Destiny’s Trials of Osiris also returning this month with welcomed changes

Destiny's Trials of Osiris event is returning this month, Bungie has announced. And similar to The Iron Banner, which returns on October 13th, Trials of Osiris has also evolved with Year Two. In the weekly blog post, Bungie outlined a few changes Guardians can expect when they jump into Destiny's end-game PvP activity.

• Trials gear will now drop exclusively as end-of-match rewards for winning teams.
  • The more you win, the better those drops will be!
  • There’s no need to return to Brother Vance, all rewards come directly to you.

• Passage Coins still drop for the losing team. Trials is still about winning, but Coins can help make that easier.

• Trials Passages now have a Details page containing your active buffs. You won’t be able to add buffs once you’ve started your Trial, so make sure you buy them first!

• Players that go undefeated on their Passage will continue to be invited to The Lighthouse.

• Players may continue to play in the Trials past 9 wins (but they won’t get any better gear).

• Brother Vance now has Trials Bounties available each weekend to provide players with a way to get sweet Trials gear, even if they’re not reaching the Lighthouse.

• Regular Crucible Bounties are also still valid in Trials.

• We will attempt to match up teams with similar win counts.
  • If you have 1 win, we will try to match you with another team with only 1 win.
  • If you have 8 wins… yup.

• If we can’t find a high-quality match, we will loosen the win requirements first (in other words, we will not prioritize “wins” over low-latency matches).

• Overtime timer in Elimination will now show 0:00 instead of stopping at 0:01 when time expires.

• Teammate and enemy Revives now have distinct audio cues.

• Recommended minimum Light for Trials of Osiris: 290.

• Only Guardians with at least 251 Light can lead a Fireteam.

For those of you new to Destiny, Trials of Osiris is a 3v3 Elimination event in The Crucible. Designed as sort of the end-game for PvP, it's considered the "ultimate test of teamwork and skill." Gear matters and matches are played in rounds (first to win 5 rounds wins the match), with no respawning during each individual round. The unique catch with Trials of Osiris is that you're given a scorecard at the start which keeps tracks of the matches you've won and lost during the week. The more wins you rack up before three losses, the better the rewards you can claim.

The new and improved Year Two version of Destiny's Trials of Osiris will kick off on October 16th.