The latest expansion for Destiny, called Rise of Iron, has been released and this means there is a new patch for Destiny. With new patches comes new patch notes, so let’s dig into those right now.
Destiny 1.28 Update Patch Notes
There’s a lot of changes coming in this update.
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
Phew, that’s a lot of changes coming to Destiny. So what do you think? Are you excited to start playing Rise of Iron? What didn’t get changed in the patch that you want to see get changed in the future? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
