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

Updated December 3, 2024: Another week has come for Destiny 2, which means missions, challenges, and rewards have been reset. With the Iron Banner hitting its second week in Destiny 2, players now have a limited time to collect the Iron Intent armor set and earn those weapon rolls.

However, for many fans, the discussion has turned to tonics, a core gameplay mechanic introduced for Episode Revenant. After some community testing, players discovered that Tomb of Elders tonics are broken, with drop boosting effects not actually being applied to the correct weapon. Bungie has confirmed the findings and identified the issue, but there isn’t a timetable for a fix quite yet.

In the meantime, 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 3, 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: Overload and Barrier
• 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: Stasis 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: Undercurrent (Grenade Launcher)

Episode: Revenant Challenges

Week 9

• Resurrection III – Complete Part 3 of Act 2 “Grave Robber”
• Returning Champion – Complete 30 runs of Contest of Elders. Positive Warden’s Judgment gives bonus progress.
• Growing Power – Acquire this Episode’s ritual weapon.
• Flourish of Power – Defeat 25 Guardians in the Mayhem playlist with Super abilities.
• Rolling Energy – Defeat 50 targets with an Arc, Stasis, or Void subclass equipped in Gambit. Bonus progress for ability final blows and final blows against Guardians.
• Calibrate Close Range – Calibrate close-range weapons: Sidearms, Submachine Guns, Shotguns, Glaives, and Swords. Bonus progress for defeating Guardians.

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: Operation: Seraph’s Shield (Revision Zero Pulse 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: Vow of the Disciple and Last Wish
• Featured Dungeon: Duality and The Shattered Throne

Raid Challenges

• Salvation’s Edge: Varied Geometry
• Deep Stone Crypt: The Core Four
• Vow of the Disciple: Swift Destruction, Base Information, Defenses Down, Looping Catalyst
• Vault of Glass: The Only Oracle for You
• King’s Fall: Hand’s Off
• Root of Nightmares: The Grass Is Always Greener
• Garden of Salvation: A Link to the Chain
• Last Wish: Strength of Memory, Which Witch, Keep Out, Forever Fight, Summoning Ritual

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

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Neomuna

• Incursion Zone: Ahimsa Park
• Campaign Mission: Breakneck
• Partition: Ordinance

Throne World

• Weekly Story Mission: The Ghosts
• 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 Jaxx, Claw of Xivu Arath (Hellmouth)
• Campaign: A MYsterious Disturbance

Nightmare Rotation:

• Crota (Despair)
• Phogoth (Fear)
• 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: Shattered Ruins (Spine of Keres)

Dares of Eternity Rotation

• Round 1: Fallen
• Round 2: Hive
• 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 11/29:

• Chromatic Fire (Warlock chest armor)
• Khepri’s Sting (Hunter gauntlets)
• An Insurmountable Skullfort (Titan helmet)
• Monte Carlo (Auto Rifle)
• Telesto (Fusion Rifle)
• Black Talon (Heavy Sword)
• Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon)
• Prospector Catalyst
• Lord of Wolves Catalyst
• The Xurfboard (Skimmer Board Vehicle)
• Essentialism/Stoicism/Solipsism OR Exotic Cipher
• Exotic Engram
• Ascendant Shard
• Glimmer
• Enhancement Core
• Gunsmith Engram
• Strange Gift (Random Item for 1 Strange Coin)
• False Promises (Kinetic Auto Rifle)
• Farewell (Kinetic Sidearm)
• Hollow Words (Energy Fusion Rifle)
• The Number (Energy Auto Rifle)
• Blast Battue (Heavy Grenade Launcher)
• Canis Major (Heavy Grenade Launcher)
• Crown-Splitter/Quickfang/Eternity’s Edge (Heavy Sword)
• Strange Weapon Engram
• Seventh Seraph 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.

No Trials of Osiris for 11/29. Iron Banner is active!

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Released

August 28, 2017

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer , Online Co-Op

Engine

Tiger Engine

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ESRB

T For TEEN for Blood, Language, and Violence

Expansions

Destiny 2: Forsaken , Destiny 2: Shadowkeep , Destiny 2: Beyond Light , Destiny 2: The Witch Queen , Destiny 2: Lightfall

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How Long To Beat

100+

PS Plus Availability

Essential, Extra, & Premium (The Witch Queen)

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