With the launch of the Season of the Chosen in Destiny 2 comes a new activity chosen Battlegrounds. Information technology pits yous confronting waves of Cabal enemies to take down leaders before they can join the war quango of Caiatl, the Cabal empress, and allow her to rally her forces in the solar system. It too provides you lot with a new rewards system for earning seasonal gear and leveling up your Guardian--only the whole matter is a bear upon confusing.

We've put together a full rundown of how everything related to the Season of the Chosen works, from the Battlegrounds activity to the new HELM State of war Tabular array, the Hammer of Proving, and the new version of Umbral Engrams. Here's everything you need to know to excel and earn your new Chosen gear.

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Complete The Challenger'southward Proving Quest

Yous'll get this quest equally soon equally you showtime upward Destiny 2 during the Season of the Called. It'll introduce you to the Captain and State of war Tabular array and unlock your Bong of Conquests Seasonal Antiquity and the Hammer of Proving, which yous need to become the most out of Battlegrounds activities. Complete all the steps to go access to everything in the HELM area. You can enter the HELM from the Tower map in the Managing director.

How Battlegrounds Work

The Battlegrounds activities are a bit of a mix betwixt a Strike and past seasonal activities similar Contact. Your primary goal is to fight off waves of Conduce enemies, but you'll need to push through iii different phases of the activity in order to consummate it. Currently, Battlegrounds come in ii versions: an easier i launched from the Manager map (discover it on Europa), and a tougher playlist version plant under the Vanguard Director node.

The phases you'll face up depend on which Battlefield yous're attempting. For instance, in Battleground: Behemoth on Nessus, the first phase requires yous to fight through waves of enemies until a tougher Cabal with the name Keymaster shows upward. Once you kill three Keymaster Cabal Majors, y'all can interact with a terminal that allows you to drop a forcefield and proceed to the next encounter.

In Battleground: Hailstone on Europa, the outset phase has yous killing several Unstable Incendior enemies, which show upwards ane per wave. Killing these guys drops an energy orb that you can selection upwardly and so throw at a cylindrical generator called a Ability Relay. At that place are three of these relays, which demand to be destroyed before you tin advance. You'll demand to exist pretty accurate when you throw the orb, or y'all might neglect to blow up the relay and have to wait for a new enemy to appear and bring yous a new orb.

Each Battleground has objectives involved, so pay attention to waht you're asked to do as you fight through waves of Cabal enemies.
Each Battleground has objectives involved, so pay attention to waht you're asked to do every bit you fight through waves of Cabal enemies.

The first two phases of a Battleground are mostly about fighting through waves of enemies, but pay attention to any objectives that are gear up for you lot along the style also. In playlist Battlegrounds, y'all'll also face Champions, and in some cases your objectives volition involve defeating them before you can advance.

The last stage of the Battlefield is a boss fight with a Cabal leader you need to take downwardly. This bit enemy has a health bar divided into three sections. When each section is depleted, he'll phone call on Major enemies chosen Shieldbarrers, who will create an bulletproof barrier around the boss. You need to kill the Shieldbarrers before you can damage the boss again, and so clear them out equally fast as you tin.

When you've killed the boss, you'll receive a chest for your efforts. In playlist Battlegrounds, if you lot've forged a Challenger Medallion, you can also nail one of the three forcefield-covered chests that spawns in behind the first chest at the end of the mission. This is the central element of how Battlegrounds become you new rewards--more on the Hammer of Proving below.

Each histrion on your fireteam should smash a separate chest for maximum rewards. Be careful about not bunching up, though, considering information technology's easy to utilise 2 hammers on the aforementioned chest by accident, which volition rob yous of a chance at the third reward.

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You can upgrade the Hammer of Proving at the War Table. Use it to smash extra chests at the end of playlist Battlegrounds activities.
You can upgrade the Hammer of Proving at the War Table. Use it to boom extra chests at the stop of playlist Battlegrounds activities.

How The Hammer Of Proving Works

The Hammer of Proving is how you earn actress rewards during playlist Battlegrounds activities by peachy the extra chests that appear at the end. To practise that, you need to add a Challenger Medallion to the Hammer before you commencement the activity. You tin create Medallions by clicking on the Hammer of Proving on the Quest screen, but in order to make those Medallions, you demand to earn a currency called Cabal Gold.

The good news is that Cabal Gold is easy to come past. Yous'll earn it for doing basically everything, including completing playlist Rituals like Gambit matches, Crucible matches, Strikes, and Nightfall: The Ordeal runs. Gold as well comes from public events, Lost Sectors, and battling in the Blind Well in the Dreaming City.

When you smash a Battlegrounds chest with the Hammer of Proving, yous'll earn a Hammer Charge. You tin then bring those dorsum to the HELM to utilise on the Prismatic Recaster and your Umbral Engrams.

The Prismatic Recaster lets you focus Umbral Engrams so they give you specific loot. For some, you'll need to build up Hammer Charges, which require you to use the Hammer of Proving in playlist Battlegrounds.
The Prismatic Recaster lets you focus Umbral Engrams so they give you specific loot. For some, you'll need to build upwards Hammer Charges, which crave you to use the Hammer of Proving in playlist Battlegrounds.

How Umbral Engrams And The Prismatic Recaster Work

The Prismatic Recaster is back from the Season of Arrivals, this time situated at the Captain. To use it, yous'll need Umbral Engrams, which drop from various activities, but specifically popular upwardly every bit Battlegrounds rewards.

Later on finishing the Challenger's Proving quest, you should accept several options for tuning Umbral Engrams to make them decode for specific loot rewards. The get-go two, which give you lot armor and weapons from the earth loot pool--the stuff you'd get from random drops off enemies as you lot're playing--cost nothing but Legendary Shards and Glimmer. Once yous have the Hammer of Proving, you lot can kickoff to unlock Season of the Chosen rewards from Umbral Engrams. You tin first tune engrams to drib either only weapons or merely armor (or both, but just from the Flavor of the Chosen), and every bit you level up the Recaster, it'll allow yous to choose more specific loot drops.

This is where Hammer Charges come up in. If y'all desire to tune an Umbral Engram to give yous Season of the Chosen loot, you'll need to spend a Hammer Accuse on it as well. And then that means, to get a Season of the Chosen reward from an Umbral Engram, you'll demand to play various activities to earn Cabal Gold, utilise that to forge Challenger Medallions for your Hammer, then complete playlist Battlegrounds activities and nail a chest at the end to earn a Hammer Charge.

Each level for the Prismatic Recaster has dissimilar requirements, so pay attention to what y'all can unlock and how you can do so. Some levels require you to become a certain number of kills with a specific type of weapon, for instance, while others require you to unlock certain weapons from the Season Pass. Once you lot unlock those levels, however, you'll be able to use the Prismatic Recaster to give you weapons and armor with specific perks and stats favored, allowing you to melody your loadout to your liking.

Ranking up the War Table gives you benefits for your Hammer of Proving, but to do so you'll need to complete seasonal challenges.
Ranking upwards the State of war Table gives you benefits for your Hammer of Proving, but to practise so you'll need to consummate seasonal challenges.

How The HELM And State of war Table Piece of work

The last chemical element of the flavour is the Captain and its War Table. The Helm is the new seasonal room you tin can access from the Director's Tower map, which includes the Prismatic Recaster, the War Table, and several kiosks that give you a lot of the functionality of the Tower. Yous tin can use this room to access the Post Primary and your Vault, then you can drop in here to practice a lot of your Tower business and claim Battlegrounds rewards.

The War Table is your hub for a lot of flavor-related stuff. Here, you tin can claim Season of the Chosen bounties, upgrade your Hammer of Proving, purchase seasonal mods, and claim rewards as you lot increase your War Tabular array rank.

Upgrading your Hammer of Proving at the State of war Table requires War Tabular array Reputation, which is earned specifically from the new seasonal challenges tab on the Quest screen. These challenges replace weekly bounties y'all'd previously get from Zavala, Lord Shaxx, and the Drifter. Instead, y'all tin can earn these challenges anytime during the season, with new ones appearing each week. Several challenges dish out State of war Tabular array Reputation; others requite Vivid Dust, weapons, and other rewards. So information technology'll exist useful to pay attention to your seasonal challenges before heading out to activities to make sure you lot're progressing each one and earning everything you tin.

We'll update this guide with more information as it becomes available during the Flavour of the Chosen. Wait more than Battlegrounds to become available alongside more than seasonal challenges, and then at that place should be plenty to practise as you upgrade your War Table, Hammer of Proving, and Prismatic Recaster.

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