Here is everything gameinformer posted summed up in my own words to save you the read *Video link from YouTube user: Destiny Follower, now added to further summarize this post. New gameinformer just dropped. SOOOOOOOO much new stuff revealed its ridiculous the hype is -blam!-in real! Shit ton of new ghosts added in this dlc, obviously all different colors and looks, they ALL have roles/abilities, 1 ghost could give you a stat boost like intellect or discipline, & another could have a detector on it to show you where the nearest spin metal or relic iron are. New daily bounties that are hand picked & no longer repetitive (no more vehicle kills when there isn't a vehicle playlist) Banshee; the gunsmith, in the tower will now be a faction. He will have his own bounties that will give you rental weapons to test and get kills with in order to complete these bounties. Ranking up will grant you unique legendary items you can't get anywhere else, as well as missions to collect gun pieces to make legendaries you can keep. Xur will now sell an item that boosts your exotic drop chance on your next boss kill. YOU READ IT RIGHT. A WAY TO INCREASE YOUR EXOTIC DROP RATE. Random encounters will now be added to strikes, so each time you do it there could be a turret set here & taken in the corner of the room, & next time you do it the turrets in a different spot & it's fallen instead of cabal etc. New strikes now have raid-style mechanics to make bosses less spongy, like 1 player having to hold an item at all times just to be able to damage the boss & switch it between characters. Strikes now have dialogue switch ups. Say if you do a hive strike it says something about the hive & why you're killing them right? Do the strike again & the dialogue will be different so more chances to get to know the lore! A ton of new bounties each day, class specific bounties, fireteam bounties that challenge you TRIALS OF OSIRIS BOUNTIES. & weekly bounties that come with awesome rewards New shader kiosk in tower (more kiosks will probably be added for different things) but it's a kiosk that shows all the shaders in the game & how to obtain them, shows you the ones that you've obtained, & if there's any shader that you've gotten before and deleted it'll let you retrieve another INSTANTLY (maybe even for free too) Legendary marks will replace crucible and vanguard marks for a more simplified experience. All your armor upgrade materials, sapphire wire, hadronic essence & plasteel plating are now being converted into armor pieces that can be used across all characters for your armor upgrades (which I think is kinda dumb but oh well). When TTK drops you will be able to go to the speaker to convert them if you wish. Vanguard legacy strike playlist will be vanilla destiny strikes & strikes from the past 2 dlc. Vanguard ursa is a random heroic strike playlist that grants you legendary marks and legendary engrams & vanguard marmoset is strictly ttk strikes. Each nightfalls modifiers will now be hand chosen and no longer randomly generated & like with poe, staying inactive long enough in any strike will now teleport you to the front lines with your team mates. Ghost shells & weapons are also tied to your light level now. It was hinted that some older weapons could be upgraded into newer ones like the strangers rifle/ eidolon ally-nechrochasm kinda deal You will now have the option to choose which weapon you want to showcase on your character when you are in social spaces. So if you want that Gjallarhorn on your back to make fun of other guardians who don't have it? So be it. And on our quest to unlock our supers after its obtained they spawn waves of enemies on us & give us insanely fast super recharge to help us feel bad ass as well as give us experience with it and get a feel for our newly found subclasses. Edit: #1 it was also said there's 50 weapon pieces scattered throughout the dreadnought. I could be wrong but with the way things were worded, this is NOT the way to obtain the sleeper stimulant. So maybe we're looking at an even more powerful exotic? Anyway there's plenty of raid style obstacles & secrets awaiting us on our hunt/exploration of the dreadnought & we're only dwelling closer towards TTK's arrival guardians. Also for those of you wanting to read the 5 page article in all of its entirety, here is the link. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/08/12/new-details-revealed-in-our-exclusive-destiny-the-taken-king-hands-on-impressions.aspx When I say I summed this up I really mean it. Got most of the key points every guardian would want to hear.