This Week In Destiny - 02/26/2026

This week in Destiny, we have a set of Praxic Time Trials topics as the Community Challenge enters its last week. We also want to spotlight a few videos that are either useful if you are still working on your speedruns or that show off some impressive feats.

• Slight technical increase to Praxic Time Trials limit
• Gotta go fast with your Praxic Blade
• Some of our favorite Community Challenge videos
• A New Player Guide article is live
• A quick glimpse at the most recent patch

Praxic Time Trials Update

First, we wanted to thank Guardians for their participation in the Praxic Blade Time Trial Community Challenge so far! It was brought to our attention, and our Analytics Team confirmed, that there is a slight gap between the in-game timer and when the API reports your clear. To account for this discrepancy, our Analytics Team will be looking for Equilibrium clears under 21 minutes on the API timer.

We recommend that your in-game timer remains below 20 minutes to ensure a successful Praxic Time Trials completion.

Tips for Speeding through Equilibrium

If you are a struggling fireteam fighting to land a time below 20 minutes, no worries: here are some tips to help before the Community Challenge ends on March 3! 

• Fireteam configuration: lots of combinations are viable but here are some tips!
  • Song of Flame Warlocks are very helpful for survivability on both boss encounters.
  • A Prismatic Hunter with Tether is great to debuff bosses and has very high ability uptime with the right combination.
  • Titans can do a lot of damage with Solar and hammers, Strand and Banner of War, or Arc and Thundercrash.
• Prepare at least two loadouts with one for traversal spaces where you need to move fast. 
  • Use a sword with Eager Edge to go faster. Don't worry about heavy ammo, you'll refill it before a boss encounter.
    • If you were expecting us to explain how to "skate" with a sword, well, we are not.
  • For DPS on boss encounters, put everything on the Weapons Armor stat and then equip two Kinetic Weapon Surges. 
    • We are fairly sure you can one-phase any boss this way.
• Use the Praxic Blade for everything. Seriously.
  • It has great ammo economy, outstanding damage, and allows you to use your heavy for other things like defeating adds or moving faster.
• First encounter.
  • Two Guardians focus on clearing the room and defeating Behemoth
    • Go crazy with Supers, abilities, whatever. Give it all.
  • One Guardian gets the buff to complete the mechanics.
    • Be quick with your callouts.
• Second encounter.
  • Grab the buff together, then split and do mechanics in all three rooms at the same time.
  • There's a way reduce the shield on the boss very fast, and another way to extend DPS, too. Take advantage of it!
  • Do DPS with the Praxic Blade and have your Heavy for the next traversal section!
• Third encounter.
  • Again, go crazy with the Praxic Blade, you won't run out of ammo
  • Extend as much as you can the first round of mechanics in the 'light' side and eliminate as many shielded enemies as possible.
  • When teleported to the 'ascendant' arena, don't compel: just kill, kill, kill. You should be able to kill the boss in one phase!
• Patience!
  • We know we are approaching the end of this activation, but you still have a few days to get even more familiar with every corner and enemy of the Equilibrium dungeon. Keep trying and you'll get the below 20 completion soon.

These are very basic guidelines that are very class agnostic and that rely mostly on the main protagonist of this challenge, the Praxic Blade. We recommend you check out some of the guides online that the always amazing Destiny 2 content creators have put together to help the community. We have two such guides below along with some other amazing videos we've collected.

The Sharpest Blades and Cleanest Clears (So Far!)

Here are a handful of selected Praxic Time Trials clips posted by your fellow Guardians. Everyone here is getting the MOTW emblem! Don't forget to add your Bungie IDs to the content if you haven't yet.

Solo Flawless Under 17 minutes!

A Lovely Guide

Two Hunters With Very Lucky Pants

On Console, No John Chunk

The Fastest We've Seen

We will give away more MOTW emblems next week. These Community Challenges have seen a good reception so we intend to host more in the coming weeks. If you have any ideas or suggestions for them, we'd love to hear them. And if you have a great video to share with us, do so with the #PraxicTimeTrials hashtag.

New Player Guide: Activities

We've been continuing to add to our New Player Guide over the past weeks and this week is no different. This time, we go over the different activities available in Destiny 2 and what you can get from them!

Destiny 2 is a game with a lot of content and activities to play. In its current iteration, most activities are split between what's available in the Portal, which includes our latest content and The Edge of Fate and Renegades expansion, and what's in the World tab, which covers the content that launched up until The Final Shape expansion.

Check out the new guide section here!

Update 9.5.5.3

Wondering about updates to the game that came with Update 9.5.5.3? Here's a couple of highlights:

• Fixed an issue where The Lament's charged light attacks would not activate Sword-based artifact perks.
• Fixed an issue where the Derealize Pinnacle Ops could become soft-locked at the Defeat Blight Sentinels objective.

You can read the full patch notes here!

Player Support Report

Known Issues List | Help Forums | Destiny 2 Team Bluesky

Known Issues List

• Hunters can't double jump while blocking with the Praxic Blade.
• Flipping through pages in the Expansions tab can cause a visual issue where some tabs display Silver prices over slots that hold items that cannot be bought with Silver.
• We've identified an issue where Renegades campaign activities and Lawless Frontier Jobs default to Normal difficulty. Players can set the difficulty to Expert when launching into these activities if they would like to earn greater rewards. Completing Jobs on either difficulty will not impact Legendary campaign completion triumphs.
• The Inverted Spire Nightfall (non-Portal variant) is not providing rewards at the end of the activity.
• Advanced difficulty Portal activities cannot be launched with the Avante-Garde modifier active.
• Shaping Dead Man's Tale with the Catalyst is causing Revision Zero's Catalyst Triumph to unlock.
• Players are unable to complete Altar of Reflection: Catalyst due to one of the bosses staying immune.
• Wolfsbane's light attacks are displaying the visual effects of Void instead of Solar.
• Khvostov 7G-0X does not gain stacks of Eyes Up, Guardian when picking up Orbs of Power while the Warlock Song of Flame Super is active.
• The description for the Vanguard Alerts: Challenges weekly objective incorrectly references general activity challenges in its description. This objective can be progressed with Vanguard Alert activity challenges or Grandmaster Vanguard Alerts.

Hero's Journey

Every Guardian's journey is different and each story's uniqueness is a triumph of its own.

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Bows To No One

SamiKat shared this amazing accomplishment of completing Ghosts of the Deep with only a bow, no HUD, at Master difficulty. 

We have no idea how you'd have the mental fortitude to do such a feat, but incredible work.

After 493 hours, 296,941 kills, and 1222 unintentional deaths all to this one particular challenge starting Sept 9, 2023, I have finally done it. IT'S FREAKING MINE!!!

Solo
All-Bow
No HUD.
✨✨ MASTER ✨✨
Ghosts of the Deep

And it's only my second GotD clear too! First was SF! pic.twitter.com/RW3i1X0Y0U

— SamiKat (@samikatplays) February 23, 2026

All the Guardians working so hard on the Praxic Time Trials Community Challenge has been a lot of joy to watch! We're planning on introducing new community activations for more rewards and to explore more of the in-game content available in Destiny 2 in the next few weeks. With that in mind, what activities such as story missions (Excision?), user-generated content, or other game activities would you like to see featured? Let us know! 

Destiny 2 Community Team