Maybe next year it'll even be worthy of this wonderful floating parkour fightland. Yes, yes okay the Solstice Of Heroes experience is much better this time. That was a waste of the level and a chore, then when the Armour 2.0 system launched we got crap rolls on the armour. Still, I suppose I should be thankful that the Solstice armour quest has less loathsome grinding than in 2019.

But with the repetitive mode and poor rewards, I've barely visited it this year. It's such a shame because I really do adore the EAZ as a level. And especially because a slightly gaudy elemental variant of the Solstice armour can be bought as an ornament for Bright Dust or real money and worn over any gear. Given that this season makes it easy to farm armour with Umbral Engrams, I do not know why the EAZ is so stingy with its clobber. I'm not hungry for hot rolls, I'm sick of the whole thing. You'll mostly get a load of junk Blues and Purples, which frankly feel patronising. But treasure chests aren't guaranteed to drop Solstice Packages, and Solstice Packages have only a small chance of awarding Solstice armour (about 30%, going by the numbers of a player who opened 1000), and Solstice armour has only a small chance of rolling good stats. But the novelty of the mode wears off quickly, not helped by the rewards being so bad.Ī special set of event armour is tied to a quest chain which passes through the EAZ, and at its highest level it emits a lovely white glow. Destiny's movement is a mechanical joy and getting to parkour across a few city blocks really is nice, going up and down and through and over to hunt bosses and chests. Ultimately, one treasure chest will spawn somewhere for each miniboss you killed, with a short timer to find and open them. When the time runs out, a big final boss drops in. They might be high on a tower block, low in a rusting factory, on some level of a car park, deep in a shopping complex, or just hanging out on a floating rock. We're sent into the EAZ with five minutes on the timer to run around finding and killing bosses.

To see this content please enable targeting cookies. I gushed about the EAZ last year and feel the same now but god, this wonderful space is still wasted on a humdrum event mode. This European Aerial Zone is a fantastic level, full of pathways bouncing across rooftops and burrowing deep into labyrinthine buildings - a type of space we don't see much in Destiny. This is the final weekend of Destiny 2's Solstice Of Heroes, an annual summer event which celebrates how great we are by levitating a slice of city into the sky to host a special event mode.

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