Back when Destiny 2 was released in 2017, Bungie removed the Nightfall exclusive rewards from the loot-pool. But after a ton of requests and feedback from the players, Bungie started making the Nightfall exclusive rewards for the game which was a great addition to the game. At this point, we don’t have an exclusive reward for every Nightfall. Some of the Nightfalls with exclusive rewards are – Trees of Probabilities (D.F.A.), Savathun’s Song (Duty Bound), A Garden World (Universal Wavefunction), The Arms Dealer (Tilt Fuse), The Corrupted (Horror’s Least), Strange Terrain (Braytech Osprey), Warden of Nothing (Warden’s Law), The Hollowed Lair (Mindbender’s Ambition), etc.
Bungie Comments on New Nightfall Exclusive Drops in Destiny 2
In a Reddit thread, dmg04 (community manager at Bungie) replied in what they think about adding new Nightfall exclusive rewards for the ones that don’t currently have the rewards. He replied, “Thank you for the feedback. I want to get a bit more on your feelings here. In Year 1, we had a bit of feedback that Nightfalls didn’t feel rewarding enough, thus Uniques/Emblems/Scoring were brought into the fold. Feedback was given that the weapons were great, but the cosmetic rewards (ghosts, sparrows, ships) weren’t as desirable. Forsaken added a few weapons w/ random rolls that helped to address this. Moving into Shadowkeep, Nightfalls became a repeatable grind to earn Masterwork materials and Exotics w/ random rolls. Do you feel that this isn’t as rewarding as a single weapon?”
A Reddit user replied to his comment saying, “why not both?” For that, dmg04 said, “Time, resources, etc. Create a weapon for an NF which is becoming a masterwork/exotic grind, or create a unique weapon for the Raid? There isn’t always a 1:1 comparison, but it’s something to help frame the scene. We don’t have the ability to create unique weapons for every single activity in the game each release, so there has to be prioritization while factoring in every reward available per activity.“
Bungie is really doing a great job at making new armor sets and weapons for raids, Nightmare Hunts, etc. But we’ll love to see new exclusive rewards for the new Nightfalls as well. What are your thoughts about this? Let us know in the comments!
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep is now live on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, released on October 1, 2019, and later in November on Google Stadia.