Detailed Notes About Destiny: The Taken King Patch

Destiny: The Taken King has finally been released and many are currently enjoying all the new things that have come with it. Of course this also made for a large patch as well. Bungie has now released a more detailed look at the latest patch and we’ve posted everything you need to know down below…

The Taken King

• Oryx and his army has arrived
• Meet them on Phobos, a moon of Mars
• Requires The Taken King and a minimum character level of 25

General

• Max Character Level Cap now increased to 40 (Requires The Taken King)
• New Vanguard and Crucible bounties are now available at your local Bounty Tracker
• Year One Moments of Triumph are now locked in history and cannot be progressed
• VIP ‘Founders Fortune’ rewards will be distributed in the Tower (Requires The Taken King)
• “Spark of Light” Level 25 Character Boost consumable is available at the Postmaster (Requires The Taken King)

Classes

• Subclass quests for new subclasses are now available after the completion of The Coming War story mission (Requires The Taken King)

Activities

Patrols

• Patrols now offer rewards once again

Daily Heroics

• Required Level: 40
• Requires The Taken King
• These missions will include selections from Year One and Year Two

Vanguard Strike Playlists

• Weekly Heroic Strike has been replaced by the Vanguard Heroic Strike Playlist
• There are now three Strike playlists:
  • Legacy Strike Playlist
    • Available to all players
    • Contains all Year One Strikes, including original Dust Palace and Undying Mind Strikes
  • Vanguard Strike Playlist
    • Requires The Taken King
    • Contains all new The Taken King Strikes, as well as 3 remixed Year One Strikes (Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae III)
  • Vanguard Heroic Strike Playlist:
    • Requires The Taken King
    • Contains all new The Taken King Strikes, as well as 3 remixed Year One Strikes (Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae III)
  • Heroic Strikes earn bonus rewards on weekly completion:
    • Legendary Engram (1 time per character)
    • +10 Legendary Marks (3 times per account)
  • Playing multiple Strikes without returning to orbit increases reward chances
  • All The Taken King and Updated Strikes now feature random encounter variation and may contain Taken combatants

Nightfall

• Required Level: 40
• Requires The Taken King
• Wiping in Darkness Zones no longer kicks player to orbit
• Resurrection timer is now a 30-second cooldown (must be resurrected by teammates)

Crucible

• Year Two Crucible is now in effect (Requires the Taken King):
  • Rift, Control, Clash, Skirmish, Salvage, Rumble, Elimination are now Year Two core playlists
    • When Trials of Osiris is active, Elimination will only be playable via Trials of Osiris playlist
  • Featured Daily and Weekly activities are now active
• Year One Core Playlists now contains Classic 6v6, Classic 3v3 and Classic FFA playlists

Tower

Cryptarch

• The Cryptarchs will now exchange Legendary Marks for Legendary Engrams
• Available engrams will be randomly selected by each Cryptarch every Tuesday
• Legendary Engrams no longer have a chance to produce simple Materials
• Rare Armor Engrams have a chance to produce Artifacts instead of Armor

Banshee

• Starting on Armsday (Wednesday), Banshee-44 will accept Orders for new Foundry Weapons to characters at Gunsmith Rank 1 or higher. Higher Ranks will allow placement of more orders per week

Speaker

• Legendary Armor has been added to the Speaker’s inventory

Shaxx

• PvP Quests are now provided to players (Required Level: 5)
• Shaxx now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Bounties, with Nightfall equivalent rewards for completing all five in a week

Arcite

• Arcite now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Weapon Bounties

Roni-9940

• The Vanguard Quartermaster will now exchange old Class Armor Materials for new unified Armor Materials

Queen’s Wrath

• Petra now has new bounties available in the reef upon completing a new quest
• These bounties will also drop a Treasure Key the first time one is completed each week

Crucible

• Year Two Crucible is now in effect (Requires the Taken King):
  • Rift, Control, Clash, Skirmish, Salvage, Rumble, Elimination are now Year Two core playlists
    • When Trials of Osiris is active, Elimination will only be playable via Trials of Osiris playlist
  • Featured Daily and Weekly activities are now active
• Year One Core Playlists now contains Classic 6v6, Classic 3v3 and Classic FFA playlists

Tower

Cryptarch

• The Cryptarchs will now exchange Legendary Marks for Legendary Engrams
• Available engrams will be randomly selected by each Cryptarch every Tuesday
• Legendary Engrams no longer have a chance to produce simple Materials
• Rare Armor Engrams have a chance to produce Artifacts instead of Armor

Banshee

• Starting on Armsday (Wednesday), Banshee-44 will accept Orders for new Foundry Weapons to characters at Gunsmith Rank 1 or higher. Higher Ranks will allow placement of more orders per week

Speaker

• Legendary Armor has been added to the Speaker’s inventory

Shaxx

• PvP Quests are now provided to players (Required Level: 5)
• Shaxx now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Bounties, with Nightfall equivalent rewards for completing all five in a week

Arcite

• Arcite now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Weapon Bounties

Roni-9940

• The Vanguard Quartermaster will now exchange old Class Armor Materials for new unified Armor Materials

Queen’s Wrath

• Petra now has new bounties available in the reef upon completing a new quest
• These bounties will also drop a Treasure Key the first time one is completed each week

Economy

• Vanguard and Crucible Marks deprecate and are converted to Commendations (at a rate of 50:1)
• Legendary Loot drop rates have been increased across all activities
• Legendary Marks are now earnable by completing Daily Story Chapters, Weekly Heroic Strikes, Daily PVP Activities, Weekly PVP Activities and Dismantling Year Two Legendary items
• Strike rewards now drop from bosses instead of in the PGCR
  • Except for Sepiks Prime, who has been known to cleverly fly above water to deny victorious Guardians their rightfully earned spoils
• Strikes reward tables now include items for all Armor and Weapon slots

Edit – Known Issues

• Strike Legacy playlists are currently not providing rewards
  • This is known issue and will be hotfixed as soon as possible