In March, “House of Wolves” DLC is expected for Destiny. A user has now compiled everything found in the code into a collage.
Data mining is always a tricky business: The information is in the database, but it’s unsure if all of it is accurate and how it will actually come.
There is a huge collage (here in full size) with everything the data miners know about the “House of Wolves” DLC, and it seems like there’s a lot:
Two exotic weapons, nine armors
Brief summary: There are only two exotic weapons. One Exo shotgun Lord of Wolves, which ignites the enemy in flames with multiple hits. And a scout rifle 347 Vesta Dynasty, where guardians can choose what precision hits do. Maybe the Fate of All Fools, the fate of all fools, will come too, possibly along with the Trials of Osiris event. But that would make two exotic scout rifles. Or they might introduce other exotic weapons shortly, which wouldn’t be a problem and seems quite conceivable.
Otherwise, there are again 9 new exo-armors (just like in The Dark Below) with some really cool new perks – like triple-jump boots for hunters.
As for the 9 legendary weapons, it’s unclear: It might be just like in The Dark Below, where you might have to wait “a long time” for the raid primaries with elemental damage. Perhaps Bungie will exclude these from the normal raid mode again. That’s still quite a way off in the future.
Sounds a lot like The Dark Below, but maybe there’s more in store
Then the data miners have listed an incredible number of vendor armors – whether they all actually come is rather unlikely. Vendor weapons, of which there are currently really a lot, have not been found. The question remains at which light level the vendor armors will bring the guardians; how the upgrade of old exotics works. A new max level of 34 seems certain.
The new activities sound very much like The Dark Below, with 3 story missions, 1 strike, 1 raid – actually the scope of the entire DLC sounds pretty much the same as the package that was available in The Dark Below. The story will probably revolve around the House of Winter and the House of Wolves, a Fallen storyline from the main game that will continue in the DLC. This was also one of the stories that was rumored Bungie had already planned for release and then cut out, to bring them later.
The only exception to the “just like in the last DLC” rule might be the “new” Inferno mode, which will be a kind of “hardcore” PvP mode without skills and trackers.
Maybe it’s still a bit early to complain about lack of content
Many will surely complain about the scope of the DLC (which will probably be around €20, €35 if you purchased the season pass), but it’s still a bit early for that.
So one more warning: These “data” that have been evaluated and compiled here are not particularly fresh or current, and “EXACTLY LIKE THIS” is how it will come, nor does it pertain to a leak (it has nothing to do with that), but these are likely elements that Bungie had prepared a while ago. The “actual DLC” could turn out quite differently. After all, Bungie now had feedback and time to revise the plans. And they must have definitely heard the criticism that “this is too little for a DLC.”
Here is a video from ProNDC two weeks ago, which roughly presented what was known about House of Wolves at the time, it doesn’t differ much from the new image:
Data mining is difficult
This data mining is always difficult and should be approached with caution. The data miners have the puzzle pieces, but not the context of how they fit together. They construct that – usually successfully, but not always. And changes can also come in short order.
Actually, everyone was sure up until a day before the release of the Dark Below DLC that the fusion rifle Murmur (the Murmuring) would start as a white item and then slowly be upgraded to a legendary. However, Bungie apparently decided otherwise at the last minute and changed this in the finished Destiny DLC.
Please consider this now as a kind of preview “collage” to look at and nothing set in stone. When the House of Wolves DLC is closer, we will present the individual exotic armors and weapons in greater detail.
Much closer than House of Wolves is the hard mode of Crota’s End in Destiny first. What new loot there will be, we will reveal to you here: Destiny: Here are the four new raid primary weapons from Crota’s End hard mode (admittedly… also data-mined).
