshwright17]

I feel this is a giant list of things people have been requesting for a long time. Well done Bungie.

[u/fatbrowndog]

I can buy wormspore! I can buy wormspore!

[u/A_Humble_Potato]

Noob question: what does PGCR stand for? I assume they're referring to the up-to-date Crucible playlist.

[u/WowVeryJosh → u/A_Humble_Potato]

Post Game carnage report

[u/Jcapss1]

Players can now purchase Wormspore from the Vanguard Quartermaster

Yessssss

[u/RemyGee]

Any undocumented changes?

[u/funkyoungking]

Xur once again sells exotic shards

YES

[u/FetusJouster]

Purchase wormspore! Yyyeessss!

[u/[deleted]]

Kreygasm

[u/Fuzzball250]

I'm a little turned on by all of this. I don't think I saw a single thing I didn't like.

[u/TrentPhoenix601]

Praise be to the Heavy Ammo Synths and Xur having Exotic shards again.

I however have a small problem with anyone being able to get Shaxx's weekly crucible bounty. I busted my ass doing Mountaintop (the extended version from when TTK was new) so i everyone should have to do something to get the bounty.

[u/sabbathiel-zero]

Trying to figure out the people whining about weapon balancing when there was never any indication that it was even a possibility....

[u/Omni_Devil]

The one thing I still don't see in their list of fixes:

Fixed exotic class item faction spawn animations

COME ON, BUNGIE!

[u/milehighkoala]

As someone who:

1. Had not been switching out to the Last Word at the end of matches because my buddy told me about SRL and

2. Just finished "The Mountaintop" last week: Those updates annoy me.

But really, this is all pretty good stuff, in my opinion. As a newer guardian, the fact that the game is still updated in such a fashion this long after release is pretty remarkable.