Rise of Iron Ultra Thread

Rise of Iron Ultra Thread Sept 21, 2016 16:14:32 GMT

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Previous Rise of Iron Mega Post (Pre-Rise of Iron)

Update 2.40 w/Unannounced Changes

How to Guides

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

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

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

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

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

Destiny 2 Fireteam