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• Trials community map vote: Rusted Lands, Convergence, and Disjunction.
• Strand updates for Season 21.
• Artist reference collection updates (heads up, cosplayers!).
• Community Artist Exotic Ornament winner: GGs Witherhoard players.
• Adopt-a-Pet bundle time!

• Guardian Games and Guardian Games Cup are live!
• Season of the Deep first look:
  
  • Key art and launch date/time reveal.
  • Details on our three new Strand Aspects.
  • Recapping big changes coming with abilities.
  • New Exotic armor focusing and stat roll details.
  • Upcoming economy and crafting updates.
  • A note on upcoming Season Passes.
  • Trials of Osiris updates
    • Sneak peek at new rewards and weapon changes.
    • Learnings from Trials Labs.
    • Updated Trials intro quest.
    • Changes to Passages of Wealth and Mercy.
    • Dominion as the new core mode.
    • Flawless gilding update.
    • New emblem reward.
    • Trials map voting results.
• New Prime Gaming gear.
  
• Getting our Oprah on (again) with more wallpaper.
  

One Class to Rule Them All, or to at Least Get Bragging Rights...

Rollin' in the Deep With a Season 21 First Look

We Couldn’t Strand Waiting Any Longer to Talk About Three New Aspects

Stasis, Strand, and Light Subclasses Get Their Glow-Ups for Season 21

• Tuning changes to Supers, including a nice buff to damage resistance and damage dealt in PvE.
• A class-by-class breakdown in Season 21 changes.
• What we’re doing to beef up Stasis.
• How subclass keywords are evolving for Arc and Solar players.

Economy Changes? In This Economy?! Wait...

• For the first time, we will not be increasing the power bands in Destiny 2 in Season 21.
  
  • Power Floor (1600), Soft Cap (1750), Powerful Cap (1800), and Pinnacle Caps (1810) will not change over the course of Season 21.
    • If players hit the Pinnacle Cap during Season 20, they will remain at the Pinnacle Cap in Season 21.Exotic Armor Focusing and Decryption

• Allows players to decrypt engrams for free.
• Players receive random drops from standard Exotic engram loot pools.
• No additional cost.

• Focus an engram to receive a random roll of an Exotic from the associated expansion.
  
  • Red War: Exotic Helms
  • Red War: Exotic Arms
  • Red War: Exotic Chests
  • Red War: Exotic Legs
  • Forsaken: Exotic Armor
  • Shadowkeep: Exotic Armor
  • Beyond Light: Exotic Armor
  • The Witch Queen: Exotic Armor
  • Lightfall: Exotic Armor focusing will be coming in a future Season!
• Requires ownership of the associated expansion as well as having previously acquired all armor pieces within the engram for your class.
  
• It will cost:
  
  • 1 Exotic engram.
  • 30,000 Glimmer.
  • 1 Ascendant Shard.

• Focus Specific Exotic Armor for high cost.
• Requires ownership of the associated expansion as well as having previously acquired that piece of armor.
• It has a higher cost:
  
  • 1 Exotic engram.
  • 60,000 Glimmer.
  • 3 Ascendant Shards.
  • 1 Exotic Cipher.

• Random world drops
• Season Pass paid and free tracks (6 paid, 2 free per Season)
• Vendor reputation tracks (one each reset after the first)

Deepsight Activation and Crafting Economy Changes

• To perform a Deepsight activation on a weapon, you will need a new Deepsight Harmonizer currency. Non-raid weapons will cost 1 Harmonizer, while raid weapons will require 15 Spoils of Conquest in addition to the 1 Harmonizer cost.
• This Deepsight Harmonizer currency can be obtained from Season pass rank rewards, 3 in the free ranks and another 3 in the paid. This will be the sole source of this currency for the initial rollout of the feature. Additionally, only one Harmonizer can be stored in the inventory at any time—this currency does not stack.
• Not all weapon instances will be compatible with Deepsight activation:
  
  • You will be prevented from activating Deepsight for a weapon that has already had its pattern unlocked.
  • Weapons that previously had Deepsight will be ineligible. You cannot activate Deepsight on a weapon instance which had originally been acquired with Deepsight, nor can you activate Deepsight multiple times on a single weapon instance.
  • Weapon instances purchased from raid vendors will be ineligible, however weapons purchased from Xûr and the Gunsmith will support Deepsight activation.

• Legendary Shard costs will be removed from all crafting components. Glimmer and Enhancement Core costs will remain untouched.
• Enhanced weapon costs are based on weapon Masterwork costs, and thus will still require Legendary Shards as we are not yet modifying the weapon Masterwork economy in Season 21. ##Quality-of-Life Updates That We Think You'll Enjoy

• All existing instances of Finest Matterweave can be Dismantled for 1 Enhancement Core each.
• All existing instances of Rainmaker can be dismantled for 3000 Glimmer.Vanguard Bounty Updates

• Killing elites, mini-bosses, and Champions.
• Kills with elemental abilities, with bonuses for killing with a subclass verb.
• Complete 2 Vanguard activities.

• Season Pass: 1,000 Silver -> 1,200 Silver
• Season Pass + 10 Ranks Bundle: 2,000 Silver -> 2,200 Silver

Trials: These Rewards Are Flawless and Weapon Changes on the Way

• The Inquisitor Shotgun
  
• Whistler’s Whim Bow
  

  Let's Talk About Labs

Trials of Osiris Intro Quest, Dominion, and More

• Step 1
  
  • Complete your Competitive placement matches (helps to get players introduced to 3v3 and revive game modes in an environment where they will be matched against similarly skilled opponents).
  • Get 50 kills in Competitive.
  • Raise your Power level.
• Step 2
  
  • Pick up a Trials Passage.
  • Play a game of Trials.
  • Win 1 round of Trials.
  • Get 1 elimination in Trials.
• Reward
  
• A roll of the Astral Horizon Trials Shotgun!Triages Passages
  

• Passage of Wealth
  
  • Previously granted increased reputation on wins 3, 5, and 7 on a card.
    • This is at odds with a system that wants you to continue playing on a 7-win card to get the most efficient progress and best rewards.
  • In Season 21, this passage will grant +75 Trials rep for every win, along with an additional bonus for your current major rank in Trials, up to +150 total.
    • This encourages players to stay on the same card and take advantage of the system granting more reputation for wins later in the card.
• Passage of Mercy
  
  • In Season 21, this passage will forgive 2 losses if you have not yet been Flawless for the week.
  • After going Flawless if you reset your card, it will revert to forgiving a single loss on each card.
  • This will give all players a better chance of going Flawless for the first time each week, and for those players who can go Flawless without using both Mercies, it will give them additional opportunities to play for extra rewards while their first card remains Flawless.Dominion

1. Offers a choice between playing Elimination and playing an objective.
   
   1. Offering an objective for players to focus on outside of kills can allow more types of players to contribute to winning.
2. On average, games are 15% faster than standard Elimination games.
   
   1. The prevailing strategy for most Elimination games has devolved over the years to focus on passive play, waiting on someone to make a mistake and get picked, or just simply waiting for the zone to come up at the end of the round anyways.
   2. By spawning the zone earlier, it creates pressure for players to engage and fight earlier in the round and puts extreme passivity at a disadvantage.
3. Objectives promote more varied engagements on the maps, as the zones direct players around the map and establish multiple defined fronts.
   
   1. Most engagements in standard Elimination happen at a single central location, generally centered around where the overtime zone will spawn.
   2. Having multiple zones allows for different permutations of rounds, based on team and zone spawn locations, which makes gameplay less static and pushes players to experience different engagement arenas on each map.
4. Promotes a healthier sandbox variety in both weapons and subclasses.
   
   1. On weekends where we run Dominion, we see less consolidation around the general strongest elements in the sandbox and success is spread out amongst more weapon and subclass types.
   2. We have been hesitant to balance parts of the sandbox around a game mode that only rotated into Trials on occasion, but moving to it as the core mode will allow us to better focus on its sandbox and address the outliers in effectiveness that do exist.
5. Provides us with more balancing levers to change the gameplay experience.
   
   1. If a map plays poorly in standard Elimination, there is little we can do to alter it.
   2. With Dominion, we have a larger number of levers we can use to modify how a map plays to provide the best and most balanced experience possible. For example, in Season 21 we will be changing the initial player and zone spawn locations on Burnout based on feedback from the first Season 20 Trials Lab.
      1. Teams will no longer spawn at Hall inside and East Yard outside, now both teams spawn between Tumbler and Yard on the East and West sides, and the zones will run down the center of the map at Middle Yard, Center, and Altar.
   3. Having multiple zones means we can make changes to maps more quickly to address concerns about flow or balance, allowing us to better manage asymmetrical maps.

• Get 180 kills.
• Collect 100 Rewards.
• Go Flawless with one of the Seasonal Exotic weapons equipped.
• Carry 2 players to Flawless.
• Win 7 games on a 7-win ticket.

• Get 500 kills.
• Earn 16 Trials ranks (reset Trials reputation once).
• Go Flawless and get 50 kills with one of the Seasonal Exotic weapons equipped.
  
  • You do not need to get 50 kills with the weapon itself, you just need to have it equipped while you get 50 kills.
• Skill of the One – While on a ticket with 0 losses with the Light for the Lost emblem equipped:
  
  • Win 20 games.
  • Acquire the following medals.
    • Double Kell (rapidly eliminate 2 opponents) – 10x.
    • Skull Breaker (deal the most total damage to opponents in a match) – 5x.
    • The Beginning (land the first elimination of a match) – 5x.
• Strength of the Many – While on a ticket with 0 losses with the Flawless Empyrean Emblem equipped:
  
  • Win 20 games.
  • Acquire the following medals.
    • Flight of the Pigeon (win a match in which your team never trailed) – 10x.
    • Paradoxically Perfect (as a team, win a round in which each player eliminates a different opponent, and no opponent is revived) – 10x.
    • Time Trials (as a team, win a round within 20 seconds) – 5x.

Yo, Dawg, Got Any More of Those Emblems?

Speaking of Trials...

• Disjunction 30%
• Convergence 29%
• Rusted Lands 41% ##Free Prime Gaming Gear? Free Prime Gaming Gear. Let’s Do This.

• Hit the Bag Exotic Emote
• Phalanx Exotic Ghost Shell
• Alton’s Ambus Legendary Sparrow
• Pumping Iron Legendary Ghost Holo Projection

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Player Support Report

• The node for normal Supremacy matchmaking is missing its description.
• Some Guardian Games quests are only progressing with Bronze medals, or medals from the recreational Vanguard Guardian Games playlist.
• Wish-Ender does not penetrate extended Phalanx or Hydra shields.
• In the Lake of Shadows Nightfall, wiping in the final boss room will cause some enemies and Champions in a previous room to respawn, blocking Platinum rewards.
• The Vexcalibur catalyst Triumph is not completing.
• Some gilded titles are no long