Destiny 2 Weekly Reset: New Nightfall, Challenges, and Rewards

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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 come for Destiny 2, which means missions, challenges, and rewards have been reset. Destiny 2 remains in between acts at the moment, but the current narrative surrounding the game is Destiny 2's declining player count. While this isn't the first time that this issue has arisen, this time feels a bit different due to ongoing factors plaguing the game from major bugs, controversies, and general issues.

For now though, Destiny 2's The Dawning event continues on, giving players one last change to continue baking cookies and collecting rewards. While much of the event remains the same, Bungie has added a community challenge element to help make 3 rare emblems easier to drop. To that end, Bungie revealed the staggering amount of cookies Destiny 2 players baked for Commander Zavala, which, at the time, was well over 3 million.

Either way, the Destiny 2 weekly reset has arrived, bringing with it the usual refreshed content, activities, and rewards for players to chase over the next week. For a complete look at all the new content available for the week of December 23, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and challenges, here is 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.

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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 brought back various exotic missions for players to run through to earn new rewards, gear, as well as craftable versions of exotic weapons. Like the Raid and Dungeon rotator, this one changes on a weekly basis.

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

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Originally introduced during Season 17, Bungie features Raids and Dungeons in a weekly rotation to make them farmable with updated rewards. Starting in Episode: Revenant, Bungie is making 2 of each 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 simply by playing and performing certain 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, giving players a short window to check out what he has in stock. With The Final Shape, Xur has seen a rework of what is on offer. Here's what the merchant 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

Make sure to check back every Friday for a comprehensive 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 Trails of Osiris offer players a high-end PvP activity in exchange for powerful rewards, especially for players who go flawless and earn a trip to the Lighthouse. Similar to most vendors in Destiny 2, Saint-14 has a reputation system that rewards players for ranking up through playing and completing bounties.

Trials of Osiris for 12/20:

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