Destiny Update 2.2.0 Is Live, Here's the Patch Notes

The big patch that adds new quests, new gear, and much more, Destiny update 2.2.0 is now available to download on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360, weighing in at the following sizes: PS4 – 1.71GB, PS3 – 1.04GB, Xbox One – 1.74GB, and Xbox 360 – 793MB.

Bungie says, “Pardon our dust! We are pushing a patch live today. Players will be returned to the title screen from their activities and then be required to log in to Destiny again after installing the patch.”

You can check out the full list of patch notes over on Bungie’s website, with highlights of the biggest changes below:

Light

Legendary and Exotic drops from many sources now attempt to drop with Attack or Defense greater than your current character light level

The following activities and items have been adjusted to include 335 Light items:

Prison of Elders Passage Challenge Ticket

Crucible Weekly

Court of Oryx Tier 3 Artifacts

Trials of Osiris

Iron Banner

Unique Items from the Vanguard Heroic Strike Playlist

Exotic Engrams

King’s Fall Heroic

The following activities and items have been adjusted to include 330 Light items:

Weekly Nightfall Strike

Faction Packages

Trials Bounties

The following activities and items have these changes:

King’s Fall Normal will drop up to 320 Light items

Prison of Elders Level 41 drops up to 320 Light items

Legendary Engrams max Light increased to 310

Rare Engrams max Light increased to 310

Rare Items (dropped from remaining activities) max Light increased to 310

Infusion will now grant 100% of the Light from the infused item

Activities

Prison of Elders

New! Prison of Elders Challenge Activity: Challenge of the Elders (Recommended Light 320)

Elder’s Sigil Passage Tickets can be picked up directly from Variks

Prison of Elders Weekly Bounties have been added and can be picked up from Variks

New! Added Level 41 Prison of Elders playlist (Recommended Light 260)

Prison of Elders now has a Level 41 difficulty available, this version has a chance at having Taken enemies

Combatants within the Prison of Elders will now provide credit towards applicable Vanguard bounty requirements

Keys are no longer required to open the Prison of Elders chest

Keys can now be used directly from inventory to provide House of Judgement faction reputation

Variks’ inventory has been updated

Tokens of Flight, Identity, and Judgement are no longer needed to purchase items

Tokens can still be used directly from player’s inventory to provide House of Judgement faction reputation

Armor & Weapon Cores are no longer needed to purchase items and can now be used directly from player’s inventory to provide House of Judgement faction

Strikes

Added the following Strikes:

New! “Blighted Chalice” strike is now available in the normal & heroic strike playlists

The “Winter’s Run” strike now has a Taken variant available in the normal & heroic strike playlists

Reputation gains have been increased for completing Strikes

Classes

General

The player’s Resurrection mechanic has been adjusted:

Reduced the radius of Resurrection interaction prompt to 1.5 meters (was 2 meters)

Increased the base time to Resurrect by 0.25 seconds

Overshield has been adjusted so that it takes precision damage modifiers (previously it did not)

Reduced Resurrection time bonuses from exotic armor (Crest of Alpha Lupi, Light Beyond Nemesis) to 30% (was 40%)

Added additional frames of invincibility at the end of the Resurrection animation to make the handoff from locked state to movement more consistent

Players can now highlight (R-Stick Click) player ghosts, allowing a user to inspect & target emotes at a downed player’s ghost

Items

General

An additional page of Vault Space has been added to all accounts, bringing the capacity counts up to 108 weapon, 108 armor, and 72 miscellaneous slots

Mystery Bags can now be previewed before opening to look at the list of potential contents

Year 1 ships have been added to the Crucible & Vanguard Reputation rank up packages

Reputation Buffs have been added to Vanguard, Crucible, and House of Judgement Reputation rank up packages

Abandoned Quest Kiosk has been added to the Reef

12 new Eververse Emotes have been updated to new Spring 2016 Season (northern hemisphere)

Winter Season Emotes have been moved into a Winter 2015 Emote Mystery Bag

Fixed an issue in which Crimson Days ghosts could not be previewed

Fixed an issue in which Raid ghosts could not be previewed

UI

Players can now adjust their HUD transparency level from the Settings menu

Roster UI now sorts friends who are signed into a character above players who have not selected a character yet

A new Destiny expansion is expected later this year, with Destiny 2 out in 2017.

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

Essential Reading:

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.