While there’s still plenty of information that players don’t knew yet about Lightfall, Bungie has been providing new updates on changes to Destiny 2 for the past few weeks. Many of them appear to be aimed at lessening FOMO or the Fear of Missing Out. This includes letting players focus engrams at various vendors to obtain older weapons and armor, expanding the loot pool even further. New features like a Loadout system will also go a long way for reducing times players are stuck within in-game menus, allowing them to get back to the action faster.

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For now, this week’s Destiny 2 reset has finally arrived along with all the updated weekly challenges, content, and rewards to hunt. For the complete look at all the new content available for the week of January 31 including, Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and challenges, here is everything players need to know.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers

Nightfall Strike The Ordeal: Birthplace of the Vile - Bonus Vanguard Ranks!

Adept Modifiers:

Empath: Enhanced radar. Take increased damage from melee. Elemental Burn: Void. 25% void damage increase with 50% increase to void damage taken.

Hero Modifiers:

All previous modifiers. Champions: Unstoppable and Overload. Hero Modifiers: Extra Shields Subtle Foes: Certain foes are stealthy when at a distance. They become visible when near a Guardian.

Legend Modifiers:

All previous modifiers. Equipment Locked: Unable to change equipment once the mission starts. Match Game: Enemy shields are highly resistant to all unmatched elemental damage. Shielded Foes: Arc, Void, and Solar.

Master Modifiers:

All previous modifiers. Attrition: Regeneration is greatly impaired. Defeating enemies may create wells of Light. Champions: Mob: This difficulty adds more champion enemies. Master Modifiers: Locked Loadout, Match Game, and Extra Shields.

Grandmaster Modifiers: (1580 Power Requirement)

All previous modifiers. Scorched Earth: Enemies throw grenades significantly more often. Grandmaster Modifiers: Extinguish, Limited Revives, Contest, Join In Progress, Disabled, Champions: Mob, Locked Loadout, Match Game, and Extra Shields.


Pinnacle Reward: Get a 100K score to earn a pinnacle reward. Nightfall Weapon: Hung Jury SR4 legendary scout rifle.

Vanguard Ops Elemental Modifiers: Solar Singe

Season of the Seraph Activities

It’s a new season which means new activities for players to check out. Season of the Seraph lets players undertake a weekly mission called Operation: Seraph’s Shield. These missions take players to Braytech facilities, where new layers of security need to be broken each week to help awaken Rasputin as well as open new opportunities to empower the exotic pulse rifle Revision Zero.

A new matchmade activity called Heist Battlegrounds is also available where players revisit Braytech facilities to bypass new security and defensive systems attempting to stop them. Once inside, players will need to deal with hordes of Xivu Arath’s Wrathborn.

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Originally introduced during Season 17, Bungie has moved older Raids and Dungeons to a weekly rotation to make them farmable with updated rewards.

Featured Raid: Vault of Glass

Featured Dungeon: Grasp of Avarice

Raid Challenges

Deep Stone Crypt: The Core Four

Garden of Salvation: A Link to the Chain

Vow of the Disciple: Base Information

Vault of Glass: Ensemble’s Refrain, Wait for It, The Only Oracle for You, Out of Its Way, Strangers In Time

King’s Fall: Hands Off

Last Wish: Strength of Memory

The Wellspring and Throne World

The Wellspring continues to offer powerful rewards even during the new season. Each day, the Wellspring activity switches between Defend and Attack. Starting off on Reset Day, players can take part in the Defend version and earn Veritas Armor as well as legendary weapons.

In addition, the weekly reset has refreshed pinnacle drops, both from the Wellspring, Preservation, and the Vox Obscura replayable exotic mission.

Weekly Story Mission: The Ghosts. Fire Pit modifier as well as Overload and Unstoppable champions.

Europa: Exo Challenge, Eclipsed Zone, and Empire Hunt

Exo Challenge: Simulation: Agility Eclipsed Zone: Asterion Abyss Empire Hunt: Phylaks, The Warrior

Season of the Seraph Weekly Challenges

Season 19 brings new challenges for players to work on over the course of 10 weeks. As players have found in season’s past, objective range from finishing seasonal story content, getting a certain number of kills, completing various activities and more. Rewards for these objectives include XP, Bright Dust, seasonal items, and on occasion, items or resources.

Week 9 Challenges:

Legend Heist Battlegrounds II - Complete Europa, Moon, and Mars Heist Battlegrounds on Legend Difficulty. Heavy Loadout - Defeat 100 targets with Machine Guns with bonus progress against Guardians. Defeat 35 powerful combatants in Heist Battlegrounds. Pinnacle - Reach 1590 Power Level. Armory-Wide Calibration - Calibrate Kinetic, Energy, and Power weapons. Bonus progress against Champions. Icy Singularity - Defeat 200 targets with Void or Stasis effects. Bonus progress for defeating invading Guardians. Cosmic Chill - Defeat 300 combatants with Void or Stasis effects in Vanguard playlists.

Crucible and Gambit

Play three matches to earn a Pinnacle drop:

Weekly Crucible Playlist: Momentum Control and Iron Banner returns for the final time! Plus, boosted reputation gains! Gambit - Boosted Rank XP!

Legacy Content

Trove Guardian is located in the Anchor of Light, while the wandering nightmare is Nightmare of Jaxx, Claw of Xivu Arath at the Hellmouth.

Nightmare Activities:

Crota (Despair) Phogoth (Fear) Ghaul (Rage)

Dares of Eternity Legend Contestants Rotation:

Round 1: Fallen Round 2: Hive Final Round: Zydron

The Dreaming City is at a rising curse level this week, which means Petra Venj can be found in the Divalian Mists and has The Oracle Engine mission for the next week. The Blind Well features Hive enemies and the plague, Cragur.

Finally, the Ascendant Challenge is the Shattered Ruins through the Spine of Keres.

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. Here’s what the merchant had for the weekend of 1/27:

Apotheosis Veil (Warlock helmet) – 23 Legendary Shards Sealed Ahamkara Grasps (Hunter gauntlets) – 23 Legendary Shards ACD/0 Feedback Fence (Titan gauntlets) – 23 Legendary Shards SUROS Regime (Auto Rifle) - 29 Legendary Shards Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon) - 125,000 Glimmer, 200 Legendary Shards, 1 Exotic Cipher, 1 Ascendant Shard Dead Man’s Tale (Scout Rifle) - 125,000 Glimmer, 200 Legendary Shards, 1 Exotic Cipher, 1 Ascendant Shard Fractethyst (Kinetic Shotgun) Dire Promise (Kinetic Hand Cannon) Gridskipper (Energy Pulse Rifle) Seventh Seraph CQC-12 (Energy Shotgun) Death Adder (Energy Submachine Gun) Frozen Orbit (Energy Sniper Rifle) Code Duello (Heavy Rocket Launcher) Seventh Seraph Armor Set

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

As Bungie previously revealed, Trials of Osiris has undergone a makeover to not only make it more accessible, but to make it more rewarding as well. Gone are the win requirements tied to specific rewards as Saint-14 now has a reputation system that rewards players for ranking up through playing and completing bounties.

Iron Banner is live so no Trials of Osiris this weekend!

Destiny 2 is now available PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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