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

Updated December 24, 2024: Another week has arrived for Destiny 2, bringing fresh missions, challenges, and rewards. Despite the ongoing narrative around the game's declining player count, which has been attributed to various issues including major bugs and controversies, Destiny 2 remains a compelling experience. The current event, The Dawning, continues to engage players with the chance to bake cookies and collect rewards. Bungie has introduced a community challenge to increase the drop rate of 3 rare emblems, celebrating the community's effort in baking over 3 million cookies for Commander Zavala.

The weekly reset in Destiny 2 ensures a constant stream of new content, activities, and rewards for players to explore over the next week. Below is a comprehensive guide to everything new for the week of December 23, covering 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: Earn progress on the Moon 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 in Season 17, Bungie features Raids and Dungeons in a weekly rotation to make them farmable with updated rewards. 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 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: A weekly activity accessed through marked icons within the Throne World, involving light puzzle solving and 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 exotic merchant, appears every weekend until reset, offering a window to acquire unique items. With The Final Shape, Xur's inventory has been revamped. Here's what's available 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 list of Xur's latest exotic offerings.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Saint-14 hosts Trials of Osiris, a high-end PvP activity where players can earn powerful rewards, especially those who go flawless and reach the Lighthouse. Like other vendors, Saint-14's reputation system rewards players for playing and completing bounties.

Trials of Osiris for December 20: