Destiny: The Beta Is Over

Last week, in the Bungie weekly update, Deej let us all know that Destiny 2.0 would be going live on the 8/9/15. Sadly that was U.S. time as the Patch won’t go live until 3am on the 9th September AEST. Also sadly we still don’t have the final patch notes making it a little bit difficult to report on……

So what to write about? Well let’s get you guys prepped for what’s coming early morning.

The first thing you guys need to know is this patch is a biggie. If you’re on current gen consoles then be prepared for an 18GB download. Make sure you have some free space available and set the console to auto download updates while it is in rest mode and it will there ready and waiting for you tomorrow morning. Also due to the size make sure you take into account any download limits you might have. For last gen console owners the patch is slightly smaller. Xbox 360 owners make sure you have at least 10gb free and PS3 owners you will need at least 20gb free to download, but it also will only take 10gb of space once it has been installed.

All this patching and data is to get ready for the Taken King on the 15^th. So even though you may not be able to access all the features in the patch it will make some significant changes which you will be able to access this week! Listed below is the info Deej chose to share with us last week.

Character 

• Character Level Cap for all players will be raised to 34
  • Level Cap for The Taken King will be 40
  • You will be able to level up by gaining XP alone
  • Character Level and Light are now separate statistics
  • Your Character Level will be grandfathered into your highest possible Light Level from all gear in your inventory and vault
• Attack and Defense ratings for armor and weapons will be translated to the new systems – their power levels will be unchanged
• Grimoire Score has been moved from the Character Nameplate and now displays in the Character Screen

Quests

• A Quest Screen will be added to your Menu
• Tracks all active Quests
• Abandoned Quests can be recovered in the Hall of Guardians
• Year One Activities have been converted to the Quest system

Bounties

• Bounty slots will be increased to 16
• Incomplete Year One Bounties will be auto-abandoned on 09/08 in preparation for launch of The Taken King
• Incomplete Year One Exotic Bounties are auto-completed with their respective Vendors
• Year One bounties issues by Eris will be retired
• Reputation with Crota’s Bane can continue to be earned by completing Quests in The Taken King 

Tower

• Collections have been added to the Tower
  • Emblems/Shaders can be found near Eva Lavante
  • Ships can be found near Amanda Holliday
• Exotic Armor and Weapon Blueprint added to the Tower 
  • You will now have the Blueprint for all Exotics you own in your Collection
  • Report to the Vanguard in the Hall of Guardians

Inventory

• Motes of Light will be used to grant XP to Weapons and Armor
• Class-specific Armor materials will be deprecated in favor of a unified Armor Material 
• Vanguard Quartermaster, Roni-9940, will exchange old materials for armor material  [Update: This change takes effect on 09/15] 

Weapons & Armor

• Revised Sandbox balance will be in effect, based on our previous analysis

World

• Fallen Wolf Hunt Patrols will retreat in anticipation of the arrival of Oryx in your solar system

Also you can expect all weapon balancing that has been promised over the last little while start to take effect. Sorry Thorn and Last Word users, your hand cannons won’t pack the same punch anymore. Speaking of weapon balancing and the crucible, starting this week we will be able to preview the two new game modes coming with The Taken King. Get yourself some Mayhem and Rift action in before the new subclasses come out and we are all complaining about them all being OP. Lord Shax is waiting: https://youtu.be/zTiCFIwW37Y

Finally, if you’re still trying to complete your Year One triumphs you have one last week to accomplish it. There are many community sites offering to Sherpa people through to get them completed, so get amongst the community and beat those challenges Guardian. You might find me running people through raids if you’re lucky, but until then I’ll be hanging out starside.