The Final Shape

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This article is about the conclusion of The Light and Darkness Saga. For the goal of The Witness, see Final Shape.

The Final Shape
Developer(s):	Bungie
Publisher(s):	Bungie
Platform(s):	Xbox One Xbox Series X/S PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Steam Xbox App Epic Games Store
Release date(s):	June 4th, 2024
Genre(s):	Action role-playing First-person shooter
Rating(s):	ESRB: Teen (T) for Blood, Language, and Violence PEGI: 16+

"After all we've seen... all we've lost... this fight might be our last. So I'm asking you one last time... to rise."

— The Ghost

The Final Shape is the eighth expansion of Destiny 2 and twelfth expansion of the Destiny franchise. The Final Shape is described as the final content pack for The Light and Darkness Saga where all events up until then will come to a head.

Description

"The Final Shape looms—a nightmarish calcification of reality into the Witness's twisted design. Embark on a perilous journey into the heart of the Traveler, rally the Vanguard, and end the War of Light and Darkness." - DLC page description.

Features

• New Missions and Quests
• Legendary Campaign Difficulty
• New Destination
• New Exotic Weapons and Gear
• The Pathfinder is introduced in ritual activities and the Pale Heart destination. It allows players to complete objectives from one tier to the next, ending in a reward engram at the end. Once the reward engram is claimed, or when the weekly reset occurs, a new Pathfinder card is provided.
• Rahool, Xûr, and Suraya Hawthorne now have reputation tracks. Once the reputation rank resets at Rahool for the first time, Tier 3 focusing becomes available.
• Players can now slot Artifice mods into Exotic armor once the armor is masterworked and they pay an Exotic Cipher
• Beginning in The Final Shape, Legendary Shards have been deprecated.

Guardian Subclasses & Changes

• Prismatic: A new element capable of combining Light and Darkness energy together to mix and match abilities across different damage types that eventually fills up a meter below your Super meter. Void, Solar, and Arc damage fills up the Light meter; Stasis and Strand damage fills up the Darkness meter; and Kinetic damage fills up both meters. Once both meters are full, players can activate Transcendence, which grants damage resistance, bonus weapon damage, and a grenade that utilizes both Light and Darkness damage type based on the class.
• Added the following Supers, aspects, and fragmemts for existing subclasses: Whisper of Chill and Whisper of Reversal for Stasis, Storm's Edge and Ascension for Arcstriders, Twilight Arsenal and Unbreakable for Sentinels, and Song of Flame and Hellion for Dawnblades.

Loot

• New Armor
• New Weapons
• New Exotics
• New Cosmetics
• New Weapon Perks

Locations

• The Pale Heart

Missions

• Transmigration
• Temptation
• Exegesis
• Requiem
• Ascent
• Dissent
• Iconoclasm
• Excision

Vanguard

• Liminality

Raid

• Salvation's Edge: Calling all Guardians. The time has come to confront the Witness.

Accompanying Episodes

• Episode: Echoes - Episode 1
• Episode: Revenant - Episode 2
• Episode: Heresy - Episode 3

Appearances

Characters Guardians, Residents of the Last City, and their Allies Akasha (First appearance) Amanda Holliday (Flackbacks) Anastasia Bray Andal Brask (Mentioned only) Anwar (First appearance) Archangel Aunor Mahal (Mentioned only) Balthazar (First appearance) Bean (First appearance) Brya (Mentioned only) Cayde-6 Chalco Yong (Mentioned only) Citrine (First appearance) Crow Dejana (First appearance) Devrim Kay Differential Calculus (First appearance) Drifter Elisabeth Bray Eris Morn Failsafe (Mentioned only) The Ghost Glint The Guardian Hecate (First appearance) Heilung (First appearance) Ikora Rey Jolder (Mentioned only) Lakshmi-2 (Mentioned only) Lee-4 (Mentioned only) Link (First appearance) Micah-10 (First appearance) Mihaylova (First identified as Mihaylova) (Mentioned only) Nimbus Ophiuchus Orin (Mentioned only) Osiris Peach (First appearance) Pujari (Mentioned only) Rasputin (Mentioned only) Sagira (Mentioned only) Saint-14 Saladin Forge Shaw Han (Mentioned only) Shiro-4 (Mentioned only) Sundance Suraya Hawthorne Targe The Speaker (Mentioned only) Toland, the Shattered (Mentioned only) Ulan-Tan (Mentioned only) Zavala The Black Fleet and the Dread Nezarec, Final God of Pain (Mentioned only) The Witness The Cabal Emperor Calus (Mentioned only) Empress Caiatl Freeborn Otzot (Mentioned only) Kargen, the Technocrat Zahn'ra (First mentioned) The Eliksni Eido Eramis, Kell of Darkness (Mentioned only) Inaaks (Mentioned only) Mithrax, Kell of Light Namrask (Mentioned only) Niik (Mentioned only) Sepiks Prime (Mentioned only) The Spider The Hive High Celebrant of Xivu Arath (Mentioned only) Immaru (Mentioned only) Luzaku Navôta, Eir Spawn Omnigul, Will of Crota (Mentioned only) Oryx, the Taken King (Mentioned only) Savathûn, the Witch Queen Xivu Arath, God of War Nightmares Nightmare of Crota, Son of Oryx Nightmare of Dominus Ghaul Nightmare of the Fanatic Nightmare of Phogoth, the Untamed The Reef Mara Sov Petra Venj The Scorn Fikrul, the Fanatic (Mentioned only) Pirrha, the Rifleman The Taken The Vex Other Characters Hakim (Mentioned only) Maya Sundaresh (Mentioned only) Safiyah (Mentioned only) Starhorse The Traveler Xûr Species Ahamkara (Mentioned only) Aphelion (Mentioned only) Ammonite (Indirect mention) Awoken Cabal Eliksni Exo Ghost Hive Human Nightmare The Nine (Mentioned only) Psion Scorn Taken Vex Organizations The Coalition The Dread First Crota Fireteam (Mentioned only) Future War Cult (Mentioned only) The Hidden (Mentioned only) House of Devils (Mentioned only) House of Dusk House of Light House of Salvation House of Winter (Mentioned only) Lucent Brood Praxic Order (Mentioned only) Shadow Legion Six Coyotes (First appearance) Sol Divisive Symmetry (Mentioned only) Techeun (Mentioned only) Vanguard Xivu Arath's Horde Watchful Eye Locations Ascendant Realm Court of Savathûn Dreaming City Earth Cosmodrome European Dead Zone Europa Fundament (Mentioned only) Mars Moon Nessus The Pale Heart The Abscess (First appearance) The Blooming (First appearance) The Blooming Deep (First appearance) The Broken Deep (First appearance) The Divide (First appearance) The End (First appearance) The Forgotten Deep (First appearance) The Landing (First appearance) The Lost City (First appearance) The Lost City, Outskirts (First appearance) The Maelstrom (First appearance) The Impasse (First appearance) The Intrusion (First appearance) The Refraction (First appearance) The Sacrarium (First appearance) The Seclusion (First appearance) The Threshold (First appearance) The Transgression (First appearance) Substratum Dissipation Repository Verity Zenith Riis (Mentioned only) Torobatl (Mentioned only)

Events Collapse (Mentioned only) City Age Dark Age (Mentioned only) Great Disaster (Mentioned only) War against the Witness Operation Ahamkara (First appearance) Vehicles, equipment, and technology Black Fleet Crux of Darkness Pyramid Scale Pyramid Spike Tech Pack Eligos Lex V (Mentioned only) Ghost shell Disciple's Shell (First appearance) Eye Tyrant Shell (First appearance) Penumbral Shell (First appearance) Ratkin Shell (First appearance) Ronin Shell (First appearance) Spectrum Shell (First appearance) Timeless Bond (First appearance) Jumpship Eclipse Hunter (First appearance) Mischief (First appearance) Nacre (First appearance) Polychroma (First appearance) Queen of Dragons (First appearance) Semitone Shift (First appearance) The First Knife (First appearance) OXA Machine (Mentioned only) Sparrow Azimuth Runner (First appearance) Crawlway Sink (First appearance) Owlbear Chariot (First appearance) Pack Rat (First appearance) Turmoil Engine (First appearance) Unbridled Iridescence (First appearance) Unified Theory (First appearance) Warmind (Mentioned only) Weapons and armor Auto Rifle Khvostov 7G-02 Khvostov 7G-0X No Hesitation (First appearance) Origin Story Shadow Price The Riposte (First appearance) Veiled Threat (First appearance) Balance of Power (First appearance) Essentialism (First appearance) Combat Bow Hush Non-Denoument (First appearance) Fusion Rifle Axial Lacuna (First appearance) Tessellation (First appearance) Glaive Forthcoming Deviance (First appearance) Grenade Launcher Lost Signal (First appearance) Martyr's Retribution Truthteller Gifted Conviction (First appearance) Hand Cannon Better Devils Bold Endings (First appearance) Crimil's Dagger Maahes HC4 (First appearance) Sightline Survey (First appearance) Something New Hazardous Propulsion (First appearance) Linear Fusion Rifle Euphony (First appearance) Line in the Sand Scintillation (First appearance) Suspectrum-4fr (First appearance) Machine Gun Pro Memoria (First appearance) Speleologist (First appearance) Mataiodoxía (First appearance) Pulse Rifle Aisha's Care (First appearance) Claws of the Wolf Corrasion (First appearance) Nullify (First appearance) Red Death Reformed Rocket Launcher Crowning Duologue Faith-Keeper (First appearance) Scout Rifle Adverse Possession IX Patron of Lost Causes Timeworn Wayfarer (First appearance) Shotgun Compass Rose Ded Gramarye IV (First appearance) Perfect Paradox Someday (First appearance) Sidearm Aberrant Action (First appearance) Breachlight Controlling Vision The Call (First appearance) Sniper Rifle Critical Anomaly (First appearance) Embraced Identity (First appearance) Still Hunt (First appearance) The Domino Solipsism (First appearance) Speaker's Sight (First appearance) Stoicism (First appearance) Submachine Gun Imminence (First appearance) Perfect Pitch (First appearance) Shayura's Wrath Yarovit MG4 (First appearance) Sword Ergo Sum (First appearance) False Idols (First appearance) Ill Omen (First appearance) Summum Bonum (First appearance) Trace Rifle Chronophage (First appearance) Microcosm (First appearance) Wishful Ignorance (First appearance) Crimson Plume Set (First appearance) First Ascent Suit (First appearance) Poison Promise Suit (First appearance) Promised Reign Suit (First appearance) Promised Reunion Suit (First appearance) Promised Victory Suit (First appearance) Untethered Edge Suit (First appearance) Wall-Watcher Suit (First appearance) Miscellaneous Arc Final Shape Ley Lines (Mentioned only) Prismatic (First appearance) Solar Speakers Stasis Strand Strange Coins The Veil Tree of Silver Wings Void

Marketing

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Teaser Trailer

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Reveal Trailer

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Cayde-6 Returns

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | The Pale Heart of the Traveler Preview

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Twilight Arsenal Preview - New Titan Super

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Storm's Edge Preview - New Hunter Super

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Song of Flame Preview - New Warlock Super

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Journey into The Traveler Trailer

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Prismatic Warlock Developer Playtest Preview

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Prismatic Hunter Developer Playtest Preview

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Prismatic Titan Developer Playtest Preview

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Khvostov Exotic Auto Rifle Preview

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Microcosm Exotic Trace Rifle Preview

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Still Hunt Exotic Sniper Rifle Preview

Mataiodoxia Warlock Exotic Chest Armor Preview

Gifted Conviction Hunter Exotic Chest Armor Preview

Hazardous Propulsion Titan Exotic Chest Armor Preview

Destiny 2 ViDoc | Becoming Legend - Part 1: Confronting Oblivion

Destiny 2 ViDoc | Becoming Legend - Part 2: Shaping the Magic

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Launch Trailer

Promotional Images

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Supers

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  Twilight Arsenal: Titan - Blades honed by the Void cut through the air. Lift them from the feet of your felled foes and continue the attack.

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  Storm's Edge: Hunter - Dagger in hand, become the Arc flashing in the darkness; the edge of the storm your enemies cannot outrun.

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  Song of Flame: Warlock - Unleash your inner phoenix with every attack. Buff your weapons, allies, and harness the living Solar flame.

References

Preceded by Lightfall

The Final Shape

Succeeded by TBA