Bungie has unveiled their latest event, The Queen’s Wrath. This involves completing new bounties for ‘The Queen.’ These can be obtained from Xander 99-40 in the tower and completing one will reward you with a ‘mission.’ You can find those in your inventory. You will also get reputation with The Queen which will help you unlock different gear to purchase from The Queen’s Emissary. You can find the Emissary in tower in the previously closed off section behind Xander 99-40.
The real challenge behind this event happens when completing the missions. These missions allow you to join The Queen’s Wrath playlist (recommended level 24) which works the same way as the weekly and daily so make sure you have a fire team set up, there is no matchmaking. You will be entered into a random story mission with three modifiers active.
There is a fundamental gameplay change which I have yet to see in any of the other mission types, I haven’t tried the raid or the nightfall strikes yet so they are excluded. A lot of the enemies now have some form of elemental shield and you need the related elemental weapon to eliminate them. There are three types of damage a weapon can do they are: Arc Light, Void and Solar or blue, purple and orange. The shields around the enemies will be one of those colours and you need to attack them with a weapon that matches the colour. It is good to know that you can wound them with just basic damage from your primary weapon however it is greatly reduced.
When you do manage to finish a story mission you will be given a piece of legendary gear, making this the new most effective way to get some legendaries. you can see my other article about going above the level cap here.
Completing all six bounties should give you six awesome legendary items. The bounties reset every 24 hours, take advantage of the event whilst it lasts!
The Queen’s Wrath is running from the 23rd of September to the 6th of October.