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This weekend Xur can be found at the Reef in the open door on the lower level. As always, he will be here until 2:00 am PST on 8/2. His inventory this week includes the following:
(click the links for full stats) Exotic Weapon - SUROS Regime (Auto Rifle) - 23 Strange Coins
Strikes Weekly Heroic Winters Run - The Darkness gathers as the Fallen prepare the return of one of their Archon Priests - Heroic: Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive. - Juggler: No ammo drops for your equipped weapon. Weekly Nightfall The Shadow Thief - Board the Fallen Ketch Above the Moon and defeat the notorious Taniks, the Scarred. - Nightfall: If all players die, you Fireteam is returned to Orbit. - Epic: Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers. - Arc Burn: Arc Damage from any source is greatly increased. - Juggler: No ammo drops for your equipped weapon. - Brawler: Guardian Melee Damage is greatly increased.
Prison of Elders Level 32 Broken Legion - Valus Trau'ug seeks to prove his might by crushing all who challenge him.
Level 34
Urrox's Grudge - The Flame Prince Urrox vows to burn the Light until all that remains is Darkness and bone.
Queen's Bounties Wanted: Grayor, Wolf Assassin
Hunt Grayor, Wolf Assassin in the Cosmodrome's Mothyards. "Skolas was but one of many claimants to the kellship after the Scatter. Grayor and his brothers thinned that herd." - Petra Wanted: Veliniks, the Ravenous
Hunt Veliniks, the Ravenous in the Hellmouth on the Moon. "After Skolas's capture at the Cybele Uprising, Veliniks named himself the new Kell. Didn't work out great for him." - Petra
Wanted: Skoriks, Archon-Slayer
Hunt Skoriks, Archon-Slayer on the Moon. This rabid wolf seems to be trying to join the House of Exile. The Queen doesn't like loose ends." - Petra
Wanted: Repeater Shanks
Hunt Wanted Repeater Shanks in the N/GEN Branch on Venus. "We're tracking some Repeater Shanks on Venus. Don't let them fall into the House of Winter's hands." - Petra
Wanted: Queenbreaker Captain Hunt the Wanted Queenbreaker Captain near the Cosmodrome's Dock-13. "A faithless Queenbreaker Captain has fled to Earth. Show him the Queen's justice." - Petra
Wanted: Tracer Shanks
Hunt Wanted Tracer Shanks in the Cosmodrome's Breach. "Some of the Wolves' Tracer Shanks are causing problems. Scrap them and you'll be paid." - Petra
Crucible Playlists Trials of Osiris Map will be revealed on Friday at 10 AM PST.
This weekend Xur can be found in the Tower at the large door near the Speaker. As always, he will be here until 2:00 am PST on 7/26. His inventory this week includes the following:
(click the links for full stats) Exotic Weapon - Patience and Time(Sniper)- 17 Strange Coins
Hello Guardians! The arrival of The Taken King is getting closer and closer. We're finding about more and more info about it and the 2.0 patch every week. It will be here sooner than we know it, and if you're a veteran player hoping to get your special emblem, make sure you complete all the required tasks soon! Here's this week's activities:
Strikes Weekly Heroic Winters Run - The Darkness gathers as the Fallen prepare the return of one of their Archon Priests.
- Heroic: Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive. - Void Burn: Void Damage from any source is greatly increased.
Weekly Nightfall The Will of Crota - Omnigul, the mastermind of Crota's armies, nests in the Cosmodrome. Eliminate this horror and purge its spawn. - Epic: Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers. - Nightfall: If all players die, you Fireteam is returned to Orbit. - Solar Burn: Solar Damage from any source is greatly increased. - Void Burn: Void Damage from any source is greatly increased. - Arc Burn: Arc Damage from any source is greatly increased. Prison of Elders Level 32 Cult of the Worm - Gulrot, Unclean has been summoned by the Worm Keepers. Don't let the beast's filth spread beyond the prison.
Level 34 Broken Legion - Valus Trau'ug seeks to prove his might by crushing all who challenge him.
Queen's Bounties Wanted: Kaliks-12
Hunt Kaliks-12 in the Cosmodrome's Skywatch. "Kaliks-12 was High Servitor of Skriviks' Ketch. It was captured during the Cybele Uprising with its mistress" - Petra Wanted: Peekis, the Disavowed Hunt Peekis the Disavowed in the Citadel on Venus. "Peekis's arms were docked after the Eos clash. He's been desperate to prove himself ever since." - Petra Wanted: Saviks, Queenbreaker
Hunt Saviks, Queenbreaker in the Anchor of Light on the Moon. "Saviks was the first to pledge fealty after the Cybele Uprising... and first to break his pledge when Skolas returned." - Petra
Wanted: Twisted Claws
Hunt the Twisted Claws in The World's Grave on the moon. "The Twisted Claws run plunder missions for the Wolves. Track them down. You'll be paid well for the risk." - Petra Wanted: Ether Runner
Hunt the Wanted Ether Tunner near the Endless Steps on Venus. "An Ether Runner Servitor has been spotted on Venus feeding the Wanted Wolves. Find it. Destroy it." - Petra
Wanted: Wolf Enforcer
Hunt the Wanted Wolf Enforcer near the Blast in the Cosmodrome. "A Fallen Wolf Enforcer is shooting at Guardian's patrolling the Cosmodrome. Find him. Take him out." - Petra
Crucible Playlists Trials of Osiris This week, the Trials map is on rotation. Possible maps include Black Shield, Burning Shrine, Pantheon, The Cauldron, Thieves' Den, and Windows. Happy hunting!
This weekend Xur can be found in the Tower on the balcony past the Speaker. As always, he will be here until 2:00 am PST on 7/19. His inventory this week includes the following:
(click the links for full stats) Exotic Weapon NO WEAPON!!!
Due to a glitch, Xur does not have an Exotic weapon for sale this week. Bungie has announced that they cannot safely fix the glitch at this time and that Xur should be back to normal next weekend. Exotic Armor - Helm of Inmost Light (Titan Helmet) - Celestial Nighthawk** (Hunter Helmet) - 13 Strange Coins - Sunbreakers (Warlock Gauntlets)- 13 Strange Coins
* Indicates Dark Below Expansion items. ** Indicates House of Wolves Expansion items. Other Exotic Items - Exotic Shard - 7 Strange Coins - Exotic Engram (Helmet) - 23 Motes of Light
Earlier today on Bungie.net, DeeJ has hired a new Community Manager. The man accepting this position is well known in the Destiny Community as Cozmo, who many probably know from the Destiny Reddit. Cozmo is a veteran of the Bungie Community, having been part of it since the days of Halo and sporting a fairly impressive eight-year long membership on the Bungie website. DeeJ remarked in a thread on the Bungie Forums that Cozmo is "better at the game, which will be a welcome change." DeeJ commented on how big and overwhelming the Destiny community is and how difficult it can be for him and urk to successfully manage it when they frequently get pulled behind the scenes to help inform us on future content updates. DeeJ admitted than when it comes to recognizing important feedback from the community that they "barely scratch the surface." This has been a frequent complaint within the Community, as many people argue that Bungie has done a less than adequate job since Destiny's launch in regards to listening and responding to Community feedback and concerns.
Cozmo, along with DeeJ (who is not being replaced) and urk now make up the team responsible for listening and engaging with the Community. Adding another member to the Community Management team is already a welcome change. It seems like a reassuring sign that Bungie is still committed to listening to the Community and attempting to improve the gameplay experience in ways that we would like.
DeeJ and Cozmo will be working as a team and DeeJ is already teasing that they have some "new plans" for keeping us entertained. It'll be interesting to see what they have in store!
Check back on Friday for the Trails of Osiris map!
Here's this week's activities:
Strikes Weekly Heroic
Cerberus Vae III - Confront Valus Ta'aurc, Fleet Commander of the Cabal Siege Dancers, before he destroys all of Freehold. - Heroic: Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive. - Grounded: Players take more damage while airborne.
Weekly Nightfall The Nexus - Pierce the Vex labyrinth and defeat the mind responsible for the transformation of Venus. - Nightfall: If all players die, you Fireteam is returned to Orbit. - Epic: Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers. - Angry: Minions of the Darkness won't flinch, even after massive damage. - Brawler: Guardian Melee Damage is greatly increased. - Grounded: Players take more damage while airborne. Prison of Elders Level 32 Machine Wrath - Archon Servants have raised their own corrupted Servitor-god, Kaliks Reborn. Defeat it and be rewarded.
Level 34 Cult of the Worm - Gulrot, Unclean has been summoned by the Worm Keepers. Don't let the beast's filth spread beyond the prison.
Queen's Bounties Wanted: Drevis, Wolf Baroness
Hunt Drevis, Wolf Baroness near the Cosmodrome's Forgotten Shore. "Drevis led a strike of Silent Fang in the Raze of Amethyst, an attack which killed my sisters. Show her no mercy." - Petra
Wanted: Mecher Orbiks-11
Hunt Mecher Orbiks-11 near the Ishtar Cliffs on Venus. "They say the Orbiks Servitors once served a long-lost Fallen House. Let's make them stay lost." - Petra
Wanted: Skoriks, Archon-Slayer
Hunt Skoriks, Archon-Slayer on the Moon. This rabid wolf seems to be trying to join the House of Exile. The Queen doesn't like loose ends." - Petra Wanted: Ether Runner
Hunt the Wanted Ether Tunner near the Endless Steps on Venus. "An Ether Runner Servitor has been spotted on Venus feeding the Wanted Wolves. Find it. Destroy it." - Petra
Wanted: Wolf Enforcer
Hunt the Wanted Wolf Enforcer near the Blast in the Cosmodrome. "A Fallen Wolf Enforcer is shooting at Guardian's patrolling the Cosmodrome. Find him. Take him out." - Petra
Wanted: Silent Fang
Hunt the Silent Fang in the Cosmodrome's Grottos. "Some of Skolas's Silent Fang are riling the Hive on Earth. I'd say let the Hive have them, but we need to be sure." - Petra Crucible Playlists Trials of Osiris Map will be revealed on Friday at 10 AM PST.
This weekend Xur can be found at the Tower in the lounge in the HANGAR. As always, he will be here until 2:00 am PST on 7/12. His inventory this week includes the following: (click the links for full stats) Exotic Weapon - Plan C(Fusion Rifle) - 17 Strange Coins
Hello everyone, and happy Bungie Day! DeeJ just announced through the Bungie website all of the festivities for Bungie Day. There's quite a few things to talk about, so I'll just get right to it. There's an art contest, for those of who are are artistically inclined. The theme is to answer the question, "what has been your favorite thing about the first year of Destiny?"You have until July 23rd to submit your entry, which can be either picture or video and must be hosted at a place like YouTube or imgur. The top 50 entries will receive a Blacksmith shader, and the top seven entries will receive a Collectors Edition of The Taken King! Get creating, Guardians! Now, for everyone, regardless of artistic (in)ability, we have a chance of earning this new emblem to celebrate our Year One accomplishments in Destiny:
Of course, since this Emblem is meant to highlight your accomplishments, there are certain things that you have to complete.
There's ten things, most of which you have probably achieved by now, but here is the list (starting from the top and going clockwise):
For those of you who have already completed all of these, congratulations, you're done! For those who haven't, don't worry. Everyone has until September 9th to complete these Moments of Triumph. To check your progress, visit your Moments of Triumph on your Bungie profile. Everyone who completes these by September 9th will be rewarded when The Taken King arrives. In other news, there's also some new profile pictures available on Bungie.net, and there's a new feature called The Armory which has complete stats and breakdowns for all the weapons in Destiny. Happy Bungie Day!
Hello Bungie Day, guardians! Along with the usual handful of things that come with the weekly reset, today just so happens to be Bungie Day. What does that mean? Well, earlier today Bungie announced that you can earn a special emblem for your accomplishments in Destiny. Check out this post to learn more!
This post has been updated with the Trials of Osiris map for 7/10-7/13. Scroll down to the bottom. Here's this week's activities:
Strikes Weekly Heroic Devils' Lair - The Darkness gathers around Sepiks Prime as it absorbs the essence of everything the Fallen can steal. - Heroic: Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive.
- Solar Burn: Solar Damage from any source is greatly increased.
Weekly Nightfall The Shadow Thief - Board the Fallen Ketch Above the Moon and defeat the notorious Taniks, the Scarred. - Epic: Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers. - Nightfall: If all players die, you Fireteam is returned to Orbit. - Arc Burn: Arc Damage from any source is greatly increased.- Specialist: Special Weapon damage is favored. - Lightswitch: Minions of the Darkness deal much more melee damage.
Prison of Elders Level 32 The Forever Eater - Qodron, a Vex chronovore, sees only one outcome: your demise. Prove it wrong.
Level 34
Machine Wrath - Archon Servants have raised their own corrupted Servitor-god, Kaliks Reborn. Defeat it and be rewarded. Queen's Bounties Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane
Hunt Pirsis, Pallas-Bane in the Cosmodrome's Divide. "Skolas's most dreaded vessel led the Siege of Pallas, killed Paladin Imogen Rife with her own hand." - Petra Wanted: Beltrik, the Veiled
Hunt Beltrik, the Veiled in Ember Caves on Venus. "When Paladin Abra Zire heard of Beltrik's escape, she was angry enough to destroy an asteroid. Another one." - Petra Wanted: Weksis, the Meek
Hunt Weksis, the Meek near Archer's Line on the Moon. "Yeah, the "Meek" bit? That's a joke. This Dregled a brutal charge during the Siege of Pallas." - Petra Wanted: Wolf Scavengers
Hunt the Wanted Wolf Scavengers in the Halls of Wisdom on the Moon. "A group of Wolf Scavengers were spotted making runs into Hive territory. Don't care what they're up to. Put them down." - Petra
Wanted: Twisted Claws
Hunt the Twisted Claws in The World's Grave on the moon. "The Twisted Claws run plunder missions for the Wolves. Track them down. You'll be paid well for the risk." - Petra
Wanted: Howling Raiders
Hunt the Howling Raiders in the Hall of Whispers on Venus. "Skolas has sent some of his best thieves into the Archive. Don't let them leave alive." - Petra Crucible Playlists Trials of Osiris Map: Widows Court
This weekend Xur can be found in the Tower to the right just after entering the Hangar. As always, he will be here until 2:00 am PST on 7/5. His inventory this week includes the following: (click the links for full stats) Exotic Weapon - Universal Remote (Shotgun (Primary)) - 17 Strange Coins
Evening, Guardians! DeeJ just posted the Bungie Weekly Update a short time ago, which is probably the most interesting BWU in quite some time now. This week DeeJ explains that in the coming weeks we will be finding out a lot more information about The Taken King. While nothing specific is revealed or discussed this week, the Update does mention some basic information about TTK, including what the Expansion comes with in terms of content, but it's more of a tease than anything! Most of the stuff that DeeJ lists as being in the Expansion is fairly obvious and and self explanatory, like "New Exotics" or "New weapons." There are, however, a few things that stood out to me that I think are worth talking about, so let's get right to it! "New story missions and an array of sidequests..." As we've known for a while now, The Taken King is supposed to be the largest Destiny expansion yet. It's been rumored to contain more content than both The Dark Below and House of Wolves expansions combined (which isn't too hard to imagine!) and some even speculate that it's amount of content will rival that of the original Destiny game. The mention of sidequests is particularly interesting, and I think it gives a fairly good insight into how large this expansion will actually be. Since the main story missions will probably be greater in number than the story missions for HoW, I think it's safe to assume that TTK will ship with at least six story missions. The idea of having side quests in addition to this is awesome, in no small part because it means that TTK shouldn't become stale and repetitive quite as fast as the previous expansions have. "The Dreadnaught, a full new destination, with unique secrets, rituals and treasures to uncover." The Dreadnaught, essentially Oryx's floating palace, will be Destiny's first completely new destination since Launch. It's apparently pretty large and is the setting for several story missions, at least one Strike, and the new Raid. But what are these "unique secrets, rituals and treasures?" My guess is that the rituals that DeeJ hints at could very likely be a new Public Event (or two or three). That makes sense, right? As for the treasures, its possible that there will be another set of Golden Chests to discover, but it's entirely possible that this is something completely different. The "unique secrets" that we will uncover is fairly generic, and could be literally anything, so I'm not going to speculate on that for now. "A new breed of enemy combatants, The Taken, armed with new abilities and weapons" We saw pieces of this before, but since this is basically confirmation, I thought it was worth discussing. The Taken are not simply reskins of existing enemies. They may look similar to existing enemies in the Destiny universe, but the Taken are designed to function like an entirely new enemy faction. The new weapons and abilities will make fighting a Taken Acolyte distinctly different from a regular Acolyte, and that is pretty exciting in my book!
"New subclasses with all new Supers and abilities" There's nothing hinted at here that we didn't already know. However, I think it's worth taking a look at my previous post about these new supers. Some more information has been leaked, so I'll be updating it to make it even more comprehensive in the coming days. "New cooperative Strikes with unique and dynamic new Boss battles" Some where, some time ago, I believe it was on NeoGaf, a Bungie employee commented that in the future, Boss battles in Strikes would become more dynamic and interesting. In the few short clips that have been released of the new Boss battles, they do appear to be decidedly more interesting. One that stood out in particular was a large Cabal with a jet pack, who was fairly mobile around the encounter space and even very aggressive. It may be a bit early to be saying this, but with this small hint from DeeJ, I think spongey and stationary Boss battles might be a thing of the past. "Redesigned and Reimagined Strikes..." It was previously hinted at before that a handful of Destiny's existing strikes would be receiving a few tweaks and modifications with the arrival of TTK. In the Weekly Update, DeeJ confirmed that the Cerberus Vae III, Dust Palace, and Undying Mind Strikes will "now overrun by Taken." This is something interesting, as there are two ways I could see this playing out. The first is to simply replace the existing strikes with the newly modified versions. The second option, and in my opinion the more likely route, is to have two versions of these three Strikes, one in the original state, and one in the modified state. This would allow for easy addition of new content since they could have the original versions and their original level, and the new version at a presumably higher level. These new versions of the Strikes will likely make an attempt to fix some of the issues with the original versions. This probably means more dynamic Boss battles, and possibly better encounters all throughout the Strikes. On a side note, since it was also mentioned that we will be receiving "new" Strikes, it is likely that these reskins aren't the only Strike related content we will see in TTK.
"The biggest six-player Raid yet" It's no secret that the Destiny Community as a whole was fairly disappointed with the absence of a Raid in House of Wolves. It's even less of a secret that many people were disappointed with Crota's End. It's nice to know that this new Raid will be the biggest one yet, as one of the things that was disappointing about CE was it's relative shortness. Since Bungie has had plenty of time to work on this Raid, I have pretty high expectations for it, but I'm sure that the Raid will live up to them and probably even surpass them. Since Luke Smith keeps dropping plenty of references to the secrets of the Vault of Glass, I'm willing to bet that this new Raid will have it's fair share of secrets and hidden surprises.
"New narrative driven by cinematic cutscenes starring an engaging cast of characters" This was my favorite tease from the entire Update. The few cutscenes that were included with HoW were so nice, but having cutscenes that actually drive the story that TTK is trying to tell will be even better. Cutscenes are one thing that has been sorely missing from Destiny, even from the beginning. With the Halo games, the cutscenes made the story. They added so much weight, perspective, and most importantly, exposition to the story, that it made Halo's story, well, an actual story. The story of HoW was an improvement on the "story" for the original game and TDB. But, if Bungie combines cutscenes with the voice over elements used in the the HoW missions and a few other elements already in use in Destiny, then I think the story of TTK will be significantly better than any "story" that has been told in Destiny thus far. To hear that not only are there actual cutscenes, but that they drive the narrative, is great. It really makes me excited for TTK at a time when I was starting to get bored with Destiny's lack of immersive storytelling. The tease of "engaging characters" is also a breathe of fresh air, since most of the existing custcenes only feature our Guardian and maybe one other character. Bungie Day DeeJ also teased about what will be going down on Bungie Day, which is this Tuesday. Year One players of Destiny will be excited to hear that Bungie will be announcing how veteran players can "achieve permanent, exclusive legendary status." DeeJ says that it's something they've "been working on for a while," so hopefully it's good! But, there's nothing more beyond that, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what it is! That's all for this analysis of the Bungie Weekly Update. Be sure to check out the official Update for a visit from the DOC and to check out the Movie of the Week! Check back at 2AM PST (or whenever you get up!) for Xur's complete inventory and location. Also don't forget to follow @DestCentralBlog on Twitter for tweets and updates!
