New Nightfall, Challenges, and Rewards

Updated November 1, 2024: Another week has come for Destiny 2, which means missions, challenges, and rewards have been reset. Things are getting spooky this week in Destiny 2 as the annual Halloween-inspired event, Festival of the Lost, makes its return for a limited time.

While the event brings back the Haunted Sectors and collecting pages for the Book of the Forgotten, this year’s event features a few new wrinkles as well. Players can pick up the brand new Heavy Burst arc shotgun named Arcane Embrace, along with the previous weapons with new perks. However, all players will be able to earn Destiny 2‘s exotic class armor without needing to play Dual Destiny, as long as they have 1 Eerie Engram and 2,500 candy to trade with Eva.

Alongside the Halloween event, the Destiny 2 weekly reset is also here, bringing with it the 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 October 29, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and challenges, here is everything players need to know.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike: The Lightblade – Double Rewards and Ranks!

Advanced Modifiers:

• Champions: Unstoppable and Barrier
• Hero Modifiers: Extra Shields. Solar and Arc.
• Galvanized: Combatants have more health and are more difficult to stun.
• Overcharge: Grenade Launcher and Kinetic Weapons when the player’s subclass matches an active Surge element.
• Threat: Arc
• Surge: Stasis and Void

Expert Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Equipment Locked: Unable to change equipment once the mission starts.
• Randomized Banes: Combatants are granted random Banes.
• Expert Modifiers: Extra Shields

Master Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Counterfeit: When defeated, combatants can drop explosives disguised as familiar items.
• Master Modifiers: Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.

Grandmaster Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Famine: All ammunition drops are significantly reduced.
• Grandmaster Modifiers: Extinguish, Limited Revives, Join In Progress Disabled, Contest, Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.

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• Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Adept Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges

Week 4

• Rare Herbalist – Collect 5 Flakes.
• Above and Beyond – Complete 5 bonus objectives in Onslaught: Salvation.
• Performance Enhanced – Defeat 100 combatants in Episode: Revenant activities with a Volatile Tonic active.
• Expert Sector – Complete a Lost Sector on Expert difficulty or higher.
• Grandmaster – Complete any Nightfall strike on Grandmaster.

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: Operation: Seraph Shield (Revision Zero Exotic Pulse 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. Starting in Episode: Revenant, Bungie is making 2 of each available in the featured rotation each week:

• Featured Raid: Vault of Glass and Crota’s End
• Featured Dungeon: Grasp of Avarice and Warlord’s Ruin

Raid Challenges

• Salvation’s Edge: Varied Geometry
• Deep Stone Crypt: Of All Trades
• Vow of the Disciple: Swift Destruction
• Vault of Glass: The Only Oracle For You, Out of its Way, Strangers In Time, Ensemble’s Refrain, Wait For It…
• King’s Fall: The Grass is Always Greener
• Root of Nightmares: All Hands
• Garden of Salvation: Leftover
• Last Wish: Summoning Ritual

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: Mayhem, Countdown, Class Clash, Control, Survival, Rumble
• Gambit

Legacy Activities and Challenges

Europa

Neomuna

• Incursion Zone: Liming Park
• Campaign Mission: Breakneck
• Partition: Hard Reset

Throne World

• Weekly Story Mission: The Communion
• 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:

• Phogoth (Fear)
• Taniks (Isolation)
• Ghaul (Rage)

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 11/1:

• Apotheosis Veil (Warlock helmet)
• Aeon Swift (Hunter gauntlets)
• Synthoceps (Titan gauntlets)
• The Huckleberry (SMG)
• Graviton Lance (Pulse Rifle)
• D.A.R.C.I. (Heavy Sniper Rifle)
• Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon)
• Polaris Lance Catalyst
• Lord of Wolves Catalyst
• The Xurfboard (Skimmer Board Vehicle)
• Essentialism/Stoicism/Solipsism OR Exotic Cipher
• Exotic Engram
• Ascendant Shard
• Glimmer
• Enhancement Core
• Gambit Engram
• Strange Gift (Random Item for 1 Strange Coin)
• Until Its Return (Kinetic Shotgun)
• Whispering Slab (Kinetic Combat Bow)
• Gridskipper (Energy Pulse Rifle)
• Persuader (Energy Sniper Rifle)
• Memory Interdict (Heavy Grenade Launcher)
• Falling Guillotine (Heavy Sword)
• Crown-Splitter/Quickfang/Eternity’s Edge (Heavy Sword)
• Strange Weapon Engram
• Black Armory Armor Sets – Forged Machinist, Annealed Shaper, Woven Firesmith

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 11/1:

• Map: Eventide Labs
• Weapon: Tomorrow’s Answer (Adept Rocket Launcher)