The Season of the Chosen in Destiny 2 pits players against the Red Legion and its elite warriors. It’s time to take the fight to the enemy in Season of the Chosen. This Season focuses on a new set of PvE playlists called Battlegrounds, and a lot of them have to do with the Hammer of Proving. The Hammer of Proving unlocks various features and will add more difficult missions over time, so have your power level maxed out to have the best chance of success. Aside from that, you need to learn how to use the new system, Use this guide to learn the basics of how to use the Battlegrounds, as well as how to get Hammer Charges with the Hammer of Proving.
How to get Hammer Charges with the Hammer of Proving
Once you’re ready to begin, you need to start by socketing the Challenge Medallion. We have a guide on it linked below. It’s very simple, as you just open up the Hammer Of Proving in the Director and look in the Quests tab. From there, you can insert any Medallions you have. You will need to farm plenty of Cabal Gold thoughout the season, so keep that in mind.
You can ultimately unlock Proving Runes and increase the power of the Hammer of Proving. You could also speed up your farming efforts for Cabal Gold with these upgrades.
What to do next?
With the Challenge Medallion socketed into the Hammer, you can move on to taking on actual challenges. You will gain access to the various Battleground playlists that can be played. Bungie is planning to add four of these in total. They can be pretty fun if you enjoy PvE. And whenever you complete a match in a Battleground, you get a Hammer Charge. Bungie will add more things to do with these later in the Season. Right now, use those Charges to earn unique umbral engrams to roll for loot. For now, when you defeat the boss at the end of the run, you can find a Tribute Chest. Spend 14 Cabal Gold and use the Hammer Charge to bash it open.
The Behemoth and Hailstone Battlegrounds will be available from the season’s launch on February 9th. Bungie is likely to add other maps and playlists to the mode over time. Expect to see more tracks in the Hammer of Proving at that point. A third EDZ-based Battleground called Cleansing will open on Feb. 16. ANd the final Oracle Battleground will open up on February 23.
How to earn Cabal Gold
Cabal Gold is the new core mechanic of Season of the Chosen’s and you can earn it via both the Battlegrounds and other activities. That means you can get it from completing Crucible, Strikes, Gambit, dungeons, Nightmare hunts, or doing the Blind Well. So just farm those Strikes and get plenty of the stuff.
Just keep farming Strikes if you really want to speed up getting Cabal Gold. You can check your progress via the Quests menu under Challenger’s Proving.
