Destiny 2: Nightfall this Week

When: Season 20 Mid-Season Update

• Heist Battleground: Mars
  • Decreasing how often combatant spawn on higher difficulties in the Towers phase.
  • Increasing the map score multiplier to help players reach score goals without exploits.
  • Adding one additional ammo crate.
• Other Heist Battleground changes
  • Reducing the frequency and number of some combatants waves in all boss fights.
  • Reducing the health of Deathtongue Choristers.
  • Hive runes will now have the same health on all difficulties.
  • Thinning out the Fallen tripmines in Heist Battleground: Moon.

Source: Bungie

• Your Power level caps 25 levels below the activity level. For Season 20, that means combatants will be 1840, but you will be 1815 at the most.
• Combatants can take more hits, deal more damage and are quite aggressive.
• Champions will be abundant, so be sure to have the proper weapons to deal with them.
• There’s one Burn, that will cause you to receive 25% more damage from a certain element.
• Also, two elemental Surges and Overcharged weapons, both granting a 25% damage increase.
• Revives are limited. And after a certain amount of time, Darkness will encroach and you won’t be able to revive or be revived.

Source: TWAB (Apr 6, 2023)

Grandmaster Changes

The following changes have been made.

Decreased the Power level needed to enter Grandmasters by 25 to 1580 (the powerful cap).
Decreased the overall Power level of Grandmaster activities by 10 to 1620.
The current Power difference of -25 (all enemies are at least 25 Power above you) is still in effect.

“This means you can enter at 1580, but enemies will be 40 Power above you. You can use Artifact Power and/or pinnacle drops to increase effectiveness up to 1595, where you reach maximum effectiveness.”

Source: TWAB (Jan 12, 2023)

Effective: Lightfall/Season 20

REWARD CHANGES

HERO

• Old
  • Small chance of up to two Enhancement Prisms.
  • One Enhancement Core and a small chance of up to two more.
• New
  • One Enhancement Prism and a medium chance at one more.
  • Two Enhancement Cores and a medium chance of one more.

LEGEND

• Old
  • One Enhancement Prism and a small chance at up to two more.
• New
  • Small chance of one Ascendant Shard.
  • Two Enhancement Prisms and a medium chance of up to two more.

MASTER

• Old
  • Medium chance of one Ascendant Shard.
  • Two Prisms and small chance of up to two more.
• New
  • One Ascendant Shard and a small chance of one more.
  • Two Enhancement Prisms and a medium chance of up to two more.

GRANDMASTER

• Old
  • One Ascendant Shard and a medium chance of one more.
  • Four Enhancement Prisms and a medium chance of up to two more.
• New
  • One Ascendant Shard and a high chance of one more.
  • Four Enhancement Prisms and a medium chance of up to two more.

ACTIVITY CHANGES

• Mars Heist Battleground added to Nightfall rotation.
  • More to come in future seasons.
• Two Surges available.
• Threats dependent on the featured Nightfall.
• One featured Overcharged weapon.
• Combatants are harder to stagger and have more health.
• Nightfall activity levels for Season 20:
  • Hero: 1770
  • Legend: 1830
  • Master: 1840
  • Grandmaster: 1840
• Power delta disadvantages:
  • Hero: -5 Power levels
  • Legend: -15 Power levels
  • Master: -20 Power levels
  • Grandmaster: -25 Power levels
• Maximum effectiveness targets:
  • Hero: 1765
  • Legend: 1815
  • Master: 1820
  • Grandmaster: 1815
• Nightfall weekly challenge now requires you to attain 200,000 points across multiple Nightfall runs, instead of than 100,000 points in a single run.

Source: Bungie