Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion delivered arguably the best campaign the franchise has ever seen, with its Legendary mode being both rewarding and challenging in a similar way to new Raids. In fact, the Legendary campaign had the contest mode modifier active, capping the players' Power Level up to a specific amount for each new mission. Speaking of Raids, The Witch Queen's Vow of the Disciple truly hit the mark with its outstanding design and mechanics, all puzzling to a degree thanks to the new symbols and the unique boss encounters.
Vow of the Disciple is going to stay for a long time, but Destiny 2 players who have already successfully completed it multiple times may be looking for their final pieces of gear and craftable weapons. A popular request to Bungie from the community over the past year has been to do something about the older Raids and Dungeons to make them more worthwhile in terms of rewards, and the company did announce something would be coming later on.
In today's TWAB, Bungie announced that Destiny 2's older Raid and Dungeon content will go on a weekly rotation starting with Season 17, meaning that players will be able to obtain Pinnacle rewards when completing the weekly selection of activities. While the Pinnacle drop is tied to a weekly challenge and thus cannot be obtained multiple times per week if not using different characters, players will be able to bypass any and all lockouts on encounter rewards for Legendary items.
This means that all of Destiny 2's gear available in Raids and Dungeons will be completely farmable on repeat, much like the current system for the Grasp of Avarice Dungeon. It's worth mentioning that there will also be a seasonal selection of Raids and Dungeons that will become part of the new rotator, and it will comprise the most recently released bits of content for each category. For Season 17, that's going to be the Vow of the Disciple Raid and a new Dungeon that was part of the Deluxe Edition for The Witch Queen.
With this change, many Destiny 2 fans will likely go back to past content more happily than before because an additional Pinnacle reward from each activity type per week is too good to pass on. Hopefully, this change is one of many that will come with Season 17, as the game still faces several issues new and old. An example is that Destiny 2's Gunsmith ranks are very grindy, and only a handful of players will realistically even reset Banshee-44's rank once in Season of the Risen.
Destiny 2 is now available on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Bungie