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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 dawns in Destiny 2, bringing a fresh wave of missions, challenges, and rewards. While the game currently sits between acts, the ongoing narrative includes concerns about a declining player base. This isn't unprecedented, but current issues like major bugs, controversies, and general gameplay problems make this situation feel different.

For now, The Dawning event continues, offering a final chance to bake cookies and reap the rewards. Bungie has added a community challenge element, making three rare emblems easier to obtain. They recently revealed the impressive number of cookies baked for Commander Zavala—over 3 million at last count!

This week's Destiny 2 reset delivers the usual updated content. Here's a comprehensive guide to the new activities and rewards available for the week of December 23rd, 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: Increased combatant health and stun resistance.
• Overcharge: Enhanced Shotgun and Kinetic Weapon damage when subclass matches an active Surge element.
• Threat: Void
• Surge: Void and Arc

Expert Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Equipment Locked: Equipment changes are disabled once the mission begins.
• Randomized Banes: Combatants receive random Banes.
• Expert Modifiers: Extra Shields

Master Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Haste: Health regenerates faster while moving; standing still inflicts 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 increasing specific weapon drop rates.
• Moon Activities: Earn progress on the Moon through bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors.
• Popping Off: Break 150 combatant shields with matching elemental damage in Vanguard or Gambit playlists.
• Instrumented Performance: Get 150 final blows with Special ammo in Gambit, Crucible, or Vanguard Ops. Bonus progress for Shotgun/Grenade Launcher final blows or Guardian defeats.
• Momentum Crash: Defeat 50 Guardians in Momentum Control. Bonus progress with Zone Advantage.

Exotic Mission Rotation

Bungie has reintroduced various exotic missions, offering rewards, gear, and craftable exotic weapons. This rotation updates weekly.

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

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Introduced in Season 17, this weekly rotation makes Raids and Dungeons farmable with updated rewards. Two of each are featured weekly.

• 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 earn Pathfinder rewards by playing and completing tasks in 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 in the Throne World (puzzle-solving and combat).

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, appears weekly until reset. His offerings have been reworked with The Final Shape. Here's his inventory 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

Check back every Friday for updated exotic gear and rolls.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Saint-14's Trials of Osiris offers high-end PvP with powerful rewards, especially for flawless runs. He has a reputation system rewarding players for participation and bounty completion.

Trials of Osiris for 12/20:

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