It’s Tuesday, which means: today, on September 3rd, the Weekly Reset takes place in Destiny 2. The weekly activities rotate, and you can look forward to new Nightfall Strikes or a new Flashpoint planet. Additionally, Update 2.5.2.2 / 1.40 is now live. What else does the new week bring?
With a slight maintenance delay, the new week in the Destiny 2 universe has begun. The Hotfix 2.5.2.2 is now live and brings some welcome changes for the Guardians.
If you are still missing the two top grenade launchers “The Summit” and “Wendigo GL3”, the path to these rewards has now become significantly easier after the update. You can find out more about this here: Here’s how to easily get 2 top grenade launchers – Wendigo & Summit
The Community Challenge is now live and active until September 10th: Destiny 2 is challenging you all, start the Community Challenge before Shadowkeep
What else does this week have in store for you? Let’s take a look together.
Nightfall Strikes starting September 3rd on PS4, Xbox One, and PC
Here’s your selection of Nightfall Strikes:
- Will of the Thousands
- The Corrupted
- Foreign Terrain
If you are still hunting for the Nightfall-exclusive rewards, take a look at this overview and find out what’s available this week: All Nightfall-exclusive rewards and how to obtain them
To earn Powerful Rewards, you must:
- successfully complete a Nightfall
- successfully complete a Nightfall with at least 100,000 points
Strikes and Story Missions
If you want to tackle Vanguard Strikes and heroic Story Missions – here are the modifiers:
- Arc Burn
- Blackout
- Grenadier
By the way: The burn element will remain until the next reset. The other two modifiers will change daily.
To earn Powerful Rewards, you must:
- complete 3 heroic Story Missions
- complete 3 heroic Strikes with the burn element matching the active burn element
Crucible, Gambit, Gambit Prime, Reckoning
These modes are currently available in PvP:
- Quick Play
- Competitive
- Lockdown
- Rumble
- Private Match
The modifiers in Reckoning are:
- Arc Burn
- Blackout
- Grenadier
Here’s how to earn Powerful Rewards:
- complete 5 Crucible matches
- complete 3 Gambit matches
- complete 4 Gambit Prime matches
- successfully complete Reckoning runs (up to 100%)
The Wanderer offers you the bounty “In the Mill” which rewards you with a Powerful Item.
Escalation Protocol
Do you still need weapons from Escalation Protocol? This week you have the chance to get the following firearms:
- the legendary Sniper Rifle IKELOS_SSG_v1.0.1
- the legendary Shotgun IKELOS_SF_v1.0.1
- the legendary Submachine Gun IKELOS_MP_v1.0.1
If you want to get the Armor 2.0 gear from Escalation Protocol as soon as Shadowkeep releases, then you can start preparing now.
Flashpoint, Werner/Benedict 99-40, Ada-1, Petra, Spider
The Flashpoint is located on Mars this time. If you master this activity and the associated heroic mission, you will be rewarded with Powerful Loot for each of these tasks.
At Werner/Benedict 99-40, there are 4 weekly bounties. At the end of these bounties, a Powerful Item awaits you. If you complete all four, you will receive an additional Powerful Item. Additionally, you can secure up to 3 more Powerful Items through the Menagerie, provided you have the corresponding upgrades for your Chalice of Opulence.
At Ada-1, you will receive all Powerful Weapon Patterns from the Black Armory.
For 20 any bounties, you will receive a Powerful reward from Ikora Rey.
If you earn 5,000 Clan XP, you will receive a Powerful reward from Hawthorne. For her bounties “Which Witch?”, “All for One, One for All”, “Complete Victory”, and “A Troubling Affair”, you will receive an additional Powerful reward for each.
Petra Venj is this week (Curse Week 1) at the pavilion in the “The Shore” area. Through her mission, the Ascendant Challenge, and a total of 8 of her daily bounties, you can earn three Powerful rewards. By the way, the 5th Ascendant Challenge is active.
If you want Powerful loot from Spider, you should complete his weekly bounty “Burner Valus“.
The Glimmer Highlights of the Eververse:
- the exotic Crafted Shell for your Ghost
- a weapon ornament for Izanagi’s Burden
- a weapon ornament for the Polaris Lance
- a armor ornament for the exotic Titan helmet “Khepri’s Horn”
