In Destiny, the winter event “The Dawning” brings new exotics, fresh ornaments, and an updated Icebreaker. Here’s how to get the items.
At PlayStation Experience 2016, Bungie presented a trailer for the upcoming content update “The Dawning”. During this three-week event, the Tower will be festively decorated, there will be gifts, the SRL returns, and you can acquire new toys in the form of exotic items.
It’s getting cold – Break the ice with the Icebreaker!
The biggest surprise for many: The exotic sniper rifle Icebreaker from Year 1 is returning with the winter event. This powerful weapon regenerates ammunition on its own. Bungie promises that the Icebreaker will return in Year 3 with all the perks that “we know and love”. Nevertheless, the sniper will be adjusted to the current balance.
To obtain the “Year 3” Icebreaker, you must go to Zavala, who will give you bounties for the upcoming “Strike Scoring”. He has weekly Nightfall strike bounties available. If you master these, you have a chance to get the sniper.
Note: This new skin for the Icebreaker has already been spotted. The ornament is named “Dunemaker”:
This ornament is also known:
The Executive Producer Scott Taylor believes that the Icebreaker thematically fits well with the winter update. Therefore, we can start hunting for the sniper from December 13.
Abbadon and Nova Mortis – the new exotics
“The Dawning” provides two more exotic quests, where you can get Thunderlord variants with an element of your choice. What these quests look like is still unknown. However, the two guns are said to be called “Abbadon” (Solar) and Nova Mortis (Void). They are machine guns, thus heavy weapons:
With “Rise of Iron”, perks were already introduced that can be assigned to these two weapons. Incendiary Rounds (likely Solar) and Negative Rounds (likely Void) are the respective counterparts to “Lightning Rounds”, so the Lightning Shots from Thunderlord: The longer the trigger is held down, the faster and more accurately the weapon fires. The two new exotics will therefore have the same ability as Thunderlord, just with different elemental damage. More information about these Thunderlord variants can be found here.
New Ornaments
Additionally, screenshots of new ornaments have been released. Some of them were already known in advance, as they could be displayed in-game. It will be possible to purchase them in the Eververse. Here you can view them:
Are you looking forward to “The Dawning”?
You can find the trailer with lots of information about The Dawning here.
