How To Get Solstice Armor Destiny 2

2022 sees the offset major upgrade to Destiny ii's Solstice of Heroes event in years. It'south withal all about upgrading ornate armor sets, but the method is completely different. The effect has too dropped "of Heroes" from its name, so information technology'south just Solstice at present — similar Cher, or Prince.

In this Destiny 2 guide, we'll walk yous through all of the major changes to the event, how to upgrade all your armor pieces, and how to collect a dandy roll of the Something New Stasis paw cannon.

Solstice 2022 runs from July 19 to Aug. ix.

How to upgrade your armor

The menu screen for Candescent Gauntlets in Destiny 2

When you outset log into Solstice 2022, you'll need to head down to the Tower and meet with space grandma (Eva Levante, the seasonal vendor). She'll give yous your kickoff set of armor and send you on the tutorial quest. Complete it to unlock the Event Challenges and get into the center of the outcome.

Popular into the quest menu (or look below) and option out an Effect Challenge y'all want to complete. To be more efficient, read all the Challenges showtime so you can work toward completing multiple at once. In one case you consummate a Challenge, collect it and the Kindling that comes with it. Inspect one of your pieces of Solstice armor and mouse over the fifth node from the left. You'll have the option to spend your Kindling to activate a Pocket-size Kindling in the node. Exercise it.

Eva Levante offers some Silver Leaves to the player in Destiny 2

Now complete non-Bonfire Bash activities (while wearing your Solstice armor) until you earn at least four Silver Leaves (special Solstice currency you can pick upwards from doing most in-game activities). Once you have them, go run a Bonfire Bash and stoke the flames as many times as y'all can by throwing the balls at the pyre in the middle of the map. When you kill the final boss, y'all'll trade in each Argent Foliage for five Silver Ash.

Caput back into the menu of the armor slice that y'all placed the Modest Kindling on. Mouse over the node to the right of the Small-scale Kindling and spend your Silver Ash to activate the Glowing Embers. This volition re-roll your armor's stats and increase its stat threshold.

A look at all three class armors in Destiny 2's Solstice 2022 event

You'll echo this unabridged procedure two more than times, with each tier getting more expensive — you lot'll need a total of 6 Kindling and 120 Silvery Ash to upgrade a single armor slot. The good news is that, for the residue of the event, every matching piece of armor you pick up for the same slot volition already have the upgrades installed. For example, in one case y'all've fully upgraded your Candescent Gauntlets, every pair of Candescent Gauntlets you find between now and Aug. ix will already be fully upgraded.

After y'all've fully upgraded your helmet, arm, breast, and leg armor (you can't upgrade your class item), you lot'll have completed the set and earned your white glow. If you lot want your armor to glow the color of your bracket, you lot'll need to purchase the packet from the Eververse shop for ane,500 Argent ($15).

Solstice 2022 Event Challenges

The menu screen for Event Challenges in Destiny 2

As we mentioned to a higher place, you'll need to consummate Challenges to option upward Kindling and, in turn, upgrade your armor pieces. At that place are 24 Challenges per character, which means you can get 24 total Kindling — just enough to fully level upward your Solstice 2022 armor.

You lot can detect the Event Challenges in the special Solstice section in the quest bill of fare, only we've likewise listed them here for your convenience:

Bashing Success - Complete the Blaze Bash activity
Skillful Ignite - Defeat (20) Ignition Carries in Blaze Bash
Torch the Taken - Defeat (20) Taken in Bonfire Bash
Fuel for the Fire - Stoke the flames in the Bonfire Bash (50)
Ash Tray - Collect (500) Silverish Ash
All Effectually the Blaze - Complete the Blaze Fustigate activity confronting all combat races (two completions each)
Fuel for the Fire 2 - Stoke more flames in the Bonfire Bash (100)
Fuel for the Fire three - Stoke even more flames in the Bonfire Bash (150)
Similar Wildfire - Defeat targets anywhere in the organization. Defeating Guardians awards bonus progress
Pyromania - Defeat combatants with Solar abilities
Superlative - Defeat targets with Super abilities
Burn Power - Defeat combatants or opposing Guardians with Ability weapons
Forged in Flame - Defeat (100) opposing Guardians in any action
Hand Lighter - Defeat targets with paw cannons
Shotgun Solstice - Defeat targets with shotguns
Burn them Down - Defeat (threescore) bosses anywhere in the arrangement
Raking the Dress-down - Consummate the playlist activities to earn Argent Leaves
Solstice Jubilee - Complete public events on whatsoever destination to earn Silver Leaves
Lamplighter - Complete (ten) Patrols on whatsoever destination to earn Silver Leaves
Cartel to Dream - Consummate runs of the Blind Well or Dares of Eternity to earn Silver Leaves
Brightfall - Consummate Vanguard Ops or Nightfalls to earn Silver Leaves
Fire of Competition - Complete (25) matches in Crucible or Gambit playlists to earn Silvery Leaves
A Spark in the Dark - Complete Sever missions or rounds in Altars of Sorrow to earn Silver Leaves
In the Hot Seat - Complete activities within the Throne Earth to earn Silvery Leaves

How to get the perfect armor and Solstice weapons

The cursor hovers over a Spark of Resilience for Candescent Graves in Destiny 2

Now that you know how to upgrade your armor, you can focus on the existent grind: grabbing perfectly rolled armor pieces and Solstice weapons.

Once you've maxed an armor piece, you'll exist able to spend 60 Argent Ash to re-roll it by selecting a specific stat yous want to boost. This additional stat will exist guaranteed to accept at least 20 points. However, you won't exist able to re-roll that exact armor piece again — you'll need to loot another copy if you're unhappy with your curl.

If you want more armor pieces to re-roll, as well every bit copies of the Compass Rose Solar shotgun and Something New Stasis mitt cannon, you lot'll need to run Bonfire Fustigate. The consequence is pretty generous with its loot, so you should have a healthy collection to choose from later on a few runs.

Alternating character catchup

The equip screen for a Warlock with un-upgraded Solstice 2022 gear in Destiny 2

So you lot've finished your main character — yous've fully upgraded your 2022 Candescent fix, and it all has perfectly rolled stats — and now you'd like to do it again on another class. The good news is that you can log into 1 of your other characters and immediately go started on Solstice 2022. The bad news is that it doesn't seem similar whatever of your progress carries over.

Dissimilar previous Solstice years, players oasis't discovered a catchup mechanic, meaning you lot'll likely demand to do the grind once more from scratch if you want that perfectly rolled armor on more than than one class.

If nosotros discover a better method for catching alternate characters up, nosotros'll update this guide.