Destiny 2 Weekly Update: Nightfall, Challenges, Bounties Revealed

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

Another week, another Destiny 2 reset! While the game navigates a period between acts and addresses concerns about player count, The Dawning event continues, offering a final chance to bake cookies and claim rewards. Bungie has even added a community challenge element to boost rare emblem drops, showcasing the impressive 3+ million cookies baked for Commander Zavala.

This week's reset brings refreshed content, activities, and rewards. Let's dive into the details:

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike: The Inverted Spire

Modifiers: This week's Nightfall features a challenging mix of modifiers, escalating in difficulty from Advanced to Grandmaster. Expect Barrier and Overload Champions, increased enemy health and resilience, and various elemental modifiers impacting weapon choices and subclass synergy. Grandmaster difficulty adds significant hurdles like disabled radar and limited revives.

• Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges (Week 12)

This week's Revenant challenges offer a variety of objectives, including crafting tonics, completing Moon activities, and achieving specific combatant eliminations in various playlists. Bonus progress is available for using specific weapon types or achieving certain conditions.

• Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics boosting specific weapon drop rates.
• Moon Activities: Progress through bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors on the Moon.
• Popping Off: Shatter 150 combatant shields with matching elemental damage.
• Instrumented Performance: Secure 150 final blows with Special ammo (bonus for Shotguns/Grenade Launchers or Guardian kills).
• Momentum Crash: Defeat 50 Guardians in Momentum Control (bonus with Zone Advantage).

Exotic Mission Rotation

Bungie's rotating exotic missions provide opportunities for new 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 refreshed rewards.

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

Raid Challenges

Numerous raid challenges are available across various raids, providing additional difficulty and rewards for completion.

Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

Earn Pathfinder rewards through Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit activities.

Legacy Activities and Challenges

Several legacy activities across various locations (Europa, Neomuna, Throne World, The Moon, Dreaming City) offer challenges and rewards. This includes campaign missions, patrols, and specific events. Nightmare Hunts also rotate weekly.

Dares of Eternity Rotation

This week's Dares of Eternity rotation features a specific enemy type for each round.

Xur Details

Xur, the exotic merchant, offers a selection of exotic weapons and armor for the weekend. Check his inventory for potential upgrades.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Saint-14's Trials of Osiris provides high-stakes PvP action with powerful rewards.

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

This comprehensive overview covers the key updates for the Destiny 2 weekly reset on December 24, 2024. Good luck, Guardians!