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Soon (tee em).

Future of the Solstice Events

• Renamed from Solstice of Heroes to Solstice
• New armor set as usual
• No more armor objectives to upgrade armor
• Complete new Event Challenges to upgrade armor
• Unlock one set of armor, then chase new auto-completed rolls to get different stat rolls
• New activity in EAZ called Bonfire Bash
• Defend bonfires in easier to traverse version of the EAZ map
• More details this summer

Event Cards

General

• For all Events going forward, starting with Solstice
• Includes Event Challenges similar to Seasonal Challenges but for Events
• Events also getting Seals and Titles
• Event cards are free to play

Challanges

• Rewards for each challenge include shaders, emblems, gear, and Event Tickets
• All are accessible on day one of challenge

Seals & Titles

• There are seals for individual events, as well as multi-event seals
• Complete all challenges to unlock event seal and title
• Also unlocks a new set of challenges that earn you the Gilded Title
• Complete a certain number of challenges in all 4 yearly events to get the multi event seal (rotation is Solstice, Fesitval, Dawning, Gaurdian Games)
• Can also be guilded, but details to come

Event Card Rewards

• A collection of themed cosmetics for each event will be pulled away from Eververse and tied directly to Event Challenges instead (sorta)
• This requires the purchase of an upgraded event card for 1000 silver
• This unlocks an exotic emote, ghost shell, and shader instantly
• The rest (emote, 2 ghost holograms, exotic ship, and transmat FX) are unlocked through finishing the associated Event Challenges

Patch Note Preview

UI/UX

• Updated the Director navigation header to a new style to make it more scalable.
• Fixed a visual bug on the Title Screen when playing with a screen aspect ratio greater than 16:9.
• Fixed a logic bug that would sometimes show inaccurate informational text on the Bungie Name Change screen after a player had changed their name.
• Improved the consistency with which PlayStation and Xbox platform rosters update the online status of platform friends.

Dares of Eternity

• Increased Strange Coins earned from the reward chest in Dares of Eternity from 1 to 3.
• This does not affect the number of Strange Coins earned from Lightning Round chests.

Power and Progression

• Power Bands have been increased for the new Season:
• Power Floor: 1350 (unchanged)
• Soft Cap: 1510 (up from 1500)
• Powerful Cap: 1560 (up from 1550)
• Hard Cap: 1570 (up from 1560)
• The Character Power Boost has been increased to 1510 with the new Soft Cap.

Vault Space

• Vault space has been increased by 100 (was 500, is now 600).
• While we know this doesn't enable players to save every single piece of loot in the game, the team was able to pull some strings and get a little more space for your vaults as they continue to investigate future solutions.

Xur

• Xur's inventory should no longer be different if players manage to find him at destinations shortly after the weekly reset happens on Tuesday.
• He will still reappear with new gifts from the Nine when he returns at his regularly scheduled time on Friday.

Scorn

• Scorn sniper damage brought in line (reduced) with other combatant sniper weapons.
• Spread of projectiles increased to reduce instances of multiple projectiles hitting players.

Dungeon

General

• Launches Friday, May 27 at 10 AM Pacific
• Normal is 1550, Master unlocked day 1 but no power requirements revealed

Rewards

• New armor set with Artifice version in Master
• 4 new weapons
• 2 reprised weapons
• 1 exotic weapon and catalyst
• 1 exotic ship/sparrow
• 2 emblems

Trials

• Freelance and Zone Control both enabled
• New loot for it next season including Armor, Fusion, and Sidearm
• New Ghost and Sparrow too
• Pictures shown in TWAB