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Season 17 - Season of the Lord
IRON BANNER
-6 weapons added: 4 brand new, and 2 re-issued
-New Solar Breech Loader Grenade Launcher
-New Stasis Rapid-Fire Fusion Rifle
-New Solar Rapid Fire Drum Loaded Grenade Launcher
-New Void Precision Auto Rifle
-Returning: Frostmire’s Hex (Rapid-Fire Arc Scout Rifle)
-Returning: Allied Demand (Adaptive Void Sidearm)
-Crow will act as the new Iron Banner vendor
-Iron Banner reputation will be earned at a slightly faster rate than crucible and gambit rep
-The vendor changes will mirror the new changes the to the Drifter
-Focusing engrams will be expensive but help guarantee players the loot they desire
-Blue drops have been eliminated from post game rewards, similar to the treatment the playlists got with Witch Queen
-Armor focusing will be available and will function similar to the drops from the final encounter in Pit of Heresy
-New guildable seal called Iron Lord. The difficulty to acquire is similar to conqueror/flawless
-There will be a rotating daily flame (arc/solar/void/stasis - visible in the courtyard). During each “flame”, players using the corresponding subclass will see an increase charge rate and damage output for their abilities
-Without going into too much detail, fun modifiers will be added to make the game feel like a more fast-paced, but still challenging, version of the normal crucible
-Eververse will celebrate the Iron Banner rework by selling old Iron Banner ornaments and other new Iron Banner cosmetics for silver
STORY
-The plaguelands return to the cosmodrome as originally planned (1 landing zone, 1 lost sector, 4 bubbles)
- Season focuses on Lord Saladin (now Bracus Forge)
- Saladin appoints Crow (he is the “Lord”) to run the Iron Banner and watch over the Iron Temple. With Saladin gone, a rogue band of SIVA splicers seeks to take back the plaguelands. After pushing back the waves of splicers and recovering the ancient warmind node, with the help of Ana Bray, the Warmind is reassembled.
-Reprised Strike: The Wretched Eye
-New 6 player activity–Iron Siege. Defend the Iron Temple from waves of splicers. Had legendary and master difficulty.
-New Dungeon: The Golden Age–An ancient warmind signal is discovered deep in the plaguelands. A powerful vandal Braviks stumbles across an old Warmind cache and seeks to use its power–2 boss fights, 1 puzzle encounter, 1 major platforming section
RITUALS
-Zavala and Shaxx to get the Drifter treatment in s18
-Crucible weapon: Kinetic Aggressive Shotgun
-Vanguard Ops: Veist Lightweight Arc Submachine Gun
-Gambit: Void Waveframe Grenade Launcher

SOLAR 3.0
-Burn, Explode, Heal, Empower, Radiate
–Radiate–heals the user and nearby allies very slowly over time, gives increased weapon reload speed for the duration of the effect, and your super charger more quickly
Warlock
Supers
-Well of Radiance (T5)-No longer grants an overshield (overshields are reserved for void)
-Daybreak (T1)-air move: changed while holding crouch you plummet straight down (similar to current bottom tree dawnblade)
Melees
-Celestial Fire-impact damage decreased but now causes enemies to burn
-Guiding Flame-empower duration extended from 6 to 10 seconds
Aspects
-Heat Rises-activating heat rises allows the user to Radiate for the duration of the effect
-Benevolent Dawn-I didn’t notice any changes
-Divine Protection-no longer gives an overshield
-Icarus Dash-I didn’t notice any changes
Hunter
Supers
-Golden Gun(T3)-Hitting 3 consecutive headshots now gives a 4th shot
-Blade Barrage(T4)-Defeated enemies now explode. PVE damage doubled.
Melees
-Weighted Knife-Precision kills now grant radiate
-Knife Trick-Decreased Cooldown
Aspects
-Explosive Knives-Knives stick to walls and explode when enemies are in proximity
-Practice Makes Perfect-Now grants Radiate
-Knife Party (new)-Kills with Throwing Knives cause enemies to Explode
-Combat Medic-Burn Damage heals you
Titan
Supers
-Burning Maul(T3)-Consecutive hits on the same target now increase super damage
Hammer of Sol(T2)-Hammers explode by default now
Melee
-Mortar Blast-Causes enemies to explode and burn
-Throwing Hammer-unchanged
Aspects
-Sunspots. Defeating targets with any solar ability, burn, or explode creates a sunspot at their feet. Standing inside a sunspot empowers you and causes your abilities to recharge faster.
-Tempered Metal (reworked slightly)-Solar ability kills cause nearby allies to Radiate
-Roaring Flames-Unchanged
-Rage of Vulcan-when targets explode, they cause nearby enemies to burn
Fragments
Cast of Destruction-Grenade kills cause enemies to explode
Cast of Everflame-Increased duration of heal, empower, and radiate effects
Cast of Radiance-Casting your super grants Radiate
Cast of Play-Your melee causes enemies to burn
Cast of -Fire-Your burn and lingering grenade effects last longer
-many more that I have yet to see
SANDBOX
-hesitant to touch void 3.0 until it’s been out for a season
-the team is looking to address fusion rifles and hand cannons in the crucible
-heavy grenade launchers are not in a good spot. They are a hybrid damage and ad clear weapon but they don’t fit that role
-also considering a nerf to gjallarhorn as it is very hot but wanted to wait a few months
-looking into ways to bring up underused archetypes in pve such as sidearms and auto rifles
SOLSTICE OF HEROES
-looks like it will be in the EAZ again, no significant changes. Armor appears to be more vibrant this year.
OTHER
-New pvp map is called “Symposium” and is set in the throne world (the light part)
-Season pass exotic appears to be a SIVA infused solar scout rifle.


Season 18–Season of The Lies
-Originally planned to bring back Wrath of the Machine with the plaguelands but there were problems, instead King’s Fall returns in s18
-Saint-14 and Mithrax reveal their massive project. Using the corpse of Quria, they reconstruct the events leading to Savathun’s rise to power. The season revolves around trying to understand the lies Savathun spoke. Major characters include Mithrax, Saint -14, Crow, Rasputin. The season concludes with Immaru attempting to revive Savathun but he is killed by Crow.
ARC 3.0
Verbs–Disorient, Electrify, Chain, Reflect, Quickness
-Hunter’s Middle tree Arc deflect will be rolled into the normal Arc Staff and hunters will get a -new super “Rod of the Tempest”
-Warlocks will lean heavily into Chaining, Hunters Disorienting, and Titans Electrifying
-power fantasy goal for arc is for it to feel delicate, but when used properly it can have devastating effects

Season 19 - Season of the Prophecy
Development for this season has just begun, so not many specific details are known
-The Leviathan as well as Mercury, Io, and Titan re-appear in the system after defeating Immaru (the planets still remain vaulted). The Guardian boards the Leviathan in the first mission of the season in order to strike a deal with Calus. The rest of the season revolves around preparing for the Witness with the help of Calus.
-At the conclusion of the season, a cutscene will show the Witness entering the system and killing Calus for betraying him, before turning his attention to Earth and the rest of Sol.
-A live event will show the black fleet bombarding the traveler as the servers go offline.
-New Dungeon: Chiaroscuro–new Throne World dungeon. With the Death of Immaru, the Throne World begins to collapse. In Chiaroscuro, the guardian is able to sever the link to Savathun and stabilize the Throne World.

Lightfall:
Tentative Release Date - 21st February 2023
-Planning to develop a legendary campaign even bigger and even better than Witch Queen. The aim is for at least 2 more missions than Witch Queen.
-The goal of the campaign is to pay tribute to the original Destiny 2 campaign. We go from planet to planet, gathering our losses before eventually assaulting the Earth where the Witness has captured the Traveler.
-New weapon archetype
-Lightfall raid appears to take place inside of a traveler (maybe not THE traveler?)
-Guided Games will finally be out of beta (gone) and replaced with an LFG system. Joe is a huge proponent of this and as the new director he has made big strides to getting an LFG system into the game
-EDZ and Nessus will be vaulted this year after the team found issues late in development last year. It is undecided if the dreaming city will enter the vault, discussion is still happening. The team has plans to vault Luna with the Final Shape.
The Final Shape
-From what I can gather, The Final shape is the goal of the sword logic, the Witness, and his Black Fleet.