Happy reset, Guardians! It's IRON BANNER time! Lord Saladin is back in the tower and here's what he's bringing with him. Be sure and grab all the IB bounties as they are a great way to level up your characters if you're still grinding power with each rewarding powerful gear.

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Speaking of crucible, Bungie mentioned in last weeks TWAB that they would be adjusting matchmaking settings in Competitive effective today. Bungie had this to say regarding the changes:

We will be changing the matchmaking parameters so that opponents you find in Competitive matchmaking will be closer to your Glory rank. While the imbalanced match can still happen, we believe this change will reduce the number of occurrences dramatically. Players may experience longer matchmaking times as we will try to ensure a good Glory rank match before opening up the search criteria. Thank you so much for your feedback, and please keep it coming. We’re always improving the game and your feedback helps steer the conversation.

Here’s your reset activities for the week of January 15th - December 22nd

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. enter image description here

Crucible

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

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NightFall: Choose your own Adventure

Here's the 3 Nightfalls and possible strike specific loot

Black Armory Frames

  • Machine Gun
  • Pulse Rifle
  • Sword

Escalation Protocol

This week's boss is Kathock, Roar of Xol dropping the IKELOS SMG

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: Baths > Gauntlet > Dogs > Calus

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Prestige Modifiers

Armsmaster:

  • Kinetic: Hand Cannon
  • Energy: Sniper Rifle
  • Power: Anything

Prism: Attacks matching the periodically rotating focused elements do more damage. Other elemental damage is reduced. Incoming damage is unaffected.

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: Hand Cannon
  • Energy: Sniper Rifle
  • Power: Anything

Prism: Attacks matching the periodically rotating focused elements do more damage. Other elemental damage is reduced. Incoming damage is unaffected.

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

  • Keep out (Vault): Keep Knights out of the middle area

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Raid Challenge

  • All for one, one for all: All players in the fireteam must collect each buff in the vault encounter

Remember all progress on the Leviathan raid is reset as well as raid keys. Clan XP goals are also reset as each player can earn a cap of 5000 XP per character for a powerful engram while total clan XP is capped at 100,000.

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Allons-y, Guardians!