When is the next Destiny 2 season? Our band of Guardians has been through a lot recently; the Traveler has been entered by the Witness despite our best efforts to save it, Savathun came back and died again, not to mention the fact that everywhere we go, hordes of enemies seem to want to rip us limb from limb. Couple that with an uncooperative Ahamkara, and we’re up against it right now.
In an attempt to gear up for the new Destiny 2 season, we have guides on the best Destiny 2 classes and the best Destiny 2 builds, so no matter what you do, you’ll crush it. With a new season comes new activities, a lovely chunk of story, and, with any luck, some new weapons we can play with. Here’s everything we know about what comes after Destiny 2 Season of the Wish.
Destiny 2 new season release date
The new season of Destiny 2 will be released on June 4, 2024, alongside The Final Shape. This is the longest season we’ve had in Destiny history, even beating the delay before The Witch Queen in 2021.
While the Witch Queen was delayed due to Covid-19, The Final Shape delay comes as a result of Bungie wanting to give it the best shot it can and work harder on refining the content and mechanics.
We have no information on the story, gear, or gameplay in the first season of The Final Shape just now, but as soon as we do, we’ll update this guide.
Destiny 2 Into the Light release date
The free expansion for Destiny 2, Into the Light was released on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
The expansion debuted the new Onslaught mode, which is a horde activity brand. Choosing between difficulties you’ll face off against between 10 and 50 waves of enemies increasing in difficulty. At higher difficulties this includes Champions, Tormentors, and other bosses.
It takes place in a diamond-shaped version of the Midtown Crucible map, and sees players defending ADU units from these hordes of enemies. Collecting scrap from enemies will allow you to spend it on installing and upgrading tools. The expansion also includes the Pyramid Ship areas of the map to align with the story heading into The Final Shape.
Season of the Wish story
The final Guardian activity before Season of the Wish was to solve several in-game puzzles, and once Savathun’s Imbaru Engine puzzles were bested, a hidden egg was revealed. This egg came from an Ahamkara Wish Dragon, with Season of the Wish beginning in The Dreaming City, where we will have to figure out just what to do with an ancient dragon egg and how it can help our cause.
As we land on the Dreaming City once more, our Techeun friends raise Riven’s spirit – remember that huge Ahamkara we killed in Last Wish? Yeah, she’s the only one who can grant the wish to open the portal to the Traveler’s Pale Heart, where we’ll face off against the Witness.
The only thing is, she’s not too happy about us killing her and all of her eggs, so she’s not feeling very cooperative. Unbeknownst to us, she’s hidden Ahamkara eggs around the world, but it turns out these have been sent off around the leylines of the Ascendant Plane, and week by week, we’ll have to trudge off to collect them for her, or she won’t grant us that wish. We sort of need that.
As the story progresses we learn that Osiris, bless his heart, is desperately trying to understand the veil (no, we never understood either), to see if he can recreate the actions of the Witness and make our portal to the Traveler’s Pale Heart without needing old grumpy gills Riven after all. Unfortunately, it seems to be less and less likely by the minute that he’ll succeed.
Thanks to the Exotic mission, we now know Riven had a mate, with a cutscene telling us of her relationship with Taranis. After meeting in the Dreaming City, Riven tells us that Taranis cherished those who wished to him, and he protected them. She explains that their differences were what drew them to one another, and she saw a world of peace.
Unfortunately, us pesky Guardians slayed all the remaining Ahamkara back in the Forsaken expansion. Riven and Taranis created a clutch of eggs together, unbeknownst to anyone else, which were then cast across the Ascendant Plane. After Mara Sov separated Riven and Taranis, they found they could ‘whisper’ to one another – but then the Taken King arrived and bargained with Riven, who then became both king and dragon.
Taranis, to protect his and Riven’s clutch of eggs, granted his own wish – a first for an Ahamkara – but it cost him his life. His wish? To keep the eggs out of arm’s reach until someone could protect them. “Someone like you,” says Riven.
As the season progressed, we also learned we must follow Crow through the portal to the Traveler’s Pale Heart, ready for the beginning of The Final Shape, but as of yet, it’s unclear exactly how we’ll do that.
Season of the Wish weapon buffs and nerfs
Here are all the buffs and nerfs that arrived in Destiny 2 Season of the Wish:
Auto Rifles
- Increased damage against minor combatants by 10%
Pulse Rifles
- Increased damage against minor combatants by 12.5%
Glaives
- Increased projectile speed by 30%
- Increased projectile damage in PvE by 25%
- Decreased PvP damage on a per-type basis.
- Reduced delay after firing before you can melee to 0.2 seconds
- Shield energy now recharges when the glaive is held at a rate of 1% per second
- Damage resistance against primary ammo and melee attacks in PvP has been reduced to 30%
Sniper Rifles
- Increased PvE damage by 15%
Vex Mythoclast
- Increased damage to minor combatants by 10%
- Increased damage to bosses by 25%
- Increased damage to champions by 200% when in linear fusion rifle mode
Revision Zero
- Increased damage to champions by 100%
Thorn
- Picking up a Remnant can overflow the magazine, up to 40 rounds.
- New catalyst: +20 range, +10 stability, getting kills of picking up a
- Remnant grants additional range, handling, and mobility
Exotic Glaives
- Grants ammo when activating a perk, so you can use perks even when out of ammo.
- No longer passively drains shield energy when special reloading to activate perks.
- No longer deactivated by reloading of stowing glaive.
Edge of Intent
- Healing turrets grant cures and provide restoration
- Increased the AoE radius to eight meters
- Increased magazine size to five
Edge of Action
- Passing through the bubble grants reload speed, handling, and damage
- Reduced health of the bubble from 8000 to 2400
Edge of Concurrence
- Lightning Seeker jolts targets on impact
- Reduced direct hit damage
Osteo Striga
- Removed SMG damage bonus scalar that affected poison.
Salvation’s Grip
- Speed limit placed on detonation when damaging Stasis crystals
Winterbite
- Increased detonation damage of large projectiles by 25%
- Self-damage blast radius reduced by 50%
That’s everything we know about the new Destiny 2 season. If you’re still playing catch up on Season of the Wish, we have the Destiny 2 Imbaru Engine puzzle solutions here, and while you’re at it, check out the Destiny 2 Lost Sector rotation so you can gear up ahead of your next adventure.