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

Destiny 2 Weekly Reset: December 24, 2024 - A Look at the New Content

Another week dawns in the world of Destiny 2, bringing with it a fresh batch of activities, challenges, and rewards. While the game currently sits between major story arcs, the ongoing Dawning event continues, offering players a final chance to bake cookies and earn rewards. Bungie has even added a community challenge aspect to this year's event, making certain emblems easier to obtain (Commander Zavala's cookie count exceeded 3 million!).

This weekly reset delivers the usual updated content. Here’s a comprehensive guide to the week of December 23rd's offerings, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and more.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike: The Inverted Spire

Modifiers: This week's Nightfall features a challenging mix of modifiers across various difficulty levels. Check the detailed breakdown below for specifics on Champion types, Hero, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster modifiers.

• Advanced: Barrier and Overload Champions; Extra Shields (Solar, Void, Arc); Galvanized; Overcharge (Shotgun and Kinetic weapons when subclass matches Surge element); Threat (Void); Surge (Void and Arc).
• Expert: All Advanced modifiers + Equipment Locked; Randomized Banes; Expert Modifiers (Extra Shields).
• Master: All Expert modifiers + Haste; Master Modifiers (Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, Extra Shields).
• Grandmaster: All Master modifiers + Chaff; Grandmaster Modifiers (Extinguish, Limited Revives, Join In Progress Disabled, Contest, Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, Extra Shields).

Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges (Week 12)

This week's Revenant challenges offer a variety of tasks across different game modes. Complete these to earn rewards and progress through the season pass.

• Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics boosting specific weapon drop chances.
• Moon Activities: Complete bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors on the Moon.
• Popping Off: Shatter 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 kills or Guardian defeats.
• Momentum Crash: Defeat 50 Guardians in Momentum Control. Bonus progress with Zone Advantage.

Exotic Mission Rotation

Bungie's rotating exotic missions continue, providing opportunities to earn unique rewards and craftable exotic weapons.

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

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Raids and Dungeons are also on a weekly rotation, offering updated rewards and replayability.

• Featured Raids: Vault of Glass and Crota's End
• Featured Dungeons: Grasp of Avarice and Warlord's Ruin

Raid Challenges

A selection of Raid challenges are available for those seeking extra difficulty and rewards. See the list below for details on each Raid and its corresponding challenge.

• 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

Earn rewards and Pathfinder progress by participating in Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit.

Legacy Activities and Challenges

Several legacy activities across various locations offer challenges and rewards.

• 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).
• The Moon: Trove Guardian (Anchor of Light); Wandering Nightmare (Nightmare of Horkis, Fear of Mithrax); Campaign (A Mysterious Disturbance); Nightmare Rotation (Phogoth, Taniks, Ghaul).
• Dreaming City: Curse Level (Rising); Petra Venj Location (Divalian Mists); Blind Well (Hive enemies - Plague: Cragur); Ascendant Challenge (Cimmerian Garrison).

Dares of Eternity Rotation

This week's Dares of Eternity rotation features the following enemy types:

• Round 1: Taken
• Round 2: Cabal
• Final Round: Zydron

Xur Details (12/20)

Xur's inventory for the weekend of December 20th includes a selection of exotic armor, weapons, and catalysts. Check his offerings before the reset! (Note: The full list of Xur's inventory is provided in the original text and is too extensive to reproduce here without significant shortening and potential loss of information).

Trials of Osiris (12/20)

Saint-14's Trials of Osiris offers high-stakes PvP action.

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

Remember to check back next week for the next Destiny 2 weekly reset update!