The Final Shape (2024)

The Final Shape
Developer(s):	Bungie
Publisher(s):	Bungie
Platform(s):	Xbox One Xbox Series X/S PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Steam Xbox App Epic Games Store
Release date(s):	June 4th, 2024
Genre(s):	Action role-playing First-person shooter
Rating(s):	ESRB: Teen (T) for Blood, Language, and Violence PEGI: 16+

"After all we've seen... all we've lost... this fight might be our last. So I'm asking you one last time... to rise."

— The Ghost

The Final Shape is the eighth expansion of Destiny 2 and twelfth expansion of the Destiny franchise. The Final Shape is described as the final content pack for The Light and Darkness Saga where all events up until then will come to a head.

Description

"The Final Shape looms—a nightmarish calcification of reality into the Witness's twisted design. Embark on a perilous journey into the heart of the Traveler, rally the Vanguard, and end the War of Light and Darkness." - DLC page description.

Features

• New Missions and Quests
• Legendary Campaign Difficulty
• New Destination
• New Exotic Weapons and Gear
• The Pathfinder is introduced in ritual activities and the Pale Heart destination. It allows players to complete objectives from one tier to the next, ending in a reward engram at the end. Once the reward engram is claimed, or when the weekly reset occurs, a new Pathfinder card is provided.
• Rahool, Xûr, and Suraya Hawthorne now have reputation tracks. Once the reputation rank resets at Rahool for the first time, Tier 3 focusing becomes available.
• Players can now slot Artifice mods into Exotic armor once the armor is masterworked and they pay an Exotic Cipher
• Beginning in The Final Shape, Legendary Shards have been deprecated.

Guardian Subclasses & Changes

• Prismatic: A new element capable of combining Light and Darkness energy together to mix and match abilities across different damage types that eventually fills up a meter below your Super meter. Void, Solar, and Arc damage fills up the Light meter; Stasis and Strand damage fills up the Darkness meter; and Kinetic damage fills up both meters. Once both meters are full, players can activate Transcendence, which grants damage resistance, bonus weapon damage, and a grenade that utilizes both Light and Darkness damage type based on the class.
• Added the following Supers, aspects, and fragmemts for existing subclasses: Whisper of Chill and Whisper of Reversal for Stasis, Storm's Edge and Ascension for Arcstriders, Twilight Arsenal and Unbreakable for Sentinels, and Song of Flame and Hellion for Dawnblades.

Loot

• New Armor
• New Weapons
• New Exotics
• New Cosmetics
• New Weapon Perks

Locations

• The Pale Heart

Missions

• Transmigration
• Temptation
• Exegesis
• Requiem
• Ascent
• Dissent
• Iconoclasm
• Excision

Vanguard

• Liminality

Raid

• Salvation's Edge: Calling all Guardians. The time has come to confront the Witness.

Accompanying Episodes

• Episode: Echoes - Episode 1
• Episode: Revenant - Episode 2
• Episode: Heresy - Episode 3

Appearances

Triva

• The Final Shape is currently the highest reviewed Destiny content in history, consistently being reviewed in the 9/10 and high 90/100's range, compared to Destiny content getting 8/10 or low-mid 80/100's on average.

Marketing

Promotional Images

The Pale Heart

Weapons and Armor

Supers

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  Twilight Arsenal: Titan - Blades honed by the Void cut through the air. Lift them from the feet of your felled foes and continue the attack.

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  Storm's Edge: Hunter - Dagger in hand, become the Arc flashing in the darkness; the edge of the storm your enemies cannot outrun.

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  Song of Flame: Warlock - Unleash your inner phoenix with every attack. Buff your weapons, allies, and harness the living Solar flame.

References

Categories:

• New content
• Expansions