Destiny 2 Weekly Update: Fresh Nightfall, Challenges, and Loot

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

Another week, another Destiny 2 reset! While the game currently sits between acts, and the ongoing narrative revolves around a reported decline in player numbers, the weekly reset brings fresh content, activities, and rewards. The Dawning event continues, featuring a community challenge to unlock rare emblems. Let's dive into the details for the week of December 23rd.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike: The Inverted Spire

Modifiers: This week's Nightfall features a challenging mix of modifiers across Advanced, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster difficulties. Expect Champions, increased enemy health and resilience, and various elemental modifiers. Grandmaster 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 final blows with specific weapon types in various playlists.

• Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics boosting specific weapon drop chances.
• 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).
• Momentum Crash: Defeat 50 Guardians in Momentum Control (bonus with Zone Advantage).

Exotic Mission Rotation

Bungie's rotating exotic missions offer a chance 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.

• 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 across various raids, offering additional rewards for completion. (List of available Raid Challenges omitted for brevity, but present in the original text.)

Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

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

Legacy Activities and Challenges

Several legacy activities across various locations (Europa, Neomuna, Throne World, The Moon, and Dreaming City) offer challenges and rewards. (Details omitted for brevity, but present in the original text.)

Dares of Eternity Rotation

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

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

Xur Details

Xur's inventory for the weekend of December 20th includes a selection of exotic weapons and armor. (Details omitted for brevity, but present in the original text.)

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

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

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