previews the upcoming Solstice 2025 event in Destiny 2, covering event dates, new weapons, armor, currencies, cosmetics, and event objectives. It also highlights a sponsored promotion for Raid Shadow Legends.

Solstice 2025 Event Details

• Solstice 2025 will run from August 5 to August 19.

• Bonfire Bash may not be featured this year, with portal activities emphasized instead.

• New weapons are being introduced, including holofoil variants and multiple skins.

• Solstice will have a tiered reward system, with higher tiers offering enhanced versions of weapons.

• A new currency, Solstice Alloy, is used to forge and upgrade armor, earned by completing event activities.

• Solstice Forge returns for crafting armor, which now includes set bonuses such as Photogalvanic and Cauterize.

• Set bonuses for armor will apply to all future sets according to Bungie.

New Weapons and Perks

• New weapons include Fortunate Star (bow), Festival Flight (grenade launcher), and Year Tide Apex (solar SMG).

• Weapons feature base and holofoil skin variants.

• Various new and updated perks are available across the new weapons, such as Impromptu Ammunition, Explosive Head, Blast Distributor, and Burning Ambition.

• Dreamwork origin trait is enhanced on Tier 5 variants, offering additional weapon bonuses.

Armor, Cosmetics, and Store Details

• Earnable armor and Eververse-exclusive armor available, with Eververse costing 1500 Silver or 6000 Bright Dust.

• New cosmetics include shark-themed items, such as the Megalodasher sparrow, mostly purchasable through Eververse.

• Previously released event cosmetics will return in the Bright Dust rotation.

Event Objectives and Progression

• Players will complete objectives like unlocking Solstice armor pieces, reaching event ranks, and engaging in solo and fireteam portal activities.

• Event-specific modifiers will be introduced for certain activities.

• The Flamekeeper title requires completion of 8 Triumphs, including reaching ranks, imbuing armor, and achieving performance goals in portal activities.

• Master or higher difficulty completions and Trials wins with Solstice Armor are among the objectives.

Decisions

• Bonfire Bash is likely excluded from Solstice 2025 in favor of portal activities.

• Set bonuses are confirmed to apply to all future armor sets.

Action Items

• August 5 – All players: Participate in Solstice when it launches.

• August 12 – New Raid players: Redeem promo code DESERTQUEEN for Tuhanaak before the offer expires.

• TBD – Interested players: Complete event Triumphs to earn the Flamekeeper title.

Key Dates / Deadlines

• Solstice 2025: August 5–19.

• Raid Shadow Legends new player rewards: Login streak must begin by July 31; champion code expires August 12; seven-day login required by August 20.

Destiny 2 Solstice 2025 Preview

I hope you guys are ready to bash some bonfires because Solstice 2025 is just around the corner. On the subject of Bonfire Bash, actually, I'm not sure if that will really feature into the event this time around, but in this video, we're going to break down everything we know about the event because, well, one of the more interesting elements is that Solstice is getting a bunch of new weapons. These will actually feature into the tier system, which isn't necessarily surprising, but there'll be holofoil variants of the weapons this time around. Some of them look pretty awesome, so we'll talk about those as well as additional objectives for the event this year, new armor, currencies, cosmetics, and all the stuff we typically expect from these kinds of events.

So I'll mention it now so I don't forget. Solstice will drop on the 5th of August and run up until the 19th, so it's only a little over a week from now until it drops. If you guys enjoyed the video, do us a massive favor and hit subscribe as around half of my viewers are not actual subscribers.

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So be sure to get started today, all the details are linked below, and thanks to Raid Shadow Legends for sponsoring the video. Here is the pop-up card for Solstice this year. The benefit being that we can see some of the armor that we'll be able to obtain.

The stuff in the middle actually will come from the Eververse store. Not sure that it's my style, but it certainly has a vibe, I guess. On top of the store loot, of course, there will be armor that we can earn through gameplay, as well as the weapons that we can see on the left-hand side. For the Eververse armor, as always, this will cost 1500 silver, but there is a purchase option for Bright Dust, which will be 6000 Bright Dust, and And getting a little bit more into how we actually play the event, there'll be a currency called Solstice Alloy, which is used to forge lustrous armor and imbue it with a glow, acquired by completing activities through the system. We'll be using the Solstice Forge once again to craft the armor this time around.

Plus it'll actually get a set bonus. So the two piece perk is Photogalvanic and receiving healing temporarily grants your solar weapons increased flinch resistance, handling and reload speed. Then there is Cauterize where rapid solar final blows will heal you.

I guess it's a new component of these kinds of events when they bring armor sets around as Bungie have said set bonuses will apply to all armors they release moving forward. As always we'll get intro quests and things, and this time a lot of the focus as we can see is on portal activities, so with no mention of Bonfire Bash that's why I'm assuming it won't be coming around this time. There are indeed elements of progression in Solstice that aren't entirely clear yet, But one thing that is obvious is that we're going to get high tier rewards by engaging with some of this content. So we can see from the Solstice Engrams here, there's a tier five version and all the tiers in between exist as well.

So these will apply specifically, of course, to the new weapons for this year. Firstly, we have Fortunate Star. This appears to be the base skin for the weapon, which is definitely different. I like the sort of neon colors and the palm trees in the background, but there will additionally be hollow foil variants of these weapons too.

Now Bungie outlined before Edge of Fate dropped that these have a cool sort of ocean animation on those weapon skins. So I'm interested to see precisely how we'll actually earn them. Looking at the rolls for the bow this time around though, in the left column we have Impromptu Ammunition, where final blows increase ammo meter progress from all sources for a short time. There's also Dragonfly, Repulsor Brace, and then it has Transcendent Moment, Killing Wind, Archer's Tempo, and Successful Warm Up.

Then the second slot will be able to roll Explosive Head, Precision Instrument, Destabilizing Rounds, Sword Logic, Eye of the Storm, plus there's Archer's Gambit and Demoralize. So a couple of perk updates for the bow right there. And then we'll get a new weapon called Festival Flight, which is a strand area denial frame grenade launcher.

Again the skin variants, including the holofoil one, will be available for this weapon. And the left column can get Blast Distributor, where dealing splash damage grants a bonus to grenade stat. That actually could be quite a good perk.

Plus Demolitionist, as well as Recycled Energy, Transcendent Moment, Envious Arsenal, Ambitious Assassin and Slice are available in the left column. With the right perk column able to get Binary Orbit, Frenzy, One for All, Vorpal Weapon, Attrition Orbs, Hatchling and finally Elemental Onin. Keep in mind the Dreamwork origin trait where once per reload, Assists or Assisted Final Blows partially refill the weapon from reserves and increase reload speed for a short duration, with bows receiving faster draw time. And on Tier 5 variants of this, that perk will indeed be enhanced as well. The other new weapon for this year is the Year Tide Apex which is a solar lightweight frame SMG.

The left column can get Transcendent Moment, Recycled Energy, Heal Clip, as well as Feeding Frenzy, Lone Wolf, Attrition Orbs or Demolitionist. Then the right column is able to get Burning Ambition, the new Scorch perk where dealing sustained damage will Scorch targets, and dealing damage to a Scorch target will inflict Scorch. So it's a pretty cool one. There's also binary orbit, incandescent, harmony, chaos reshaped. That was from back in the final shape.

Was that only available on raid weapons previously? I'm not 100%. Let me know down below.

But additionally, it can get target lock. So actually some pretty cool looking weapons, and I enjoy the idea that we'll be able to get high tiers of these with all of the enhancements, but I assume that power level will once again influence the tiers that we're able to actually earn. Keep in mind that Solstice will have an event home, much like we see for all the other events in the game now, And there'll be the Flamekeeper title updated for this year, which will require a total of 8 triumphs to be completed.

So looking at some of the objectives quickly, we've got one to unlock the first piece of Solstice armor, another to unlock all of the armor pieces for our class, and then there is Knight of the Solstice to reach event rank 15. Solstice with yourself to complete solo ops activities with a modifier active. So they'll be introducing Solstice specific modifiers to these activities. There's the equivalent one for Fireteam and Pinnacle Ops and Crucible Ops, as well as objectives to imbue a full set of sublime armor with the Incandescent Ingots, reaching rank 30 on the Event Home, completing a raid or portal activity at Master or higher difficulty, or winning rounds in Trials with a full set of Solstice Armor.

and achieving A-grade performance in any portal activity with at least one Solstice modifier active. So like I said, Bungie's sort of moving away from Bonfire Bash for the moment. Why would Bungie have us bash bonfires when we can bash portals? Otherwise, as always, there will be plenty of Solstice cosmetics. Lots of kind of shark themed things.

There's a new sparrow there. and there is the Megalodasher, which is a shark skimmer. These will be Eververse purchases primarily.

I'm sure a bunch of things will come up for Bright Dust as well, although it will largely be items from previous events. But the event will be active for a little while, so I'm sure there'll be a few opportunities for things to show up in the store. For the moment, that's what we can say about Solstice for the year. I'm looking forward to the weapons a bit more this time around than in previous years. There's nothing obvious from the database, but there's also the possibility that we'll be able to earn a fair few power levels from some of the Solstice content as well.

So I'm hoping that will be the case, but give me your thoughts on the weapons' upcoming rewards and objectives for this year's Solstice. If you've enjoyed the video, a rating really does help me out on the channel. Also, once again, thanks to Raid Shadow Legends for sponsoring the video today. Be sure to follow the links down below where you can get access to a whole bunch of bonuses available for new players.

You can also scan the QR code on screen to check that out. But otherwise, thank you as always for tuning in and I hope you guys have an awesome day.

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