This Week in Destiny 2: Grandmasters Return

This week in Destiny 2, you likely noticed the new name for the traditional Destiny 2 recap, but the biggest news is the return of Grandmasters!

Destiny 2 Season of the Deep Silver Bundle Emote

Grandmasters Return – This week in Destiny 2

Read on to learn more about what’s coming in Destiny 2, or check out the original post at Bungie.

THIS WEEK IN DESTINY – 06/08/2023
Br1, Bungie Team

This Week in Destiny… yeah, you read that right. As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we are fully leaning into this becoming a Destiny-centric space going forward. More on that in a bit! Before we jump into it, let’s recap the contents of the previous week:

Ghosts of the Deep rundown.
Bungie Rewards got new dungeon-themed merch.
Did you get your Marathon emblem?
You got new Prime Gaming loot.

And here’s what we have for the first TWID ever:

A new name for the TWAB.
Ready for a new Community Fashion Contest?
Grandmasters will be back on June 13.
And Supremacy, too.
You all owe Kalli an apology.
Preview of some 7.1.0.2 fixes.
Collaboration art!
The usual Player Support Report, and our AOTW and MOTW picks.

REBRANDING THE TWAB

For as long as anyone can remember, there has been a weekly check-in between Bungie and our community. Back in February of 2016, we rebranded the “Bungie Weekly Update” to “This Week At Bungie.” This was done primarily because, at the time, there was a lot of confusion when a live game put something out with the name “Update” and there weren’t patch notes to read.

Fast forward to today, and it’s time once again to evolve the name of our weekly ritual. Don’t fret, our weekly check in for Destiny news and community highlights will continue! The main change here is that we will be keeping things Destiny-specific, so we need a name that reflects that since Bungie has now publicly announced a new game.

Starting today, the weekly Destiny blog will be named This Week in Destiny. As you may have noticed already, each week’s blog post will be announced on official Destiny social channels rather than on Bungie’s channels, and we’ll continue to drop the occasional standalone blog with in-depth details and insights from the dev team. Now that you know the new name and the reasoning behind it, you can do what you do best, Destiny Community: Meme away! But first, please join us in bidding farewell to the TWAB and welcoming the TWID.

PUT ON YOUR BEST DRESS

Fashion is the ultimate, true endgame. Matching the perfect textures, forms, and colors to express the right idea is not easy, so we want to reward those who succeed in such endeavors.

Given that Season of the Deep is all about how the scariest floors of the sea can also be the most beautiful, how Guardians are good at killing gods, but better at catching exotic fishes, and how even the most dangerous warmonger can break down a bit when recalling simpler times… Well, why not celebrate all that complexity with a good Community Fashion Contest?

We know you can express what Season of the Deep is all about with just five pieces of armor, . Don your drippiest designs and try out the most combinations, and of course, let us know with the #DrownInTheDrip hashtag for a chance to earn our very new and exclusive Prêt-à-porter fashion emblem. You have until June 15, so get to work, fashionistas!

Exclusive Prêt-à-porter fashion Destiny 2 Emblem

READY FOR SOME EARLY GRANDMASTER NIGHTFALLS?

As we mentioned in our ”Reflecting on Lightfall” article, Grandmaster Nightfalls will be available a bit earlier than usual during Season of the Deep. The reason for this is simple: without the seasonal Power climb, and with the requirement level changes we added during Season 19, we believe we can successfully launch them earlier. Grandmasters are coming on Week 4, and that means you’ll have a chance to earn Exotic materials and Adept weapons starting next Tuesday, June 13.

Note that this is only for the Weekly Grandmasters. The Conqueror gilding node is still planned to open in Week 7. So, get ready to face The Lightblade if you are aiming to get the Adept version of the Wendigo GL3 Heavy Grenade Launcher next week. And in case you are wondering, The Loaded Question Fusion Rifle and the Braytech Osprey Rocket Launcher will be featured in the following two weeks.

SUPREMACY ENTERS THE RELENTLESS ROTATOR

For those of you who got a taste of Supremacy during Guardian Games and wanted more, congratulations! Supremacy will be added to the Relentless rotator in the Crucible starting next week.

This Crucible game mode requires you to collect the crests dropped by the enemies you take down to score for your team, while you also deny the enemy their points by picking up crests from fallen allies. Show everyone who’s in charge here and secure each kill. While you earn ranks, you might even get that renewed Randy’s Throwing Knife Kinetic Scout Rifle that Shaxx has brought back into the loot pool. Keep an eye on Cascade Point or Box Breathing for this one… Trust me.

YOU OWE KALLI AN APOLOGY

People, we need to talk. Why? What did she ever do to you? What’s your problem with murderous, Taken Techeuns? We know The Supremacy got Rewind Rounds, that Techeun Force has a sick PvP roll and that Reconstruction and Bait and Switch make Apex Predator a top-tier option for DPS, but that’s no reason to put Kalli into such a situation!

A lot of you stepped into every plate to get double rewards, while others just cursed their aim over how many Golden Gun or Sleeper Simulant shots they missed… Either way, the outcome would be the same: a lot of good loot.

We hope you consider it time well spent. Because I do.

SOME FIXES COMING NEXT WEEK

The Destiny 2 Update 7.1.0.2 will be deployed on June 13. Although we’ll have our usual patch notes available the moment it’s available, we wanted to give you a preview of some of the implemented fixes.

First, a reminder that the extra reward awarded by the weekly Last Wish quest, the one handed by Hawthorne, was not intentional, so it’s going away. Starting Tuesday, you’ll get one Deepsight weapon from it, since that was always the plan. You’ll still earn at least another one every week, because the final chest after dumping Riven’s heart gives one per week and account. But you still have a few days until the fix is implemented, so if you want that extra reward, go for it.

Now, for a few Exotics’ fixes. This update will reenable the Vesper of Radius, since it won’t have such explosive behavior with certain weapons anymore. Sunbracers will have their increased duration of Solar grenades restored. And after Saladin had a very long conversation with Kephri’s Horn, the strange interactions that this Titan Exotic Helmet allowed have been fixed, so it will also be reenabled.

Finally, to name a few other fixes coming: we also have one for the issue that allowed certain grenades to go through Barricades and Wards of Dawn, we are toning down the new Collective Action perk in PvP (10% damage buff instead of a 20%), and we are giving the new Mercurial Overreach Competitive Sniper Rifle a bigger reticle when scoping so it’s easier to use.

The rest of the patch notes for the 7.1.0.2 updates will be available on June 13.

This Week in Destiny 2: Grandmasters Return