New Destiny Update Hands Out More Treasure Keys, Tweaks Prison of Elders

Bungie today announced the changes being made in Destiny's new 1.2.0.2 update, which seeks to make changes based on feedback gathered following the recent launch of the House of Wolves expansion.

The patch fixes a number of issues, such as Weekly Heroic strikes not awarding engrams, Trials of Osiris emblems not being sent to your mailbox if your inventory was full, and fusion rifles working as they did prior to the balance changes made in the 1.1.1 update.

Other changes deal with treasure keys, which should now become less rare. You're guaranteed one after completing your first Wanted Fallen bounty of the week, and the drop rate for keys has been increased in small chests at the end of the Prison of Elders, as well as in ether chests.

Destiny briefly went offline earlier today as the 1.2.0.2 update rolled out. The game's servers are now back online, and these changes should all be in place.

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Destiny 1.2.0.2 patch notes:

Key Highlights

• The first Wanted Fallen Bounty completed each week is now guaranteed to drop a Treasure Key
• Greatly increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from the small chests at the end of the Prison of Elders
• Increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from Ether Chests

Prison of Elders

• Greatly increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from the small chests
• Class Items will now drop from Level 32, Level 34, and Level 35
• Fixed a bug in which the Ship (Hildian Seeker) did not drop under certain circumstances
• Fixed a bug in which the 'Elder Cipher' Bounty could not be acquired if your Bounty inventory was full
• You will need to defeat Skolas again to receive the 'Elder Cipher' Bounty
• Damage caused by Qodron’s Gaze is reduced by 25%
• Damage multiplier for the Jailbreaker buff increased by 100%

Trials of Osiris

• Fixed an issue in which Trials of Osiris emblems were not sent to the Postmaster if your Emblem inventory was full
• Passage Coins can now be dismantled

Weekly Heroics

• Fixed an issue where the Weekly Heroic strikes did not award engrams (Note: Tooltip will not display them as rewards)

World

• Increased the drop rate of Treasure Keys from Ether Chests
• Ether Chests may only be looted once per spawn
• Ether Chests will no longer grant ammo consumables when opened
• Ether Chests will now grant a small amount of Queen's Wrath reputation when opened
• Ether Chests now have a chance to drop Tokens of Flight, Identity, and Judgment

Quests

• Petra will no longer display a quest waypoint for players who have not purchased House of Wolves
• Fixed a bug in which players abandoning the 'Gone to Ground' quest were still being directed to the Venus Patrol

Bounties

• The first Wanted Fallen Bounty completed each week is now guaranteed to drop a Treasure Key

Weapons

• Fixed a bug in which the 1.2.0.1 hotfix mistakenly did not contain the 1.1.1 Fusion Rifle balance changes. As a result, players were playing with its pre-1.1.1 weapon balance state. The original fix has been reapplied.

Items

• Tokens of Flight, Identity, and Judgment can now be dismantled to gain +10 House of Judgement reputation each
• Ammo consumables can now stack to 100