Event Overview
Call to Arms is a new limited-time event running November 11-25, 2025. It helps players catch up on power level before Renegades launches December 2nd, and lets Guardians compete for exclusive cosmetics through high activity scores.
You'll play existing Portal activities with new modifiers and way more loot. The event mixes reward track progression with competitive leaderboards, daily powerful gear drops, and weapon attunement.
Getting Started: First Steps in the Tower
Finding Devrim Kay
When you first log in after the event starts, you'll see a Call to Arms notification. Head straight to the Tower where you'll notice some event decorations. Devrim Kay, who normally hangs out in the European Dead Zone, has set up shop in the center of the Tower. He's your main vendor and quest giver for everything event-related.
Initial Quest: Armament Protocol
Devrim Kay gives you the Armament Protocol quest right away. Think of it as your tutorial for how everything works. You need to complete this quest to unlock all event activities. Here's what you'll do:
Step 1: Open Daily Shipment and Acquire Attuned Weapon
Head to Devrim Kay's area and look left of the stairs. There's a chest sitting there called your Daily Shipment. Open it first. Then talk to Devrim Kay and pick your first Attuned Weapon from what he's selling.
Weapon attunement is basically a targeting system. When you attune a weapon, you'll get it way more often from event activities. You can swap your attuned weapon whenever you want by talking to Devrim Kay again, so don't stress about your first choice.
Step 2: Complete a Call to Arms Activity
After picking your attuned weapon, you need to finish one activity. Most activities are locked at this point. You can only play two:
- Cutting Edge: Zone Control (PvP)
- The Salt Mines (PvE)
Everything else shows up grayed out in your Portal menu with a message saying you need to finish Devrim's quest first. Zone Control matches usually wrap up faster if you want to speed through this step, though you can solo The Salt Mines if you'd rather avoid PvP.
Step 3: Claim First Event Reward
Open your Event Reward Track through the Portal menu and grab the Rank 1 reward. You'll usually hit Rank 1 after one or two activities, so this happens pretty naturally while you're doing Step 2.
Step 4: Complete Daily Challenge
Daily Challenges show up in the Event Home screen through your Portal. These change every day and usually want you to get kills with specific weapon types. Most Daily Challenges give bonus progress for using particular weapons, and a lot of them reward you extra for using weapons you can attune from Call to Arms.
For example, if your Daily Challenge needs special weapon kills, using something like Ribbontail (the Trace Rifle from Devrim Kay) speeds things up significantly. Easier activities like Creation: Solo Ops work great for this because there are tons of enemies right at the start.
Step 5: Return to Devrim Kay
After you finish your Daily Challenge and claim it from the Event Home, go back to Devrim Kay at the Tower. Talk to him and you're done. This unlocks all the remaining Call to Arms activities.
Daily Shipment System
The Daily Shipment chest is one of the best parts of Call to Arms for casual players. This chest appears near Devrim Kay at the Tower and resets every 24 hours. Understanding how it works gets you the most rewards even if you're not playing much.
How Daily Shipments Scale
The number of rewards you get scales directly with your total Competitor Points. Here's the breakdown:
| Competitor Points | Rewards |
|---|---|
| 1 Point | 1 weapon or armor piece |
| 10 Points | 2 weapons or armor pieces |
| 25 Points | 3 weapons or armor pieces |
| 50 Points | 4 weapons or armor pieces |
This keeps going up based on your total points earned across all activities. Each reward can drop as Tier 5 quality gear, which makes these chests incredibly valuable for just logging in daily.
Power Level Benefits
All Daily Shipment gear drops as powerful rewards, raising your overall power level. This makes Daily Shipments one of the fastest ways to level up during the event. If you're catching up before Renegades, open these chests daily even if you skip everything else.
Featured Activities and Loot Structure
Call to Arms designates specific activities as featured content, each dropping bonus rewards on top of normal loot.
Available Featured Activities
After finishing the Armament Protocol quest, you can access all featured activities:
- PvP: Cutting Edge: Zone Control
- PvE: The Salt Mines, The Coil, Proving Grounds, Heliophage Exotic Mission (if you own it)
Most PvE activities give one bonus Call to Arms Weapon Engram per completion. Proving Grounds drops two, making it best for weapon farming.
Understanding Call to Arms Weapon Engrams
These engrams automatically decrypt and go straight to your inventory without ground pickups. They only drop weapons from the Call to Arms loot pool.
When you attune a weapon at Devrim Kay, these engrams have a very high chance of decrypting into that attuned weapon. This makes farming specific god rolls much faster than hoping for random drops. The engrams also drop as powerful rewards, helping raise your power level.
Activity Completion Rewards
You still get normal completion rewards on top of bonus engrams. Proving Grounds gives you:
- Two normal activity rewards
- Two bonus Call to Arms Weapon Engrams
- Event Reward Track progress
- Competitor Points for scoring rewards
This layered structure makes featured activities much more rewarding than standard playlists.
Call to Arms Weapons
Seven weapons comprise the Call to Arms loot pool. Each weapon can drop in standard form or as a Holofoil variant (if you're fortunate). You can obtain these weapons through Call to Arms Weapon Engrams from activities, from Daily Shipment chests, or from Event Reward Track ranks.
Complete Weapon List
Competitor Points and Competitive Rewards
Call to Arms adds a competitive element for players chasing exclusive cosmetics unavailable through normal progression.
How Competitor Points Work
When you finish featured activities, the game scores your performance based on modifiers, completion time, and other factors. Your score compares against all other players who ran that activity. Based on your percentile ranking across the entire playerbase, you earn Competitor Points.
Each activity scores independently. Your Proving Grounds score only compares against other Proving Grounds runs. You can focus on specific activities you're good at instead of needing high scores everywhere.
Viewing Your Competitive Standing
Open the Call to Arms Board from Event Home in your Portal to see:
- Recently posted competitive scores per activity
- Current Competitor Point total
- Percentile ranking vs all players
- Potential rewards based on current tier
Hover over scores to see how close you are to higher percentiles.
Competitive Reward Tiers
Rewards distribute based on final tier placement when the event ends. Most rewards need specific percentile thresholds, meaning you're competing against everyone, not just participating.
| Tier | Reward | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Call to Arms Emblem | Everyone (collected immediately) |
| Higher Tiers | Transmat Effect | Percentile-Based |
| Higher Tiers | Field Alert Shader | Percentile-Based |
| Top Tier | Flaming Helmet | Top Percentage |
| Top Tier | Exclusive Emblem | Top Percentage |
All competitive rewards except the base emblem go to your Tower Postmaster after November 25th. A special chest near Devrim Kay unlocks then for claiming rewards.
Note on Competition
You can completely ignore competitive scoring and still get tons of value from Call to Arms. Competitive rewards are purely cosmetic. No weapons, armor, or power-affecting items are locked behind competitive tiers. Focus on weapon farming and reward track progression if you prefer casual play.
Event Modifiers and Scoring
For players chasing competitive rewards, modifiers are critical. They increase difficulty while boosting your score multiplier, letting you post higher scores than base difficulty runs.
Standard Modifiers
Featured activities let you enable negative modifiers like Nightfalls. Options include enemy power increases, reduced ability regeneration, specific elemental shields, Champion types, limited respawns, and equipment restrictions.
More modifiers = higher score multiplier. But difficulty scales hard, so you'll need coordinated teams and dialed-in loadouts.
Call to Arms Exclusive Modifiers
Two unique modifiers appear in a separate "Event Modifier" section:
Modifier Strategy for Casual Players
If you're farming weapons instead of competing, turn off modifiers. Lower difficulty means faster completions, which means more engrams per hour. Bonus engrams drop regardless of difficulty, so speed beats score for efficiency.
Some players reported better rates running normal difficulty with no modifiers versus slower high-difficulty runs, even though high-difficulty gave more engrams per completion. Faster speed made up for fewer rewards per run.
Modifier Strategy for Competitive Players
If you're going for top percentiles, enable everything. Early reports show top 30% required max power, all negative slots filled, Extinction mode, loadout restrictions (Old West weapons, explosives only, etc.), and both exclusive modifiers active.
Even with maximum settings, some runs only hit top 30%. The most dedicated players are pushing really hard. Expect to need coordinated teams, builds tailored to specific modifiers, and multiple attempts per activity for top-tier placement.
Event Reward Track Progression
The Event Reward Track works like previous seasonal events but runs considerably longer and gives more valuable rewards, particularly the new Lawless Voucher containers.
Notable Reward Track Items
| Rank | Reward | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2, 6, 11, 16, 18, 22, 26, 31, 36 | Lawless Voucher | Container |
| 5 | Ribbontail (Holofoil) | Trace Rifle |
| 15 | Folded Root (Holofoil) | Rocket Launcher |
| 20 | Romantic Death (Holofoil) | Grenade Launcher |
| 25 | Submersion (Holofoil) | Combat Bow |
| 40 | Desert Burnish | New Malpais Ornament |
Understanding Lawless Vouchers
Lawless Vouchers are the most significant long-term value in the Event Reward Track. These containers can't be opened during the Call to Arms event. They sit in your Consumables inventory until December 2nd, 2025, when Renegades launches.
- Guaranteed Tier 3 or higher new gear (weapons or armor)
- Enhancement Cores
- Special bonus: Every four Lawless Vouchers opened grants a consumable that guarantees a Prime Engram reward from your next activity completion
The "new gear" part means Lawless Vouchers drop items from the loot pool active when you open them, not when you earned them. If you stack up Lawless Vouchers throughout Call to Arms and open them December 2nd, you'll get gear from the Renegades season loot pool, potentially including newly released weapons that weren't available during the event.
Lawless Voucher Strategy
This system creates serious incentive even if you don't need Call to Arms weapons. Stacking Lawless Vouchers gives you a huge head start next season.
You can get roughly 20 vouchers total from the Event Reward Track. Opening all 20 on December 2nd gives you:
- 20 guaranteed Tier 3+ gear pieces from Renegades
- Enhancement Cores for infusion and masterworking
- 5 Prime Engram guarantee consumables (20 vouchers รท 4 per bonus)
This lets you skip early season grind by starting with a big collection of new gear. For efficiency-focused players, maxing the reward track before November 25th is priority regardless of interest in event weapons.
Reward Track Progression Tips
Event experience comes from finishing featured activities, completing Daily Challenges, opening Daily Shipments, and general gameplay while the event runs.
This is one of the longest event tracks Destiny 2 has featured recently. Expect to need consistent daily play to hit Rank 40 before November 25th. Players with limited time should prioritize Daily Challenges and featured activities over non-event content.
Daily Challenges System
Daily Challenges refresh every 24 hours and give extra Event Reward Track progress.
How Daily Challenges Work
Access them through Event Home in your Portal. Each day brings different requirements, usually weapon type kills. Challenges grant bonus progress for using specific weapons, often ones available through Call to Arms attunement.
Primary objective: "Defeat enemies with Special Weapons"
Bonus progress: "Increased progress when using Ribbontail, Trachinus, or Romantic Death"
This pushes you to try Call to Arms weapons while working toward both challenge completion and potential god rolls.
Efficient Challenge Completion
- Enemy-Dense Activities: Creation: Solo Ops packs tons of enemies at the start, letting you finish kill challenges in one run. Can be done solo.
- Match to Attuned Weapons: If your challenge gives bonus progress for specific weapons, attune one at Devrim Kay. You'll finish your challenge while farming that weapon from engrams.
- PvP Challenges: Cutting Edge: Zone Control usually wraps up faster than other Crucible modes.
Daily Challenges give solid reward track experience for the time invested. Players aiming for higher ranks should complete these daily, like opening Daily Shipments.
Best Event Participation Strategies
Different priorities need different approaches. Here are strategies for three common player types.
Casual Players (Limited Playtime)
Skip: Competitive scoring. Time investment doesn't match cosmetic-only rewards for casual players.
Weapon Farmers (God Roll Hunters)
Skip: Competitive scoring unless you personally want the cosmetics. Higher scores don't improve engram rates.
Competitive Players (Cosmetic Collectors)
Don't Skip: Daily Shipments and Lawless Vouchers still matter. Even competitive players benefit from power increases and next-season prep.
Event Timeline and Deadlines
Call to Arms runs from November 11, 2025, through November 25, 2025. After November 25th, the event ends and several systems change:
| Period | Available Features |
|---|---|
| During Event (Nov 11-25) | Daily Shipment chests reset daily, Daily Challenges refresh daily, Competitive scores can be posted and improved, Event Reward Track progression available, Lawless Vouchers stack up in Consumables inventory |
| After Event Ends (Nov 25) | Daily Shipment chests stop appearing, Competitive rewards distribute based on final rankings, Special chest near Devrim Kay unlocks for competitive reward collection, Event Reward Track progression stops, Lawless Vouchers remain in inventory but can't be opened |
| Renegades Launch (Dec 2) | Lawless Vouchers become openable, Vouchers drop Renegades season loot pool gear, Prime Engram guarantee consumables activate |
Planning Your Participation
With a two-week event duration, you have enough time to chase multiple goals (weapon farming, Event Reward Track completion, competitive scoring) if you participate regularly. But players with inconsistent availability should prioritize according to the strategy sections above.
Common Questions and Clarifications
Yes, freely and without restriction. Visit Devrim Kay anytime to pick a different attuned weapon. There's no cooldown, cost, or limit on changes.
No. Call to Arms Weapon Engrams drop from featured activities regardless of difficulty setting or modifiers enabled. Difficulty only affects competitive scoring, not engram drops.
The base Call to Arms emblem is available to all participants with minimal engagement. All other competitive rewards need percentile ranking based on your scores compared to the entire playerbase, meaning you do need to go after high scores for those items.
You'll miss those Daily Shipment opportunities permanently, as each day's chest doesn't carry over. But you can still progress the Event Reward Track and go after competitive scores on days you do participate. The event length gives some buffer for occasional missed days.
Lawless Vouchers can't be opened until December 2nd when Renegades launches, so you have no choice but to save them. This is intentional design to give season-opening rewards.
Final Recommendations
Call to Arms is worth your time if you need power level catch-up or want a head start on Renegades gear. Daily Shipment chests alone make logging in worthwhile, even if you skip everything else.
The weapon attunement system makes god roll farming much faster than normal playlist activities. Stick to one weapon at a time and run activities quickly for maximum engrams.
Competitive rewards are purely cosmetic. Going for top percentiles needs serious time commitment, coordinated teams, and specific builds. Casual play won't get you there.
The event reuses existing activities instead of adding new content, so expect some repetition. But the loot drops are generous if that's what you're after.