Today marks the last week of Season 18 of Destiny 2. An important story detail is still pending, and it will be introduced to the game today. MeinMMO tells you what else is happening after the weekly reset in Bungie’s loot shooter.
This week: In the current Season 18, there is one last cinematic highlight to come – the story epilogue. There, final details will be revealed along with further information about the relics of Nezarek, one of the most mysterious characters in the Destiny universe, and more NPCs will be unveiled.
Along with the long wait for the final story details, players are currently also plagued by the general season burnout. They are struggling not only with the known routine in the game and the predictability of the season model. Annoying game bugs and the currently difficult state of PvP are also critical at the moment. All of this has led to the lowest player counts ever.
However, before players can test the announced improvements in Season 19, there are still a few familiar activities this week. MeinMMO tells you which ones.
The key information about activities from November 29 to December 6.
Strike: Nightfall – The Trial by Fire
- Fallen S.A.B.E.R., in the Cosmodrome
- This week, you must again prevent the devils from gaining control of Rasputin’s war satellites. If that were to happen, guns from the Golden Age would be aimed at the Tower and the Last City within minutes.
This week’s Nightfall weapon: As a reward for your run, you will always receive a special Nightfall weapon.
Playlist Strikes have the following modifiers this week:
- Void Singe
- Stasis Burn
- Iron
- The Singe modifier accompanies you all week, while the others change daily.
Endgame: Raid Challenges and Dungeon Rotation
What’s happening in the raid “Kingsfall”:
In the current raid “Kingsfall”, you must face the first raid challenge to receive more loot.
- To specifically complete the challenge “The Grass is Always Greener”, you must, after you have taken the buff from one side and submitted your points, switch sides. This means that once you have dealt with the witch, the knight, and submitted your points on the left side of the totem, you will move to the right side and do the same process there.
You can expect the following raid requirements and challenges:
- In Normal mode, completing a challenge brings you double loot.
- The requirement for each encounter for Grandmasters is at power level 1600 with champions.
- You can only earn status-specific armor and master weapons from the Grandmaster raid.
- You can also earn new raid-exclusive exotic cosmetics in the Oryx look from the Grandmaster.
Additional legacy pinnacle rewards from the endgame:
- Be cautious in the raid “The Oryx’s Vow”.
- Play the dungeon “Prophecy” for more pinnacle loot.
Weekly Activities
In Season 18, Guardians can collect cryptic couplets as a pirate with a crew and complete seasonal content. This includes:
- Ketch Crash: Dive into this new 6-player activity in ship-to-ship combat to prevent Eramis and her pirate gang from plunging the galaxy into chaos. You can earn pinnacle loot once a week on Grandmaster.
- Expedition: Assemble treasure maps, search for treasures, and return to your ship while fending off enemy pirate crews.
- Pirate Hides: Fight through weekly missions and loot powerful relics hidden in the haunts of the pirate lords.
In addition to Season 18, the current DLC from “The Witch Queen” are still active and can be played. For example, in the weekly repeatable campaign mission. There’s also top loot to earn there to reach the current max power level of 1580.
Savathun’s Throne World – Weekly Campaign Mission
- “The Last Chance”
- This week, you can play the seventh campaign mission of the Witch Queen as a repeatable story mission. It’s about following Eris’s trusted source, who informs you about an artifact in the Throne World that might contain the answer to how Savathun gained the Light.
Crucible – Here are the PvP playlists:
- Private Match
- Rumble
- Control
- Elimination
- Glory Survival
- Glory Survival: Freelance
- Team Scorched
- “Trials of Osiris” starting December 2
Playlist Bonus this week:
- This week sounds threefold in the loot box. There are bonus reputation ranks in Gambit, Strike, and Crucible.
Ascendant Challenge – Dreaming City
- Petra Venj can now be found in the Dreaming City right at the spawn point – as always during the 2nd curse week. At the same time, the 6th Ascendant Challenge is active.
All sources for pinnacle loot in Season 18 of Destiny 2
To help you know where you can effectively grab your pinnacle loot, we provide a quick overview of activities every week.
This is the new max level: In the new season of Raiders, the maximum power level of your gear is 1,580. This means that the power level at the start of the new Season 18 has increased by +10 compared to the previous Season 17. All players receive the base power level of 1,350.
This pinnacle loot brings your power level up to 1,580:
- Top legacy raid “Kingsfall” (+2)
- Top dungeon “Duality” (+2)
- Raid rotation this week: “The Oryx’s Vow” (+2)
- Legacy dungeon rotation “Prophecy” (+2)
- Reach in the Nightfall: Trial by Fire with at least 100,000 points (+2)
- Weekly Witch Queen campaign mission with at least 100,000 points (+2)
- “The Primordial” on Grandmaster difficulty (+2)
- Seasonal activity “Ketch Crash” on Grandmaster difficulty (+2)
- Complete the activity “Preservation” in the raid pyramid of darkness (+2)
- “Trials of Eternity”: Reach at least 250,000 points or more (+2)
- Defeat powerful Cabal in the exotic mission “Vox Obscura” (+2)
- Complete 3 Gambit matches (+1)
- Complete 3 Crucible matches (+1)
- Complete 3 Vanguard operations strikes with appropriate focus (+1)
- Hawthorne’s clan task: Earn 5,000 XP (+1)
- Trials of Osiris (+2)
Here’s how to get free loot: For all new and returning guardians who want to join in the fun in the future or after a break, Bungie has prepared the “Gift of the Thunder Gods” in Season 18.
You can pick up this loot chest for free in the H.E.L.M. after completing the “New Light” campaign. It will bring you to a power level of up to 1540 or more – with Arc armor and weapons, as well as two exotic and ten legendary items. You can also claim these rewards for all of your characters once.
Season 18’s Eververse Highlights
- Hunter: “Deadly Enchant” for the exotic “The Hands of the Liar”
- Titan: “Thought Storage” for the exotic “An Unyielding Skull Fortress”
- Warlock: “Induction Ceremony” for the exotic “Storm Dancer’s Reach”
- “Grimmest Hunter” for the exotic “Leviathan’s Breath”
- “Honor of the Empress” for the exotic “Skyburner’s Oath”
Too little Glimmer? So many cool items, but are you already low on Glimmer? Then check out our tips on how to improve your Glimmer budget.
Are you looking forward to the new Season 19? Feel free to let us know in the comments whether you managed to complete everything in this Season 18 or not.
- Exotic emote “Fiddler’s Dance”
- Exotic sparrow “Featherlight Craftsmanship”
- Exotic sparrow “Omen of Saturn”
- Exotic ship “Journey through foreign seas”
- Exotic armor ornaments:
- Hunter: “Deadly Enchant” for the exotic “The Hands of the Liar”
- Titan: “Thought Storage” for the exotic “An Unyielding Skull Fortress”
- Warlock: “Induction Ceremony” for the exotic “Storm Dancer’s Reach”
- Exotic weapon ornaments:
- “Grimmest Hunter” for the exotic “Leviathan’s Breath”
- “Honor of the Empress” for the exotic “Skyburner’s Oath”
- Legendary emote “Great Dance”
- Legendary ghost projection “Danger Projection”
- Legendary ghost projection “Moonward Projection”
- Legendary shader “Welded Brass”
Too little Glimmer? So many cool items, but are you already low on Glimmer? Then check out our tips on how to improve your Glimmer budget.
Are you looking forward to the new Season 19? Feel free to let us know in the comments whether you managed to complete everything in this Season 18 or not.
