Destiny players anxiously awaiting the Heroic Raid of Wrath of the Machine for the Rise of Iron expansion can now unleash their own fury, as the mode launches today at 5PM EST for PS4 and Xbox One players along with a new base game update that is now live. The light level equipment cap for the raid will be 400. Beyond that, players can anticipate some additional challenges from raid bosses, which will make a boss harder each week in exchange for some even better loot. The final 2 milestones in the record book have been revealed as well, one tasks players beating the Siege Machine in Heroic in under six minutes, and the other being simply completing the raid in heroic.
The other remaining node requires the player either complete Wrath of the Machine in Heroic.
The new update streamlines the expected loot rewards for players performing several of the game’s activities as well as raises the light level max to 400. If you’re not quite ready for the challenge of the Heroic Raid, you can use the following update guide to select the appropriate activities to climb the ladder up to 400. Corresponding with the release of Heroic Mode for Wrath of the Machine, your Maximum Light will be increased to 400. With this increase, many reward sources will also increase their maximum Light.
Activities with 400 Light Rewards:
- Strike Hoards
- Nightfall
- Exotic Engrams
- Trials of Osiris
- Crucible
- Iron Banner
Activities with 385 Light Rewards:
- Archon’s Forge
- Heroic SIVA Strike playlist
- Legendary Engrams
Activities with 365 Light Rewards:
- Rare Engrams
- SIVA Strike Playlist
The recommended Light for these activities will remain the same with the exception of Nightfall, which will be increased to a recommended light of 380. The aim of the revisions is to make it easy for players to find their way up the path to the raid.
Further changes coming in the update:
- Wrath of the Machine, Trials of Osiris, and Iron Banner will now attempt to reward higher Light on average, compared to your current Light.
- Artifacts and Ghosts have been added as Archon’s Forge completion rewards. These items will now drop up to 400 Light.
- In Faction Packages, the rate at which Ghosts are rewarded has been increased.
- The rate of artifacts from Eris’ Faction Packages have been increased.
- Horn Relays from Sparrow Racing League are no longer used to upgrade Rare Quality Horns
- These items can be discarded
- All players will receive 15 Silver Dust as compensation for this change to Horn Relays
- Fixed an issue where Rare Special Weapon Engrams would sometimes decrypt into Legendary Primary Weapons
- Gjallar Horn will no longer dismantle into a Horn Relay
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Fixed an issue where Agonarch Runes were not charging due to the same Taken Major spawning in the Dreadnaught Patrol
- Fixed an issue where the Consumed Ghost Shell did not properly display its spines
- Fixed an issue where Comitatus was not dropping properly from Faction Packages for players who own Kondratyuk’s Escape
- Fixed an issue where some players were not receiving SIVA Key Fragments from Raid bosses in Wrath of the Machine
- 1 SIVA Key Fragment will now drop from Normal Mode bosses
- 2 SIVA Key Fragments will now drop from Heroic Mode bosses
- SIVA Key Fragments will drop on each boss kill even if players have already completed the Raid that week
- Several items from 2015 events have been removed:
- Flimsy Masks
- Gifts of the Lost
- Fruit Motes, Glimmer Chew, Salty Engram, Sour Engram, Sugary Engram, Chocolate Strange Coins, Void Fizz
- Paper Scraps
- Crumpled Masks
- Rare Quality Sparrow Horns
- Paper Glue from Festival of the Lost 2015 now shards into 1 Silver Dust
- A new Holiday Collection is now available to allow you to reclaim your Festival of the Lost Masks
- The Sparrow Collection will now allow you to reclaim your Legendary Sparrow Horns
- Crucible Emblems have been split into two new categories: Crucible and Trials of Osiris
- The Shaders Iris Germanica, Mercurial Dawn, Surfbreaker, Nebula Glow, Sulfur Burnish, and Electric Aquarius can now be used and seen in the Shader Collection by all three Classes
- Fixed issue in which two instances of Apotheosis Veil Helmet would appear in the Exotic Armor Collection
- Inferno Elimination is now available in Private Matches
- Fixed an issue where Changing Subclasses in Orbit for a PvP activity would reset Melee and Grenade charges
- Fixed an issue where players were able to get under the stairs on the Drifter map
- Fixed an issue where the Iron Banner Support Bounty was not awarding 5 points for Allies Defended
- The Lighthouse on Mercury is now a social space that can accommodate up to 9 players with a Flawless Trials Passage
- Fixed an issue where uncommon Warlock Bonds were being sent to the Postmaster for recovery
- Reputation Boosters can now be purchased for Silver Dust as well as Silver
- Fixed an issue where the Trespasser did not require an Exotic Shard to Infuse
- All changes to increase Light above 385 will take effect upon the release of Heroic Mode for Wrath of the Machine
- The SIVA Strike Playlist will now drop rewards up to 365 Light
- The Heroic SIVA Strike Playlist will now drop rewards up to 385 Light
- Archon’s Forge can now drop rewards up to 385 Light
- Archon’s Forge can now drop Ghosts and Artifacts up to 400 Light
- Trials of Osiris, Iron Banner, Crucible, and Strike Hoards will now provide drops up to 400 Light
- Wrath of the Machine, Trials of Osiris, and Iron Banner will now attempt to reward higher Light items on average
- Vanguard, Crucible, and Faction packages will now provide drops up to 390 Light
- Increased chance of Artifacts from Crota’s Bane Reputation Packages
- Increased chance of Ghosts from New Monarchy, Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, Vanguard, and Crucible Reputation Packages
Engrams
- Rare Engrams will now decrypt up to 365 Light
- Legendary Engrams will now decrypt up to 385 Light
- Exotic Engrams will now decrypt up to 400 Light
- Fixed an issue that caused Firefly to activate many, many more times than intended causing a crash
- The following Exotic Armor no longer require Rise of Iron and can be acquired through Exotic Engrams:
- Astrocyte Verse (Warlock Helm)
- Ophidium Aspect (Warlock Gauntlets)
- Thagomizers (Titan Gauntlets)
- Adjusted the Rapid Cooldown perk on the Fr0st-EE5 Hunter Exotic Legs to no longer interfere with the base cooldown provided by stats
- Fixed an issue with the Roster previews for the following Emblems:
- Memories of Iron
- Shield of the City
- Eververse sections for Emotes now displayed as Emotes I and Emotes II
- Fixed an issue where the Taken War Heroic Strikes Playlist tooltip incorrectly displayed +10 Legendary Marks as a reward
- Fixed an issue where the Weekly Heroic Strike node was not updating with the Weekly Reset
- Fixed an issue where the Heroic SIVA Crisis Playlist was not counting towards the “Take a Strike” Record in the Rise of Iron Record Book
Can you dig it? It’s time to grab the update and get that last bit of light level up before attempting a world first. Attacking the hard raid? Feel free to share any images and clips of your struggles and successes, and let us know what you think of the light level ladder in the comments!
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