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Updated December 24, 2024: Another week has arrived for Destiny 2, bringing with it a fresh set of missions, challenges, and rewards. While Destiny 2 is currently in a transitional phase between acts, the game is facing a notable decline in player count. This issue, compounded by ongoing bugs, controversies, and other challenges, has created a unique situation for the community.
However, the festive spirit continues with Destiny 2's The Dawning event, offering players a final opportunity to bake cookies and earn rewards. Bungie has introduced a community challenge to enhance the drop rates of three rare emblems. Impressively, players have already baked over 3 million cookies for Commander Zavala, showcasing the community's dedication.
With the weekly reset, Destiny 2 offers a refreshed array of content, activities, and rewards for players to explore over the next week. Here's a comprehensive guide to everything new in Destiny 2 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.
- 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, allowing players 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 during Season 17, Bungie features Raids and Dungeons in a weekly rotation to make them farmable with updated rewards. Starting in 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 engaging 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 players a limited window to explore his inventory. With The Final Shape, Xur's offerings have been revamped. Here's what the merchant has in stock 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 all the new exotic gear and rolls that Xur brings to Destiny 2.
Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon
Saint-14 and the Trials of Osiris provide a high-end PvP experience, 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 rewards players for ranking up through gameplay and completing bounties.
Trials of Osiris for 12/20:
- Map: Endless Vale
- Weapon: Yesterday's Question (Adept Arc Hand Cannon)
