This Week in Destiny - 09/04/2025

This Week in Destiny, we're getting ready for Ash & Iron. The oven has been burning behind the scenes, and we're excited to show you what we've been cooking (you thought we'd make an iron pun, didn't you?). We're hosting an upcoming stream to talk about the Major Update, sharing more details about next week's Portal additions and changes, more details about the upcoming World First race, and celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Here's a full rundown of what we're discussing today:

• Ash & Iron next week
• Fresh Portal loot
• Trials rewards
• Portal buffs
• Portal rewards improvements
• Dungeon Lairs
• Featured Gear for Renegades
• World First updates: Release date change and streaming requirements
• Patch notes preview
• Voice acting update
• Humble Choice
• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us

Let's hit it.

Ash & Iron Launches Next Week!

Developer Livestream

Join us next Tuesday, September 9 at 9 AM PT, as we offer our first preview of Destiny 2: Renegades and the development team gather to deep dive on the new Ash & Iron Major Update, also launching that day.

Everyone watching our stream on the Bungie Twitch channel for at least 15 minutes and with their Bungie account linked will earn the "Knights of Old" emblem as a Twitch Drop.

Upcoming Portal Updates

Our biggest set of changes to the Portal yet are just around the corner. New gear! More activities than ever before! Plus tons of upgrades to create more rewarding experiences. Here's a look.

Previously Announced Rewards Buffs - Coming Sept 9.

As a reminder from last week, we're making Portal Rewards buffs based on your feedback - lots of buffs.

• Several Fireteam Ops activities will have an increase in the number of drops.
• Activity timers have been rebalanced across the board.
• Players will have a chance for a Prime Engram drop per Portal Activity completion reward.
• The Portal Timer bonus earned will grant 5% minimum score.
• Conquests will become replayable.
• Your account's highest Power will be used for reward score.

Additionally, The Desert Perpetual raid will have the following:

• Weekly challenges for added Power progress
• Improved Gear Tier drops.
• Gear attunement added.

Oh, and before we move to post-launch updates, we have two more changes that will be released on September 9:

• Increased chance of earning Prime engrams on activity complete in the Crucible.
• Increased Bonus Focus drop rates from 25% to 66% in the Crucible.

Trials Rewards

If you haven't heard yet, we're bringing back a weekly featured weapon for Trials. This will bring PvP gear to parity with the PvE experience and provide opportunities for players to focus their efforts on acquiring specific pinnacle PvP gear.

The Trials weekly featured weapon can be acquired with each visit to the Lighthouse and will have a chance to drop in addition to all pre-existing rewards when completing a match, win or lose. The drop chance varies depending on Grade, with C+ scaling to 20% and A+ scaling to 60%.

More details will be shared in next week's TWID.

9.1.0.1 Portal Buffs

A number of the buffs we've been working on will be rolling out through the launch of Ash & Iron, with a handful targeting the next patch, Destiny 2 Update 9.1.0.1. Here are the changes heading towards this next patch and the work-in-progress info we can share about them:

• We're removing some mods from matchmade Portal experiences.
  • Some mods could stack in ways that were unenjoyable for most players, or become overly difficult for matchmade environments.
  • They will still be available for mod selection when customizing your own Portal activities.
  • Those mods are: Grappler, Hypercritical, Oscillation, and Match Game.
• We're creating a more consistent Power reward experience for the upper Power climb.
  • From 500 to 550 Power, earn an A or A+ grade to get +1 Power on your activity completion rewards.
  • This change will also be in effect for A grades in the 400-450 Power range when Renegades launches.
  • Note that with the launch of Ash & Iron, the Power climb from 400 to 500 will be naturally accelerated by the Power cap increasing to 550.
  • Also note that we expect this change to positively impact PvP rewards and we will be monitoring the PvP experience to ensure this.
• We're improving Fireteam Ops rewards.
  • We're identifying opportunities to improve the nature of the reward experience from many more activities within Fireteam Ops. We are rapidly aligning on the plan and will share more details with you in the future.
• *NEW* Reduce gameplay penalties when running out of time in Grandmaster difficulty in the Portal.
  • GM difficulty Portal activities will no longer zero out revives when you hit the time limit.
  • Note that Revives will still zero out for GM Conquests.
• *NEW* Make Tier 5 rewards easier to earn in the Portal.
  • From 450 Power onwards (Platinum or Diamond reward packages), earn a score of 1,250,000 or more to guarantee T5 drops from your activity completion rewards.
  • To confirm that you will be able to earn T5 rewards, before launching your activity, add modifiers and increase your reward score forecast until it shows a picture of a T5 engram and a score of 1,250,000+.
  • As you go up in Power, you'll be able to earn T5s with progressively lower grades. Ex: at 500 Power, you'll only require a B+ for T5s.

We know our work isn't done, and we have more changes planned in the future.

Rewards: New Weapons, Armor, Set Bonuses

With all the above changes to how you earn rewards, we thought this would be a great time to introduce new rewards coming in the upcoming Major Update. Check out next week's stream to see some in action.

Weapons

Shared Pool

• MIDA Mini-Tool - Revised Lightweight Submachine Gun (Solar)
• Drang - Revised Adaptive Sidearm (Solar)
• Haliaetus - High Impact Rocket Launcher (Strand)

Trials of Osiris

• Burden of Guilt - Adaptive Fusion Rifle (Stasis)
• Everburning Glitz - Rapid Fire Auto Rifle (Kinetic)

Iron Banner

• Finite Impactor - Adaptive Hand Cannon (Solar)

Pinnacle Ops

• Forced Memorializer - Precision Scout Rifle (Kinetic)
• Seraphine Haze - Aggressive Submachine Gun (Stasis)

Solo Ops / Fireteam Ops

• [REDACTED]

Crucible Ops

• [REDACTED]

Armor and Set Bonuses

Solo Ops / Fireteam Ops: Smoke Jumper Armor Suit

• Set Bonuses: Despairing Souls Set
  • 2 Piece | Ride Together, Die Together
    • When you pick up an Orb of Power, gain a brief period of rapidly decaying damage reduction.
  • 4 Piece | Too Old For This
    • Defeating a powerful combatant with a Finisher grants you Special ammo progress and replenishes a small amount of health.

Other New Armor Suits

• Crucible Ops: [REDACTED] Suit
• Iron Banner: Iron [REDACTED] Suit
• Raid: [REDACTED] Suit

New Pinnacle Ops: Dungeon Lairs

Dungeon Lairs are our way of bringing dungeon encounters into the Portal through our Pinnacle Ops offering, and will be available to all players looking for a challenge. The encounters will be familiar, but have been updated to work with the Portal's modifiers, scoring system, and Portal loot.

The three Dungeon Lairs being added to Pinnacle Ops in the Portal are:

• Pit of Heresy: Beneath the Necropolis
• Duality: Nightmare of Gahlran
• Warlord's Ruin: Hefnd's Vengeance

But wait, there's more!

For two weeks, starting at Ash & Iron launch (9/9 - 9/23), we are making all three of their original dungeons available to all players! Once this period ends, the Dungeon Lairs for Pit of Heresy, Duality, and Warlord's Ruin will remain freely available in the Portal.

If you'd prefer to farm dungeon-specific loot to fill out your collection in the Portal, you can customize Dungeon Lair activities and toggle the new boon modifier, Classic Collector. This modifier will ensure that legacy dungeon rewards will drop in addition to Portal rewards. These will be available to all players during the first two weeks of Ash & Iron. After which, players will be required to purchase the corresponding Dungeon Key to earn more of this loot. Please note, the legacy rewards will lack Seasonal Power and Gear tiers and are purely additive. 

A Few More Things

9.1.0 - Ash & Iron Launch

• Fireteam Power will no longer adjust your score when below 300 Power. This means that playing with friends who are at lower Power than you will improve their rewards, allowing quicker access to Tier 2 gear.
• A 'Discard' action has been added to Portal engrams when in the Postmaster, allowing quicker dismantles, if desired.

9.5.0 - Renegades Launch - Featured Gear

• When Renegades launches, all Legendary gear from Season: Reclamation (The Edge of Fate and Ash & Iron), will be included as part of Season: Lawless Featured Gear. In other words, Legendary gear currently with the teal Featured Gear background marker will continue to be marked as Featured Gear next Season.
• All new Exotics from Season: Reclamation will also be included as part of Season: Lawless Featured Gear.
• The New Gear Bonus will be changing for the Season: Lawless Artifact.
  • Starting in Season: Lawless, the New Gear Bonus will be a flat bonus for all Featured Gear. It will no longer be tiered as it is currently in Season: Reclamation and will be a max 5% damage for weapons and a max 10% damage resistance for armor.

Epic Raid Update: Release Date and World First Streaming Requirements

In an effort to provide a stable and high-quality experience, we have made the decision to delay the Epic Raid by one week. This activity will now ship on Saturday, September 27, and the World First Race will begin at 10:00 AM PT. Contest mode will be active through September 29, ending at 10:00 AM PT.

We understand that this may create challenges for some in scheduling, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Our highest priority is to ensure a fun, smooth experience not only during the race, but for all players who wish to take on Contest difficulty, or play the Epic Raid once normal mode becomes available.

Additionally, we've created new rules for the upcoming World First race, including a list of streaming requirements. These requirements are both for verification purposes to combat cheaters, and to improve the overall viewing experience for our players watching streams. We will use this race to test out these requirements and, based on the outcome and player feedback, we will make additional changes to these rules in future races.

The following will be required if teams wish to be in contention of being World First:

1. Streaming is required, but only one member of the six fireteam members has to stream.
2. The stream must be on YouTube or Twitch.
3. The stream must be set to video-on-demand (VOD).
4. If the team member wants to hide portions of their screen, they must use an overlay provided by Bungie/DestinyTheGame and cannot use additional overlays to block other portions of their stream, even as a joke.
   1. Note: This stream overlay will hide portions of their screen during the competition.
   2. Expect this to be published in the coming weeks; It may be edited to add your branding/face - but no additional gameplay content may be covered.
   3. If you wish to compete yet have no desire to cover your screen... awesome! Don't worry about it.
5. The team member who streams cannot black out or hide their screen or portions of their screen outside the provided overlay.
6. Game audio must be on at all times, but players may mute their voice audio.

We will have a submission form ready to share in next week's TWID for you to share your streaming info if you plan to participate in the race.

Destiny 2 Update 9.1.0 - Patch Notes Preview

In addition to the upcoming Portal changes we highlighted above and in prior TWIDs, here is a short preview of other, smaller changes and fixes coming with Update 9.1.0 next week:

• Shooting range now features customizable difficulty from the Portal, including access to most of the same modifiers available on a given day.
• Updated Portal scoring and grade info in the post-game carnage report screen.
• Banshee will once again offer the quest to acquire the catalyst for Tommy's Matchbook.
• Lobby balancing in Trials will be disabled.
• Fixed an issue in the Duality Dungeon preventing players from being teleported to the nightmare realm when playing on Master difficulty.
• Trials' Special ammo meter has been increased. More details next week.
• Updated selectable modifier saving when repeating activities to only save and reapply modifiers that the user selected.

The Edge of Fate: Voice Acting Update

Earlier this year, we announced that some voice talent was unavailable to record lines for The Edge of Fate, and that temporary performances for Ikora, Orin, and Chioma were going to be used. We're happy to announce that, with the launch of Ash & Iron next week, the original English voice talent for Ikora, Orin, and Chioma have returned with newly recorded lines for their characters.

We're also excited to share that French and Spanish voice actors are in the process of recording their lines, which we expect to ship out with Destiny 2: Renegades later this year.

Humble Choice: Destiny 2 Legacy Collection 2025

Heads up, Guardians! The Destiny 2: Legacy Collection 2025 will join Humble Bundle's September Humble Choice selection. This bundle is the definitive way to experience years of Destiny 2 campaigns, raids, and more! Plus, included with purchase is a 30% off coupon for the Destiny 2: Year of Prophecy Edition on Humble Bundle (redeemable on Steam). It's the past and future of Destiny 2; and it's only a click away.

Steam players can purchase Humble Choice from September 2 through October 7 to acquire a redeemable code for the Destiny 2: Legacy Collection 2025 among the other titles in the bundle. Five percent of every Humble Choice purchase will be donated to Team Rubicon, the veteran-led humanitarian organization that serves global communities before, during, and after disasters and crises.

Adding some great games to your collection and giving to a great cause. That's what Guardians are all about!

The Legacy Collection 2025 includes:

1. The Final Shape Standard Edition
2. Lightfall Standard Edition
3. The Witch Queen Standard Edition
4. Beyond Light Pack
5. Shadowkeep Pack
6. Forsaken Pack
7. 30th Anniversary Pack
8. Pit of Heresy Dungeon
9. Shattered Throne Dungeon
10. Grasp of Avarice Dungeon

Humble Choice is a monthly subscription that offers a curated mix of PC games every month.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Us

As we approach Hispanic Heritage Month, the Latin@Bungie Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Association is celebrating the occasion with the ¡Revivir! emblem. We are excited to support the El Centro de la Raza, a nonprofit whose mission is to build unity across all racial and economic sectors, to organize, empower, and defend our most vulnerable and marginalized populations, and to bring justice, dignity, equality, and freedom to all peoples of the world.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, everyone that makes a $10 donation to El Centro de la Raza through the Bungie Foundation campaign will earn the ¡Revivir! emblem for Destiny 2. Through September 30, 2025, all net proceeds* will go to El Centro de la Raza.

*Minus Tiltify and payment processing fees.

Bungie Rewards: Heavy Metal Title Pin

With the return of the Heavy Metal Activity this week in Destiny 2, players have another opportunity to complete their Triumphs and claim their Heavy Metal title. Are you Team Brig or Team Tank?

Complete the Heavy Metal Title by 12/30 at 9:59am and purchase your Bungie Rewards from the Bungie Store today!

Player Support Report

Known Issues List | Help Forums | Destiny 2 Team Bluesky

Claim Your Seasonal Challenges Before Tuesday!

When Ash & Iron launches next week, Seasonal Challenges will be refreshed. Players should claim any complete challenges they have before the game goes down for maintenance on Tuesday.

Upcoming Issue with Displayed Gear Power

Due to an issue, Update 9.1.0 will include an issue where some gear may display a different number instead of their Power. When this happens, the item's displayed Power will match a stat on the item, and it can't be updated with infusion. This is purely a visual issue and the item's actual Power will not be affected. Your access to content, difficulty when facing combatants, and rewards will also not be impacted. The cause of this issue has been identified, and we are planning a fix for an upcoming update.

Known Issues List

• Dying against the Exile Ranniks boss on Kepler's Mythic difficulty when trying to complete the steps for Graviton Spike's Transcendent Zen Catalyst causes the boss to despawn.
• Some players are unable to interact with a briefcase during the Declassification side quest.
• Some platform achievements currently can't be completed.
• The countdown timer for Guardian Ranks is using the Rewards Pass timer.
  • Note: Guardian Ranks are not being reset when Ash & Iron launches.

Great Treasures and Terrible Power

While we'll never be on good terms with the Vex, there is something beautifully dark about finding a dead Ghost next to a Golbin's head.

OfStarlightDesigns, Twitter/X

Caged

Clans and montages - they're always together - and this is a celestial one.

ManWithAPlan, YouTube

It's been a shorter week than usual due to Labor Day in the U.S., so trying to wrangle all our teams together for this TWID has made it come in extremely hot. Even so, we wanted to give you as much information we can about next week's release and what's ahead. There's going to be a lot happening, and more is on the way - thanks for being on this journey with us.

We hope you're excited to be in ironclad while kicking ash in the Plaguelands. ;-)

Destiny 2 Community Team