Destiny 2 Weekend Summary (Xûr, Trials, and Recent News) 06/08/2018

Xûr is located at Hangar, Tower and Trials of the Nine is Survival on Javelin-4. See info below for more details.

XÛR, AGENT OF THE NINE

Departs: Tuesday, June 12 @ 10AM PDT

Location: Hangar, Tower

All Exotic Items Available (Exotic Items are at 345 Power if you own Warmind)

The Peacekeepers – Titan Leg Armor (23 LS)

The Dragon’s Shadow – Hunter Chest Armor (23 LS)

Transversive Steps – Warlock Leg Armor (23 LS)

The Huckleberry – Submachine Gun – Kinetic (29 LS)

Fated Engram – Contains a new Exotic if any remain to be collected. Only one per week, per account. (97 LS)

Three of Coins – Increased chance to receive Exotic engrams from sources in the world. Effect lasts 4 hours. (31 LS)

Five of Swords (Legendary Challenge Card for Nightfall) – Enables modifiers in Nightfall strikes on Prestige difficulty. More challenging modifiers apply larger score multipliers. This will replace a Rare Challenge Card in your inventory. (Free Item)

More Info/Links

Xûr Mega-thread on Reddit

View Location and Inventory at whereisxur.com

Bungie.net – Xûr Info

Destiny 2. XUR WARMIND EXOTICS! (June 8, 2018) Exotic Weapon Armor And More! (HUCKLEBERRY SMG!) by Mesa Sean

TRIALS OF THE NINE

Ends: Tuesday, June 12 @ 10AM PDT

Game Mode: Survival

Map: Javelin-4

More Info

Trials of the Nine – Reddit

View the Trials Info Page on Kyber’s Corner and/or view this activity on Bungie.net

[D2] Trials of the Nine Megathread [2018-06-08] from DestinyTheGame

Faction Rally

Begins: Available Now

Ends: Tuesday, June 12 @ 10AM PT / 1PM ET

Winners Offering Weapons:

Find out on June 12 @ 10am PT which faction won. If you pledged to the faction that wins you will be able to purchase the weapon offering for that faction (1k glimmer if you pledged, 50k glimmer if you did not).

Dead Orbit: Basilisk – Legendary Shotgun

Future War Cult: The Vision – Legendary Sidearm

New Monarchy: Broadsword – Legendary Rocket Launcher

Info from TWAB post:

Destiny Update 1.2.1 brought improvements to Faction Rallies for Season 3. Back in March, the Seasons team discussed their overall goals for the event. Today, we’ll revisit those goals and outline the changes that have been made to achieve them.

Pledging to a faction should be a meaningful choice.

Players may now only pledge to one faction per account during a Faction Rallies event
Reputation progress is retained through multiple events, and it will not be reset during the season, even if a player changes allegiance
Each faction offers unique rewards, such as Exotic armor ornaments or Masterwork Catalysts for Exotic weapons
We are planning to host three Faction Rallies events over the course of Season 3

Dead Orbit will offer the Eye of Another World ornament and the Graviton Lance Catalyst
New Monarchy will offer the Crest of Alpha Lupi ornament and the Sweet Business Catalyst
Future War Cult will offer the Knucklehead Radar ornament and the Sunshot Catalyst

Seasonal Vendor Progression

Each faction now features ranks, which players can reach by earning faction tokens
Faction rank-up rewards will continue to grant Legendary armor and weapons past Rank 30

Dead Orbit:

New Monarchy:

Future War Cult:

Faction Rallies should provide a unique gameplay experience and not simply be a reward layer on top of the existing game. Additionally, these events should build interest in Lost Sectors and armor ornament objectives.

Faction Rallies now features the “Renown” system
- After pledging to a faction, players may earn Renown by completing a public event or patrol, or by defeating high-value targets on destinations
- Players who loot a Lost Sector with Renown active will receive significantly more faction tokens than usual—the more stacks of Renown they have, the more faction tokens they earn
- Renown is lost when players are defeated by enemies, so be careful when you’re attempting to loot a Lost Sector with high Renown!

Renown increases the level of challenge in gameplay
- Health regeneration is vastly reduced (all stack levels)
  - Enemy kills have a chance to drop health orbs (all stack levels)
- Player damage decreased (scales with stack, up to 5)
- Incoming damage increased (scales with stack, up to 5)

While Renown is active on a player, others around them can see which faction the player has pledged to:

Note: Renown displays which Faction a Guardian is pledged to, but only from a third person view. This functionality applies to all players.

Faction Rallies will continue to feature a Winner’s Offering to the faction that earned the most rank packages during a given event. These rewards will then be available in the rank-up reward pool in the following event. During Seasons 1 and 2, New Monarchy dominated the charts. We’re eager to see whether Dead Orbit or Future War Cult can rack up some wins.