Destiny 'Age of Triumph' Update Detailed


In a stream today, Bungie detailed much of the new content coming in Destiny's final major update, 'Age of Triumph', including revamped versions of all of the raids, now confirmed to arrive on March 28th.

All four of Destiny's Raids (Vault of Glass, Crota's End, King's Fall, and Wrath of the Machine) will have new 390 Light variants, with new challenge modes and rewards coming across them all. From March 28th, a 390 Light 'Weekly Featured Raid' will be available, well, weekly, for players to attempt too. Each one of these will have all challenge modes active, as opposed to just one each week as we've seen prior. So, expect a hard-fought victory.

As with previous Live Events, progress in Age of Triumph will be tracked by a Record Book, which will also be the largest Destiny has had to date, with 13 pages of rewards and objectives covering all of Destiny's content since its release; Raids, Strikes, Crucible, Story missions, and more. The event is all about celebrating and re-living the "Moments of triumph for all of Destiny", that dedicated players will have faced since its release in September 2014.

Many of the objectives in the Book (scroll to the bottom of this post for a more in-depth summary of these) will be finished for many players upon initial log-in on March 28th, since many of them concern objectives Destiny players could have long since completed. It was made clear that about half of the Book will be completable 'Day 1'. The rest Guardians will have to do some grinding for, one last time. (*sheds Exotic tear*)

Bungie stressed the Book will have objectives for all of the different types of Destiny players, no matter their favourite mode; and that the Book will track achievements made across a player's entire account and across all of its active, non-deleted characters. Plus, to gain the top rewards the book holds (the highest of which is a custom shirt offer from the Bungie store, as with a previous Event's Book), not every single objective in it will have to be completed.

Age of Triumph, as stated, is the final major update for Destiny 1, which is expected to end its 3 years of fluctuating relevance with the release of Destiny 2 later this year. Nonetheless, in the stream Bungie confirmed that servers for Destiny 1 will stay up and running for the "foreseeable future".
One day I'll get max Grimoire...


Age of Triumph Record Book Page Summary:

- Page 1: Rewards (As with previous books), comprised of emblems, and a shirt offer at top level
- Page 2: 'Commemoration' page - Objectives completed through having completed certain goals in certain periods of Destiny's lifespan e.g. 'Completed an activity between Destiny release and Dark Below release' (Sep 2014 - Dec 2014)
- Page 3: Past story objectives e.g. 'Complete 'The Black Garden' mission from "Destiny"
- Pages 4, 5, and 6: Titan, Hunter. and Warlock objectives pages, respectively e.g. 'Reach Level 40 as a Titan'
- Page 7: Strikes e.g. 'Complete Strikes on Heroic difficulty', 'Complete a Nightfall Strike in less than 30 minutes'
- Page 8: Crucible objectives
- Page 9: Raids
- Page 10: Collecting e.g. Have 75 ships, 5000 Grimoire
- Page 11: Exploration and Side Objectives e.g. Dead Ghosts, Public Events
- Page 12: Faction Ranks e.g. Hit [Rank No.] with [Faction]
- Page 13: Trials of Osiris e.g. Go (or have gone) to the Lighthouse once

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