Updated August 9, 2024: Another week has come for Destiny 2, which means missions, challenges, and rewards have been reset. It was a particularly tough week at Bungie as the studio announced massive layoffs impacting over 200 employees. The announcement left many developers shocked and surprised, while fans expressed anger and disappointment that the studio was again cutting more jobs.
While there’s no getting around the disappointment of people losing their jobs, the machine that is Destiny 2 rolls forward. The game has entered its second period of downtime after Act 2 of Episode Echoes, giving players another three weeks to catch up before the third and final piece launches. Alongside the weekly reset, this week will be the start of the annual Solstice event in Destiny 2, which brings with it new explorer-themed armor sets as well as new weapons that include a combat bow, Compass Rose shotgun, Something New hand cannon, and a strand rocket launcher called Crowning Duologue.
Alongside all of that, the Destiny 2 weekly reset continues right along with its 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 August 6, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and challenges, here is everything players need to know.
Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers
Nightfall Strike: Fallen S.A.B.E.R.
Advanced Modifiers:
- Champions: Overload and Barrier
- Hero Modifiers: Extra Shields. Void, Solar, and Arc.
- Galvanized: Combatants have more health and are more difficult to stun.
- Overcharge: Fusion Rifle and Kinetic Weapons when the player’s subclass matches an active Surge element.
- Arach-NO!: When defeated, Fallen Vandals spawn a web mine at their feet.
- Threat: Arc
- Surge: Void and Arc
Expert Modifiers:
- All previous modifiers.
- Equipment Locked: Unable to change equipment once the mission starts.
Master Modifiers:
- All previous modifiers.
- Togetherness: Base health regen is reduced. If near another player, health regen is increased.
- Master Modifiers: Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.
Grandmaster Modifiers:
- All previous modifiers.
- Chaff: Radar is disabled.
- Master Modifiers: Extinguish, Limited Revives, Contest, and Join In Progress Disabled.
- Nightfall Weapon: Pre Astyanax IV (Adept Combat Bow)
- Episode: Echoes Seasonal Challenges
- Week 10
- Finely Tuned: Acquire Pitch Perfect ritual weapon.
- Fleeting Glory: Complete 8 Crucible matches in the Competitive Playlist. Bonus progress for wins.
- Cosmodrome Activities: In the Cosmodrome, earn progress by completing bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors.
- Mid-Range Calibrattion: Calibrate 400 mid-range weapons-Hand cannons, Glaives, Auto Rifles, Fusion Rifles, and Machine Guns. Bonus progress against 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: 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.
- Featured Raid: Garden of Salvation
- Featured Dungeon: Pit of Heresy
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Raid Challenges
- Salvation’s Edge: At Capacity
- Deep Stone Crypt: Of All Trades
- Vow of the Disciple: Swift Destruction
- Vault of Glass: Ensemble’s Refrain
- King’s Fall: Under Construction
- Root of Nightmares: All Hands
- Garden of Salvation: Leftovers, A Link to the Chain, To The Top, 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.
- Weekly Crucible Modes: Momentum Control, Showdown, and Rumble
- Gambit
Legacy Activities and Challenges
Europa
- Exo Challenge: Simulation: Safeguard
- Eclipsed Zone: Cadmus Ridge
- Empire Hunt: Praksis: The Technocrat
Neomuna
- Incursion Zone: Liming Harbor
- Campaign Mission: First Contact
- Partition: Hard Reset
Throne World
- Weekly Story Mission: The Communion. Fire Pit modifier as well as Overload and Unstoppable champions.
- 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: Hellmouth
- Wandering Nightmare: Nightmare of Horkis, Fear of Mithrax (Anchor of Light)
- Campaign: In The Deep
Nightmare Rotation:
- Fanatic (Insanity)
- Omnigul (Anguish)
- Skolas (Pride)
Dreaming City
- The Dreaming City Curse Level: High – The Dark Monastery mission
- Petra Venj Location: Rheasilvia
- The Blind Well: Taken enemies – Plague: Inomina
- Ascendant Challenge: Keep of Honed Edges (Harbinger’s Seclude).
Dares of Eternity Rotation
- Round 1: Hive
- Round 2: Vex
- Final Round: Valus Ta’aurc
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 8/9:
- Getaway Artist (Warlock gauntlets)
- Raiju’s Harness (Hunter chest armor)
- MK. 44 Stand Asides (Titan leg armor)
- The Jade Rabbit (Scout Rifle)
- Hard Light (Auto Rifle)
- D.A.R.C.I. (Sniper Rifle)
- Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon)
- Wardcliff Coil Catalyst
- Hard Light Catalyst
- Exotic Engram
- Upgrade Module
- Glimmer
- Ascendant Shard
- Enhancement Cores
- Strange Gift (Random Item for 1 Strange Coin)
- Dire Promise (Kinetic Hand Cannon)
- Scathelocke (Kinetic Auto Rifle)
- Seventh Seraph CQC-12 (Energy Shotgun)
- Brigand’s Law (Energy Sidearm)
- Bad Omens (Heavy Rocket Launcher)
- Hoosegow (Heavy Rocket Launcher)
- Crown-Splitter/Quickfang/Eternity’s Edge (Heavy Sword)
- Strange Weapon Engram
- Kairos Function 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 8/9:
- Map: Distant Shore
- Weapon: Eye of Sol (Adept Sniper Rifle)
