With a new weekly reset here and a new Contender’s Ascent quest, let’s take a look at what can be done in the Battlegrounds today. As a reminder, the Battlegrounds are: [b]Battlegrounds [/b]Behemoth - Nessus Hailstone - Europa Foothold - Cosmodrome Oracle - Nessus [b][u]Suggested Loadout[/u] [/b] Auto Rifle, Special Grenade Launcher, and a Sniper Rifle for your kinetic and energy weapon. Pick up a Rocket Launcher for your Power weapon. Make your weapons Arc and Solar. Be sure to defeat Powerful Enemies and get precision kills and Super multikills Defeating combatants in either of the Nessus battlegrounds completes the War Table’s Nessi-Centauri Front. This takes care of all of Banshee’s Calibrations for today, all of the War Table’s dailies, and Zavala’s One Shot, One Kill and From Downtown. If you’re looking for that extra bump in XP, be sure to grab both Banshee’s and the War Table’s Repeatable bounties. Going off of last season’s XP values, they should nab you around 3,000 XP each. Banshee’s Repeatables will also count towards his Weekly Gunsmith Bounty challenge. [b]Rewards[/b] - 60,000 XP - 8 Mod Components and 4 Enhancement Cores - Progress on Banshee’s Weekly Gunsmith Bounty Challenge - 10 Vanguard Tokens - Progress on Zavala’s Weekly Vanguard Bounty Challenge [b][u]Planetary Vendors[/u] [/b] Pick up all three of Failsafe’s dailies today (3/16). Defeat 50 enemies, get power weapon multikills, and get Arc kills. From Variks, grab his Vexing Shock daily which requires Vex kills with Arc damage. You can also grab his Repeatable bounties as some of them can be done in the Hailstone Battleground. Both Variks’ dailies and Repeatables count towards his Weekly Europa bounty challenge. From Shaw pick up his Full Spectrum weekly which requires Arc, Solar, and Void kills. Then get ability and Kinetic weapon kills for his Bring Your Toolbox and Bread and Butter dailies. Each Planetary daily should reward 6,000 XP and Planetary materials. [b]Seasonal Challenges[/b] - Contender’s Ascent parts 1-5 - Crash and Converge - Smash Tribute Chests and focus seasonal engrams - Lenses in Focus (Week 1) Participate in the Battlegrounds playlist to unlock your first lens - Intruder Alert (Week 4) - Don't allow opponents to interrupt Ghost in Battlegrounds missions. - Explosive Entrance (Week 4) - Defeat Champions and get grenade takedowns in Battlegrounds. - Cabal Contenders (Week 6) - Defeat Elite or Boss Cabal anywhere in Battlegrounds missions. [b]Other Challenges[/b] - The Bigger They Are (Week 2) Defeat Elite or Boss Cabal anywhere in the system. - Hail of Bullets (Week 1, Europa) Calibrate Kinetic weapons on Europa. Earn bonus progress in Lost Sectors. - Algorithmic Precision (Week 3, Nessus) Calibrate weapons with precision final blows on Nessus - Small-Caliber Contender (Week 6) - Defeat combatants using a Submachine Gun. Battlegrounds missions grant the most efficient progress Getting Stasis kills anywhere other than Europa will progress the Exo Stranger’s weekly challenge Battlegrounds will progress Hawthorne’s weekly Clan XP challenge Completing three battlegrounds in the playlist will complete the weekly Battleground challenge