Most fireteams lose the Destiny 2 Equilibrium dungeon to a mistimed Shadow buff or a Blistered Shadow they shot instead of Compelled, not to a damage check. Our walkthrough covers all three encounters, the Shadow Rank system, the full per-encounter loot table, and how to stack your Heirloom drop odds.

Most Praxic Blade guides date from Renegades launch week, and three of their core instructions are now wrong. The one-run catalyst rule was patched out, Fire and Ice moved out of the Legends node, and the fourth catalyst is no longer a mystery. Every catalyst, Form, Core and crystal, checked against a game that has stopped updating.

Destiny 2 came out on September 6, 2017, but that answer alone leaves out the PC launch seven weeks later, the free-to-play relaunch in 2019, and the fact that the 2017 campaign was deleted from the game years ago. Here's the full timeline through Bungie's final update in June 2026.

Update 9.7.0.3 gets called Destiny 2's final patch almost everywhere you look. It wasn't. Update 9.7.0.4 shipped on July 28 with no patch notes, and Bungie has switched off two armor set bonuses and a Crucible map since then with no version number attached. Here's the full chronology, and how to track changes now that patch notes have stopped.

Most DIM guides still quote a 600-slot vault and explain armor stat tiers that no longer exist. This one is current: vault transfers, loadouts, Armor 3.0 optimizing, the search filters worth memorizing, and a fix list for when DIM stops loading. Plus the question nobody else answers, which is whether any of it still works now that Destiny 2 has stopped receiving updates.

Destiny 2 Monument of Triumph is the game's final update, and it packs 204 Triumphs, a new Legendary Marks currency and four Tenet vendors. Here is the order to work through it: the fastest Marks, the 12 Triumphs that earn the Immortal title, and what actually has a deadline.