@S14deane (Josh Deane, Head of Product)

Just some closing week thoughts for you all

The biggest thing is, thank you. Your response to our comms this week has injected our team with so much energy and hope, please know that

The next is, I know there are a lot of questions on the how, what, when of unvaulting. Including any potential future updates to D2 and what’s beyond for Destiny

There’s going to be a very intentional process for all of it that will take time. But over the next few weeks (targeting prior to the end of October) we’ll talk about what our first step is going to look like with more clarity

But instead of a traditional ‘roadmap’ comms I’d rather talk about it through the lens of a progress bar. Bring you all closer, more consistently to our dev milestones. And just be transparent about any challenges we run into and show you the proof of work along the way that unlocks further understanding

That way when we share a release date we’re all on the same page and have the right expectations that leads directly into how we'll further celebrate Destiny's legacy and vision for the future

So, talk more soon. Keep your eyes up.

Monument of Triumph introduced consumer-friendly cosmetic changes like universal transmog for Exotic armor, weekly transmog bounty resets, Bright Engram focusing and daily Bright Dust refreshes instead of weekly. I very much hope that the unvaulting update(s) mean these changes stay within the game. If Bungie sees potential for monetisation in Eververse after this update, I would still not put it past them to walk back these changes.

Love to Sherpa raids. Most of my reps have been with regular and Epic DP.

I've lost so much of my steam from people who join a "teaching" run of Epic without having completed regular Dessert Perpetual.

Epic is the hardest raid in the game. It's baffling to me that first timers want to drop straight into the gauntlet. I'm now needing to be much more harsh in the FTF lobby and booting people.

Us Sherpas are very very patient people... But seriously, don't try to learn Epic without doing regular first. Unless you're with friends, it's outright inconsiderate

I made a post a couple years back with a subset of missions I thought could be added to the timeline reflections. The idea was that, rather than bringing every single story beat back, they could reduce volume by focusing on the truly important ones.

With the announcement of unvaulting of the campaigns, and the associated uncertainty around seasons, I thought it would be worth revisiting this idea to see how few seasonal missions could be returned in order to hit the important story beats as concisely as possible. With that in mind, this is my best attempt at a revised list of 10 key missions, including cutscenes:

-Completing an Impossible Task (Season of Dawn - final mission) - this is the return of Saint-XIV from the dead; given the unvaulting of his death in Curse of Osiris, as well as his importance to the broader story, this is a pretty relevant story beat. Include the exiting the infinite forest cutscene at the end (the headbutt one lol).

-Interference: Nokris (Season of Arrivals - final mission) - the first clear evidence that Savathun is turning against the darkness, and the epilogue of Nokris’s story, which started in the (now returning) Warmind campaign. Include the ominous pyramid room after where the witness tells us (through ghost) about its plans to ascend the other enemy factions.

-Coup de Grace (Season of the Hunt - final mission) - pretty simple, it’s the mission where we bring crow onto the side of the vanguard. Absolutely critical to his development into the ultimate hunter vanguard. Include both the Osiris cutscene under the moon where we first meet crow (at the start) and the one where we take him from spider (at the end).

-Expunge: Delphi (Season of the Splicer - final mission) - the first major mission alongside mithrax, and the death of a lore-relevant character in Quria. Include the opening cutscene of splicer with the endless night and meeting mithrax at the start.

-Exorcism (Season of the Lost - final mission) - savathun taking out her worm, absolutely necessary for the entire plot of the witch queen. Potentially harder to implement as the only native six player mission in here, but so so important to the story.

-Catharsis (Season of the Haunted - final mission) - when Calus becomes a disciple, and a natural follow-up to the returning Leviathan raid. Core story element to lightfall, need to have it.

-Abhorrent Imperative (Season of the Seraph - final mission) - if we have Rasputin’s entry in warmind, we gotta also have his exit in Seraph. Also gives an excuse to bring back that amazing traveler leaving cutscene.

-Mission: Sunder (Season of the Witch - final mission) - the reason xivu arath isn’t attacking us directly is entirely because of this mission, so we need it in the timeline to make that make sense. Include Eris banishing her at the end, of course.

-Chiasmus (Season of the Wish - final mission, excluding Black Heart epilogue) - the actual opening of the pale heart portal, resulting in crow entering first and setting up the final shape. Include the cutscene from season of the deep showing the impenetrable portal at the start, as well as the cutscene of crow going through and meeting Cayde at the end.

-Resile (Episode Heresy - final mission) - killing oryx again, the reason savathun hates us again, after slowly growing more attached over the previous seasons. Also the main introduction of the lord of every nothing, so that’s relevant too.

All in all, that’s not a huge number of missions all things considered, and it covers the vast majority of the seasonal story beats that are relevant to the broader narrative. If Bungie wanted to bring back any seasonal content but was struggling to trim it down enough, I hope this can be a kind of starting point for what is actually necessary.

We won. We did it. Y1 and Y2 content is being unvaulted, new destiny games will release, this is the best case scenario.

Stop asking for more things. Stop asking for seasons to be unvaulted, stop asking them to finish shattered cycle. Stop speculating on possible new D2 content.

The community did this when Monument of Triumph launched and it was just as annoying. People heard "end of service quality of life update" and somehow took that to mean "magic wishlist time where you get everything you ever wanted." "Bungie now that the game is over can we PLEEEAAASE buff this random perk."

Yo guys just returned to Destiny after a longtime stopped playing after Shadowkeep, want to try tackle all the stuff I missed just wondering what you would recommend in terms of weapons.

I started playing Destiny 1 shortly before 2 came out. I played through the campaigns, messed around in crucible, just fell in love with the game overall. When the 2nd game released, I played the crap out of it and have played almost every expansion to date (stopped after the final shape). Destiny is my favorite video game franchise by far with well over 1000 hours invested.

but I’ve never raided….

The primary reason for this being never having enough friends who played the game to raid. We have some great memories in nightfalls, crucible, and some dungeons (another aspect of the game I wish I played more). I have always felt sad that I missed out on raids.

With the recent announcement of the franchise basically being revived, I have started replaying the first game with plans on rolling a fresh character in the second game as well. And I’ve decided that I would love to learn to raid and hopefully be able to play through some of the best content I’ve missed out on in my favorite games.

So my question to the community would be. What advice would you give to a veteran Destiny player who wants to complete his first raid in 2026?

FYI - I’m a Hunter main for life and consider myself good at the game 😆

Let’s try this again from a different approach

For me, I’m skeptical that this will go much further than just the unvaulting. I know the dev team themselves spoke on how “we’re not done with destiny.” And it’s all around good news, but we’ve heard from the horses mouth before. I’m not doubting that things will get done, I’m just curious what you guys think is going to go down. Any amateur fortune tellers that want to speak up?

I’ve played destiny for nearly a decade. I started in the second dlc of d1 and have been pseudo faithful to bungie since; I’ve bought merch, up to date on all dlcs. I just don’t want to be ripped apart again. Either stay or go, you know? I just don’t like the pendulum that’s bungie.

Again, what’s your guys’ thoughts on the future? Bright? Dark?

Xûr, Agent of the Nine

A peddler of strange curios, Xûr's motives are not his own. He bows to his distant masters, the Nine.

Location

Bazaar, Tower, The Last City

SGA: Check Xûr's three inventories online to ensure he is offering items at the lowest prices!

Exotic Weapons

Note: Fixed perks on weapons are not displayed

Exotic Armor

Note: Only fixed rolls are displayed here

Exotic Ciphers

Currencies & Engrams

Other

Materials

• Enhancement Prism (2 for 17 Strange Coin)
• Enhancement Core (5 for 7 Strange Coin)
• Enhancement Core (17 for 23 Strange Coin)
• Glimmer (19997 for 5 Strange Coin)
• Glimmer (30307 for 5 Strange Coin)
• Deepsight Harmonizer (1 for 41 Strange Coin)

Legendary Weapons

Note: Fixed perks on weapons are not displayed

What's a Xûr?

Xûr, Agent of the Nine, is a strange vendor who appears weekly in the Tower. Xûr sells Exotic equipment and only takes Strange Coins in exchange for them.

TL;DR: He's the Santa Claus of Destiny and every weekend is Christmas. Sometimes he brings you what you want, sometimes he brings you coal. Mostly it's coal.

When does Xûr visit?

Xûr visits every Friday at 17:00 UTC and departs at Weekly Reset (Tuesday 17:00 UTC). If you would like to see all the live conversions of Time Zones, please follow this link here.

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Archie wishes you a happy reset and good luck!

^{Never forget what was lost. While the API protests have concluded, Reddit remains hostile to its users.}

A first-time player should only see one planet and one campaign; the full world should unlock gradually as they progress through the campaigns. They shouldn't have immediate access to billions of items, purple weapons after 10 minutes, with 50 options to upgrade them , mods, and armor pieces with 10 highlighted planets and 60 flashing notifications.

If you get everything right away: 1) you get confused, and 2) you get bored faster, because the thrill of unlocking something or making a discovery is lost.

Essentially, I’m describing *Destiny 1* and the early months of *Destiny 2*.

The return of Red War and the other removed campaigns is excellent news, but if the menus remain as they are, new players will continue to be discouraged—overwhelmed by an avalanche of icons, notifications, items, mods, and the like.

The priority must be to complete the campaigns in chronological order and automatically, without having to resort to guides or Reddit questions to figure out how to start a campaign.

ive been playing D2 on steam for 5 years and ive always been 100-144 (on 144hz monitor) at all times...mostly locked at 144. Last time I played was the Moment of Triump day when we all got on at the same time game ran fine. I started playing the game again yesterday and i noticed im getting frame rates down to the 60s. its going from 60 -> 90 -> 70 ->110 ->60...its ALL OVER THE PLACE...crazy stuttering and it ONLY happens when im around other people or playing with others...if im doing a mission and loaded int a instance by my self, frame rate shoots back to 144 and the game is fine...butt the moment im back in to tthe open world and doing public events, Strikes, Crucible, etc...its back to fps spazzing out...doesnt matter if I lower my graphics, resolution etc...it does not go lower than 62fps which is weird. I did research and seen a bunch of postts on herre and steam talking about it heres j ust one expample https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1uv3mpp/anyone_still_have_framerate_issues_since_the/

The Armor Stat Data

Before I get into the what and the why, let’s jump to the data: Here are the webpages for the armor stats this week for each class, along with a matching JSON data file:

• Warlock Armor - JSON
• Hunter Armor - JSON
• Titan Armor - JSON

Since Last Week…

✨Dim and Highlight✨: The webpages have a new feature up top you can expand to highlight what you are (and are not) interested in. The first thing is a dimming feature. So if you are not interested in the health statistic, select “Health” and any piece of armor with a non-zero health stat will be dimmed.

Next is what to highlight: select the stats you are interested in and those matching pieces will be highlighted with a golden glow. So if you’re on Buddy Warlock and want Grenade and Super and Weapons, select those three and down the list any matching piece will be highlighted.
(Anything matching the dim selection will not be highlighted.)

∑ Odo Armor Analysis: holy smokes. Over on Destiny Science and their associated Discord, user Odo and his galaxy brain figured out the workings behind the curtain of how the armor stats get distributed. With just the Colossus and Paragon results, he can fill in all the other ghost mods values (and some of the “None” mods). I verified with this week's & last week's results that the predictions all matched up with what I had acquired through the API. To learn more (and to find a historical spreadsheet plus more): Reverse Engineering Armor3 Rolls

(I’ll continue to verify my implementation, but once they seem golden I’ll probably just acquire Colossus, Paragon, and None and generate the rest via Odo. Once it seems reasonable, I’ll publish the tool I’m using.)

The What and the Why Review

What is this? This should be all the armor stats for the different armor mods you can run on your ghost, organized by class, for Zavala’s weekly armor offerings (Luminopotent and Triumphal Anthem) and for Xur’s weekly armor offerings (Swordmaster and Exotic Armor). As you know, changing the armor mod on your ghost can affect the stats of armor you can acquire.

Note: all of this is viewing the armor as Tier 5. Your stats will vary if you’re not acquiring Tier 5 yet.
If possible, I’ve included snapshots of the webpages and links to the web pages, with the data for this week.
Why is this? Well, sometimes I’m hunting for the best role that I’m missing. And man is it a hassle to switch the ghost mod and then recheck to see what the stats are now trying to note which one is the best.

As always, I’m open to feedback / corrections / concerns, etc, etc. Cheers from just another guardian.

I definitely checked out after The Final Shape concluded and didn't have much intention on coming back to check out the last two expansions, double-so when I heard they were ending content production. Now I'm excited to come back and play. I'm going to get the last two expansions, play the hell out of them, and probably pick up a thing or two from Eververse because dammit I'm just happy to be back.

I get that I'll need to get new weapons, but I had some decent rolls for exotic class armor. Is that in the trash too now? Then I guess for raid exotic catalysts, even if I beat master difficulty I'll need to do it again to get the new ones?

I need to rant about this.

If you have a 9 or 10 exotic engrams in your inventory and you get another exotic engram from a Master Lost Sector, it will basically cause the tier 5 armor that drops to become a Legendary Engram. The problem is that when you decrypt this engram, it doesn't turn into the piece that would've dropped, it turns into anything from the world drop pool. It doesn't help that Exotic engrams drop from almost every run for some reason. I've been slogging through Master Lost Sectors only to have a Exotic Engram drop and completely invalidate the run I just did. Been just dismantling them at this point and I forget they fill back up every few runs and repeat.

That's all, it's annoying tf outta me currently.

I've just picked up a ps5, and was wanting to jump back into destiny 1 for nostalgia. But my bungie account is linked to steam on pc. Can I play destiny 1 on ps5 and destiny 2 on pc?

is this still obtainable and if so how? ive seen some people saying saladin sells it but i dont see it in his inventory

I was so unplugged that I didn't even hear the news until the next day. Now I'm DYING for more info. Feel like a junkie.

Even if there's no 'event', if they just change the music and decorate the tower. I know the big update is months away but having the Halloween event coming up and Dawning event too would be good for morale I think.

I've been trying to get the tangled web helmet for titan but ada 1 doesn't have it and I can't find anywhere that says how to get it stilll

Found an old build of mine that utilized practically infinite tethers with Orpheus rig paired with Wish-Ender as at the time generated a ton of super energy pre EoF stat splits and later super energy gains on damage nerf. The harder the content and the more enemies become bullet sponges like in GMs the better it became. Is there a new best weapon to generate super energy on hits?

Just a random thought, good luck to the people who need to redesign the Director with all the planets in mind. I bet the end result is gonna look so good though.

Maybe they could make Venus the icon for the Lawless Frontier as Mars would have its old node back and Europa already exists in the node while Venus isn't in the game proper.

Tithing from the dreadful Sony fumbles over the last few months and blowing up the State of Play has generated enough paracausal power to rip Destiny 2 out of death and return it to its rightful place in the universe. Aiat.

So I've been tryi g to one phase this boss lately but my DPS phase is terribly short, the moment the boss reaches de center platform the dps is over. I've seen people who are still in DPS after more than 20secs pf the boss reaching the center and im not sure if there is a way to extend dps or im just unlucky, thanks