Season of the Want in Future 2 has introduced new actions and rewards, and it comes with one other main piece of content material: a brand new dungeon. These raid-like three-player actions are among the many hardest and most intricate within the sport, however they do not require the six-player squads of Future 2’s raids. The brand new dungeon is named Warlord’s Wreck, and it is set to launch on December 1, the primary Friday of the brand new season.
Particulars are sparse on Warlord’s Wreck, however we do know just a few issues, together with when it will be out there and a few of what you possibly can earn from it. We will additionally speculate about what Warlord’s Wreck means throughout the story of Future 2 as we push towards the final enlargement of the present story, The Remaining Form.
Word: The final part of this text accommodates photographs of dungeon rewards. If you wish to go into the dungeon unspoiled, cease scrolling there.
When does Warlord’s Wreck launch?
You may play Warlord’s Wreck on the every day reset on Friday, December 1, at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET. Maintain a watch out for a sport replace round that point to be sure you’re able to go.
How do you entry Warlord’s Wreck?
In contrast to different content material in Future 2, Warlord’s Wreck is not free, however relatively a paid piece of content material. To achieve entry to it, you will have to both have bought the Lightfall enlargement and its annual go (usually $100, however at present discounted on Steam for $40), or purchase the Lightfall Dungeon Key. You’ll find the Dungeon Key on the Expansions tab of the Eververse Retailer, and it will run you 2,000 Silver, or round $20.
What is the place of Warlord’s Wreck within the story?
We do not know a lot about Warlord’s Wreck but aside from the title, however we will intuit just a few particulars in regards to the dungeon based mostly on Future 2 lore.
Before everything, we all know from the dungeon’s Collections tab that it will embrace Scorn enemies, based mostly on the icon proven.
There’s additionally a brief description that provides some hints: “Uncover buried histories and lingering grudges inside a ruined Darkish Age fortress.”
In Future’s backstory, “warlord” was the title given to a number of the precursors of the acquainted Guardians gamers inhabit within the sport. Earlier than there was a Final Metropolis or a Vanguard to prepare them, individuals resurrected with the ability of the Gentle did not have a lot steerage. A few of them used their new immortality and spiffy magic to grow to be territorial dictators, elevating small armies. These people have been known as warlords.
Warlords have been usually type of horrible, because the title suggests. They rose in the course of the Darkish Age in Future’s historical past, which adopted the apocalyptic Collapse that ruined the technological Golden Age that took place with the arrival of the Traveler. Throughout that interval, people have been scattered and infrequently hunted by the Fallen and different alien forces nonetheless within the photo voltaic system. Warlords have been type of like medieval feudal lords, typically offering safety to the individuals who lived below them, typically subjugating them, and typically victimizing them and conquering or murdering whoever else got here into their path. They weren’t all bad–Crucible vendor Lord Shaxx was additionally a warlord and labored to guard his people–but a variety of them have been fairly terrible.
So far as the lore is worried, warlords most frequently come up in relation to the Iron Lords, the precursor group of Lightbearers who preceded the Guardians. The Iron Lords have been former warlords who particularly labored to guard humanity and stood as much as tyrants, they usually went to warfare in opposition to numerous warlords on quite a lot of events. So it stands to cause that Warlord’s Wreck might inform a narrative closely associated to the Iron Lords, together with Lord Saladin, the final of their quantity who we’ve any interplay with. (One other Iron Lord, Woman Efrideet, can be technically nonetheless round, however we’ve not seen her since Future 1’s Rise of Iron enlargement again in 2016.)
What we do not know is how Warlord’s Wreck ties into the present story, however there are some avenues it would discover. The Lightfall enlargement lore talked about how residents of Neomuna ventured again to Earth within the interval after the Collapse however selected to not make themselves recognized on the time, largely due to the specter of the warlords. Visiting what seems to be the stronghold of a previous warlord, we could possibly be on the lookout for extra details about the Collapse and Neomuna’s bizarre Darkness object, the Veil.
We is also on the lookout for info associated to Savathun’s actions after the Collapse, which involved the Veil and plans she was laying to thwart the Witness. We have solely gotten hints of what these plans and actions have been, however with Savathun resurrected within the Season of the Witch, it is doable this could possibly be a spot giving a take a look at what occurred previously.
There’s additionally some hypothesis that, if this dungeon has lots to do with the Iron Lords, that it might concern SIVA, the nanomachine plague that finally annihilated many of the Iron Lords. We realized about (and handled) SIVA again in the course of the Rise of Iron marketing campaign, nevertheless it hasn’t actually been heard from since. Bungie hasn’t appeared prefer it needed to revisit SIVA in any main capability, however sectioning it off in a dungeon may be a approach to return to that thread with out it turning into a significant a part of the remainder of the sport.
Warlord’s Wreck rewards
Warning: Spoilers for dungeon loot past this level!
Bungie hasn’t but revealed all the pieces you will get from Warlord’s Wreck, and the complete knowledge will not be launched into the sport till the dungeon goes reside. Nevertheless, because of a slight bug with the transmogrification system in Future 2, we will get a glimpse of the dungeon’s armor earlier than it is out there within the sport.
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