Some ramblings and guides about the Destiny franchise.
We’re in the home stretch of season 9 now, and with today’s reset come a few new additions to shake things up a little. From catch-up mechanisms for those starting late to a new community-wide event, from a new boss in the Sundial to an easy way to grind weapon rolls, it makes for a much more interesting climax than the Undying Mind.
So what’s changed since last week?
Continue reading “Season of Dawn: Navigating the season’s climax event”
On Tuesday, patch 2.7.1 was released for Destiny 2. While it had the unintended side effect of severely messing with players’ inventories, to the extent of Bungie performing their first-ever character rollback, an intended change was the removal of access to the Corridors of Time, the puzzle event that started on January 14th and was solved a few days later. Any player who didn’t run through it for the emblem and lore book before Tuesday sadly missed out.
However, a glitch has been discovered that enables players to access the Corridors again, provided you have at least one character that hasn’t rescued Saint-14 yet. The glitch is pretty simple, and you can use it to get both the emblem and the complete Pigeon and the Phoenix lore book.
Continue reading “Quick Tip: How to get into the Corridors of Time, post-patch”
Bungie has released details on the next community event to come to Destiny 2: the Empyrean Foundation. Similar to the Mars community event last summer, the Empyrean Foundation will see the entire playerbase coming together in pursuit of a common goal.
The event starts on February 4th, but there are a few things you can do now to prepare.
Continue reading “Season of Dawn: How to prepare for the Empyrean Foundation event”
Well we’re a bit over halfway through the season, so much of this is probably late (I swear, by season 10 I should have a good rhythm down), but for those who are coming in late, I figure it can be useful to go over how to get started with the season’s content. And considering the Corridors of Time will be disappearing in a couple days, and you need to complete these quests to access it, a brief guide on how to get these done should probably help!
This post will talk about where to go to get started, the intro questlines, how to rescue Saint-14 and what you can do for him afterwards, and the mechanics of the Obelisks and the Sundial seasonal activity.
Continue reading “Season of Dawn intro: Questlines, Obelisks, and the Sundial”
Welcome to the first post in a series I’m calling New Light 101, a beginner’s guide to Destiny 2. One common point of criticism after Destiny 2 went free-to-play is that the game really doesn’t give you much guidance once you complete the introductory quest, throwing you into a big ecosystem with very little to tell you what you should be doing next. It’s my hope that this series will help.
This post will start with the basics: what is Destiny, how do you get it, and where should you start? It’ll also go into the content available for free, what you can unlock through purchases, and a variety of helpful resources.
Continue reading “New Light 101: What is Destiny, and how do I start?”
Well that was fast. Less than a day after my previous post, and the Corridors of Time have been solved! Now we know the result: the puzzle enabled us to begin the quest for Bastion, the first kinetic fusion rifle, a week early. The questline is relatively short and shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to complete.
But before we get to that, I’ve got a community-related topic to discuss.
Continue reading “Corridors of Time solved! How to obtain the exotic fusion rifle Bastion”
I’m a bit late on my posts on the Season of Dawn intro (swear I’ll get around to it yet), but considering this is a current event, I figure I’ll help do my part in signal boosting.
With the Tuesday reset, Bungie has added what could possibly be the largest puzzle in Destiny history. Bigger than finding the Wall of Wishes codes, bigger than Niobe Labs, even bigger than Outbreak Prime. But this isn’t a puzzle that one person can solve alone. This is 100% a community effort, and you can help too.
So what’s this puzzle all about?
Continue reading “The Corridors of Time: How to help solve the biggest Destiny puzzle yet”
A chill is in the air as winter returns to Destiny, and with it comes the Dawning, the winter seasonal holiday event. Running from December 17th through January 14th, the Dawning offers up four weeks of baking, snowball fights, and plenty of gifts to go around.
Much of the event should be familiar to anyone who played last year, but there are a couple of new additions, new Triumphs, and new rewards. If you missed out last year, most of what you missed has made a return, so you’ve got plenty of opportunity to get caught up.
Put on your warmest armor and equip your Solar subclasses (to stay toasty, of course), and let’s dive into this winter wonderland!
Continue reading “Give the gift of carnage: The Dawning 2019 guide”
Season of Dawn is in full swing now, and while I’m working on a post about the beginning of this season’s content, this is a short post to talk about a helpful new feature that Bungie debuted just the other day.
In your haste to get everything done before the end of the season, you might have forgotten to claim all of your Season Pass rewards. Perhaps it slipped your mind to pick up your Phenotype Plasticity ornaments on all of your characters, or maybe you thought you’d claimed all the resource rewards but you missed one three pages back.
Never fear, Bungie’s got you covered with a new feature on the website and companion app. The Season Progress page lets you view all rewards from current and past seasons, but more importantly, it also lets you claim any rewards you’ve earned but haven’t picked up!
Continue reading “Quick Tip: Claim rewards you forgot from Season of the Undying”
The first season of the Shadowkeep expansion is now in its tail end. The Vex invasion of the Moon has been fought back, and the final offensive is nigh.
But there’s still time to finish collecting the rewards for the season! Thus, here’s a guide to the seasonal activities, quests, and Triumphs, including some tips on grinding them out faster!
Continue reading “Season of the Undying Overview: Triumphs, Collections, and more”
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