Season of Opulence Destiny 2 Season 7
Published: May 4, 2019
Next month Bungie will launch Destiny 2: Forsaken’s last major content drop, Season of Opulence. The official reveal hasn’t happened yet, but the studio has left some interesting teases for us to decipher. In two videos, Bungie has clearly shown Guardians back aboard the Leviathan.
Let’s explore those hints together to discover where and how Guardians will spend their time in the upcoming Season of Opulence. Destiny 2 Season
WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT THE SEASON OF OPULENCE RAID?
Season of Opulence will include a new small raid comparable to Scourge of the Past from Season of the Forge. It will only be a small raid compared to a full seasonal release but the good news is all the teaser images suggest the new content will take place on the Leviathan. If the new raid also takes place in the bowels of the ship, this will mark the fourth time a raid has been set here (including the raid lairs). But it seems the ship will not be the same this time around.
In nearly every teaser image we can see the signature Cabal statues found on the Leviathan. However, the Leviathan is dark in all the images. When Calus was testing the Guardians during the first Leviathan Raid, his ship was teeming with light. Something has changed on the ship, and someone will likely task players to discover what’s going on there. why things have gone dark.
That someone is probably Benedict, the Tower robot featured on the calendar for Season of Opulence. Benedict, a hacked sweeper bot, is the raid vendor for the Leviathan Raids, offering raid loot in exchange for special coins obtained in the raid. He has been around for awhile now but it appears something has happened. Time will tell what has gone wrong.
Assuming the robot on the calendar is the Benedict, it appears he’s taken up arms. You can see a sword on his back. There’s a quiet part of the Tower Annex filled with dismantled sweeper bots and this may be where Benedict recruits the Guardians to a new cause for Calus.
WHAT ARE THE TWO MYSTERY ACTIVITIES IN THE SEASON OF OPULENCE?
On the calendar for Season of Opulence there is a “new six-player match made activity.” Normally raids and PvP are the only activities in Destiny that require six players. The “new” part of this suggests it won’t be a raid matchmaking event.
Bungie has been increasing wave-based activities since it released Warmind. After the popularity of Escalation Protocol, players have seen Blind Well, Forges, and The Reckoning as more wave-based activities. This new mode could be anything, but a safe bet would be a six-player, wave-based mode.
For the “redacted” activities on the calendar, we have a good idea of what one might be. In the image above, five Guardians are wearing the Prestige raid sets from the Leviathan raid. They’re also wielding Year 1 weapons (like the Sins of the Past rocket launcher). Players haven’t had a reason to use these weapons or armor sets since Year 2 started. This could be a tease that Bungie will update the Leviathan raid in this new season. Bungie has a history of returning old raids to relevancy, after all.
The other unannounced activity could be anything, but we think it’ll be another secret Exotic quest. In the “Forsaken Launch and Beyond” Destiny 2 video, game director Christopher Barrett suggested that much of this season would take influence from the Whisper of the Worm quest and collective puzzle solving. After the blowback from the Niobe Labs puzzle in Season of the Forge, it’s unclear if this design direction has changed.
