This year's Solstice of Heroes event has begun in Destiny 2, and the main objective of the event is to complete the armor sets for each class. Each armor set involves a similar but lengthy grind of activities, tasks, challenges, and orb generation. But there are some ways to speed up that grind and maximize the time spent playing through this newest Destiny 2 event.
To start, visit Eva Levante in the Tower to start the event and get the helmet from the Drained armor set. After completing one run of the new European Aerial Zone activity specific to this event, Eva Levante will hand over the rest of the armor set. The armor must be worn to make progress on the objective of each specific armor piece and the entire set must be worn to generate elemental orbs, so it is best to equip the full set and leave it on.
In general, players will want to focus on activities that need to be completed for the Solstice of Heroes more so than specific tasks like getting precision kills or generating elemental orbs. These more general gameplay objectives will gain progress while playing through any part of the game, so players will see those naturally complete while focusing on the specific activities that the armor pieces call for.
In addition, daily and weekly bounties should always be picked up because the second Renewed set requires bounty completions. This includes Solstice of Heroes, Vanguard, Crucible, Gambit, and planetary bounties. Players are required to play all of those game modes at some point throughout the upgrading process, so they will want to pick them up and naturally complete them in their corresponding activity.
Each class's armor set has different, but similar, objectives. Between Warlock, Hunter, and Titan sets, players are tasked with completing the same activities but on different destinations or by generating different kinds of orbs or by using different subclasses. A specific list to multi-task and make quick progress through the objectives has been put together by a player known as "Cheese Forever." Playing through the game in this order will speed up the process of upgrading the Solstice of Heroes armor sets. Upgrading a set to Legendary will guarantee that the armor will be updated to a new Armor 2.0 set once the Shadowkeep expansion launches.
Warlock (Drained)
- Complete Strikes from the Strike playlist (not selecting from destinations). Generate solar orbs using a solar subclass and solar weapons.
- Complete Crucible matches and defeat Guardians using an arc subclass and arc weapons.
- Complete public events of Nessus. It's possible to fast travel once completing an event and catch a different instance of the same event. Do this at every opportunity.
- Play the daily Heroic Adventure multiple times.
- Complete runs of the European Aerial Zone with a void subclass and open chests to collect Solstice Packages. Fifteen Solstice Key Fragments can also be combined to form a Solstice Package.
- Play any activity to finish up killing Cabal, getting precision kills, and collecting elemental orbs.
Warlock (Renewed)
- Complete Strikes from the Strike playlist using a subclass that matches the daily burn. Use a solar weapon to generate solar orbs.
- Complete Gambit matches. Focus on killing enemies with void weapons, and opposing Guardians with solar weapons and arc supers.
- Defeat Guardians in the Crucible with solar weapons and arc supers if not completed in Gambit.
- Complete Heroic Public Events on destinations where they are plentiful such as the EDZ and Nessus.
- Play European Aerial Zone to defeat bosses, collect orbs, and loot chests.
- Complete patrols on Titan.
- Finish up in any activity to complete bounties, collect elemental orbs matching the daily burn, complete daily and weekly challenges, defeat enemies with void weapons, and kill Hive using a subclass that matches the daily burn.
Hunter (Drained)
- Complete Strikes from the Strike playlist (not selecting from destinations). Generate arc orbs using an arc subclass and arc weapons.
- Complete Gambit matches using a solar subclass and solar weapons.
- Complete Crucible matches and defeat Guardians.
- Complete public events of Nessus. It's possible to fast travel once completing an event and catch a different instance of the same event. Do this at every opportunity.
- Play the daily Heroic Adventure multiple times.
- Complete runs of the European Aerial Zone with a solar subclass and open chests to collect Solstice Packages. Fifteen Solstice Key Fragments can also be combined to form a Solstice Package.
- Play any activity to finish up killing Fallen, getting precision kills, and collecting elemental orbs.
Hunter (Renewed)
- Complete Strikes from the Strike playlist using a subclass that matches the daily burn. Use an arc weapon to generate arc orbs.
- Complete Gambit matches. Focus on killing invading Guardians with void weapons.
- Defeat Guardians in the Crucible with void weapons if not completed in Gambit.
- Complete Heroic Public Events on destinations where they are plentiful such as the EDZ and Nessus.
- Play European Aerial Zone to defeat bosses, collect orbs, and loot chests.
- Complete patrols on EDZ.
- Finish up in any activity to complete bounties, collect elemental orbs matching the daily burn, complete daily and weekly challenges, defeat enemies with arc weapons, kill Cabal using a subclass that matches the daily burn, and kill enemies using Void grenades.
Titan (Drained)
- Complete Strikes from the Strike playlist (not selecting from destinations). Generate solar orbs using a solar subclass and solar weapons.
- Complete Gambit or Crucible matches to defeat Guardians. Use a void subclass and void weapons to generate void orbs.
- Complete public events of Nessus. It's possible to fast travel once completing an event and catch a different instance of the same event. Do this at every opportunity.
- Play the daily Heroic Adventure multiple times.
- Complete runs of the European Aerial Zone with a void subclass and open chests to collect Solstice Packages. Fifteen Solstice Key Fragments can also be combined to form a Solstice Package.
- Play any activity to finish up killing Hive, getting precision kills, and collecting elemental orbs.
Titan (Renewed)
- Complete Strikes from the Strike playlist using a subclass that matches the daily burn. Use an void weapon to generate void orbs.
- Complete Gambit matches. Focus on killing invading Guardians with arc weapons.
- Defeat Guardians in the Crucible with arc weapons if not completed in Gambit.
- Complete Heroic Public Events on destinations where they are plentiful such as the EDZ and Nessus.
- Play European Aerial Zone to defeat bosses, collect orbs, and loot chests.
- Complete patrols on Io.
- Finish up in any activity to complete bounties, collect elemental orbs matching the daily burn, complete daily and weekly challenges, defeat enemies with arc weapons, kill Fallen using a subclass that matches the daily burn, and kill enemies using solar melee attacks.
Players have until August 27 when Solstice of Heroes ends to complete these objectives.
Destiny 2 is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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