Destiny 2 Weekly Reset: Fresh Nightfall, Challenges, Rewards Unveiled

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• Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

• Episode: Revenant Challenges

• Exotic Mission Rotation

• Raid and Dungeon Rotation

• Raid Challenges

• Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

• Legacy Activities and Challenges

• Dares of Eternity Rotation

• Xur Details

• Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Updated December 24, 2024: Another week has arrived in Destiny 2, bringing with it a fresh set of missions, challenges, and rewards. While the game is currently in a lull between major story arcs, the community is buzzing with discussions about the game's declining player count. This issue, exacerbated by ongoing bugs, controversies, and other challenges, marks a significant moment for Destiny 2.

Amidst these concerns, the holiday spirit continues with Destiny 2's The Dawning event, offering players a final chance to bake cookies and earn rewards. Bungie has added a community challenge to increase the drop rate of three rare emblems, celebrating the community's effort by revealing that players have baked over 3 million cookies for Commander Zavala.

As the weekly reset refreshes Destiny 2, players can dive into a week full of new content, activities, and rewards. For a comprehensive overview of the week of December 23, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and challenges, here's everything players need to know.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike: The Inverted Spire

Advanced Modifiers:

• Champions: Barrier and Overload
• Hero Modifiers: Extra Shields. Solar, Void, and Arc.
• Galvanized: Combatants have more health and are more difficult to stun.
• Overcharge: Shotgun and Kinetic Weapons when the player's subclass matches an active Surge element.
• Threat: Void
• Surge: Void and Arc

Expert Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Equipment Locked: Unable to change equipment once the mission starts.
• Randomized Banes: Combatants are granted random Banes.
• Expert Modifiers: Extra Shields

Master Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Haste: Moving quickly slowly regenerates your health. Standing still slowly deals damage.
• Master Modifiers: Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.

Grandmaster Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.

• Chaff: Radar is disabled.

• Grandmaster Modifiers: Extinguish, Limited Revives, Join In Progress Disabled, Contest, Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.

• Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges

Week 12

• Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics that increase the probability of attaining a specific weapon.
• Moon Activities: On the Moon, earn progress by completing bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors.
• Popping Off: Break 150 combatant shields with matching damage in Vanguard or Gambit playlists.
• Instrumented Performance: Deal 150 final blows with Special ammo in Gambit, Crucible, or Vanguard Ops activities. Bonus progress for Shotgun or Grenade Launcher final blows or for defeating Guardians.
• Momentum Crash: Defeat 50 Guardians in Momentum Control. Bonus progress with Zone Advantage.

Exotic Mission Rotation

Bungie has reintroduced various exotic missions, providing players the opportunity to earn new rewards, gear, and craftable versions of exotic weapons. This rotation changes weekly, similar to the Raid and Dungeon rotator.

Featured Exotic Mission: Presage (Dead Man's Tale Exotic Scout Rifle)

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Introduced in Season 17, Bungie features Raids and Dungeons in a weekly rotation to make them farmable with updated rewards. Starting with Episode: Revenant, two of each are available in the featured rotation each week:

• Featured Raid: Vault of Glass and Crota's End
• Featured Dungeon: Grasp of Avarice and Warlord's Ruin

Raid Challenges

• Salvation's Edge: At Capacity
• Deep Stone Crypt: Of All Trades
• Vow of the Disciple: Swift Destruction
• Vault of Glass: Strangers In Time, Ensemble's Refrain, The Only Oracle for You, Out Of Its Way, Wait For It...
• King's Fall: Under Construction
• Root of Nightmares: All Hands
• Garden of Salvation: Zero to One Hundred
• Last Wish: Keep Out

Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

Players can earn additional rewards through Destiny 2's Pathfinder system by participating in and completing tasks in ritual activities like Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit.

Legacy Activities and Challenges

### Europa

• Exo Challenge: Simulation: Agility
• Eclipsed Zone: Asterion Abyss
• Empire Hunt: Phylaks, The Warrior

### Neomuna

• Incursion Zone: Ahimsa Park
• Campaign Mission: First Contact
• Partition: Ordnance

### Throne World

• Weekly Story Mission: The Last Chance
• Altars of Reflection: Weekly activity that players can take on through specifically marked icons within the Throne World. These missions typically involve light puzzle solving as well as battling enemy combatants.

### The Moon

• Trove Guardian: Anchor of Light
• Wandering Nightmare: Nightmare of Horkis, Fear of Mithrax (Anchor of Light)
• Campaign: A Mysterious Disturbance

Nightmare Rotation:

• Phogoth (Fear)
• Taniks (Isolation)
• Ghaul (Rage)

### Dreaming City

• The Dreaming City Curse Level: Rising - The Oracle Engine mission
• Petra Venj Location: Divalian Mists
• The Blind Well: Hive enemies - Plague: Cragur
• Ascendant Challenge: Cimmerian Garrison (Chamber of Starlight)

Dares of Eternity Rotation

• Round 1: Taken
• Round 2: Cabal
• Final Round: Zydron

Xur Details

Xur, the exotic merchant of Destiny 2, arrives every weekend until reset, offering a limited window for players to browse his stock. With The Final Shape, Xur's offerings have been revamped. Here's what he has for the weekend of 12/20:

• Astrocyte Verse (Warlock helmet)
• The Sixth Coyote (Hunter chest armor)
• An Insurmountable Skullfort (Titan helmet)
• Arbalest (Linear Fusion Rifle)
• Riskrunner (Submachine Gun)
• The Prospector (Heavy Grenade Launcher)
• Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon)
• Borealis Catalyst
• Jade Rabbit Catalyst
• The Xurfboard (Skimmer Board Vehicle)
• Essentialism/Stoicism/Solipsism OR Exotic Cipher
• Exotic Engram
• Ascendant Shard
• Glimmer
• Enhancement Core
• Raid Banner
• Strange Gift (Random Item for 1 Strange Coin)
• Enigma's Draw (Kinetic Sidearm)
• Dire Promise (Kinetic Hand Cannon)
• Hollow Words (Energy Fusion Rifle)
• Death Adder (Energy Submachine Gun)
• Seventh Seraph SAW (Heavy Machine Gun)
• Semiotician (Heavy Rocket Launcher)
• Crown-Splitter/Quickfang/Eternity's Edge (Heavy Sword)
• Strange Weapon Engram
• Sovereign Armor Set

Be sure to check back every Friday for a detailed breakdown of Xur's new exotic gear and rolls.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Saint-14 and the Trials of Osiris provide a high-end PvP activity, rewarding players with powerful gear, especially for those who achieve a flawless run and visit the Lighthouse. Like other vendors in Destiny 2, Saint-14 operates a reputation system that players can advance through gameplay and completing bounties.

Trials of Osiris for 12/20:

• Map: Endless Vale
• Weapon: Yesterday's Question (Adept Arc Hand Cannon)