Bungie Reveals New Information About The Taken King

Today Bungie revealed all the major changes coming to Destiny when The Taken King launches on September 15. The expansion, costing $40, will modify many of the core aspects of Destiny.

For those who missed the stream we’ve composed a list of everything you need to know:

 - A new sword called the Arch Edge will allow players to defend using L2 and is effective against Solar and Void attacks but ineffective against Arc.

- Ghost Shells will have special features that allow players to find spirit blooms and increase your stats such as intellect, discipline or strength.

- You can now hold 32 quests in your logbook.

- Vault space has been doubled, allowing Guardians to store 72 items as oppose to 36.

- Quests can be turned in anytime in the game.

- Class specific items will be perks built into them.

- Purchasing The Taken King will automatically level you to 25 with a special item called “Spark of Light”. This will boost you to the minimum level required to play The Taken King’s content.

- Factions must now be pledged, but can be swapped once per week. Once pledged you’ll gain reputation for that faction.

- Reward and reputation earned before The Taken King will carry over.

- Gaining levels though reputation packages with factions vanguard and crucible are guaranteed to have a legendary and increased chance of a shader drop.

- Both Vanguard and Crucible marks have been replaced with Legendary Marks, with no cap on how many marks can be earned a week. These are shared among all characters.

- Dismantling legendary items will provide Legendary Marks.

- Complete all 5 weekly bounties will grant access to Nightfall tier rewards, new bounties and quests available now. 

- Exotic blueprints will allow Guardians to recover anything you’ve lost using the new collection system and Exotic shares are shared across accounts.

- A select amount of year 1 exotics have been upgraded for year 2.

- Normalizing damage levels will not cause weapons to loose power, although numerical damage will change.

- The Cryptarch will sell legendary engrams for legendary marks. (He’s still a jackass those).

- You can try weapons out in the field through The Gunsmith.

- Gaining reputation or ranking with the gunsmith you get gamers a new gun every Wednesday from the Foundry Orders section of his inventory.

- All year 2 legendary and exotic gear can be bolstered by sacrificing other powerful weapons using the infusion system. 

This is only a taste of what The Taken King has to offer. Bungie has two more stream planned in the coming weeks, with next stream focusing on a new location called the Dreadnaught filled with Cabal and a new strike mission.

Destiny’s The Taken King is set to release on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4 and PS3 on September 15.

Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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