Time To Get DENSE
Nightfall: Valus Ta'aurc (Rockets McDickface)
- Epic - Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers.
- Nightfall - If all players die, your Fireteam is returned Orbit.
- Arc Burn - Arc Damage from any source is greatly increased.
- Brawler - Guardian melee damage is greatly increased.
- Solar Burn - Solar Damage from any source is greatly increased.
Weekly Heroic: Tanniks the Scarred
- Heroic - Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive.
- Angry - Minions of the Darkness won't flinch, even after massive damage.
- Strike bosses in TTK will be more dynamic and less in the way of bullet sponges. The Shield Brothers strike features two bosses who tag in and out, each with a different combat style. When one falls, the other gains its powers.
- All strikes will feature rotating enemy, turret, and ammo locations to increase replay-ability.
- New strikes will feature less cover. It will be much harder to cheese these strikes!
- A new heavy weapon type, the Sword, was featured. Swords both deal elemental damage and can block damage of other element types. Very useful in boss fights!
- Strikes drop unique loot based on the bosses. Ex. a Shield Brothers themed piece of gear.
- There will be a new type of planetary material on the Dreadnaught, Wormspore. Perks on ghost shells and armor can now highlight planetary materials with waypoints for easy collection.
- There have been 3 confirmed sword heavy weapons so far, one arc, one void, and one solar. The solar sword is an exotic known as Raze-Lighter, with the special ability of a second more powerful swing type called Phoenix Uppercut.
- Taken enemies can now appear on any planet in patrol, and will appear frequently in the Dreadnaught. Small events can occur where named Taken are summoned, and special rewards can be gained from defeating them.
- One of these such rewards are runes. Runes can be used to summon bosses in the new Court of Oryx public event system. These bosses come in three tiers and feature unique systems that must be understood to defeat them. Tier 3 bosses are said to be near raid-level and drop appropriate loot for such difficulty.
- Nightfall strikes will no longer send you to orbit after a wipe.
- Players will now have a 30 second wait between dying and being able to be revived.
- Weekly Heroic Strikes are gone, being replaced by a Weekly Heroic Strike playlist.
- There are two other playlists: Vanguard Legacy, which features all of the Year 1 strikes, and Vanguard Marmoset, which features the new strikes with TTK.
There has been quite a lot of footage captured from TTK by players who got a chance to try out the expansion. The first link is heavy with spoilers, so you have been warned!
First Story Mission
TTK Gear
Endgame Information
The Taken King Achievements
Finally, the TTK update that includes the weapon update the the new ghost will be launching on September 8th, 1 week prior to TTK itself. That’s all for Destiny news this week! With the streams officially finished and the weapon update about to drop it's only a short time until The Taken King is upon us!