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Updated December 24, 2024: Another week has arrived for Destiny 2, bringing a fresh set of missions, challenges, and rewards to dive into. While Destiny 2 currently finds itself in a transitional phase between acts, the spotlight remains on the game's declining player count. This issue, though not new, feels particularly significant this time around due to ongoing challenges including major bugs, controversies, and other issues affecting gameplay.
Amidst these challenges, Destiny 2's seasonal event, The Dawning, continues to captivate players. This festive event offers a final opportunity to bake cookies and collect rewards. Bungie has introduced a community challenge, making it easier to earn three rare emblems. They've also shared an impressive statistic: Destiny 2 players have baked over 3 million cookies for Commander Zavala.
With the weekly reset now live, players can enjoy a refreshed lineup of content, activities, and rewards to explore over the coming week. Here's a comprehensive guide to everything new in Destiny 2 for the week starting 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 has reintroduced various exotic missions for players to conquer, offering 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 during Season 17, Bungie's weekly rotation of Raids and Dungeons allows for farming with updated rewards. Starting in Episode: Revenant, two Raids and two Dungeons are featured 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 engaging 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, Destiny 2's enigmatic exotic merchant, appears every weekend until reset, offering players a limited time to explore his inventory. With the release of The Final Shape, Xur's offerings have been revamped. Here’s what’s available for the weekend starting 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
Stay tuned every Friday for a detailed overview of Xur’s latest exotic gear and rolls in Destiny 2.
Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon
Saint-14 and the Trials of Osiris present players with a high-stakes PvP challenge, rewarding them with powerful gear, especially for those who achieve a flawless run to the Lighthouse. Saint-14's reputation system rewards players for playing and completing bounties.
Trials of Osiris for 12/20:
- Map: Endless Vale
- Weapon: Yesterday's Question (Adept Arc Hand Cannon)
