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Storywise, Oryx has been defeated, and a new powerful Taken enemy called Malok is trying to claim his throne. Variks has also managed to imprison Taken in the Prison of Elders, because the writers don't even care anymore.
Winter's Run (Archon Priest) strike being updated, will appear in heroic strike playlist with new strike-exclusive gear, Archon Priest himself is Taken now
New max light level 335, new gear, shaders (including Taken shader) and emblems (including Prison of Elders II which drops from PoE challenge mode).
New questlines include "Return to the Prison", "At the Gates" which includes a new mission on the Dreadnaught called "Pretender to the Throne", and new PS exclusive Petra quest called "Fight Fire with Fire".
New strike called Blighted Chalice with a powerful Taken prince called Malok as the boss. The strike appears to take place in the Shrine of Oryx. Will presumably drop the Hood of Malok.
New level 41 (light 260) PoE with matchmaking, as well as level 42 (light 320) challenge arenas with no matchmaking. No more treasure rooms mean no more keys. Challenge mode has three rounds which feature some of the 8 bosses. Bosses shown off include the Overmind Minotaur with the ability to create detainment fields, a new boss called Syrok, who's a Taken Knight whose fire has a large AoE and lasts a long time, and the Pilot Servitor, who can now teleport and shoot spider mines. There is apparently over 16 variations possible for challenge mode, and they rotate weekly.
Variks sells a weekly scorecard similar to Trails. PoE grants points towards this scorecard, and the objective is to beat the high score (30,000) and the cumulative score (90,000). High score gives you new Queen's Wrath weapons (a new sniper called Her Fury was shown) at 335 attack, and cumulative score gives you 335 armour. There is a modifier on the scorecard each week which gives a way to get more bonus points (e.g. precision kills give more points).
Eververse is now in the Reef.
According to Bungie's summary, Heroic strikes, Nightfall strikes, Court of Oryx, Iron Banner, Trials of Osiris and King's Fall have all been updated in light level. King's Fall normal mode drops are now up to 320, while hard mode drops are up to 330. Court of Oryx can drop artefacts up to 335.
Rewards and progression will be detailed next week, and sandbox changes, the crucible and live updates will be detailed the week after that.
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Thanks man!
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Deej would be proud, good write up
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Also we don't need the treasure key anymore!
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Thank you...well written summary
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Im very happy with the update. Its free and theres more content? Why people are whinging is baffling me!
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Bump for complete relevance. Thanks
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Nice summary, thanks.
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Thank you.
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Where did they mention the normal mode drops?
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Thanks for the summary. :) Sounds like the lvl 42 POE and weekly score card are going to become the most important things in the game. One 335 weapon and one 335 armor piece a week per character if I'm understanding this correctly. POE is about to become more important than the raid. Also sounds like you can run lvl 41 POE as many times as you want, with drops up to 320 light. So we're looking longer limited by key shortages, which is nice. Let's hope IB, Nightfall, and heroic strike drops also increase in light.
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However, the raid will still be viable to get from 320-330. Because... Getting one peice of 335 armor + weapon after doing 9 rounds equaling around 90k points if you get 30 k points at the end of each set of 3.
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Nice synopsis thanks
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Wow! I haven't seen the video yet, but that PoE thing sounds AWESOME!
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Thank you good sir.
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A summary that's worth its on topic gg
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Well writen
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[quote]Variks has also managed to imprison Taken in the Prison of Elders, because the writers don't even care anymore.[/quote] Lmao!
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You the man bro thanks so much, question though how's the scorecard for pve work? Like after we complete challenge mode will we automatically get 335stuff?
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on the stream they got to the first point value and cashed one in for the weapon and it was a 335 sniper. That being said they were also 335 players but I would bet it is a 335 item for sure cause you can only get one of each a week. The points came from just getting it done in the prison of elders.. Kill stuff make orbs get assists etc. All points are across the team. They also have "bonus" things that get more points like the one they were working was precision kills gave bonus points so landing head shots. Looks like a nice straight forward system for us and if you know how to work in the prison of elders you should be just fine.
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We get weapons and armor. But the light level reward hasn't been confirmed. Gear and rewards are next week.