Surviving the Lightfall Legendary campaign is a test of skill, patience, and precision-especially solo. Here’s what awaits those who brave Neptune’s toughest fights: exclusive gear, boosted rewards, and a challenge that pushes every Guardian to their limit.
Be Brave or Become Legend choice and how to change campaign difficulty
At the beginning of the Lightfall campaign, players can choose between “Be Brave” for a standard experience or “Become Legend” for a tougher challenge with better rewards. This choice affects enemy health, damage, and player revives. If you want to change the campaign difficulty later, select the mission from the Director, hover over it, and adjust the difficulty before launching. Playing on Legendary grants additional loot, including powerful gear upgrades and exclusive triumphs.
When you first start the Lightfall campaign, you’ll be asked whether you want to “Be Brave” or “Become Legend.”
This is asking what difficulty you want to play the campaign on – either Classic or Legendary.
Know this choice isn’t final. If you change your mind – whether that’s increasing or decreasing the difficulty mid-campaign, or once it’s wrapped – to change difficulty in the Lightfall campaign, find the campaign node on Neomuna’s director screen and select the drop-down in the lower right corner.
Destiny 2 Lightfall Legendary campaign rewards
In Destiny 2 Lightfall, Legendary campaign rewards scale with solo difficulty, offering meaningful power boosts, unique loot options, and tailored engrams that reflect your solo mastery and pace, with a clear progression path through each campaign chapter.
By completing the Legendary Lightfall campaign, you will receive the following rewards:
- Gear set fixed at 1770 Power level (20 above the soft cap, 30 below the Powerful gear cap)
- Lightfall Exotic armor (TBC – usually reserved for solo Legend/Master Lost Sectors)
- 300 Strand Meditations
- 8 Upgrade Modules
- Unique Triumph (which will likely be factored into Moments of Triumph for Year 6) and Emblem (TBC)
As well as the above, like The Witch Queen, it’s also likely you’ll receive a second chest after each major campaign encounter, which will grant you additional loot to help get you to the soft cap faster.
In summary, by completing the Legendary campaign will give you a healthy Power level advantage, both from bonus rewards earned during each mission and a fixed Power level set once the credits have rolled.
Can you play the Destiny 2 Lightfall Legendary solo?
Playing the Destiny 2: Lightfall Legendary campaign solo is absolutely possible, though it can be quite demanding. Enemies hit harder, have more health, and often appear in larger groups, which makes careful positioning and smart use of abilities key to success. Completing it solo gives you the same rewards as in co-op, such as powerful gear, upgrade modules, and a full armor set at a high power level, making the challenge worthwhile for players who enjoy testing their skills.
The Legendary campaign is designed to scale with your Fireteam – meaning the difficulty will adjust to the number of players.
“Incoming damage, damage required to stagger an enemy, enemy health, and amount of revives are a few of the things that scale on Legendary for each additional member of your fireteam,” Bungie has said, adding: “We reduced the health scalar on combatants to better balance solo and fireteam play when compared to last year’s Legendary campaign.”
This means if you were put off by the solo experience with The Witch Queen campaign, the difficulty should be better adjusted. That said, it’s worth coming prepared – for Hunters, for example, it’s perhaps worth considering running equipment and mods with plenty of opportunities for invisibility so you can hide from enemies to recover your shields.
For returning Destiny 2 players, it’s likely you’ll also have a range of crafted or god roll weapons and high stat gear to give you the upper hand. For new players, the challenge will be more significant without a decent loadout – and if you cannot join other players who can help “carry” you through the campaign, it’s worth considering doing a Legendary run at a later time.
Finally, regardless of whether you are solo or in a Fireteam, know there will be a Power level requirement to campaign missions. Ideally, you’ll want to be at the mission’s Power level in order to make the challenge fairer. If you are under and are struggling with the mission, then playing other activities until your Power level matches the campaign is highly recommended.
Best loadouts and subclasses for solo Legendary Lightfall campaign
Soloing Destiny 2’s Lightfall Legendary campaign requires builds emphasizing survivability, ability uptime, and Strand synergy once unlocked, with enemies scaling dynamically for solo play. Hunters often edge out for invisibility resets, while Warlocks provide self-sustain via grenades.
Hunter Builds
Threadrunner (Strand) or Nightstalker (Void) shine for mobility and crowd control.
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Exotic: Gyrfalcon’s Aspect (void) for invis on powered melee kills and volatile rounds; Omniscient-1 SMG with Repulsor Brace.
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Aspects/Fragments: Stylish Executioner for invis, devour fragments; grapple for traversal.
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Weapons: Quicksilver Storm (kinetic auto with catalyst for Tangles), Witherhoard (grenade launcher), rocket heavy; anti-champion mods like Sunspot Overload.
Prioritize resilience (100+ stat) and discipline for grenades.
Warlock Builds
Contraverse Hold or Broodweaver for infinite grenade spam against Tormentors.
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Exotic: Contraverse Hold (void) for health regen on grenade hits; Starfire Protocol (solar) alternative.
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Aspects/Fragments: Feed the Void, Echo of Remnants; Stasis for freezing adds.
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Weapons: Osteo Striga (SMG), Ticuu’s Divination (bow), linear fusion heavy; blinding/freeze primaries for Tormentors.
Well of Radiance locks you down-use for bosses only.
Titan Builds
Berserker (Strand) or Hammer of Sol (solar) for roams and healing.
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Exotic: Heart of Inmost Light for ability chains; Loreley Splendor (solar) for sunspots.
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Aspects/Fragments: Consecration melee, roasting flames; restoration x2.
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Weapons: Witherhoard, Fusion Rifle (e.g., Deliverance), rocket/sword heavy.
Bubble shield as emergency for solo wipes.
General Tips
Use rally flags for ammo; swap to Strand mid-campaign for grapples and Tangles. Mods: Harmonic Siphon, Time Dilation, Taking Charge. Power cap at 1635 effective-focus add clear over boss DPS early.
Hardest encounters in solo Legendary Lightfall and how to beat them
Soloing Destiny 2’s Lightfall Legendary campaign features several spike encounters designed for fireteams, but they become manageable with strong add clear, Tormentor prioritization, and constant movement. The final boss fight and late-mission Tormentor waves stand out as the toughest due to overwhelming adds, slams, and no revives in darkness zones.
Final Boss (Kell of Darkness – Last Mission)
Calus in his ship demands platforming awareness and ammo management; he summons two Tormentors and turns berserker in phase two.
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Break Tormentor arms with machine guns or fusions, then finish them for invisibility procs; save super for quick kills to avoid slams.
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Cycle cover spots to dodge lasers/missiles; use Weatherworn or primary DPS on Calus between 2/3 and 1/3 health phases.
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Phase two: Keep full distance from axe swings (tankable at 100 resilience but risky); rally heavy ammo beforehand.
Tormentor-Heavy Waves (Mid-to-Late Missions)
Missions like “Under Siege” and “Downfall” swarm you with finishable yellow-bars and charging majors that focus the lone player.
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Blinding grenades or Stasis turrets lock them down; melee/shotgun finishers melt Tormentors faster than bullets.
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Prioritize Scions for orbs/invis; Witherhoard for sustained add pressure while building heavy.
Other Spikes
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Ship defense sections: Freeze adds with Stasis Warlock or bubble for safety; enemies scale low solo but overwhelm if adds pile up.
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Grapple-heavy rooms: Strand builds (e.g., Hunter Threadrunner) trivialize traversal; stock grenades via Armamentarium.
Stick to high-resilience (100+), rally flags for ammo, and Hunter/Warlock for resets-many clear it flawlessly with practice.
