The Dawning

Celebrate your Light when The Dawning arrives on December 13th. Compete on new tracks with the return of Sparrow Racing League, challenge your skills and set records in the all new Vanguard Elite Strike Scoring, and earn a new arsenal of weapons and gear.

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"Bungie has announced the latest event for players of Destiny: Rise of Iron. The Dawning is a three-week holiday-themed experience of gifts, new game modes, and gear rewards. Whether you’ve been playing continuously since Rise of Iron’s launch, or December’s event might be a chance to return after stepping away from the game for a few months, it’s clear that Bungie’s winter event is vying strongly for your holiday gaming time with an event that is more robust than last year’s offering.

Sparrow Racing League returns, but with some changes and additions. Two new race courses (one set on Mercury and the other on Earth) add to the two courses from last year as available options. Like last year, Guardians are able to acquire exclusive gear rewards from their racing efforts. However, unlike last year, all the new armor you acquire is light-enabled, meaning that once you get it, you can infuse it up to high light values and use it in whatever setting you like. Last year, only helmets had this property. In addition, players can also expect to find new sparrows available through the SRL event.

For players who want a break from racing, The Dawning event also introduces Strike Scoring, a new twist on strike play that encourages strong, smart battles. As the name implies, the idea is that you pursue both individual and team scoring as you make your way through the strike playlists.

Strike Scoring is enabled when you play the SIVA Crisis playlist, Heroic SIVA Crisis playlist, and the weekly Nightfall. And while many of the strikes you’ll be playing will be familiar, Bungie is also revising and releasing three old favorites strikes, now with a SIVA theme; The Nexus, Will of Crota, and The Shadow Thief are all getting the reprised treatment.

To accompany Strike Scoring, for the first time, Zavala will offer bounties related to making your way through strikes, not unlike the bounties you get from Variks for runs at Prison of Elders. By participating in these bounties, players can acquire one of the long-absent exotic weapons that dominated Year 1 play – the exotic sniper rifle, Ice Breaker, now redesigned and light-boosted for Year 3 play. Players have a chance for Ice Breaker to drop when completing Zavala's Nightfall bounty.

That’s not the only exotic weapon that Guardians can pursue. Two new exotic quests are being introduced with The Dawning, resulting in two new exotics that riff off an existing weapon. The Solarlord and Voidlord are both machine guns for your heavy slot, and they offer elemental variations on the familiar Thunderlord.

Finally, Guardians can expect to discover a winter wonderland version of the Tower when they visit beginning on December 13. Scattered throughout the Tower, players can expect to find wrapped presents, which can then be opened for gifts both large and small."

- Game Informer

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• The Dawning Update will be LIVE from the 13th December 2016 and will end 3rd of January 2017. 
  
• The Update is FREE and the new Record book is also FREE
• Sparrow Racing returns - Strike Scoring added
• The record book is split in two - 1 Page for SRL, 1 Page for Strike Scoring
• 2015 Sparrow Racing Book CAN BE completed this time around
• Destiny: Rise of Iron players will receive a free gift at reset during each of the three weeks of The Dawning – check in with the Postmaster to collect these minor goodies.
• Skeleton Key Drop Rates to be INCREASED (Source)
• Once the event ends, Sparrow Racing will be added to Destiny Private Matches
• Strike Scoring will also remain following the end of the Event
• Players who do not yet own Destiny: Rise of Iron will only have access to the original tracks, though – just as they cannot access new multiplayer maps added with Destiny: Rise of Iron.
• As per Deej: "the first thing you'll do when you load in the tower in the 13th is to go to Amanda holiday and fetch your event record book" – Sparrows at the ready, Guardians