Future 2’s Solstice of Heroes summer time occasion will get a giant rework subsequent week

It’s summer season, which suggests Future 2’s typical summer time occasion — Solstice of Heroes — is about to make its triumphant return. Beginning July 19, the Tower will develop into host to flowers, topiaries, and everybody’s favourite space-grandma/vacation vendor, Eva Levante. Solstice will run till Aug. 9, simply two weeks earlier than the discharge of Future 2’s 18th season.

As typical, the aim of Solstice of Heroes can be to improve a brand new set of armor, taking it from drab to spiffy over the course of the occasion. On the last degree, the armor will glow white, and gamers can use actual cash to purchase coloured glows that signify their subclass aspect.

Nevertheless, Solstice of Heroes can have two new options this 12 months, along with a revamped exercise: the occasion card and high-stat armor rolls.

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Bungie introduced the brand new Occasion Card system earlier this 12 months, however Solstice 2022 would be the first vacation to implement it. The Occasion Card is free for all gamers, lives within the quest menu (or at Eva Levante), and it homes all of the challenges and triumphs for the occasion — it additionally homes the brand new Solstice of Heroes 2022 seal, which can finally result in a yearly vacation seal in 2023. These challenges will provide particular occasion beauty rewards and Occasion Tickets, which Guardians can use to buy different rewards.

The catch is that the Occasion Card additionally has a paid monitor. By buying the Occasion Card for 1,000 Silver, gamers will get a particular bundle of summer-themed objects (just like the alarming “Sizzling Canine Consuming Champ” emote seen above) and the power to spend their Occasion Tickets on unique rewards.

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The opposite massive change is to armor upgrading. Gamers will nonetheless spend their time evolving their armor as typical, however as soon as they’ve absolutely leveled up their Solstice gear, they’ll have the ability to re-roll their armor for extra fascinating stats. This includes just a few steps:

1. Guardians can earn a brand new foreign money known as Kindling by full Occasion Card challenges
2. Gamers can then use this Kindling to improve their Solstice armor, rising its potential stat threshold as much as thrice
3. To re-roll their upgraded armor, gamers might want to earn Silver Leaves from Future’s typical actions after which remodel the leaves into Silver Ash through the Bonfire Bash exercise
4. Guardians can use their Silver Ash to re-roll particular person armor items till they’re good
5. Repeat all steps advert infinitum with items in numerous slots or simply steps three and 4 for items in the identical slot

This new system is a big departure from Solstice of Heroes in earlier years. But it surely also needs to make the occasion extra rewarding and fascinating for veteran gamers. It’s unattainable to know simply how straightforward it’ll be to get completely rolled armor till the occasion launches subsequent week, however this seems like Guardians’ greatest guess at stocking up on stats earlier than Future 2: Lightfall’s launch someday subsequent 12 months.