During this event, enemies in every playlist (excluding Gambit Prime and Competitive Crucible) will drop Elemental Orbs based on the elemental type of the weapon and subclass the player uses to defeat them. The Solstice event also introduces a new empowered elemental mechanic for players. It’s important to note that during your battle with the final boss a public-event style Taken boss can also appear and be defeated for a bonus treasure chest. The markers for the chests disappear after a few seconds, so it’s important to try and remember the locations. Once you loot this chest, a short timer will count down, at the end of which a number of chests corresponding to the number of mini-bosses your fireteam defeated beforehand will spawn at different locations across the EAZ area. Upon reaching the end of your initial timer to hunt for mini-bosses scattered across the area, you’ll next need to fight and eliminate a final boss to unlock an initial treasure chest. You can face a different enemy race type each time you load into the EAZ. Upon loading into the zone, you’ll be directed to find and eliminate mini-bosses up to a limit of 21 with only a certain amount of time to do so. This new zone consists of a small grouping of floating islands stranded above the EDZ, using Trostlands’s assets. This weekly bounty rewards you with one piece of Powerful Gear. Eva also has one weekly bounty requiring you to collect Elemental Orbs. You use 15 of these Key Fragments to unlock Solstice Packages, which you earn by completing runs of the EAZ. These daily bounties reward you with Solstice Key Fragments. There are five new bounties with each daily reset, each tied into the featured daily element. After doing so, you’ll visit Eva again to purchase Solstice bounties and to receive the remaining armor set pieces.
The first thing you’ll want to do is equip this green helmet and complete a run of the newly unlocked EAZ. You begin this in-game event by visiting Eva Levante in the Tower to collect your first piece of Solstice armor.
While you’re loading, check out the Shacknews Destiny 2 complete strategy guide for even more helpful tips and memory-joggers.Destiny 2’s annual Solstice of Heroes event is back! With it, we’ve received the new European Aerial Zone (EAZ) playlist, an empowered elemental mechanic for players, and another set of Solstice Armor to grind. Whether you need a VIP patrol for a bounty or some other quest type, finding one in Destiny 2 may take a bit of traveling between planets and fast travel points. Most VIP patrols require killing an important enemy unit. As mentioned above, this is one of the rarer patrols – for some reason. When searching for a VIP patrol, players will need to keep their eyes peeled for the star in a circle symbol. Players may be familiar with the “kill things” symbol which is a square with arrows pointing at it or the “collect things” symbol which is a little triangle/pyramid.
When you’re in a patrol zone, pull up the Ghost by pressing Tab on PC, the touch pad on the PS4 controller, or the View button on the Xbox One controller to see all patrols in the area (there should be three). When you go to a planet, moon, or patrol zone in Destiny 2, there are numerous activities you can do.
You may need to travel to a few different areas in order to find one.īut for those that might not know about the patrol system, or those that have forgotten, let’s quickly talk about how to see a patrol. The VIP patrol icon looks like a star in a circle. When you do happen to find and activate one, the goal is almost always the same: assassinate a target. However, these VIP patrols are exceedingly rare and will require a bit of traveling in order to find.
VIP Patrols – What they are and how to find themĭestiny 2’s VIP patrols are easy to spot by their unique symbol: a star in a circle. While never referred to as “VIP Patrols” in-game, players are expected to know what the icon looks like regardless. Patrols are often found by interacting with a little beacon on the ground which then task the player with killing enemies or reaching a certain location. VIP patrols are one of the few types of quick, planet-based activities in Destiny 2.