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Weekly Destiny 2 Reset: Nightfall, Challenges and Rewards

by Jack Jan 06,2025

Destiny 2 Weekly Reset: December 24, 2024 – Activities, Challenges, and Rewards

Another week, another Destiny 2 reset! While the game currently sits between story acts, and player concerns regarding declining numbers and ongoing issues persist, the Dawning event continues, offering a final chance to bake cookies and earn rewards. Bungie has even added a community challenge element to boost rare emblem drops, highlighting the impressive 3+ million cookies baked for Commander Zavala.

This week's reset brings refreshed content, activities, and rewards. Here's the rundown for the week of December 23rd:

Vex enemies, cybernetic war machines from Destiny 2

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike: The Inverted Spire

Modifiers: This week's Nightfall features a challenging mix of Champion types (Barrier and Overload), Hero, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster modifiers impacting gameplay. Expect increased enemy health, modified weapon effectiveness, and significant difficulty increases at higher tiers. The Grandmaster difficulty adds Chaff (radar disabled), Extinguish, and limited revives, demanding precise teamwork and strategy.

Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges (Week 12)

This week's Revenant challenges require a diverse approach, encompassing weapon crafting, Moon activities, shield-breaking, precision kills, and Crucible dominance. Bonus progress is available for specific weapon types and gameplay strategies.

  • Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics to increase specific weapon drop rates.
  • Moon Activities: Complete bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors on the Moon.
  • Popping Off: Shatter 150 combatant shields with matching elemental damage.
  • Instrumented Performance: Get 150 Special ammo final blows in Gambit, Crucible, or Vanguard Ops (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 mission system continues to offer opportunities to earn unique rewards and craftable exotic weapons.

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

Presage mission image

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Farmeable Raids and Dungeons are available in a weekly rotation.

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

Raid and Dungeon image

Raid Challenges

Numerous Raid challenges are available across various raids, offering increased difficulty and unique rewards for completion. Check the in-game directory for specific challenge details.

Raid Challenge image

Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

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

Legacy Activities and Challenges

Numerous legacy activities and challenges are available across various locations, including Europa, Neomuna, the Throne World, the Moon, and the Dreaming City. These offer a variety of gameplay experiences and rewards. Nightmare Hunts also rotate weekly.

Europa Activity Image Neomuna Activity Image Throne World Activity Image Moon Activity Image Dreaming City Activity Image

Dares of Eternity Rotation

This week's Dares of Eternity rotation features a mix of enemy factions, providing varied combat encounters.

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

Dares of Eternity image

Xur Details (12/20)

Xur's inventory for the weekend of December 20th includes a selection of exotic weapons and armor, catalysts, and other valuable items. Check his location in-game for the most up-to-date offerings.

Xur image

Trials of Osiris (12/20)

Saint-14's Trials of Osiris offers high-stakes PvP combat with powerful rewards.

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

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

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