Today we’re looking at the Strikes playlist, including the Nightfall: The Ordeal for this week (The Devils’ Lair) With the Weekly reset we now have seven Seasonal challenges dealing specifically with strikes: - Week 1: Dominance Operandi - Fallen - Defeat Fallen, especially tougher foes - Week 2: Dominance Operandi - Cabal - Defeat Cabal bosses - Week 3: Challenge Our Foes - Complete playlist strikes - Week 4: Vanguard Chosen - Complete Nightfall: The Ordeal on Hero difficulty or higher - Week 5: Ultimate Champion - Defeat Champions in any Nightfall: The Ordeal strikes. Earn bonus progress at higher difficulty tiers. - Week 6: Nightfall Variety Attack - Defeat combatants using Sniper Rifles, Submachine Guns, Rocket Launchers, or Bows in Nightfall: The Ordeal - Week 6: Conquest of the Mighty - Complete any Nightfall: The Ordeal strike on Grandmaster. Some other Seasonal Challenges to keep in mind are: Golden Reaper (Retroactive Challenge) - Acquire Cabal gold - Week 1: Challenger’s Aspirations - Complete weekly playlist challenges - Week 2: The Bigger They Are - Defeat Elite or Boss Cabal anywhere in the system - Week 4: Sling the Stone - Stagger, pierce, or disrupt Champions Completing three strikes from the playlist using a subclass that matches the weekly burn (Solar this week) will take care of the Strike Playlist weekly challenge Completing Nightfall: The Ordeal strikes will progress its Weekly challenge. Higher difficulties grant the most efficient progress. Completing a Nightfall with a score above 100,000 completes that Weekly challenge Completing 8 Vanguard Daily and Repeatable bounties completes the Vanguard Service challenge With all that said, let’s dig in: Today’s modifiers are Solar Singe, Stasis Singe, and Iron. Check the Nightfall strike for the different modifiers that are available this week for it. [b][u]Suggested Loadout[/u][/b] Go Submachine Gun, Pulse Rifle, and Special Grenade Launcher in your Kinetic and Energy slots. Grab a Rocket Launcher for your power weapon. Make your weapons Void, Arc, and Solar Defeat Powerful enemies, get those grenade This covers all of Banshee’s Calibrations today, Saladin’s Assault, Osiris’s Mark, and Warrior of the Void from the War Table, and all four of Zavala’s dailies today. [b]Rewards:[/b] - An estimated 72,000 XP - 20 Vanguard Tokens - 8 Mod Components and 4 Enhancement Cores - Progress on Zavala and Banshee’s Weekly Bounty Challenges If you need that extra XP boost, be sure to pick up Banshee and Zavala’s Repeatable bounties. Repeatables also contribute to their respective Weekly Bounty challenges. [u][b]Cosmodrome Bounties:[/b] [/u] If you’re heading into the Nightfall or any other Cosmodrome Strike today (3/18/21) be sure to pick up Shaw’s Full Spectrum weekly (kills with all three original energies) and all four of his dailies. Defeat combatants, especially Hive, with your abilities and kinetic weapons. Full Spectrum lines up nicely with a good number of the bounties from the Suggested Loadout Section. [b][u]Other Planetary Bounties[/u][/b]: For any other strike today you can work on the following from each planet’s respective vendor: [b]Variks (Europa)[/b] - Europan Precision - Fallen precison kills - Vex on Ice - Vex kills - You can also pick up Variks’ Repeatables which will contribute to his Weekly Europan bounty challenge. - Grab the War Table’s Europan Front daily if you decide to head into the Glassway. [b]Eris (Moon)[/b] - Deathless Auto - Auto Rifle multikills - Gun Runner - Submachine Gun multikills [b]Devrim (The EDZ)[/b] - The Arms Dealer Strike is great for the Week 2 Seasonal Challenges Dominance Operandi - Cabal and They Bigger They Are. - Superhuman - Super Multikills - Exterminator - Defeat Fallen in the EDZ [b]Failsafe (Nessus) - [/b]- Power Fantasy - Defeat enemies - Friend or Foe - Defeat Fallen on Nessus Petra’s bounties aren’t on the API so you’ll have to check with her in-game for what you can do in the Corrupted strike. Each planetary daily bounty should reward 6,000 XP and planetary materials. Spider’s and Petra’s bounties might still be weird. [b][u]Weekly Challenges[/u] [/b] Stasis kills off of Europa will progress the Exo Stranger’s weekly challenge. Strikes progress Hawthorne’s weekly Clan XP challenge.