Destiny 2 Weekly Reset: New Nightfall and 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 exciting week has arrived for Destiny 2 players, with missions, challenges, and rewards being refreshed. While Destiny 2 is currently in between major narrative acts, the community has been discussing the game's player count, which has seen fluctuations due to ongoing issues like bugs and controversies. However, the spirit of the game remains strong, with the festive The Dawning event still in full swing, offering players a final chance to bake cookies and collect exclusive rewards. Bungie has added a community challenge to the event, making three rare emblems easier to obtain. They've also revealed that players have baked over 3 million cookies for Commander Zavala, showcasing the community's engagement.

With the weekly reset, Destiny 2 players can dive into a variety of new content and activities. Here's a comprehensive guide to all the fresh content available for the week of December 23, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and challenges.

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.

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• 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 continues to delight players by bringing back various exotic missions, offering new rewards, gear, and craftable versions of exotic weapons. These missions rotate weekly, providing fresh challenges and opportunities.

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

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Since its introduction in Season 17, Bungie has been featuring Raids and Dungeons in a weekly rotation, allowing players to farm them for updated rewards. With Episode: Revenant, two of each are now available in the 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 enhance their rewards through Destiny 2's Pathfinder system by engaging in ritual activities like Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit, and performing specific tasks.

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 mysterious exotic merchant in Destiny 2, arrives every weekend until reset, providing players with a limited window to browse his offerings. With The Final Shape, Xur's inventory has been revamped. Here's what he has in store for the weekend of December 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

Check back every Friday for a detailed look at all the new exotic gear and rolls that Xur brings to Destiny 2.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Saint-14's Trials of Osiris remains a pinnacle PvP activity, offering powerful rewards for those who achieve flawless runs and reach the Lighthouse. Like other vendors in Destiny 2, Saint-14's reputation system rewards players for participating and completing bounties.

Trials of Osiris for December 20:

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