Guardian Games 2024
Guardian Games 2024, also known as Guardian Games All-Stars, is the Guardian Games Live Event for Year 7, taking place during Year 6's Season of the Wish, which was extended due to the delay of The Final Shape expansion. It lasted from March 5 to March 26, 2024.[1]
Overview
Eva Levante is the event vendor. She can be found across from the landing zone in the Tower. She will give players the Best in Class introductory quest and a Guardian Games Class Item that will allow them to earn Medallions while wearing it. Wearing any Guardian Games Class Item as an Armor Ornament (created through Armor Synthesis) will also allow the player to earn Medallions. Completing the quest will give players the Medallion Case, which shows the amount of each type of Medallion held by the player.
Contender Cards and Platinum Cards are bounties that can be purchased from Eva using Glimmer. Only one PvE Contender or Platinum Card can be held at a time, and only one PvP/Gambit Contender or Platinum Card can be held at a time. Completing Cards will reward Medallions, as well as progress for the player's class in the daily Guardian Games competition. Medallions will also drop when completing activities.
This event also adds PvE and PvP Diamond Cards, which reward Diamond Medallions that grant the most Medallion score. Only one of each type of Diamond Card can be completed per week, per account. Additionally, each week, players can earn a Diamond Medallion as a Twitch Drop by watching streams in the Destiny 2 category for a total of two hours.[1] The Medallion can be claimed in-game from Eva. The player's Bungie and Twitch accounts must be linked in order to claim the Medallion
A new Memento, the Games Memento, can be earned as a random drop when depositing Diamond, Platinum, and Gold Medallions. Only one can be held in the player's inventory at a time, but Eva will hold onto any additional copies that drop until the end of the event.
There are four activities available during the event, which can be accessed from the Tower map in the Director:
- Guardian Games: Recreational Playlist functions like the Vanguard Ops playlist, with randomly chosen strikes;
- Guardian Games: Competitive Playlist functions like a Hero-difficulty Nightfall, with a different strike available each day;
- The Supremacy Crucible game mode has returned with an option to match with players of the same class;
- Gambit has been replaced with Gambit: Class vs. Class, where players of the same class are put on teams together.
Due to errors, class-based matchmaking in Crucible and Gambit was disabled on March 8 for the remainder of the event.[2]
The strike playlists have Vanguard Medals that can be earned by performing specific actions (e.g. getting a streak of kills with a specific weapon/element type). Medals give additional points, increasing the score earned when the activity is completed.
Medallions are earned from completing Cards and activities. They can be deposited into the podium in the Tower to earn various rewards, including three exclusive Legendary weapons: The Title Submachine Gun, the Taraxippos Scout Rifle, and the Hullabaloo Grenade Launcher.
This event introduces a new type of vehicle to the game: Skimmers are hoverboard-like vehicles that are equipped in the same slot as Sparrows. Players can acquire the Allstar Vector Skimmer from Eva, along with the Drop In quest. This Skimmer will be removed from the player's inventory when the event ends, but completing the quest will allow them to keep it permanently.
There are two additional quests, Shoot to Score from Commander Zavala and Vying for Supremacy from Lord Shaxx, that allow players to light the torch platforms behind the podium. The player must reach specific score tiers (from Bronze to Platinum) in each quest's respective activity. Lighting the torches can give various rewards, including fully Masterworked drops of the event weapons with multiple Traits in each column, as well as a glow effect on the player's Class Item. These quests and torches reset at the start of each week of the event.
The Top of Class and Competitive Catalyst quests also return, allowing players to obtain the Heir Apparent Exotic Machine Gun and its catalyst.
Event Card
The Event Card can be accessed from the Quests tab in the Director next to the Seasonal Challenges. It can also be found on Eva Levante's vendor screen, or through the Tower icon on the Destinations map in the Director.
Event Challenges
- Main page: Event Challenges
Event Challenges can be completed to earn various rewards, including weapons, cosmetic items, Masterwork materials, and Event Tickets. Event Tickets can only be used on the upgraded Event Card, and expire when the event ends.
Upgraded Event Card
Players can spend 1,000 Silver to upgrade their Event Card, unlocking access to several cosmetic items. This immediately grants the Guardian Games Event Pack, which contains the following items:
- The Perfect Putt (Exotic Emote);
- The Torpedo (Exotic Sparrow);
- Fighting Colors (Legendary Shader).
Upgrading the Event Card also allows players to use the Event Tickets earned from Event Challenges to purchase the following exclusive rewards:
- Capped Shell (Exotic Ghost Shell) — 7;
- Fouetté Turn (Legendary Emote) — 5;
- Proud Sigil (Legendary Transmat Effect) — 2;
- Titled Projection (Legendary Ghost Projection) — 1.
Champ Title
- Main page: Champ
Completing all 16 Event Challenges will unlock the Guardian Games title, Champ. Four additional Triumphs must be completed to gild the title. Gilding resets annually.
Reveler Title
- Main page: Reveler
Completing 16 Event Challenges during Guardian Games events will complete the associated Triumph for the Reveler title. Completing all four Triumphs will unlock the title of the same name.
Event Content
Weapons
- Heir Apparent — Exotic Machine Gun
- Hullabaloo — Legendary Grenade Launcher
- Taraxippos — Legendary Scout Rifle
- The Title — Legendary Submachine Gun
Armor
- Allstar Bond — Legendary Warlock Bond
- Allstar Cloak — Legendary Hunter Cloak
- Allstar Mark — Legendary Titan Mark
Ghost Shells
- Capped Shell — Exotic Ghost Shell
- Classy Shell — Exotic Ghost Shell
- Tasseled Shell — Exotic Ghost Shell
Ships
- Championship Advantage — Exotic Ship
- Para Bellum IV — Exotic Ship
Vehicles
- Allstar Vector — Exotic Skimmer
- Bucephalus III — Exotic Sparrow
- Richly Caparisoned — Exotic Sparrow
- The Torpedo — Exotic Sparrow
Finishers
- Served — Legendary Finisher
Emotes
- Exercise Cycle — Exotic Emote
- The Perfect Putt — Exotic Emote
- Fouetté Turn — Legendary Emote
- Touchdown Dance — Legendary Emote
- Toy Hula Hoop — Legendary Emote
- Let's Hear Some Noise — Rare Emote
- Out of Breath — Rare Emote
Emblems
- Best of the Best — Legendary Emblem
- The Very Best — Legendary Emblem
Shaders
- Champion Keepsake — Legendary Shader
- Fighting Colors — Legendary Shader
- Prizewinner — Legendary Shader
Ghost Projections
- Fervent Fan Projection — Legendary Ghost Projection
- Titled Projection — Legendary Ghost Projection
Transmat Effects
- Proud Sigil — Legendary Transmat Effect
- Stalwart Sigil — Legendary Transmat Effect
Armor Ornaments
- Hawk's Fury Set — Legendary Warlock Universal Ornament Set
- Hawk's Fury Hood — Legendary Warlock Universal Ornament
- Hawk's Fury Gloves — Legendary Warlock Universal Ornament
- Hawk's Fury Robes — Legendary Warlock Universal Ornament
- Hawk's Fury Boots — Legendary Warlock Universal Ornament
- Hawk's Fury Bond — Legendary Warlock Universal Ornament
- Lion's Might Set — Legendary Titan Universal Ornament Set
- Lion's Might Helmet — Legendary Titan Universal Ornament
- Lion's Might Gauntlets — Legendary Titan Universal Ornament
- Lion's Might Plate — Legendary Titan Universal Ornament
- Lion's Might Greaves — Legendary Titan Universal Ornament
- Lion's Might Mark — Legendary Titan Universal Ornament
- Viper's Zeal Set — Legendary Hunter Universal Ornament Set
- Viper's Zeal Mask — Legendary Hunter Universal Ornament
- Viper's Zeal Grips — Legendary Hunter Universal Ornament
- Viper's Zeal Vest — Legendary Hunter Universal Ornament
- Viper's Zeal Strides — Legendary Hunter Universal Ornament
- Viper's Zeal Cloak — Legendary Hunter Universal Ornament
Quests
- Best in Class
- Competitive Catalyst
- Drop In
- Master Class — Weekly Challenge
- Medallion Case — Quest Item
- Shoot to Score
- Top of Class
- Vying for Supremacy
Miscellaneous
- Games Memento — Legendary Memento
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "This Week In Destiny - 02/29/2024" Bungie, posted by Destiny 2 Community Team, 29 Feb. 2024, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/this-week-in-destiny-02-29-24. Accessed 26 Mar. 2024.
- ↑ @BungieHelp. "To alleviate MONGOOSE errors, class-based matchmaking has been disabled in the Crucible and Gambit for the remainder of Guardian Games." Twitter, 8 Mar. 2024, https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1766213853044789654. Accessed 26 Mar. 2024.