This week you can find Xûr hanging out at the Watcher’s Grave on Nessus and Trials is live on Bannerfall with the Exalted Truth Adept Hand Cannon, plus earn bonus Trials ranks all weekend. View more details for Xur and the latest Destiny 2 news below.
Next Week 𝒾𝓃 Destiny
Week 7: July 4 – July 11, 2023
- Season of the Deep and the Exotic Fishing Quest continues.
- Bungie Day Giving Festival begins
- Bonus Rep Rank + Rewards in the Crucible, Gambit, Vanguard, and Nightfall Rewards.
- Nightfall:
- Featured Weapon: Buzzard sidearm
- Crucible Rotator: Clash + Momentum Control
- Featured Rotators:
- Last Wish raid
- Duality dungeon
- Root of Nightmares Master Weapon: Rufus’s Fury Adept Auto Rifle
- and more!
Have a great weekend!
Upcoming Events
JUNE 20 // THIS WEEK
Iron Banner
Game Mode: Eruption
JULY 6
Bungie Day Giving Festival
This year’s Bungie Day Giving Festival starts July 6, ending on July 23.
“This year’s campaign returns with some of our biggest incentives, prizes, and surprises yet! The festivities kick off on Thursday July 6 at 10:00 a.m. PST with our first featured stream and the fun rolls through July 23.”
Bungie will share more details on June 29!
JULY 11
Iron Banner
Game Mode: Fortress
JULY 18
Solstice begins!
Free Event
AUGUST 16
Last Week of Season of the Deep
Season 22 begins August 22, 2023
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.
Departs: Tuesday, July 4 @ 10 AM PDT
Where is Xûr?
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Exotic Armor
Cost: 23 Legendary Shards
Hunter | Titan | Warlock |
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Aeon Swift Exotic Gauntlets | Ursa Furiosa Exotic Gauntlets | Astrocyte Verse Exotic Helmet |
Exotic Weapon
Cost: 29 Legendary Shards
Tap image for more info | Weapon |
 Exotic | Crimson Hand Cannon (Kinetic) |
Exotic Weapons (with Random Roll)
Cost: 125,000 Glimmer + 200 Legendary Shards + 1 Exotic Cipher + 1 Ascendant Shard
Weapon | Weapon | Random Roll | |
 | Hawkmoon | Hand Cannon | Opening Shot |
Legendary Weapons
Cost: 50 Legendary Shards + 1000 Glimmer
Name | Random Perks | |
 | Iota Draconis Energy Fusion Rifle | Ensemble Harmony |
 | Interference VI Heavy Grenade Launcher | Grave Robber Swashbuckler |
 | Hoosegow Heavy Rocket Launcher | Undergod Quickdraw |
 | Tears of Contrition Kinetic Scout Rifle | Triple Tap Explosive Payload |
 | Seventh Seraph SI-2 Energy Sidearm | Hip-Fire Grip Elemental Capacitor |
 | Extraordinary Rendition Kinetic Submachine Gun | Firmly Planted One for All |
 | Hollow Denial Energy Trace Rifle | Lead from Gold Repulsor Brace |
Legendary Armor
Cost: 50 Legendary Shards + 1000 Glimmer
This Week: Lightkin suits
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 Lightkin Mask Hunter Helmet |  Lightkin Titan Helmet |  Lightkin Cover Warlock Helmet |
 Lightkin Grips Hunter Arms |  Lightkin Titan Arms |  Lightkin Warlock Arms |
| Lightkin Grips Hunter Chest Armor |  Lightkin Titan Chest Armor |  Lightkin Warlock Chest Armor |
 Lightkin Strides Hunter Legs |  Lightkin Titan Legs |  Lightkin Warlock Legs |
 Lightkin Hunter Cloak |  Lightkin Mark Titan Class Item |  Lightkin Warlock Class Item |
RELATED LINKS
Trials of Osiris
Compete in an event version of Elimination. Earn as many round and match wins on a ticket as you can.
Access: Lightfall
Ends: Tuesday, July 4 @ 10 AM PDT
Access: Lightfall
Fireteam: 3-Players
Fireteam Matchmaking: Enabled
Activity Bonus: ✅ Double Rep
When Does Trials Of Osiris Arrive?
Trials of Osiris currently starts every Friday at 10 AM (PDT) and ends on Tuesday at 10 AM (PDT). Trials is usually not available for the first month when a new season begins.
Trials of Osiris will not be live during the following:
- The first week of a new season.
- The week a new raid releases.
- Any week Iron Banner is active.
Required to Access Trials of Osiris:
✅ Power 1520+
- As of Season 21, this is Lightfall.
✅ A Passage (see below)
- Purchase from Saint-14 while Trials is active.
Please note, Expansion ownership does not transfer between platforms.
About:
- Purchase a Trials Passage to start competing in Trials of Osiris and track rounds and matches won.
- Complete Trials rounds and matches to earn Trials Ranks based on the number of round wins on your ticket and in the current match.
- Complete a Flawless Ticket to open the Lighthouse and get the weekly Adept Trials weapon, a piece of Trials armor, and a chance at unique cosmetic items.
- Complete Ranks to earn Trials Engrams.
- Trials armor always drops with high-stat packages, as well as glows if you have gone flawless.
Modes:
- Dominion (Current Mode, as of Season 21)
- To win, your team must become the last Guardian(s) standing by defeating the entire opposing team or capturing the zone.
- Dominion: A capture zone appears at the start of each round. Win the round by capturing the zone.
- Elimination: Wins can also be achieved by defeating the opposing team.
- Revives: Teammate revives are enabled.
- Classic 3v3 Elimination
- Achieve victory by eliminating all opponents in this round-based mode.
- Trials Labs: Freelance
- Solo fireteams only
- Trials Labs: Capture Zone
- Classic 3v3 elimination with a twist. 30 seconds into the first round, a flag spawns in the middle of the map. Capturing the zone guarantees that the team who captured it will win the round regardless if all players die on both sides.
Passages:
Cost: 10000 Glimmer + 15 Legendary Shards
Other
- Each class will receive Pinnacle Gear on a weekly basis.
- After opening the Chest and leaving The Lighthouse, players must complete a new Flawless Passage to return.
Passage Name | Perk | |
 | Passage of Mercy | Always available Forgives one loss per run. |
 | Passage of Ferocity | Always available Your third match win grants a bonus win. |
 | Passage of Wealth | Unlocks at 5 wins Increased Trials Rank points from reaching 3, 5, and 7 match wins on a ticket. |
 | Passage of Wisdrom | Unlocks at 7 wins Grants bonus XP from wins |
 | Passage of Confidence | Unlocks at Flawless Grants bonus rewards from Flawless Chest. |
Game Mode
- Dominion (3v3): To win, your team must become the last Guardian(s) standing by defeating the entire opposing team or capturing the zone.
- Dominion: A capture zone appears at the start of each round. Win the round by capturing the zone.
- Elimination: Wins can also be achieved by defeating the opposing team.
- Revives: Teammate revives are enabled.
Map
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Flawless Reward
Weapon | |
 | HAND CANNON Exalted Truth (Adept) Void |
View more details on our Trials of Osiris page.
TWiD Highlights
Check out the full “This week in Destiny” on the Bungie website.
Game Stability Roadmap
In the latest weekly Bungie article, Bungie shared a roadmap for their plans to improve game stability. Check out the roadmap below to learn what Bungie’s plans are to improve game stability over the next two Seasons.
“Claims”:
“When gameplay messages from Destiny 2 are received, they are sent to a key service called “Claims,” which then routes them onto the server that is responsible for your player data. This is an essential service for keeping the client and server in sync during every moment of gameplay. As you can imagine, this means Claims handles a tremendous amount of volume, routing every single kill, orb, or unit of Glimmer in Destiny 2 to the correct recipient.”
Bungie’s Game Stability Roadmap
THE ROAD AHEAD
To give everyone a clear understanding of our next steps to steadily improve game stability, we’ve developed a roadmap with key milestones over the next two Seasons:
- Ongoing:
- We will continue to make improvements to our production and deployment processes to reduce the risk of disruptions for players while reducing our maintenance and deployment downtime windows.
- We will also constantly improve our response procedures for incident recovery to bring Destiny 2 back online as quickly as possible when incidents occur.
- This work has been ongoing and will continue throughout this timeline.
- Mid-Season 21 (update 7.1.5):
- We will make targeted improvements to our logging and alerting systems, allowing us to diagnose issues more quickly with Claims and related systems.
- These changes are designed to minimize the risk of further degrading stability, while helping us to confirm the effectiveness of fixes further out on the roadmap.
- Season 22 Launch (update 7.2.0):
- We are deploying a large set of improvements meant to improve the “self-healing” ability of Claims and reduce the odds of us needing to bring Destiny 2 temporarily offline when an issue occurs.
- We are adding functionality for services to detect Claims services that are in an unhealthy state and send their messages to healthy services instead.
- We are additionally making six targeted fixes to Claims systems where we have identified issues that could impact Claims stability or recovery.
- We are making an improvement to better evict old gameplay messages in our pipelines, which should help with faster recoveries and reduce the chance of a “death spiral” of slow messages causing more slow messages.
- We are also deploying improvements that will help us to make Destiny 2 services even more robust in the future.
- We are adding improved support for targeted “Chaos Testing” against our services, allowing us to better simulate different failure modes for our services.
- We are adding more logging for non-Claims portions of our messaging pipelines to detect other issues that could lead to connection problems for players.
- Finally, to reduce the odds of introducing new problems with these changes, we are also updating and expanding our Claims Unit Tests. This is automated testing that verifies code is behaving the way we expect it should.
- Season 23 Launch (update 7.3.0):
- Based on the results of our 7.2.0 updates and improved logging, we will be targeting deeper and broader architectural improvements to improve the service stability and rapid recovery of Destiny 2, which will include a range of additional improvements.
Source: TWID (June 29, 2023)
Lucky Week
Starting next week, a new buff called Lucky Week will be available. This perk grants double the exotic fish catch rate for the whole week! Perfect time to catch up on those Triumphs! 🐟🎣
Prime Gaming Bundle Extended
The Destiny 2 Ninja Vanish Prime Gaming bundle has been extended until July 19, 2023! This bundle also includes an exclusive seasonal emblem called “This Obsidian Sea” (it doesn’t show it on the Prime Gaming page but it will be included with the bundle this month).
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Bans and Restrictions
“Players who have received a ban or restriction are advised to review our Code of Conduct and Ban Policies article for more information. Players may use the contact form to appeal the decision. There are no guarantees that a ban or suspension will be overturned, nor that an email will be responded to.” -Bungie
Bungie Day Giving Festival
Save the date! The Bungie Day Giving Festival starts July 6 through July 23.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve registered once again this year for the Bungie Day Giving Festival to raise funds for Little Lights. With your help, we hope to reach our initial goal of $1000. Donations open on July 6 and include some shiny new (and past) in-game cosmetics.
- $10 – Heartful Shell Exotic Ghost
- $25 – Blue Blood Cells emblem.
- $50 – Helium Hearts multiplayer emote
- $100 – Bungie Day emblem bundle. Every Bungie Day emblem released over the past five years. All were previously retired.
➡️ LEARN MORE!
Community Emblem Competition
This year Bungie Day also brings the first ever Community Emblem Competition! View more details and guidelines below.
“All submissions will be reviewed by our selection committee and three finalists will be chosen. The final three designs will be voted on internally by a group of Bungie employees to determine the winner. The winner will work with our art team to finalize the design and ensure it meets all necessary requirements.” -Bungie
View Guidelines
Submit your art via Twitter using #Emblematic by July 13, 2023 23:59 PT.
“The time has come to flex those artistic skills and win the opportunity to have your emblem design featured in game! To kick off this year’s Bungie Day Giving Festival, the Bungie Foundation and Community team are inviting all Guardians worldwide to join in our first ever global emblem competition.”
1.Nameplate dimensions are: 474 x 96 px.
Other components of full emblem design (the icon and the header) are not required for submission.
2. There are no theme or color restrictions. The world is your oyster.
3. Art must be 2D and non-animated.
4. Submissions must include the hashtag #Emblematic to be included in the competition.
5. Branding, logos, or any third-party intellectual property cannot be included.
6. Any hateful or explicit imagery will lead to immediate disqualification.
7. This is not a popularity contest. All submissions will be presented to the voting panel without identifying information about the original artist.
8. All submissions are subject to this policy: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Legal/submittingidea
The submission period will be open from today until July 13th.
The winner will be announced on July 20th in the TWID via official social channels.
Please reach out to charityevents@bungie.com if there are any questions.
Source: Bungie
Recent News & Updates
Visit Bungie.net for news, updates, and more.
Recent News and Update
Helpful Links and Resources
- The Final Shape webpage
- Season of the Deep webpage
- Known Issues
- #HelpForum
- New Player Guide
- Bungie Help Twitter
Upcoming Events
JULY 11
Iron Banner
Game Mode: Fortress
JULY 18
Solstice begins!
Free Event
AUGUST 16
Last Week of Season of the Deep
Season 22 begins August 22, 2023
Hope you all have a good weekend!
Until next time.
–Kimberly
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