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Destiny 2 Nightfall weapon this week

An update guide to help your grind

Destiny 2 The Final Shape key art featuring three Guardians exploring The Pale Heart
Credit: Bungie

Destiny 2 features a wealth of challenging content for high Power Level players to pursue, with Nightfall being particularly coveted due to its generous rewards.

Nightfalls are essentially strikes or other types of content such as Battlegrounds, with modifiers to make them even harder, including Champions, which require specific conditions to take them down, making buildcrafting necessary.

With the September 17 weekly reset, this is the Nightfall weapon you can expect to drop, as well as details on this week's challenge.

What is the Nightfall weapon this week? (September 17)

This week's Nightfall weapon is the The Slammer sword.

The Slammer sword inspection screen in destiny 2

The Slammer is a solid sword to add to your collection

As always, the higher the difficulty, the better your chances of getting them. Here is the full breakdown

  • Advanced: 1995PL (Uncommon drop)
  • Expert: 2005PL (Common drop)
  • Master: 2010PL (Common drop)

Furthermore, Grandmaster Nightfalls are also available for those who reach 2020PL.

Is the The Slammer good in Destiny 2?

The Slammer has a great perk pool for both PvE and PvP. Look for the Chain Reaction-Cold Steel combo for add-clearing. Eager Edge is perfect for sword skating and extra Crucible mobility, making you a threat from longer distances.

What is the Nightfall this week? (September 17)

This week's Nightfall is The Heist Battleground: Europa.

The general modifiers for the Nightfall this week are:

  • Champions: Barrier, Unstoppable
  • Threat: Solar (25% damage increase to incoming damage)
  • Surge: Void, Solar (25% damage increase to outgoing damage)
  • Overcharged weapon: Linear fusion rifle

All The Final Shape Nightfall weapons

There are a total of eight Nightfall weapons in the weekly rotation.

Commander Zavala Nightfall weapons

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Beyond the weekly Nightfall rewards, players have access to both Focused Decoding and Legacy Gear, which allows Guardians access to previous Nightfall weapons by talking to Commander Zavala in the Tower.

Focused Decoding lets you acquire any Nightfall weapon currently in the rotation, while Legacy Gear is all about weapons from previous rotations.

Focused Decoding

The weapons available via Focused Decoding are:

  • Warden’s Law
  • Undercurrent
  • Pre-Astyanax IV
  • Wild Style
  • The Slammer
  • Shadow Price
  • Scintillation
  • Uzume RR4

The cost to acquire them are as follows:

  • Five Vanguard Engrams
  • 25,000 Glimmer

On top of that, you can get your hands on the Adept version of the current week's Nightfall weapon. This week you can get an Adept The Slammer sword for the following:

  • Five Vanguard Engrams
  • 50,000 Glimmer
  • 10 Nightfall Ciphers (Adept)

Legacy Gear

The Nightfall weapons available via the Legacy Gear are:

  • Plug One.1
  • The Comedian
  • The Hothead
  • Duty Bound
  • Silicon Neuroma
  • D.F.A
  • Horror's Least
  • The Militia's Birthright
  • Mindbender's Ambition
  • Hung Jury SR4
  • Wendigo GL3
  • Buzzard
  • The Swarm
  • Loaded Question
  • Braytech Osprey

The cost to acquire them is:

  • Three Vanguard engrams
  • 25,000 Glimmer

And that's all you need to know. For more content, check out all weapon buffs and nerfs in Destiny 2 with The Final Shape