Strike

Overview

Strikes are three-player PvE missions with straightforward objectives that end in a boss fight. They are played through the Vanguard icon in the Director.

Playlists

• Vanguard Ops loads a random available strike or Battleground. Players can join a strike in progress with fewer than three players.
• Nightfall features one strike that changes weekly in a fixed rotation each season. Difficulties are Hero, Legend and Master. Legend and higher have no matchmaking, and loadouts lock above Hero.
• Grandmaster Nightfall is a separate playlist that opens about halfway through a season.

Rewards

Vanguard Ops and Nightfall use a score system that affects rewards and Vanguard reputation. Nightfalls are rated by Champions defeated, with Platinum the top rating. A Platinum Grandmaster guarantees an Adept version of the weekly Nightfall weapon. Older strikes had strike-specific loot from their Nightfall versions; newer strikes do not.

Named strikes

• Base game and early expansions: The Arms Dealer, Lake of Shadows, Exodus Crash, The Inverted Spire, The Insight Terminus, The Disgraced, The Devils' Lair, Fallen S.A.B.E.R. and Proving Grounds.
• Forsaken: Warden of Nothing and The Corrupted.
• Shadowkeep: The Scarlet Keep.
• Beyond Light: The Glassway, set in Europa with the bosses Transcendent Hydra and Belmon, Transcendent Mind. Its enemies are Fallen and Vex. It requires Beyond Light to launch, but can be played free in Vanguard Ops.
• The Witch Queen: The Lightblade and Birthplace of the Vile.
• Lightfall: HyperNet Current.
• Vanguard Ops only: Battlegrounds such as Behemoth, Hailstone, Foothold, Oracle, and the PsiOps and Heist Battlegrounds. Battlegrounds joined Vanguard Ops with The Witch Queen and Lightfall.
• Vaulted (no longer playable): Savathûn's Song, The Pyramidion, Tree of Probabilities, A Garden World, Strange Terrain, Will of the Thousands, Broodhold, The Hollowed Lair and The Festering Core.