Bungie's 1 October 2026 ban wave covered more than cheating. Account recovery, boosting and ban evasion were all in scope, and the policy catches buyers as well as sellers. Here is what Bungie actually actioned, what its written rules say, and what an appeal can realistically do.

Bungie said on September 21 that every piece of vaulted Destiny 2 content is coming back. It gave no release date, no order and no price. Here is what the studio actually committed to, what is still speculation, and whether it is worth reinstalling yet.

Most Wavesplitter guides still describe an artifact system Bungie replaced and a catalyst bonus the weapon does not have. This one is built for the sandbox as it stands: the full Prismatic Hunter loadout, why Fortune's Favor stacks the way it does, which of the seven artifacts to equip, and how to get all three pieces.

Monument of Triumph was the last content update Destiny 2 will ever get, so the armor you farm now is the armor you keep. The Getaway Artist buddy build is one of the best places to spend that time. Here is the full setup, and the 9.7.0 change that hit it harder than the Arc Soul nerf everyone is talking about.

Not every Whatchamacallit is worth keeping. Light Touch + Gear Shift on an Arc build turns this off-meta burst SMG into a close-range duel winner, stacking up to 35% bonus damage. Here's the PvP god roll, the best PvE combos, the stats to aim for and how to farm it.

What Destiny 2: The Collection costs, what it includes, what is already free, and the platform and storage catches worth checking before you commit to buying it.

After your feedback, I retested the picks I had written off. Volt Shot came off Nation of Beasts and No Hesitation moved to the top. Ten crafted weapons with their third and fourth column perks, plus four non-crafted guns worth grinding instead.

Disjunction is gone from every Crucible playlist. Here is the Fortress zone fault that ended it, why Bungie disabled rather than fixed the map, and where it still exists.

The name is real, but it appears in neither Bungie's documentation nor the developer's own. Here is where Project Sunrise came from and what it actually covers.

Bungie's weekly Destiny 2 blog stopped without a farewell post, and most guides have not caught up. Here is what replaced it and where patch information lives now.

Three catalyst guides, three different numbers. Bungie confirmed 25 new Destiny 2 catalysts in Monument of Triumph plus nine perks added to older stat-only ones, while community trackers count 26. We break down every drop path, which catalysts to chase first now that the deadline is gone, and which widely repeated claims we could not verify.

The coverage of the Destiny 2 vaulted areas mod skipped the same thing: the actual list of what it reaches. We cross-referenced Bungie's own vault manifest against its year-by-year content breakdown to get a specific answer, including what the reporting got wrong about the scope, and the practical blocker nobody mentions.

Most Destiny 2 PvP guides still describe a Crucible menu and stat system that no longer exist. This guide covers the Crucible Ops consolidation, the full Armor 3.0 stat rename, how matchmaking actually differs by playlist, and the Competitive division ladder, all checked against the game's final major update rather than the sandbox it replaced.

Most Eighty-Six god roll guides were written before Destiny 2's final major patch, so their ammo math and farming routes are already wrong. Update 9.7.0 cut the Vortex heavy attack cost and gave the sword an intrinsic Overload stun. Here is the current PvE roll, the full perk pool, and how to actually farm it now.

Destiny 2's PvE sandbox is frozen. Nightfalls are gone, Champion counters moved to weapon archetypes, and armour stats were rebuilt. Here is every activity, current.

One of these games is finished. The other is still shipping. That difference should drive your decision, and almost no comparison ranking for this search mentions it. We weigh the core loop, gear permanence, PvP, price and platforms on where both games stand today, then set out who each game actually suits, including the case for playing both.

Most Grasp of Avarice loot table guides describe the version of the dungeon Bungie replaced in June 2026. This is the current drop list, encounter by encounter, covering all four legendary weapons, the Yearning Echo armor set, gear tier rules for featured and Master runs, target farming with Attunement, and the four-piece set bonus that no longer works in the Crucible.

Most Dead Messenger guides still tell you to wait for Vox Obscura to rotate back into the schedule. That schedule no longer exists. Bungie retired the Exotic Mission Rotator in the game's final major update and moved the mission into Pinnacle Ops permanently, which means the Exotic grenade launcher is available on demand. Here is the current route.

Bungie told a federal court it couldn't run the Red War campaign anymore. Two months after Destiny 2's final update, a solo modder got pre-vault builds loading with community tooling. Here's the full list of what Year 4 removed, what the exploration tool can and can't do, and the two claims the developer has since corrected.

Most guides tell you the Darkest Depths triumph needs a 30-minute Legendary clear of the full Oblation chain. The game's own triumph data says otherwise, and the timed run has a separate triumph entirely. This guide covers what Darkest Depths actually asks for, the route through the Catacombs to the Oblation tome, and how the surrounding triumphs fit together.