Destiny Update Today is a Hot Fix, Brings Improvements to Nightfall Rewards

Update:

Confirming that it’s a hot fix, Bungie fully detailed Destiny update 2.0.1.2:

Classes

Nightstalker Hunter

Temporarily removed the extra shots from Quiver to avoid unlimited Shadowshots

This is a temporary fix, and the node will be restored in a fixed state in an upcoming patch

Activities

Daily Heroic Story

Removed deprecated Quest requirements from “Siege of the Warmind”

Removed deprecated Quest requirements from “The Wakening”

Weekly Nightfall Strike

Increased the base level of Nightfall Legendary rewards by 10 Attack/Defense

Increased the chance of Legendary rewards by 10% (from 50% to 60%)

Increased the number of Strange Coins or Three of Coins awards

Ghosts have been added to the Legendary reward loot table

Legendary Engrams no longer drop from Nightfall Strike boss kills: They will continue to drop their unique Legendary items

Removed Antiquated Runes from the loot tables

King’s Fall

King’s Fall Hard Mode will be available at 10am PT on 10/23

Recommended Light is 310

King’s Fall Hard Mode has the following changes: King’s Fall Hard Mode rewards will drop up to 320 Light; Oryx in Hard Mode will guarantee a Raid item drop each week, without requiring Moldering Shards; Oryx in Normal mode will still require Moldering Shards; Moldering Shards can drop in King’s Fall Hard Mode, but only if a character hasn’t cleared King’s Fall Normal for the week

Crucible

Weekly Crucible Bounty

Increased base level of Weekly Crucible Bounty Legendary rewards by 10 Attack

Increased number of Strange Coins awarded

Ghosts have been added to the Legendary reward loot table

Original Story:

At 10am PT/1pm ET, Bungie will be releasing a new Destiny update on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 that will require you to login again after returning to orbit.

“Pardon our dust! We are pushing a patch live today,” Bungie says on their website. “Players will be required to log in to Destiny again after returning to the title screen to install the patch. You should not be removed from any activities you are currently in.”

If you’re playing Destiny on PS4, system software 3.10 went live today, meaning you’ll have to wait until that download is finished before accessing the game.

We’re still waiting for full patch notes from Bungie, but we do know it will improve the underwhelming Nightfall Rewards:

Improvements to Nightfall rewards are coming [this] morning. To benefit this week, don’t play it until the patch deploys at around 10AM.

Judging from a recent tweet by Bungie, today’s update will just be a hot fix, rather than a full-blown patch.

With the King’s Fall Raid: Hard Mode going live later this week, Bungie posted a lengthy support page for people who played through the weekly events multiple times and stopped receiving rewards.

[Source: Bungie (1), (2), Bungie Twitter (1), (2)]

9 Things You May Have Overlooked in Destiny The Taken KIng

9 Things You May Have Overlooked in Destiny: The Taken King

You may not play Destiny a lot. You also may not follow everything online about the game. Fortunately, we're showing you some fundamental things about the game's latest expansion that you may have overlooked to help you get the most out of it.
1) Court of Oryx

In the middle of the Dreadnaught there's a massive platform with a portal on it which can be accessed through patrols. This is the Court of Oryx. Spending time here will drop a ton of engrams and allow you to level up quite rapidly.

Players will use runes to spawn enemies and gain rewards for killing them. Even if you don't have runes of your own, you'll get periodic rewards as others use theirs. A couple of hours here can easily upgrade your light significantly, and it's a lot of fun to grab some friends run the Court.
2) Motes of Light

If you played a lot of Year One Destiny, and had a ton of old materials sitting around (yup, those ascendant and radiant materials), you'll have access to a ton of Motes of Light.

The materials can be turned in to The Speaker in exchange for Motes of Light, and leveling up beyond 40 will get you Motes as well.

What are they good for? Hold square in your menu while over them and you will gain experience for any weapons and armor that need experience. Got a sweet new sniper that you want to max out quickly before you run the raid? Use Motes. It's a little trick that can really save time. You can also use Motes of Light to quickly level up your chosen faction reputation.
3) Three of Coins

When Xur makes his appearance for the weekend, you can check here at PlayStation LifeStyle for his location and inventory. Even if there's nothing for you, it's worth it to pick up a few Three of Coins. He sells five for seven Strange Coins.

Using the Three of Coins increases the drop rate of exotics from Ultras (boss enemies). The buff goes away after each boss, whether an exotic drops or not, but there's good news! It stacks if you don't get an exotic, so chances are increased each time.

If you make sure that you use a Three of Coins anytime you don't have the buff active, regular play will see a number of exotics dropping for you.
4) Class Specific Strike Armor

The Taken King has some unique new strike bosses, and your Guardians can wear armor modeled after each of them. By playing the heroic strike playlist, there's a higher chance that you can get legendary armor pieces for each class that match some of the bosses.

These armor pieces will drop according to your light level though, so if you want them in the endgame, you'll want to run this with a high light level.
5) Regular Bounties

Bounties have gotten much easier to accomplish, both in requirements and with being able to turn them in directly from your menu. Turning in bounties will often get you Motes of Light, Strange Coins, and engrams, so it's well worth picking up each days bounties before you head out to fight the darkness for the day. It's a simple one, but something many Guardians overlook.
6a) Crucible Questline/Weekly Shaxx Bounties

There's a very long and arduous questline that requires a lot of playing in the Crucible. If you're up for it, completing the full line of quests once (which again, can be frustrating and time consuming) will unlock Shaxx's weekly Crucible bounties. These bounties are far easier to complete than some of the requirements for the questline to unlock these. Go through each of these five bounties...
6b) Weekly Shaxx Bounties

...to complete the final Shaxx bounty for the week. Turning this in from your menu will reward you with endgame gear, such as...
6c) Endgame Gear

...this exotic sniper rifle that dropped for me on my first completion of Shaxx's weekly bounties. While this one gun wasn't worth the pain of the entire questline, having these bounties unlocked for endgame rewards each week going forward will definitely be worth the controller crushing madness I endured.
7a) Gunsmith Rank/Test Weapons

If you head over to Banshee-44, the gunsmith, you can pick up some test weapons every week. These weapons will have specific requirements like using it to kill Hive, or getting kills in the Crucible with it. Once you complete the "research," you can dismantle the weapon as the reputation has already been sent to your gunsmith rank. There's a very good reason for ranking him up...
7b) Gunsmith Rank/Class Specific Weapons

As you level up the gunsmith rank, you will unlock small questlines to get class specific legendary and exotic weapons.

You read me right. An auto rifle and shotgun specifically for a Titan. A sniper rifle just for Hunters. These are great weapons with some special perks that make them work great with each class, so they are well worth getting your rank up for.
8) Exotic Gear Questlines

If you see a questline with a yellow background and a sword in the middle, these are the quests you'll need to complete for specific exotics. Rather than having exotics be random drops, Bungie has created an environment where we can work specifically towards certain exotic items.

Keep in mind that these quests aren't the easiest to do (they are exotics after all), and you may want to have some friends willing to help with some of the missions.
9) Infusion

Want to increase your light level, but your highest level weapon is the hand cannon with a massive reload time? Are your exotic items lower than some of your other unused gear? Infusion is the answer!

Any piece of gear with an attack/defense value can be infused. Hit triangle on any item you want to level up and go to where my cursor is in the image. You can then use any higher level gear from that same slot to infuse into the lower level gear, which will raise it's attack/defense value. You no longer need to leave your favorite legendaries and exotics behind when new, more powerful gear comes up. Now you can specifically increase the level of the gear you want to use.