When does The Final Shape raid appear in Destiny 2?

The final form raid comes to Destiny 2, and you face off against The Witness as the capstone to what Bungie calls the Light and Darkness saga. But why is the raid released two weeks earlier than normal? The final form?

In this Destiny 2 Guide, we’ll tell you if you can play The final form raid and explain why Bungie is breaking convention with its release date.

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When does The Final Shape raid appear in Destiny 2?

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In one of the studios weekly Destiny blog postsBungie announced this The final form The raid starts on Friday, June 7, at 1 a.m. ETjust three days after the expansion’s June 4 release date.

Find out when the raid starts in your time zone here:

• 10 a.m. PDT for the West Coast of North America
• 1 a.m. EDT for the East Coast of North America
• 6:00pm BST for the UK
• 7pm CEST for Western Europe/Paris
• 2 a.m. on Saturday, June 8, for Tokyo

Bungie hasn’t announced the name yet The final form Raid, and probably just the day before its release, on June 6th. It will be available to all players who own it The final form Expansion and have completed the first seven missions of the expansion campaign as well as the “Wild Card” mission.

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Why does the Final Shape raid start so early?

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If you are a Destiny 2 Veteran, the timeline here may be a little confused. Typically, Bungie gives players a little less than two weeks – around ten days – to complete a new expansion’s campaign and prepare for the raid. However, most raids involve a final boss that is only tangentially related to the expansion’s main boss, rather than the main antagonist itself.

Since Bungie announced The final form, the studio has clarified that The Witness will be the final boss of the raid. This is a big step for Bungie and something the developers have wanted for a long time. In a Polygon interview for Destiny 2It’s 2022 Witch Queen Extension, I spoke to Joe Blackburn, now former Destiny 2 Game Director, on whether we would ever see the big bad of an expansion in raiding again. Blackburn expressed a desire to do this at some point, but said the studio needs to get more players involved in raids first. Two and a half years later, Bungie now seems confident enough to make this move – likely due to the new in-game Fireteam Finder the studio recently added to the game.

Since the raid is such a big cog The final form‘s story, Bungie has made it clear that players won’t have to wait nearly two weeks to finish the story and play the campaign’s eighth mission, which only becomes available when players (presumably) defeat The Witness in the raid. Completing the raid also results in the release of Destiny 2is the first episode from Bungie – Bungie’s replacement for Seasons – which will appear in the game on Tuesday, June 11th.