Prison of Elders

The Prison of Elders is a three-player cooperative arena activity that will be included in the Destiny expansion House of Wolves. The Prison of Elders focuses on variety, replay value, and skill in the House of Wolves endgame. Some aspects of the arena will change every week.

Gameplay
The Prison of Elders is a level 28 matchmaking activity and consists of five rounds of three waves, each round and wave being random. Each round will take place in a room that corresponds to an enemy species: Fallen, Hive, Vex, and Cabal. Rounds may also have modifiers enabled. In each wave, enemies spawn and must be eliminated. Some waves have an additional objective, such as defusing mines, destroying mines, or eliminating a target, that must be completed within a time limit. If all members of the fireteam die or if the objective is not completed before time is up, the team must restart that round.

There are no checkpoints in the Prison of Elders. Guardians who quit a Prison of Elders activity before it is completed will not be able to resume where they left off. However, Guardians can join a Prison of Elders activity in progress. If a Guardian is kicked to orbit before the activity is completed, he can still rejoin his fireteam members and gain rewards.

Upon completion of the final round, all participating Guardians will be awarded with a Treasure Key, which allows Guardians to open the loot chests in the Treasure Room. Guardians who did not obtain a Treasure Key in the activity will be unable to open the chests.

Challenges
In addition to the level 28 matchmaking activity, there are six challenge activities that offer greater rewards. Unlike the matchmaking activity, self-revives are disabled, the rounds and waves are predefined, and players can only receive rewards once every week beginning at the Weekly Reset. The level 32 and level 34 activities rotate each week, but the level 35 activity, Skolas's Revenge, is always available.


 * Broken Legion
 * Urrox's Grudge


 * Skolas's Revenge

Rewards

 * Armor Cores
 * Weapon Cores