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Every ritual playlist in Destiny 2—Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit—has a unique ranking system that rewards players dedicated to a specific playlist. The more of a specific playlist you lot farm, the more rewards you can expect to earn.

Season of the Lost gave the Vanguard a advantage system that mimics how Valor and Infamy behave. Players that farm strikes and Nightfalls tin now expect Masterwork materials, unique cosmetics, and fifty-fifty Exotic Engrams. Nosotros'll exist going over how Vanguard Ranks work, how you can increase your Vanguard Rank with Zavala, and every reward you lot tin can expect from farming strikes and Nightfalls.

Updated June 2nd, 2022, by Charles Burgar: Zavala's rewards accept seen a refresh with Season of the Haunted. We've updated this guide to include this season's reward track with Zavala, and we've also added a section that outlines every reward y'all can earn from farming Vanguard Ops and Nightfalls.

Vanguard Ranks

Similar to the Valor and Infamy systems, the Vanguard Strike and Nightfall playlists have a unique ranking system that you can increase past playing, you guessed it, strikes and Nightfalls. Destiny 2's Vanguard activities are divide into ii playlists:

  1. Vanguard Ops: Includes standard strikes and the Battlegrounds activity.
  2. Nightfalls: A harder version of a strike with higher Power requirements, modifiers, and amend rewards. The selected strike rotates weekly.
    1. At that place'due south also a Grandmaster Nightfall playlist, allowing you to play the hardest version of that calendar week's strike.

Repeated clears of strikes, Battlegrounds, and Nightfalls will build up an Activity Streak, increasing the charge per unit you lot rank up (explained later). Increasing your Vanguard Rank will unlock new rewards from Zavala in the Belfry.

Progression through the Vanguard ranking system is as follows:

Rank Vanguard Rank Requirement Rank-Up Requirement
Guardian I 0 l
Guardian II 50 75
Guardian Three 125 125
Brave I 250 250
Brave Ii 500 450
Brave III 950 600
Heroic I 1,550 375
Heroic II i,925 600
Heroic Iii ii,525 825
Fabled I iii,350 525
Fabled 2 three,875 775
Fabled III 4,650 1,050
Mythic I 5,700 750
Mythic 2 6,450 1,075
Mythic Three vii,525 1,475
Legend 9,000 1,000

Legend

(Max Rank)
10,000 N/A; reset is available

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How To Increase Your Vanguard Rank

Ana Bray and Zavala in Destiny 2 cutscene

Both the Vanguard Ops and Nightfall playlists volition increase your Vanguard Rank with Zavala. Completing either activity will grant Vanguard Rank reputation. Y'all tin can further increase your reputation gains through Activity Streaks and college-difficulty Nightfalls.

Play Strikes And Nightfalls

Destiny 2 Proving Grounds Strike VIP Cabal

Each strike, Battlefield, and Nightfall you complete will increment your Vanguard Rank to some extent. Nightfalls, especially higher-difficulty variants, grant additional progress. The indicate breakdown looks something similar this:

  • Vanguard Ops Playlist: 60 Vanguard Rank
  • Nightfall (Adept): 120 Vanguard Rank
  • Nightfall (Hero): 180 Vanguard Rank
  • Nightfall (Fable): ~240 Vanguard Rank
  • Nightfall (Chief): ~300 Vanguard Rank
  • Nightfall (Grandmaster): 300 Vanguard Rank

Fable and higher seem to requite slightly more than Vanguard Rank reputation than what's listed, the variance determined by your current Action Streak. Take these numbers as rough estimates. Activity Streaks will increase these numbers even more than.

Also, information technology's worth noting that both the strike playlist and individual strikes queued on their respective planet both grant 60 Vanguard Rank progress. This makes farming short strikes—such as the Lake of Shadows—the best for increasing your Vanguard Rank.

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Vanguard Activity Streak

Destiny 2 The Arms Dealer Nightfall

Whenever you complete a strike or Nightfall, you'll starting time an Action Streak. This streak volition increase all Vanguard Rank earnings for all subsequent strike and Nightfall completions. Playing v strikes, Battlegrounds, and/or Nightfalls will cap out the Action Streak bonus.

Each streak grants the following bonus to your Vanguard Rank earnings:

  • Streak One: +xv Vanguard Rank
  • Streak Two: +thirty Vanguard Rank
  • Streak Three: +45 Vanguard Rank
  • Streak Iv: +60 Vanguard Rank
  • Streak Five: +75 Vanguard Rank

Keep in mind that higher-difficulty Nightfalls (Legend+) will increase the bonus from your Vanguard Activity Streak even more. In essence, the best mode of increasing your Vanguard Rank is to play equally many strikes or Nightfalls as you can.

All the same, information technology's adequately easy to break this Activity Streak. The following will reduce or apartment-out remove your Activity Streak:

  • Visiting a destination
    • Exceptions include the Tower, H.Due east.L.Thou, and returning to orbit
  • Leaving mid-strike or Nightfall
  • Playing some other action
    • This completely removes your streak

Exiting Destiny ii volition not reset your streak.

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Play During Double Vanguard Rank Weeks

Destiny 2 Vanguard Symbol

Vanguard now has a double reputation calendar week that can occur throughout a given season, similar to how Valor and Infamy receive double reputation weeks. Reputation bonus weeks can be seen in the modifiers section when launching the Vanguard Ops or Nightfall playlist. Double Vanguard Rank weeks affect the points earned from a strike/Nightfall completion and the Activity Streak bonus associated with them.

Yous tin can check the active modifiers in the Vanguard Ops or Nightfall playlists to see if double Vanguard reputation is active. A unique modifier will be active if a double reputation week is active.

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Vanguard Rank Rewards

Destiny 2 Vanguard Rank Rewards

Just like Valor and Infamy, Vanguard Ranks come with their own rewards. Increasing your rank with Zavala will unlock new rewards, including Masterwork materials and this season's ritual weapon: the Concatenation of Command Machine Gun. In one case you reach the maximum Vanguard Rank of ten,000, you tin can claim an Ascendant Shard from Zavala to reset your Vanguard Rank, refreshing his reward track.

Each Vanguard Rank grants the following:

Initial Reward Postal service-Reset Reward
Rank-Ups x1 Legendary Engram (subranks count) x1 Legendary Engram (subranks count)
Division Rank-Ups x1 Prime Engram None
Rank iv x3 Enhancement Cores x3 Enhancement Cores
Rank 7 Vanguard Distrinction Shader x3 Enhancement Cores
Rank 10 x2 Enhancement Prisms x2 Enhancement Prisms
Rank 13 Zavala's Gaze Projection x2 Enhancement Prisms
Rank sixteen Chain of Command (Car Gun) Standard Regulation Ornament
x2 Enhancement Prisms
Rank xvi Completed x1 Dominant Shard x1 Exotic Engram

Strike Rewards

Destiny 2 Year 5 Playlist Armor Set Showcase

Claiming Engrams from Zavala will grant certain strike weapons and armor pieces. The armor prepare is showcased higher up. All weapons you tin can obtain from the Vanguard Ops playlist tin can be plant below.

Strike Weapons
Royal Entry
  • Rocket Launcher
  • Precision Frame (15 RPM)
  • Void
The Third Axiom
  • Pulse Rifle
  • Adaptive Frame (390 RPM)
  • Arc
Empty Vessel
  • Grenade Launcher
  • Lightweight Frame (Breech)
  • Solar
Punching Out
  • Sidearm
  • SUROS Rapid-Burn down (450 RPM)
  • Solar
Fortissimo-11
  • Shotgun
  • Pinpoint Slug Frame (65 RPM)
  • Kinetic
Strident Whistle
  • Bow
  • Precision Frame (720 Draw Time)
  • Solar

Nightfall Rewards

Destiny 2 Duty Bound

Nightfalls can drop 2 of the following weapons. College-difficulty variants take a higher gamble of dropping a Nightfall weapon, and Grandmaster Nightfall clears will drop Adept variants of the weapons listed below. Nightfall weapon drops rotate weekly and are affected past double Nightfall drops.

Nightfall Weapons
Duty Leap
  • Automobile Burglarize
  • Adaptive Frame (600 RPM)
  • Kinetic
Silicon Neuroma
  • Sniper Rifle
  • Aggressive Frame (72 RPM)
  • Kinetic
D.F.A.
  • Mitt Cannon
  • Adaptive Frame (140 RPM)
  • Kinetic
Horror'due south Least
  • Pulse Rifle
  • Rapid-Fire Frame (540 RPM)
  • Arc
PLUG One.one
  • Fusion Burglarize
  • Precision Frame (780 Accuse Time)
  • Arc
The Hothead
  • Rocket Launcher
  • Adaptive Frame (20 RPM)
  • Arc

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The Fastest Vanguard Rank Farm

Destiny 2 Lake of Shadows

If you want to increment your Vanguard Rank as fast as possible, y'all'll want to exercise one of two things:

  1. Farm the weekly Nightfall on Hero difficulty.
  2. Subcontract Lake of Shadows.

Hero Nightfalls have the all-time remainder betwixt time investment and Vanguard Rank payout. They have minimal modifiers, aren't set at a high Power Level, and still accept matchmaking enabled. A good team can articulate Hero-tier Nightfalls at a pace that mimics a standard strike, granting 3x as much Vanguard Rank progress per clear every bit a standard strike. If you lot tin maintain an Activity Streak while doing this, you'll be able to reset your Vanguard Rank in a few play sessions.

Of course, no strike is better than Lake of Shadows for rep farming. This strike is curt, doesn't have many enemies, and its final dominate tin be killed in a matter of seconds with a good loadout. Choosing whether you farm Lake of Shadows or the weekly Nightfall volition entirely depend on which Nightfall is currently agile. If a medium-length Nightfall is up, it's generally worth farming the Nightfall. Simply if something like The Corrupted is that calendar week's Nightfall, you might want to subcontract Lake of Shadows instead.

The Best Nightfalls To Farm

If Lake of Shadows ever appears as the weekly Nightfall, farm information technology as much as you can. It's hands-down the best Nightfall to speed clear in Destiny 2. Across that, here are a few Nightfalls that are easy to farm whenever they're active in a given week:

  • The Arms Dealer: It's brusque, doesn't feature many tough enemies, and the final boss can be 1-phased with a good team.
  • The Insight Terminus: This is ane of Destiny 2's shorter strikes and features an easy concluding boss.
  • Cosmodrome Strikes: This includes Fallen S.A.B.Due east.R, The Disgraced, and The Devils' Lair. All three of these Nightfalls are enemy dense, characteristic like shooting fish in a barrel bosses, and can exist cleared in a respectable corporeality of time.

Nightfalls To Avoid

Most Destiny 2 Nightfalls are solid for farming Vanguard Ranks and Nightfall rewards, only there are a few notable exceptions we'd like to briefly mention:

  • The Corrupted: This Nightfall takes ages to articulate on lower difficulties. On Master or GM difficulty, this Nightfall becomes exceptionally tough.
  • The Lightblade: It's the hardest Nightfall in Destiny 2, no question. Don't farm this unless you absolutely take to.
  • Exodus Down: Ane of the longest Nightfalls in Destiny 2. It takes too long to clear on Hero. On Master or GM, the affluence of snipers and frustrating final boss brand Exodus Down a consummate slog. Never farm this Nightfall.

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