With Season 7, Destiny 2 is getting a new activity for 6 Guardians – the Menagerie. There, Guardians will receive a Chalice that plays an important role in the Season of Opulence. With this Chalice, you will get stronger and receive increasingly powerful loot.
What’s the deal with the Chalice? Recently, Destiny 2 also introduced the new, mysterious 6-player activity – The Menagerie, alongside Season 7. There, Guardians must prove their worth against Cabal Emperor Calus and can acquire various exclusive Menagerie loot.
The so-called Chalice of Opulence plays a crucial role here. Bungie has now explained how it works.
What lies behind the new activity “The Menagerie” can be found here: The Menagerie: With this new 6-player activity, Destiny 2 aims to engage group players
What you need to know about the Chalice of Opulence in Destiny 2
What is the Chalice of Opulence anyway? It is a new item from Season 7 that Guardians will receive in the Menagerie from Calus and subsequently need to assemble and upgrade it further.
The Chalice will serve as a source of gear pieces that you can earn through the Menagerie.
Why is the Chalice so important? The rewards will initially be limited. However, by upgrading this Chalice, it becomes stronger and helps you to acquire increasingly powerful loot within the Menagerie.
Bungie emphasizes that the Season of Opulence would offer a new way to earn some of the best gear pieces in all of Destiny 2 and points to this Chalice. It will certainly play an important role during the Season of Opulence – at least for Guardians with the Forsaken Annual Pass.
How do you get the Chalice? The Chalice of Opulence will be available to all owners of the Annual Pass as part of the introduction quest for the Menagerie. You will receive it from the current raid vendor Benedict 99-44 in the Tower.
How does the Chalice actually work? In short: First, you need to assemble this Chalice. After that, you can insert special runes into it to earn loot through playing the new activity.
You will earn runes by
- Completing weekly bounties
- Opening weekly chests on the new Nessus barge
- Using a new consumable that rewards you with a rune after a strike, a Gambit match, or a Crucible match. This item will also give other players in your fireteam a chance at an additional rune
Once you have earned runes, you can insert them into the Chalice. Then, you need to complete the Menagerie to earn loot. If you master the Menagerie, you will receive gear determined by your rune choices.
Each rune influences what loot you receive and also part of its attributes – depending on how you socket the runes in the Chalice.
This is how you can improve the Chalice and the loot: There will be a range of new triumphs and bounties that will reward you with the new currency “Imperial Coins”. A special consumable will also give you a chance at these coins.
You can then use the currency to upgrade the Chalice with a variety of perks that offer a wide range of effects for the Chalice.
For example, you can earn more powerful rewards per week. Or you may gain the ability to specify certain weapons and even their masterwork stats, which you earn through the Menagerie.
With the Chalice, you will still need to grind for the perfect roll, but then you will have the option to target an item, optimize it, and upgrade it to a masterpiece. RNG will therefore play a significantly smaller role on the path to desired loot.
You can also choose how you want to upgrade your Chalice first:
- For example, you can initially unlock additional rune slots for more control over item specialization
- Or unlock upgrades that grant you more runes or greater rune variety
- Some upgrades also allow you to earn more Imperial Coins through various activities
The choice is yours.
What do you think of this Chalice mechanic? A true enhancement for Destiny 2? Or completely unnecessary?
