Destiny 2 Weekly Reset: Everything featured this week

Every Tuesday welcomes a new weekly reset in Destiny 2, seeing the game’s featured content rotate, including the active Nightfall, Eververse Store offerings, and more.

Revenant Act 2 is here, bringing with it more seasonal content, including new weapons, the Tomb of Elders activity, and a range of balance changes that look to keep the meta feeling fresh.

Not keeping track of the weekly reset could see you lose out on limited-time rewards, rare Eververse offerings, and even exclusive Exotics from this week’s Dungeon and Raid rotation, so here’s this week’s reset information to make sure you don’t miss out.

What time is the Destiny 2 weekly reset?

The next weekly reset will happen on Tuesday, December 17, at 5 PM UTC. You’ll want to complete all of the featured content you are interested in before then, as it will rotate out after and may not return for several weeks.

Featured Nightfall this week

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This week’s featured Nightfall is Birthplace of the Vile, which will remain the featured Nightfall until the next weekly reset.

Each week, a new Nightfall is featured that has different champions, modifiers, and rewards. This Nightfall is featured across Advanced, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster difficulties, with each getting gradually more difficult.

Weekly Nightfall Modifiers

These are the weekly Nightfall modifiers for Advanced, Expert, Master, and GM, with each affecting how the activity plays and how difficult it is:

Advanced modifiers – 2005 Power Cap

MODIFIER	GAMEPLAY EFFECT
Overcharged Weapons	Weapon overcharges from the Seasonal Artifact are active in this activity. Kinetic weapons do increased damage when your Super element matches an active surge.
Overcharged Fusion Rifle	25% Bonus to Fusion Rifle damage.
Arc Surge	25% Bonus to outgoing Arc damage.
Void Surge	25% Bonus to outgoing Void damage.
Shielded Foes	You will face combatants with Arc, Solar, and Void shields.
Advanced Modifiers	Extra Shields
Galvanized	Combatants have more health and are more difficult to stun.
Champion Foes	You will face Barrier and Overload Champions.
Void Threat	25% increase to incoming Void damage.

Expert modifiers – 2015 Power Cap

In addition to all of the Advanced modifiers, Expert difficulty adds the following:

MODIFIER	GAMEPLAY EFFECT
Equipment Locked	You will not be able to change your equipment after this activity starts.
Randomized Banes	Combatants are granted random Banes.

Master modifiers – 2020 Power Cap

In addition to all of the Advanced and Expert modifiers, Master difficulty adds the following:

MODIFIER	GAMEPLAY EFFECT
Master Modifiers	Extra Champions and Shields.
Brawn	Your health is massively increased but does not regenerate. Defeating challenging combatants will recover health for you and nearby allies.

GM modifiers – 2030 Power Cap

In addition to all of the Advanced, Expert, and Master modifiers, GM difficulty adds the following:

MODIFIER	GAMEPLAY EFFECT
Grandmaster Modifiers	Limited Revives, Contest, Join In Progress Disabled, Extra Champions, Extra Shields, Locked Loadout.
Extinguish	If your fireteam falls in a Restricted Zone, everyone is returned to orbit.
Chaff	Radar is disabled.

Featured Nightfall weapon this week

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This week’s Nightfall Weapon is Scintillation, a Strand Linear Fusion Rifle, which will remain the featured weapon until the next weekly reset.

Complete Nightfall runs on any difficulty to earn it as a drop, or focus rolls at Commander Zavala for either 5 Vanguard Engrams and x25,000 Glimmer or 3 Vanguard Engrams and 1 Nightfall Cipher (Adept).

Featured Dungeon this week

This week’s featured dungeons are Spire of the Watcher and Pit of Heresy. These will remain featured until December 17, when two more dungeons will take their place in the rotation, with Episode Revenant doubling how many dungeons are featured each week.

Featured Raid this week

This week’s featured raids are Garden of Salvation and King’s Fall. These will remain featured until December 17, when two more raids will take their place in the rotation, with Episode Revenant doubling how many raids are featured each week.

Raid challenges

These are this week’s raid challenges, which can be completed to increase your odds of unlocking each of their unique Exotic weapons:

RAID	CHALLENGE	REQUIREMENTS
Salvation’s Edge	Coordinated Efforts	Destroy all six of The Witness’ glyphs at the same time
Crota’s End	No challenges	This raid’s challenges are only available when it is one of the featured weekly Raids.
Root of Nightmares	Crossfire	Don’t activate your own piston to cross the gap.
King’s Fall	All challenges active	Devious Thievery: Steal the Aura of the Initiate within five seconds of collecting the Brand Claimer orb. Gaze Amaze: Only take the Golgoroth’s Gaze buff when the Gaze holder is in the Pool of Reclaimed Light Hands Off: Avoid defeating the same Ogre or Knight twice during the Oryx encounter The Grass Is Always Greener: Avoid holding the same buff two times in a row in the Totems encounter. Under Construction:  Players cannot stand on the same platform twice during the construction phase of Oryx’s daughters
Vow of the Disciple	Defenses Down	Only kill one Disciple Hourglass Knight during the Exhibition encounter
Vault of Glass	Out of its Way	Defeat the Templar without him teleporting once.
Deep Stone Crypt	Red Rover	All 6 players must use the Operator buff to destroy at least one panel during the Crypt Security encounter
Garden of Salvation	All challenges active	A Link To The Chain: Every player needs to gain the Enlightened buff at the exact same time, every time Leftovers: Avoid killing any Cyclops on the first encounter. To The Top: When depositing Motes, only ever deposit exactly 10 Motes every time Zero To One Hundred: Fill up any bank with 30 Motes in less than 10 seconds.
Last Wish	Which Witch	Stay on the move and avoid Shuro Chi’s long-range Arc attack for the entire fight.

Featured Exotic Mission

This week’s featured Exotic Mission is //NODE.OVRD.AVALON//, giving you the chance to unlock Vexcalibur and several craftable weapons, including Perpetualis, Regnant, and Prodigal Return.

Eververse Bright Dust store: What’s in rotation this week?

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This week’s featured Bright Dust items on sale are:

• Concentrated Mattergem (200)
• Glimmershard (250)
• Struggle Skate emote (700)
• Shaky Skating muultiplayer emote (4,250)
• Howling Blizzard transmat effect (450)
• Dawning Festiveness shader (300)
• Aniline Shock shader (300)

The items being sold in the Bright Dust Store this week are:

• Ice Carving emote (3,250)
• Snowball Toss emote (700)
• Polar Prancer sparrow (2,500)
• Dawning Lights ship (2,000)
• Cocoa Shell ghost shell (2,850)
• Frostborne Exotic weapon ornament – Black Talon (1,250)
• The Great Pigeon Projection ghost projection (1,500)
• Dawning Hope shader (300)
• Dawning Warmth shader (300)
• Dawning Festiveness shader (300)
• Aniline Shock shader (300)
• Snowy Entrance transmat effect (450)
• Piled HIgh transmat effect (450)
• Peppermint Burst transmat effect (450

The Eververse Store’s offerings rotate weekly, with it selling players items for Bright Dust that would normally cost Silver. This provides a great opportunity to add some new cosmetics to your account without having to spend any real money.

The Pale Heart featured activities

This is the rotation for all Pale Heart of the Traveler activities:

• Featured Cooperative Focus Mission: Ascent – “Join Cayde-6 and Crow on a scouting mission to find a way across a frozen mountain and into the domain of the Witness.”

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Featured legacy activities

This is the rotation for all Legacy locations, including Neptune, Throne World, Europa, Moon, and Dreaming City:

Neptune

• Weekly Mission: No Time Left
• Partition: Hard Reset
• Vex Incursion Zone: Liming Harbor

Throne World

• Campaign Mission: The Communion

Europa

• Eclipsed Zone: Cadmus Ridge
• Empire Hunt: The Technocrat
• Exo Challenge: Simulation: Safeguard

Moon:

• Campaign Mission: In the Deep
• Wandering Nightmare: Fallen Council (Archer’s Line)
• Trove Guardian is in Hellmouth

Dreaming City

• Curse Level: Strong Curse
• Petra is at Rheasilvia
• Weekly Mission:Dark Monastery
• Ascendant Challenge: Keep of Honed Edges, Harbinger’s Seclude
• Blind Well: Taken, Plague: Inomina

That’s all for the latest Destiny 2 weekly reset. Be sure to come back next week, as we’ll update this again with the newest information. In the meantime, check out these meta builds for Hunter, Titan, and Warlock, as well as the best PvE Weapons and PvP Weapons to use right now.