Destiny 2 Festival of the Lost 2024: Start date and everything we know

Festival of the Lost 2024 has arrived, and here’s everything you need to know about Destiny 2’s latest seasonal event.

Starting back in 2015, Festival of the Lost has been a long-running Halloween event that celebrates the spookiest time of the year. It has become a tradition in Bungie’s looter shooter, giving players the chance to farm unique loot, cosmetics, and more every year.

It returns this year, once again providing a range of exclusive weapons, armor, and other rewards for you to get. Here’s everything you need to know about Festival of the Lost 2024 to help you make the most of this year’s event.

Start date and end date

Festival of the Lost 2024 started on October 29, 2024, and will run for three weeks before concluding on November 19, 2024.

New and reprised weapons

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The only new weapon added in Festival of the Lost 2024 is Arcane Embrace, an Arc Shotgun, and the first-ever Heavy Burst frame. This new archetype fires a hard-hitting, two-round burst, providing plenty of firepower if you can keep it under control.

However, the update also introduced a variety of reprised weapons from past events, with Acosmic, Jurassic Green, Mechabre, and Horror Story all being given refreshed perk pools.

Here’s a full breakdown of all the new and reprised weapons added in Festival of the Lost 2024, including the perks you’ll be able to farm on them:

WEAPON	ARCHETYPE	PERK 1	PERK 2
Acosmic	Void Heavy GL (Rapid-Fire)	Clown Cartridge Enlightened Action Impulse Amplifier Air Trigger Slickdraw Reverberation Withering Gaze	Cascade Point Explosive Light Destabilizing Rounds Chain Reaction Bait and Switch Deconstruct Frenzy
Arcane Embrace	Arc Shotgun (Heavy Burst)	Air Trigger Fourth Time’s The Charm Grave Robber Lone Wolf Slideshot Dual Loader Threat Detector	Closing Time Desperado Precision Instrument Surrounded Tap The Trigger Swashbuckler Voltshot
Horror Story	Stasis Auto Rifle (Precision)	Elemental Capacitor Dynamic Sway Reduction Discord Enlightened Action Under-Over Envious Assassin Demolitionist	Headstone Collective Action Target Lock Cascade Point Frenzy Vorpal Weapon Adrenaline Junkie
Jurassic Green	Solar Pulse Rifle (Rapid-Fire)	Closing Time Lone Wolf Loose Change Keep Away Heal Clip Rangefinder Subsistence	Under Pressure Kill Clip Adrenaline Junkie Desperate Measures Frenzy Headseeker Incandescent
Mechabre	Arc Sniper Rifle (Aggressive)	Keep Away Triple Tap Clown Cartridge Snapshot Sights Air Trigger Lone Wolf Demolitionist	Closing Time Opening Shot Voltshot To The Pain Discord Firing Line Vorpal Weapon

New armor

Festival of the Lost introduces three new armor sets, one each for Hunter, Titan, and Warlock. These are all inspired by wizards and are earnable by partaking in the event’s activities, though there are also premium sets available in the Eververse Store for 1,500 Silver per class.

Official concept art showing what these would look like was revealed back in the Revenant Act 1 reveal stream, before the final designs were revealed when the event began. Here are all three armor sets that you can earn in the event:

The theme of these designs was voted on back in January 2024, when the community decided it wanted Evil Wizard designs for Hunter and Warlock but a Good Wizard design for Titan.

As such, the armor for Hunter and Warlock is heavily inspired by witchcraft and dark magic, while the new Titan armor lends itself more to traditional wizards and the good guys of the magic world.

All event masks

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Festival of the Lost 2024 adds seven new masks to the game for players to use while they farm candy and loot. Originally, there were eight masks announced but the Witness mask was cut for the final event.

The new masks that you can look forward to using are as follows:

• Cayde-6 Mask
• Cursed Thrall Mask
• Finalized Ghost
• Kadi 55-30 Mask
• Nezarec Mask
• Marathon Runner Mask
• Tower Staff Mask

Superblack Shader

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The Superblack Shader makes its first return since Into The Light, giving players who missed that limited-time event another chance to earn it.

To acquire the all-black shader, you’ll need to complete the Ghost Writer event challenge, which requires all Festival of the Lost 2024 triumphs to be completed.

Here’s the full list of the triumphs in this year’s event:

TRIUMPH	REQUIREMENT	REWARD
Cryptozoologist	Use 2 Manifested Pages to restore a chapter in the “Tales of the Forgotten Vol. 4”	Kadi 55-30 Mask
Bookworm I	Use 7 Manifested Pages to restore chapters in “Tales of the Forgotten Vol. 4”	15,000 Glimmer, Event Ticket,
Bookworm II	Use 14 Manifested Pages to restore chapters in “Tales of the Forgotten Vol. 4”	Sugarcoated shader, x2 Enhancement Core, Event Ticket
Bookworm III	Use 22 Manifested Pages to restore chapters in “Tales of the Forgotten Vol. 4”	Nightlight sparrow, x1 Enhancement Prism, Event Ticket
Heads Will Roll	Destroy 100 Headless Ones	Cursed Thrall Mask, x4 Enhancement Core, Event Ticket
Horrific Haunts	Complete one Expert Haunted Lost Sector	x3 Raid Banner, 500 Candy, Event Ticket
Candy Corner	Earn 17,500 Candy	Finalized Ghost ghost shell, x1 Enhancement Prism, Event Ticket
Mystery Meet	Get Epic Mystery Grab Bag	1,300 Candy, x4 Enhancement Core, Event Ticket
Third Shot’s a Charm	Dedeat 500 targets with Pulse Rifles	Jurassic Green, x1 Enhancement Core, Event Ticket
Blunder-boos	Deafeat 100 targets with Shotguns	Arcane Embrace, x1 Upgrade Module, Event Ticket
Pumpkin Peltin‘	Destroy 50 targets with Grenade Launchers	Acosmic, x1 Upgrade Module, Event Ticket
Occult Ritual	Complete Ritual activities	Runner Mask, x1 Enhancement Core, Event Ticket
Hocus Focusing	Focus one Eerie engram	Tower Staff Mask, 10,000 Glimmer, Event Ticket
Masked Bandit	Complete Gambit or Crucible Matches with a festival mask equipped	x4 Enhancement Core, 25,000 Glimmer, Event Ticket
Happy Haunting Ground	Complete Normal Haunter Sectors 18 times or 9 times on Legend Difficulty	Nezarec Mask, Bungie Reward, x1 Enhancement Core, Event Ticket
Ghost Writer	Complete all 15 other event challenges	x1 Ascendant Shard, x1 Ascendant Alloy, Superblack Shader

Festival of the Lost 2024 activities

The main draw of this year’s event is the return of Haunted Sectors, modified versions of existing Lost Sectors that feature a range of Halloween-themed enemies, including the Headless One boss.

By playing these, you’ll can earn Eerie Engrams, which can be used to roll for and focus the weapons from the event, as well as Exotic Class Items. This is your best way to farm the god rolls you want and make the most of Festival of the Lost 2024.

You’ll also want to know all about the best PvE Weapons and best PvP weapons that are dominating the current meta. Why not check out our Exotic weapons tier list too, which ranks all of the game’s Exotics from best to worst to help you optimize your loadouts.