What is the Nightfall weapon this week in Destiny 2?

Nightfalls can be one of the most challenging activities in Destiny 2 on higher difficulties. Luckily for gamers, they come with rewards to match. Each week, at least one Nightfall weapon is in rotation and can drop from Nightfall completions.

Higher difficulties have better odds, and Destiny 2 guardians brave enough to face Grandmasters will get an Adept version of whatever weapon is on tap that week. Revenant is bringing a few Grandmasters on the challenging or annoying side, including Liminality, the Corrupted, Proving Grounds, and the Lightblade—which are (or were) among the trickiest at the time of their release.

Here is the Nightfall weapon for this week in Destiny 2.

Destiny 2 Nightfall weapon this week: Dec. 10 to 17

• Weapon: Scintillation
• Nightfall: Birthplace of the Vile
• Champions: Unstoppable, Overload
• Threat: Void
• Surge: Arc, Void
• Overcharge: Fusion rifles
• Negative Modifier: Galvanized
  • Combatants have more health and are more difficult to stun.

Nightfall weapon this week: Scintillation

The Nightfall weapon this week is Scintillation, a three-burst Strand linear fusion rifle with more than solid god rolls. Linears aren’t as dominant as they once were and I’ll forever long for the bygone days of Particle Deconstruction, but they can still come in handy depending on what you’re up against. And worst case, the fact that your linear shots won’t blow up in your face out of the blue is probably a good change of pace.

It’s almost hard to settle on a god roll for Scintillation. This Nightfall weapon gets Rewind Rounds, Rapid Hit, Slice, and (the sadly nerfed) Auto-Loading Holster on the third column, which you can mix with Bait and Switch or Firing Line as our top two picks from column four. And if one burst-fire linear wasn’t enough, the Dawning 2024 is also bringing Mistral Lift, a Void-aligned LFR with the same frame as Scintillation.

All Nightfall weapons in rotation in Revenant

The Nightfall weapons in Revenant are: 

• Undercurrent
• Uzume RR4
• The Slammer
• Wild Style
• Scintillation
• Shadow Price
• Rake Angle (new Stasis glaive)
• PLUG ONE.1 (reissued Arc fusion rifle)

What are the Nightfalls in Episode Revenant?

Here is what the Nightfall rotation will look like in Revenant:

• The Lightblade
• Proving Grounds
• Heist Battleground: Moon
• Birthplace of the Vile
• The Arms Dealer
• Inverted Spire (reworked)
• Liminality
• The Corrupted
• Battleground: Behemoth

Nightfall weapons available through Focused Decoding at Commander Zavala

The Focused Decoding section at Zavala offers the possibility to focus your Engrams into gear available in the weapon pool for Nightfalls and Vanguards. These include:

• Nightfall weapons: All Nightfall weapons in the current pool.
• Vanguard weapons: Nameless Midnight, Positive Outlook, Luna Regolith III, Double-Edged Answer, Origin Story, and Wicked Sister (the new Strand heavy grenade launcher).

Best Nightfall weapons worth farming in Destiny 2

If you have a limited time to play, we recommend farming for these weapons:

• Rake Angle (Stasis glaive)
• Wild Style (Solar Wave-Frame grenade launcher)
• Scintillation (Strand linear fusion rifle)
• PLUG ONE.1 (reissued Arc fusion rifle)

Nightfall weapons available through Legacy Focusing at Commander Zavala

If you missed some of the old Nightfall weapons, you can spend your hard-earned Vanguard Engrams to obtain these weapons for the first time, even though they’re no longer obtainable through normal means. Older weapons like the Palindrome aren’t available through this method. The full roster includes all Nightfall weapons since season 16 (Season of the Risen), starting with the Comedian. Not all of them are relevant, so we picked the ones we like the most.

Here are some of our favorites we recommend farming if you have Vanguard Engrams to spare. We’d add Hung Jury to this list for its consistency, but the Onslaught version released in Into the Light has better perks.

• The Hothead (Rocket launcher, Arc): A great rocket launcher that’s become somewhat outclassed by other options with more meta perks, but can still be respectable on its own.
• The Militia’s Birthright (Grenade launcher, Kinetic, Breech-Loading): A solid grenade launcher with access to good perks. It can be outclassed by the competition, but its accessibility is where it shines.
• Wendigo GL3 (Grenade launcher, Arc, Adaptive Frame, heavy): A potentially solid Arc heavy grenade launcher that’s gotten a glow-up thanks to the buffs to this weapon category.
• Warden’s Law (Hand cannon, Kinetic, Heavy Burst): An incredible hand cannon with great damage potential and a unique archetype.

What are the Grandmaster Nightfall rewards in Destiny 2?

Grandmaster Nightfalls are the hardest challenge in Destiny 2, but they give you some of the most coveted rewards in the game. Completing a Grandmaster Nightfall will drop an Adept version of that week’s weapon, which can use Adept mods and gain slight bonuses to other stats when masterworked.

In addition to the Adept weapon (the crown jewel of GMs), players also have a shot at obtaining Ascendant Shards and Exotic armor upon completing a GM, with a Nightfall Memento on the table.

The rewards for Grandmaster Nightfalls are:

• Adept Nightfall Weapon (Common, but guaranteed with a Platinum completion)
• Exotic Gear (Common)
• Ascendant Shards (Common)
• Nightfall Cipher (Common)

Bungie doesn’t share the exact drop rate for Nightfall weapons, so it’s tough to estimate exactly what the “common” drop rates mean. In our experience, though, completing a Grandmaster with a Platinum score has consistently yielded at least one Ascendant Shard or an Exotic armor piece.