Players now are required to participate in the boss fights to be eligible for end-of-activity loot
I hope those Strike List AFKers have not read this bit
45% nerf to shotguns against AI combatants! F.F.S.
AI combatants, not guardians. That means getting captains and the like down quickly in PvE will be much harder.They were overpowered anyway. It's all about Necrochasm instead now by the sounds of it.
Destiny: The Taken King - The one with Oryx.
The Taken King
General
- 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
- 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
Daily Heroics
- Patrols now offer rewards once again
Vanguard Strike Playlists
- Required Level: 40
- Requires The Taken King
- These missions will include selections from Year One and Year Two
Nightfall
- Weekly Heroic Strike has been replaced by the Vanguard Heroic Strike Playlist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
Crucible
- 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)
Tower
- 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
Cryptarch
Banshee
- 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
Speaker
- 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
Shaxx
- Legendary Armor has been added to the Speaker's inventory
Arcite
- 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
Roni-9940
- Arcite now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Weapon Bounties
Queen’s Wrath
- The Vanguard Quartermaster will now exchange old Class Armor Materials for new unified Armor Materials
Economy
- 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
Edit - Known Issues
- 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
- Strike Legacy playlists are currently not providing rewards
- This is known issue and will be hotfixed as soon as possible
Bungie have acknowledged the issue and are working on it mate. Reddit post here on the issues:Latest patch seems to have brought some network issues for some people (me included). Players seem more sensitive to anyone the fireteam with a strict NAT and an increase in Beaver errors.
Also getting "removed from the game world" and kicked to orbit frequently.