Alright, alright, alright! The Season of the Drifter is here. While there is a lot to unpack, my goal with the weekly articles is to keep them short and concise with links to more detailed information should you want to take a deeper dive into any particular topic.

Let's lock and load!

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Leading up to the new Season, Bungie has been releasing some fascinating lore over at Bungie.net regarding the Drifter. I did a spit take reading the Murder of Cayde-6...

Here's the links:

Narrative Preview - Gambit Prime

Narrative Preview - The Reckoning

Narrative Preview - Praxic Order

Narrative Preview - The Murder of Cayde-6

Narrative Preview - The Job

Gambit Prime: "Choose a specific combat role and build a new armor set with perks that will change the game. With only one round to choose the winner, teamwork will be king."

Here's a graphic to help you choose your role:

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The Reckoning "Winning a round of Gambit Prime is just the beginning. The Drifter has a whole new extension of the Destiny endgame. Take your rewards and risk them in a new challenge that belongs to the Nine. Confront swarms of enemies to unlock greater rewards that you can take with you into battle."

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Catch-up Mechanic For those that may have been less active during the Black Armory and have fallen behind regarding power level, don't fret, the Drifter will be offering "Power Surge Bounties" that reward 640 gear to help you get caught up fast. (Looking at you RD)

For all the other additional information regarding activities and gear check out the Season of the Drifter page here

For full and lengthy patch notes click here

Here’s your reset activities for the week of March 5th - March 12th

The Dreaming City

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Map from https://lowlidev.com.au/destiny/

Flashpoint: Titan

Participate in public events, lost sectors, and heroic adventures to complete the weekly Flashpoint milestone and claim your powerful gear.

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Crucible

Powerful gear is rewarded each week for your 1st and 5th match completions. Weekly playlist: Mayhem

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NightFall: Choose your own Adventure

Here's the 3 Nightfalls and possible strike specific loot

Black Armory Powerful Frames

  • Sniper
  • Sword
  • Auto Rifle

Escalation Protocol

This week's boss is Naksud, the Famine dropping the IKELOS Sniper, SMG, and Shotgun

Level 3 and 5 completions include chests for regular gear with a drop chance for the sparrow, ghost, and ship. Level 7 completions include EP shaders and a weapon chance which drops as an engram from the boss as well as a chest for EP armor which requires a decrypted cache key to open

For more detailed information on Escalation Protocol click here to visit Bungie's help page

Heroic Playlist

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Raids

You can now find the Leviathan Raids by clicking Nessus in the director. There is conflicting information from different APIs regarding the Leviathan raid and the director no longer says what the challenge mode is. The API has been wonky since Foresaken launched. Hopefully, Bungie will fix this soon.

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Order: Gauntlet > Gardens > Pools > Calus

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Prestige Modifiers

Armsmaster:

  • Kinetic: Auto Rifle
  • Energy: Auto Rifle
  • Power: Anything

Arsenal: Weapons have no reserve ammo. Emptying a clip of a weapon refills the holstered weapons.

Raid Lair Challenges

  • Clean Sweep - Clear each major encounter
  • Moments of Power - Generate orbs multiple times
  • The Big Numbers - Get precision kills

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Prestige Modifiers

Armsmaster:

  • Kinetic: Auto Rifle
  • Energy: Auto Rifle
  • Power: Anything

Arsenal: Weapons have no reserve ammo. Emptying a clip of a weapon refills the holstered weapons.

Raid Lair Challenges

  • Mine all Mine - Complete every major encounter in the Raid Lair: Spire of Stars
  • Fistful of Light - Generate orbs of light
  • Random Element - Get kills with elemental damage

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Raid Challenge

  • Summoning Ritual (Kalli): Activate all 9 plates and kill ogres in the middle

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Raid Challenge

  • To Each Their Own: Each player must break one of the shield's weak points and not shoot more than one.

Allons-y, Guardians!