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

Author : Lily Feb 02,2025

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

Another week, another Destiny 2 reset! While the game navigates the period between acts and addresses concerns about player count, The Dawning event continues, offering a final chance to bake cookies and earn rewards, including community challenge emblems. Bungie reported an astounding over 3 million cookies baked for Commander Zavala!

This week's reset brings fresh content, activities, and rewards. Here's a comprehensive overview 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 array of modifiers across different difficulty levels, including Champion types, increased enemy health and resilience, and various elemental modifiers. Grandmaster difficulty introduces additional punishing modifiers like Chaff and limited revives.

  • Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges - Week 12

This week's challenges offer a variety of objectives, spanning weapon crafting, completing activities on the Moon, and achieving specific combat milestones in various game modes.

  • Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics to boost 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 and 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 provide opportunities to earn unique rewards and craftable exotic weapons.

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

Presage Mission

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Raids and Dungeons are featured on a rotating basis, offering refreshed rewards.

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

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Raid Challenges

A selection of Raid challenges are available across various Raids, offering additional rewards for those who conquer them.

Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

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

Legacy Activities and Challenges

A range of legacy activities and challenges are available across various locations, including Europa, Neomuna, Throne World, the Moon, and the Dreaming City. These offer opportunities for various rewards and progression. Nightmare Hunts also rotate weekly.

Dares of Eternity Rotation

Dares of Eternity features a rotating enemy type for each round.

Xur Details (December 20th - December 24th)

Xur, the exotic merchant, offers a selection of exotic weapons and armor. His inventory is refreshed weekly. This week's offerings include a variety of exotic weapons, armor pieces, catalysts, and other valuable items.

Xur's Inventory

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon (December 20th - December 24th)

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)