Destiny: The Taken King update patch notes detailed

Oryx and his army of Taken have arrived. Destiny: The Taken King officially launched today, and with it came an update full of new content and improvements. A lot has changed since Destiny released a year ago, so take a look over the official update notes for Destiny: The Taken King.

Patrols

• Patrols now offer rewards once again

Daily Heroics

• Required Level: 40
• Requires The Taken King
• These missions will include selections from Year One and Year Two

Vanguard Strike Playlists

• Weekly Heroic Strike has been replaced by the Vanguard Heroic Strike Playlist
• There are now three Strike playlists:
  • Legacy Strike Playlist
    • Available to all players
    • Contains all Year One Strikes, including original Dust Palace and Undying Mind Strikes
  • Vanguard Strike Playlist
    • Requires The Taken King
    • Contains all new The Taken King Strikes, as well as 3 remixed Year One Strikes (Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae III)
  • Vanguard Heroic Strike Playlist:
    • Requires The Taken King
    • Contains all new The Taken King Strikes, as well as 3 remixed Year One Strikes (Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae III)
  • Heroic Strikes earn bonus rewards on weekly completion:
    • Legendary Engram (1 time per character)
    • +10 Legendary Marks (3 times per account)
  • Playing multiple Strikes without returning to orbit increases reward chances
  • All The Taken King and Updated Strikes now feature random encounter variation and may contain Taken combatants

Nightfall

• Required Level: 40
• Requires The Taken King
• Wiping in Darkness Zones no longer kicks player to orbit
• Resurrection timer is now a 30-second cooldown (must be resurrected by teammates)

Cryptarch

• The Cryptarchs will now exchange Legendary Marks for Legendary Engrams
• Available engrams will be randomly selected by each Cryptarch every Tuesday
• Legendary Engrams no longer have a chance to produce simple Materials
• Rare Armor Engrams have a chance to produce Artifacts instead of Armor

Banshee

• Starting on Armsday (Wednesday), Banshee-44 will accept Orders for new Foundry Weapons to characters at Gunsmith Rank 1 or higher. Higher Ranks will allow placement of more orders per week

Speaker

• Legendary Armor has been added to the Speaker's inventory

Shaxx

• PvP Quests are now provided to players (Required Level: 5)
• Shaxx now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Bounties, with Nightfall equivalent rewards for completing all five in a week

Arcite

• Arcite now carries a set of Weekly Crucible Weapon Bounties

Roni-9940

• The Vanguard Quartermaster will now exchange old Class Armor Materials for new unified Armor Materials

Queen’s Wrath

• Petra now has new bounties available in the reef upon completing a new quest
• These bounties will also drop a Treasure Key the first time one is completed each week