Nightfall Update: Fresh Challenges and Exciting Rewards

Updated March 14, 2025: Another week has rolled around for Destiny 2 players, brimming with fresh missions, challenges, and rewards post-reset. This particular reset is quite significant as it kickstarts the next major storyline arc in Episode Heresy, moving into Act 2.

Besides the intriguing new mission and storyline content, players are treated to the much-anticipated return of Destiny 2’s Guardian Games. In the 2025 version of this annual extravaganza, collectors will once again find themselves banking medallions at the Tower Podium daily, though the formula has received a few adjustments. Introducing a new mode called Rushdown, the event throws players into a 5-round gauntlet against Destiny 2 bosses, with rewards increasing in tandem with the challenge. Alongside various new and classic rewards, players can also earn the illustrious arc-powered trace rifle, Keraunios.

With the Destiny 2 weekly reset, players can once again dive into freshly updated content, activities, and rewards for the coming week. For a detailed overview of what’s new for the week of March 11, including Nightfalls, new Crucible modes, and challenges, here’s your guide.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers:

• Nightfall Strike: PsiOps Battleground: Cosmodrome with Double Drops and Rank
• Advanced Modifiers: Focus on Champions like Unstoppable and Barrier, equipped with Extra Shields, and tackle elements like Solar, Void, and Arc. Combatants now have more health and are trickier to stun while Shotgun and Kinetic Weapons become more potent when players’ subclasses match an active Surge element.
• Hero Modifiers: Include "Void Threat" and Surges of Strand and Void.
• Expert Modifiers: Combine all previous modifiers, locking equipment once the mission starts and bestowing combatants with Randomized Banes and additional Extra Shields.
• Master Modifiers: Include all prior modifiers with extra difficulties like the disabling of the radar.
• Grandmaster Modifiers: Step up with enhancements from prior modifiers, adding Extinguish, Limited Revives, and various others.

Nightfall Weapon: Lotus Eater (Adept Sidearm)

Episode: Heresy Challenges:

• Rites of the Deep Part 1 – Progress through Act 2 Part 1.
• Heretical Arsenal – Rack up 10,000 combatant defeats with Combat bow final blows, with bonus progress in Episode Heresy activities or by besting Guardians.
• Dreadnaught Challengers – Engage with challengers in Court of Blades.
• Rune Stealer – Spend runs in Court of Blades to acquire powerful armaments to support your team.
• Special Ammo Slayer – Defeat combatants using Special weapons and gain bonus progress via specific in-game purchases.
• Court of Blades Enhancements – Unlock enhancements at the Shaping Slab.
• Absolutely Stunning – Stun 50 champions.
• Void Focus – Secure 200 targets with Void ability final blows across ritual activities, collecting bonus progress for Guardian defeats and Void Super final blows.
• The Trials That Define Us – Complete 30 Crucible matches, achieving bonus progress through Trials and victories.

Exotic Mission Rotation:

Bungie reintroduces various exotic missions that players can tackle for fresh rewards, gear, and craftable versions of exotic weapons. This, much like the Raid and Dungeon rotator, changes each week.

• Featured Exotic Mission: Vox Obscura (Dead Messenger Exotic Grenade Rifle)

Raid and Dungeon Rotation:

In a move that started back in Season 17, Bungie allows Raids and Dungeons to be farmable with updated rewards through a weekly rotation. Introduced in Episode: Revenant, players have access to two Raids and two Dungeons each week:

• Featured Raid: Garden of Salvation and King’s Fall
• Featured Dungeon: Spire of the Watcher and Pit of Heresy

Raid Challenges: This week features a slew of challenges like Salvation’s Edge: Balanced Diet, Deep Stone Crypt: Copies of Copies, to Last Wish: Strength of Memory and more.

Ritual Activities: Players can earn additional rewards through Destiny 2’s Pathfinder system by participating in ritual activities such as Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit.

Legacy Activities and Challenges:

These include activities on planets like:

Europa

• Exo Challenge: Simulation: Survival
• Eclipsed Zone: Eventide Ruins
• Empire Hunt: Kridis, The Dark Priestess

Neomuna

• Incursion Zone: Zephyr Concourse
• Campaign Mission: Downfall
• Partition: Backdoor

Throne World

• Weekly Story Mission: The Cunning
• Altars of Reflection activities

The Moon

• Nightmare Rotation, featuring Taniks (Isolation), Skolas (Pride), and Ghaul (Rage)

Dreaming City

• The Dreaming City Curse Level: Low – The Broken Courier
• Petra Venj Location: The Strand
• Ascendant Challenge: Agonarch Abyss (Bay of Drowned Wishes)

Dares of Eternity Rotation:

• Round 1: Hve
• Round 2: Vex
• Final Round: Valus Ta’aurc

Xur Details:

Xur has arrived, staying through the weekend, offering a varied assortment of exotic goods each week.

Some notable items for this weekend:

• Sweet Business (Auto Rifle)
• Thunderlord (Heavy Machine Gun)
• Exotic Cipher and more.

Be sure to check back for details on what exotic weapons and armor are up for grabs each weekend.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon:

Saint-14 continues to run the Trials of Osiris, an elite PvP event with substantial rewards. This week’s map and weapon:

• Map: Cirrus Plaza
• Weapon: Tomorrow’s Answer (Adept Legendary Rocket Launcher)

Players embarking on these challenges, missions, and activities can enjoy a week filled with fresh content and rewarding opportunities. Dive in and let your Guardian make a mark on Destiny 2’s vast universe.