Seasons Access

[oOMissMaybeOo]

Can you play the seasons missions with the $40 base version of the Witch Queen DLC or must you upgrade? Does the 1000 silver season pass and/or battle pass just unlock the bottom tear for season unlock items?

[.Inceneration!]

Its like every other battle pass.. YOu pay to gain the bottom tier of items and access to the "instant" Exotic item instead of waiting to lvl 35.

[EckyThump]

The base Witch Queen expansion just gives you the Witch Queen campaign and anything related to that, like the raid, exotic quests/entitlements, etc.
Running concurrently to this is Season of the Risen which will have its own narrative and activity, that's what the 1000 silver pass unlocks, as well as the premium row on the reward track.

[Nakos]

The Season Pass unlocks the bottom row of rewards on the seasonal progression system.

Most seasons allow everyone to play the primary seasonal activity at least once and allow you to see the start of the story. This is both to market the season, but also to provide you with the Seasonal Artifact (which everyone needs).

Following that, playing the activities of the season will require an active season pass.

I don't know about how the Battle-pass works though, sorry.

[lobstermadness]

I dont those quite answer the OP's question. The answer is no if you bought just the base version of the Witch Queen DLC. That means you ALSO have to buy the Season Pass if you want anything related to the season pass. The "Season" is not the same thing as the Witch Queen DLC. Bungie is confusing because they use the word Season and Season Pass and they mean different things in Bungie-land. To make matters even worse they call major additions like Witch Queen "DLC," which is completely different than a Season or a Season Pass. What this means is that virtually anyone playing the game will buy both WQ and the current Season Pass and Bungie of course knows that but doesn't warn people about it explicitly. Its a fun game but the marketing of it is not great.

[oOMissMaybeOo]

So the full version for the season access and playability, ok thank you so much guys.