The Exotic Mission Rotator is a new playlist introduced in Season 22.
This playlist will feature a weekly Exotic Mission that will reward a craftable exotic weapon, a catalyst, and legacy seasonal gear.
There is a normal and legendary difficulty per exotic mission.
Playlist Behaviour and Expectations
Exotic weapons entering the playlist will become craftable.
Each mission features a Normal and Legendary difficulty.
Each mission features a pool of legacy Seasonal rewards (armour and craftable weapons) that have thematic overlap with their associated mission.
Each mission features the same reward behaviour.
Mission dialogue and narrative move forward after each activity completion and reset after all dialogue sets have been played.
Legacy Triumphs cannot be progressed.
Available Missions
Below is the list of Exotic missions and their associated rewards that are available starting in Season 22.
These missions will rotate weekly and continue throughout the Lightfall year and beyond.
Bungie will be adding Exotic missions that launched during Lightfall’s Seasons into rotation with The Final Shape and is planning on adding additional missions over time.
Video Guides provided are sourced from their original seasons. We will update these later in the season.
PRESAGE
General Overview
Requires ownership of Beyond Light or Season of the Chosen.
Exotic Reward: Dead Man’s Tale.
Exotic Scout Rifle
Legendary Loot Source: Season of the Haunted.
Synopsis
Travel to the edge of the Tangled Shore to investigate an abandoned Cabal ship, “Glykon,” in search of a missing Guardian.
Available Legendary Gear
Seasonal Weapons
Nezarec’s Whisper
Bump in the Night
Tears of Contrition
Hollow Denial
Firefright
Without Remorse
Opulent weapons
Austringer
Drang (Baroque)
Beloved
CALUS Mini-Tool
Eidolon Pursuant Armour Set
Video Guide
VOX OBSCURA
General Overview
Requires ownership of The Witch Queen or Season of the Risen.
Exotic Reward: Dead Messenger.
Exotic Grenade Launcher
Legendary Loot Source: Season of the Risen
Synopsis
Return to Meridian Bay on Mars, a classic D1 location, to stop the Cabal in this time-trialed high-action mission.
Available Legendary Gear
Seasonal weapons
Explosive Personality
Recurrent Impact
Under Your Skin
Sweet Sorrow
Thoughtless
Piece of Mind
Tusked Allegiance Armour Set
Video Guide
OPERATION: SERAPH'S SHIELD
General Overview
Requires ownership of The Witch Queen or Season of the Seraph.
Exotic Reward: Revision Zero.
Exotic High-Impact Pulse Rifle
Legendary Loot Source: Season of the Seraph
Synopsis
Make your way through Seraph Laser Towers and travel up to space in this tight-platforming, puzzle-solving combat mission!
Available Legendary Gear
Seasonal weapons
Fire and Forget
Tripwire Canary
Disparity
Path of Least Resistance
Judgment of Kelgorath
Retrofit Escapade
IKELOS weapons
IKELOS_HC_v1.0.3
IKELOS_SG_v1.0.3
IKELOS_SR_v1.0.3
IKELOS_SMG_v1.0.3
Warmind’s Avatar Armour Set
Video Guide
Exotic Mission Rotator Reward Structure
Each Exotic mission that enters the Rotator will feature the same reward behaviour.
Completing one of the featured weekly missions rewards bonus progress for the Xenology quest from Xûr: four points for completing on Normal difficulty, and seven for completing on Legendary.
Weapon Crafting Rewards
The first completion of the mission on Normal or Legendary difficulty will award an Exotic Deepsight weapon associated with the mission.
Extracting or dismantling this Deepsight weapon will grant the pattern.
Each completion of the Normal or Legendary version of the Exotic mission will award an intrinsic upgrade that can be used when crafting the Exotic weapon.
Each completion of the Legendary version of the Exotic mission will award a Catalyst upgrade for the crafted Exotic weapon.
Armour & Weapon Rewards
The Normal and Legendary versions of the missions have separate weekly reward lockouts.
Weekly mission rewards:
One guaranteed Deepsight weapon that has not had its pattern unlocked and one armour piece that has not already been obtained (based on your current class).
If all weapon patterns and armour have been obtained for the in-rotation mission, a random world drop will be awarded.
On every completion, you will receive an additional weapon from the mission’s weapon pool.
However, this weapon will have no knockout or guaranteed Deepsight behaviour (the weapon can roll with Deepsight, but this would be on a random percentage chance).
Weekly Challenge
The Exotic Mission Rotator weekly challenge has the same armour and weapon pool as the Exotic mission which is in rotation.
The challenge rewards will be output at Pinnacle Power and will prioritize the rewards in the following order:
One guaranteed Deepsight weapon that has not had its pattern unlocked.
If weapon patterns have all been unlocked, the challenge will award one armour piece that has not been obtained (based on your current class).
If all weapon patterns and armour have been obtained for the in-rotation mission, the challenge will output a random weapon or armour.