Destiny 2 Season of Dawn update and patch notes

Destiny 2's new Season Pass is Season of Dawn, and it's releasing on December 10th. It features a variety of new changes, such as the update to how The Exotic Engrams work, the Eververse Shop, new quests, and a powerful new cap and Pinnacle for Guardians.

The official Season of Dawn patch notes have not been removed. However, Bungie remained open about their developer in their This Week at Bungue news update. At this time, official Bungie patch notes have not been released. They are expected to release closer to the arrival of Season of Dawn at 10 a.m. PST on December 10. When they come out, we'll update this page with the full patch notes for all Guardians to review.

Arrival with the new Season Pass will be as follows:

• Instantly unlock the Exotic Scout Rifle, Symmetry
• Play the new 6 player activity: the sundial
• Exotic quests, seasonal armor sets, and ornaments
• New Triumphs, Bounties, and Seasonal Lore Books
• Exotic emote, ghost, ornament and finisher
• Additional Season Pass rewards to unlock

While all players will have access to the following:

• Free Seasonal Rank Rewards
• Seasonal Artifact: Lantern of Osiris
• Help Osiris set the timeline by restoring The Obelisks on four destinations
• Unlock the Seasonal Armor Set: Righteous
• Progress through the Season Ranks to earn the Exotic Scout Rifle, Symmetry

Powerful Reward Caps and Pinnacle

• Powerful Cap: 960, up from 950
• Pinnacle Cap: 970, up from 960

Escalation protocol

• Climbing protocol wave 7 chest no longer needs a key to open
  • • The chest can be opened on each success of wave 7
    • Every time you open the chest you get one piece of EP armor for your character class until you get the full set
    • Once the full set is acquired, the subsequent opening of the chest awards a random piece of armor
• Decryption keys and loaded key fragments are removed from the set; these items will be deleted The inventories The players
  • • The keys to the armory to spawn the Valkyrie Javelins are unchanged and will remain
• EP weapon drops have not been hit and are still cumulative flow boss drops

Crucible Cards

• Added Rusty lands to the appropriate playlists
• Added The Dead Cliffs, Legion’s Gulch, Retribution, and Solitude to the appropriate playlists
• deleted Emperor’s Respite, Equinox, Firebase Echo, and Vostok from all Crucible playlists
  • • These cards are still available to play in private matches

Weapon mods

• The cost of setting up a weapon mod has been reduced from 5000 Glimmer to 500 Glimmer
• Fixed an issue where Ada-1 could grant duplicate weapon mods

Bounties

• Repeatable bounties have been added to the gunsmith
• Merge the Hit / Crucible / Gambit objectives on the Gunsmith Weekly Bounty "Field Calibration" into a single objective that shares the progress of all