This Week In Destiny - 02/19/2026

Before jumping into this week's topics, we wanted to share again the news about Shadow and Order from yesterday:

Our next Major Update, Destiny 2: Shadow and Order, is undergoing large revisions and will be delayed.

This update is being changed and expanded to include sizable quality-of-life updates and as a result, will also be renamed. This update will now launch on June 9, 2026. We will provide exact details closer to release covering previously announced Weapon Tier Upgrading, but also additions like expanding Tiered Gear to all Raid and Dungeon activities, Pantheon 2.0, Tier 5 stats for Exotic Armors, and more.

Through June, we will continue to have routine bug fixes and stability improvements, continued portal modifiers, Guardian Games (March), and the return of a more frequent Iron Banner cadence (April).

In terms of communications, we will be focusing on providing you with updates about our live game content, community activations, and general upkeep through the TWID and our Destiny social channels.

Thank you for your continued patience and support. We will have more information on our next major update and future plans for Destiny 2 closer to launch.

Here's the rest of topics for today.

• Bright Dust gift to celebrate New Lunar Year
• Are you speedrunning, Guardian?
• We loved your #TharsisThreads posts
• New Player Guide latest addition

Celebrating the New Lunar Year

The Year of the Horse started on February 17, and we are celebrating by giving everyone a gift of 880 Bright Dust that you can use to get something nice on the Eververse in-game store. Maybe you can pick that very cool Taken shader that's in the store until next Tuesday?

How are Those ‘Speeds’ Going?

Last week, we announced our latest Community Challenge, the Praxic Time Trials. We hope you are making Aunor proud while not abusing the generous John Chunk too much. Ahem. We've seen a handful of Solo completions, a lot of Duos, and thousands of regular completions under the 20 minute mark. Congratulations to all! You have until March 3, at reset time, to keep working on your times if you want to earn the It Binds, Compels emblem. More information about rules and requirements in last week’s TWID.

Regarding our previous challenge, the Dark Age Hunt, all players who qualified for the Fallen Torches emblem should have received it yesterday. The Artifacting Signal emblems that remain will be granted before the end of next week, when we have manually validated all entries. We'll let you know when they start rolling out.

#TharsisThreads Picks

For the last two weeks, we've seen a lot of great Tharsis Threads fashion submissions. Now it's time to showcase our favorites and start granting the Golden Age fashion emblem, which all featured players below will get directly into their accounts starting next week.

Smuggler

Bodyguards

Praxic Apprentice

Praxic Guard

Praxic Knight

Praxic Corruption

The Duel

The Duel Continues

And Another Duel

Faction War Across the Renegades-Verse #TharsisThreads #Destiny2Fashion@Destiny2Team @DestinyTheGame @MoltenSlowa@BrunoLouviers @A_dmg04 @Scapes pic.twitter.com/tYK30eRsqr

— Jx (@jx_deux) February 18, 2026

Premier Lume

A New Apprentice

Dredgen Sere

The OG

Barant Warlock

A member of Bael’s Praxic Trooper Squadron for #TharsisThreads contest

Bungie ID: SarcasticWheatThin#3478 pic.twitter.com/03nIyRutjg

— SarcasticWheatThin (@SarcasticWheat) February 5, 2026

Scary Bot

Punk!

The Bad Boys

The Good Boy

Apprehended

The New Player Guide Keeps Growing

We are still working on completing our New Player Guide. This week, we are focusing on some of the most impactful materials and currencies our New Light friends need to know about. Find our New Player Guide here.

Player Support Report

Known Issues List  |  Help Forums  |  Destiny 2 Team Bluesky

Known Issues List

• Players purchasing the Light and Dark Saga Dungeon Key Pack with full quest or consumables inventories may not receive access to the dungeons. Players affected by this issue should reach out to us via our Missing Purchases contact form while we work to resolve the underlying issue.
• Wolfsbane's light attacks are displaying the visual effects of Void instead of Solar.
• Shooting a Kinetic Bow through Hierarchy of Needs Guidance Ring can cause enemies to not disintegrate properly.
• Lumina's Blessing of the Sky buff overrides the Radiant buff for Hunters using Golden Gun, causing Golden Gun to not receive bonus damage.
• Some users may run into crashes upon startup when Modern Mida Multi-Tool weapon ornament is applied.
• Flipping through pages in the Expansions tab can cause a visual issue where some tabs display Silver prices over slots that hold items that cannot be bought with Silver.
• We've identified an issue where Renegades campaign activities and Lawless Frontier Jobs default to Normal difficulty. Players can set the difficulty to Expert when launching into these activities if they would like to earn greater rewards. Completing Jobs on either difficulty will not impact Legendary campaign completion triumphs.
• Advanced difficulty Portal activities cannot be launched with the Avante-Garde modifier active.
• The description for the Weaver's Call aspect does not mention that its threadlings generate ability energy.
• When some Exotic armors are equipped, it is not increasing the New Gear Armor damage resistance stat when previewing the artifact. This is a display-only issue, the Exotics are applying their damage resistance but not increasing the counter.
• The description for the Vanguard Alerts: Challenges weekly objective incorrectly references general activity challenges in its description. This objective can be progressed with Vanguard Alert activity challenges or Grandmaster Vanguard Alerts.
• Players experiencing issues meditating at Ikora to unlock additional subclass options should check if they have acquired the "Exotic Subclass" quests and try abandoning those.
• We're aware of an issue where those who purchase the Powder Blue Porcelain Pack in Eververse receive the Delicate Shell from the Event Track instead of the intended Painted Elytra Shell. Players who purchase this pack will receive the missing item after Dawning ends (exact delivery date TBD). Players who inadvertently purchase it twice will be refunded as well.

For a more comprehensive, targeted list, please view our Destiny 2 Known Issues and Vital Information article.

Bloom, Baby, Bloom

Guardians will farm anything, from weapons to armor, but they are especially good at farming aura, like the Hunter here. Glad that you are feeling better and making art, Pickles; we hope to see more of your work in the future.

By Pickles, via Twitter/X

Solo Master All Feats Sere

NAPainter here is trying to put John Chunk out of their job. Solo Master is hard enough; we can't imagine how grueling it is trying to get it with all the feats on. Congratulations! We hope for your own sanity you don't try to Flawless it. And for the Warlocks watching: have fun while it lasts.

The team is working hard on meaningful content that you can't stop playing and we can't wait to talk more about Pantheon 2.0, Tier 5 Exotics and more. In the coming weeks, we expect to launch some more community challenges we are putting together until Guardian Games arrives in the second half of March. Thank you one more time for your patience. 

See you starside.

Destiny 2 Community Team