Destiny: Rising’s first weekly update is here with a new Exotic weapon event, better loot drop rates, and huge changes to some activities.
It’s only been a few days since Destiny: Rising officially launched worldwide on August 28, and so far, the response has been way better than most people expected. Built as a mobile spin-off set in an alternate timeline before Destiny 1, this new entry is quickly winning over fans, not just longtime Destiny 2 players, but newcomers, too.
And now, Destiny: Rising has officially entered its live service rhythm. The game went under scheduled 4-hour maintenance earlier today (September 4), and with it came the first full weekly patch, Update 0904. It’s a big that significantly increases Exotic weapon drops, shop updates, performance tweaks, artifact system improvements, and more.
In this article, we’ll go over everything that was added or changed in Destiny Rising’s 0904 update.
Destiny Rising Update 0904 Full Patch Notes
Here’s a complete breakdown of all the changes and additions announced by NetEase Games in today’s patch. You can also check your in-game mailbox for the maintenance compensation reward.
- Maintenance Start Time: September 4, 2025, at 2:00 AM PT
- Duration: 4 hours
- Compensation: 200 Lumia Leaves
- Eligibility: Players who created an account before maintenance began and who have logged in within the past week.
New Limited-Time Event: Efforts Rewarded
- Complete event challenges to earn tokens
- Exchange tokens for the Exotic weapon: Partridge Sky
- Also includes the exclusive ornament Emerald Stream
- Players can also exchange these tokens to get upgrade materials
- Event unlocks after completing New Light Handbook quests and unlocking the Acclaim system
New Shop Content
- The Partridge Sky Ornament: Chartered Minister for Partridge Sky is now in the shop
- 200 Silver discount coupon can be claimed from the event
Combat & Balance Adjustments
- Lowered the difficulty of Gauntlet: Onslaught – Issakis’s Tabernacle.
- Lowered the combat intensity in Strike – Nexus Interface.
- Weakened Ogres’ “Rampage Recovery” ability, making it easier for Lightbearers to deal damage and trigger Knockout while the ability is being cast.
- If a Front Line event is not completed within 30min, combatants will now reset.
- Gift of the Nine: Boxer has been changed to deal additional fixed damage.
- Improved the display of Exotic weapon Heir Apparent’s heating up progress.
- Added damage effect descriptions to weapon perks’ vector allocation display.
- Fixed a balancing issue in which the DPS of Sidearms was lower than weapons of equivalent range.
- Improved the screen-shake/vibration effect when taking blast damage from combatants.
New Features & System Improvements
- Added an artifact archive.
- Added activity and feature unlock previews to the Acclaim system.
- Improved the tips displayed for character-exclusive emotes and weapon-exclusive sprays. Improved the filter logic for character recommendations in Realm of the IX activities.
- Improved the Black Market bounty issuance mechanic and increased the Black Market merchant’s Favor cap.
Characters & Narrative Content
- Added a fourth skin tone to character creation.
- Added lore entries related to character quests for Tan-2, Finnala, etc.
- Adjusted Xuan Wei’s Weapon Mastery. Once Aftermath is triggered, Xuan Wei will deal an additional instance of weapon damage as opposed to gaining increased weapon damage.
- Added a 0.1s cooldown to the Flare Energy mechanic of Tan-2’s Phosphorus and Efficient Conversion abilities.
- Changed the unlock requirement for Weapon Mastery Level 5 to Acclaim Level 25. 4. Economy & Resource Cost Adjustments
- Significantly increased the chance of receiving Exotic weapons from Pinnacle Rewards in certain activities. Affected activities include Strikes, Gauntlet: Blitz, and Shifting Gates, all at Reward Level 6 or higher. The rate at which Legendary Campaign missions drop Exotic weapons as Pinnacle Rewards has been similarly adjusted.
- Added a chance to receive Exotic weapons as Basic Rewards in certain activities. Affected activities include Strikes, Gauntlet: Blitz, and Shifting Gates, all at Reward Level 5 or higher.
- Added a chance to receive Exotic weapons as Basic Rewards in certain activities. Affected activities include Singularity: Chaos at Reward Level 6 or higher.
- Increased the Basic Rewards for Morgran’s Prey (Heroic). At Reward Level 6 or higher, Basic Rewards now grant Mod Fragments. Basic Rewards for Normal difficulty have also been adjusted accordingly.
- In addition to the core adjustments listed above, we’ve also slightly increased the Basic Reward quantity for all activities across the board. 5. Artifact System Improvements
- The Weapon Boost attribute has been changed from “granting XX% weapon damage bonus for 10s after swapping weapons or using a Sword heavy attack” to “grants XX% weapon damage bonus.”
- Added a “Wishlist” button at the bottom right of the Quick Equip screen. Using this applies the recommended loadout for all 4 artifact slots directly to your Singularity: Chaos wishlist (while also adapting to your current character’s Exotic artifact element).
- The “high-value artifact” marker for artifact attributes has been changed from the original, single Gold tier and split into two tiers: Gold and Silver. Silver is good, while Gold is the best.
- When a refactor result’s Power is higher than the character’s current Power, selecting “Refactor Again” will now show a pop-up warning to help prevent missing out on a higher-Power artifact due to clicking/tapping through too quickly.
- Added “Equipped” and “Unequipped” tabs to the dismantle screen to help better distinguish artifacts (and avoid mishaps). Dismantling equipped artifacts is also now supported.
Environment & Level Issues
- Fixed issues affecting the experience of some destination quests.
- Fixed an issue that would cause tracking Public Events to forcibly cancel other quests.
- Fixed an issue in which Sparrow Racing rankings might be displayed incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue in which Lightbearers would need to be tracking a quest in order to interact with its relevant NPCs.
- Fixed an issue on iOS in which using a controller after activating “Device Vibration” would result in incorrect performance.
Character & Ability Issues
- Fixed an issue in which Ning Fei’s cloak would be stuck in the air after colliding with a weapon.
- Fixed an issue with cutscene lines in Kabr’s character quest.
- Fixed an issue in which Ning Fei’s Signature Ability: Lightning Strike would overpenetrate high-tier combatants.
- Fixed an issue with the ability mechanic icon displayed by Attal’s reticle; now, it will show the number of times her Weapon Mastery effect can currently be triggered.
- Fixed the tracking mechanic for Wolf’s Signature Ability: Wolf’s Flames to ensure consistency between tracking time and cast time.
- Fixed an issue in which Tan-2 would gain unintended excess energy from the weapon perk “Allocation Vector.”
- Fixed an issue in which, with Weapon Mastery activated, defeating defeat a low-health combatant would result in the Weapon Mastery effect’s extra damage being lower than intended.
- Fixed an issue in which Ning Fei’s Talent 6: Astral Projection had a chance to not activate as intended.
- Fixed an issue in which, after unlocking Wolf’s 6th Talent, the dynamic avatar unlock prompt would display incorrectly.
System & Feature Issues
- Fixed an issue in which some artifact descriptions were obstructed.
- Fixed an issue in which the artifact dismantle list would display incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue in which failing a stage would result in clear time being displayed incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue in which Acclaim rewards could not be claimed in real time.
- Fixed an issue in which accounts in Japan would be blocked from paying due to age verification.
- Fixed an issue in which some bundles could not be redeemed.
- Fixed an issue in which rewards from completing Event: Memento Mori could not be claimed.
That’s the full patch. What do you think of Update 0904? Did you get your Exotic drop yet? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
