Destiny 2 Solstice of Heroes 2019 armour upgrade steps, how to get Elemental Orbs, Buffs and Solstice Packages explained

Where to find the Statue of Heroes and Solstice Packages in Solstice of Heroes 2019 armour upgrade steps

Before you can get the armour, you have to first visit the Tower and chat to Eva Levante, giving you the Solstice helmet and tasking you with visiting the new EAZ (Earth Aerial Zone) activity once.

Once done, you can then get the rest of the Solstice armour from the Statue of Heroes location. This is directly to the right of Eva in the Tower. Use the Mediate prompt and the armour set is yours.

As for the Solstice Packages – five of which you need opened to complete the Solstice armour – you’ll find them in the EAZ activity. Once you have cleared the bosses, you’ll be tasked with opening chests hidden around the arena, with the number of chests matching the number of mini-bosses you cleared in the opening wave of the encounter.

These chests will give you and your team either Solstice Packages, or the Solstice Key Fragments required to open them. In our experience, there’s always a chest right above where you begin the hunt, otherwise they only reveal themselves when you get close in random positions.

Our recommendation is to split your team and scour the rooftops, and if you’re stuck, don’t forget to visit the starting island too.

It should only take 2-3 runs to get five Solstice Packages you need for the quest. As for opening them, they take 15 keys each (they’re in your Consumables, by the way!) but if you focus on other matchmade activities, such as playlist Strikes, Crucible or Gambit, they can drop upon completion there too, saving you grinding the EAZ.

Destiny 2 Elemental Orbs and Elemental Buffs explained

As with Solstice 2019, the Solstice of Heroes event centers around collecting Elemental Orbs, and is a requirement for many of the Solstice armour upgrades.

Elemental Orbs are generated by killing enemies with weapons or sub-class abilities with the corresponding type – Arc, Solar or Void. Though it appears you can mix and match weapon type and sub-class, the theory is aligning them – so your Energy, Power and sub-class are the same – will guarantee the Orbs you are looking for.

On top of these, each day will be focused on a different Element, and after collecting 30 Orbs of that element, you’ll receive one of the following buffs:

• Solar Elemental Buff: Emit energy that damages anything around you
• Void Elemental Buff: Crouch to become invisible and gain Truesight, as well as enhanced ability regeneration
• Arc Elemental Buff: Enchanced movement speed, greater melee and sword damage

These buffs only last for a minute or so, and can’t be used in Competitive Crucible or Gambit Prime modes, but should make your life easier when completing the EAZ and other events.

Whether you take notice of the buffs or not, these Elemental Orbs are central to upgrading several Solstice armour steps. First of all, make sure you’re actually wearing the armour for the Orb collection or kills to count towards the armour upgrade steps. This is important!

Second, yellow bar enemies tend to have higher drop rates. Third, during the 2018 Solstice, it’s said that Kinetic weapon kills will align with your sub-class choice. You also need to physically run over the Orbs to add them to your total.

Finally, if you are collecting Orbs and the percentage isn’t going up, remember to look at the specific requirements for that piece of armour, as some require Elemental Orbs in a specific activity (such as Strikes) or destination (like the EDZ).

The easiest way to tick these off the list is to concentrate on the other activities you have to complete, while making kills with that sub-class.

The annual Moments of Triumph and Solstice of Heroes have arrived to keep us busy over the summer .

We’ve seen several other Exotics added to the game recently too – including Lumina, Truth and Bad Juju.

The start of this season saw the introduction of The Invitation quest steps, Imperials and a higher Destiny2 power level cap.

As always, Forsaken activities are still worth checking out – including the Ascendant Challenge this week and Blind Well and Oracle Engine Offering activities.