Destiny's April update boosts the Light cap to 335 and remixes the Prison of Elders

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Destiny's next big update will boost the Light cap to 335, the first time Destiny's maximum power level has increased since The Taken King expansion rolled out in September. Bungie revealed many of the changes in store for the game in a livestream on Wednesday, the first of three weekly presentations planned to outline the update ahead of its April 12 launch.

The April update will also add a new Mission called "Pretender to the Throne", in which Guardians take on a new Taken threat gathering power after the (final) fall of Oryx. A new strike and a Taken version of the Winter's Run strike will also be available - that's the one where you fight a Fallen Archon who comes out of a big egg thing, except now he's Taken, so watch out for that. Expect a new bounty of bounties and quest lines as well. Bungie said nothing about those mysterious Taken-looking Guardians, but it did show a few new screens, as you can see above.

Tune in on March 30 for more on the April update's new gear, and again on April 6 for info on the changes coming to Destiny's inner workings and the Crucible.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.