Solstice 2025 Event Overview

Solstice 2025 runs from August 5-19, giving you just two weeks to grab everything. Bungie cut a week off the usual schedule, so don't sleep on this one.

They ditched Bonfire Bash completely this year. Instead, everything goes through Portal activities with new modifiers thrown in. Honestly, this is way better since you can farm Solstice stuff while doing your normal Portal runs.

Solstice Portal Activities — Portal activities now feature Solstice modifiers for event farming

Getting Started with Eva Levante

Go talk to Eva at the Tower to start "Celebrating Solstice." It's a quick six-step quest that shows you how the Portal modifiers work and gives you your first armor piece. You need this to unlock the Solstice Forge.

After that, any Portal activity with Solstice modifiers will drop Distorted Solstice Engrams with weapons and armor.

Pro Tip

Complete the "Celebrating Solstice" quest immediately to unlock the Solstice Forge and start earning event currency from all Portal activities.

Solstice 2025 Portal Modifiers

Portal activities get special modifiers that mess with your usual playstyle. Most swap out daily, but Hot Potato sticks around the whole event.

Available Portal Modifiers

Hot Potato

Enemies drop Solar Flares. Pick them up and pass them between teammates to charge them up before throwing.

Fired Up

Deal Solar damage to build up a heat meter. Max it out, and your weapons start exploding things.

Class Healing

Your class ability heals you now. Pretty straightforward.

Igniter

Hit precision shots on scorched enemies to make them explode.

Firesprite Fancy

Firesprites create scorch zones around you. Grab more to make the zone bigger.

Dreaming Brighter

Solstice weapons with Dream Work hit harder.

Radiant Joy

Kill stuff while Radiant to spawn Firesprites. Pick them up for healing.

Solar Slide

Sprint then slide to create scorch waves.

Solar Storms

Dead enemies spawn Solar fireballs that rain down on you (in a good way).

Solstice 2025 God Roll Weapons Guide

Festival Flight God Rolls & How to Get It

Festival Flight is the first Strand Area Denial Grenade Launcher. It's insanely good for PvE, easily S tier.

Legendary

Festival Flight

• Strand Area Denial Grenade Launcher

• Dream Work Origin Trait

• Burst Fire with Lingering Damage Pools

PvE God Roll:

Barrel: Quick Launch
Magazine: High-Velocity Rounds
First Perk: Demolitionist or Slice
Second Perk: Elemental Honing or One for All
Masterwork: Reload Speed

Demolitionist + Elemental Honing is probably your best bet. Free grenade energy, instant reloads, plus extra elemental damage that stacks with the Strand effects.

Slice + One for All wrecks groups. You debuff everything with Sever while getting 35% more damage.

Blast Distributor works too if you like grenade stats over the reload. Don't bother with this in PvP.

Yeartide Apex God Rolls & How to Get It

Yeartide Apex is special because it's one of the first lightweight SMGs that can scorch enemies. Plus, you can finally get Chaos Reshaped without doing the raid.

Legendary

Yeartide Apex

• Solar Lightweight SMG

• 900 RPM / Lightweight Frame

• Dream Work + Tex Balanced Stock

PvE God Roll:

Barrel: Polygonal Rifling or Smallbore
Magazine: High-Caliber Rounds
First Perk: Heal Clip or Attrition Orbs
Second Perk: Chaos Reshaped, Incandescent, or Burning Ambition

PvE Viability

PvP Potential

Solar Synergy

Heal Clip + Chaos Reshaped makes you basically unkillable. Instant heals on reload plus damage buffs that eventually give you healing pulses too.

Heal Clip + Incandescent is solid Solar synergy. Heals plus scorch are spreading everywhere.

Attrition Orbs + Burning Ambition works great in teams. Make orbs while scorching enemies on hit.

PvP God Roll

Barrel: Hammer-Forged Rifling
Magazine: Ricochet Rounds or High-Caliber Rounds
First Perk: Lone Wolf
Second Perk: Target Lock

Lone Wolf boosts your aim assist when alone, Target Lock scales damage on hits. Pretty nasty combo.

Fortunate Star God Rolls & How to Get It

Fortunate Star offers solid Void bow options with good elemental synergy potential.

Fortunate Star God Roll Combinations

Dragonfly + Destabilizing Rounds

Excellent crowd control with explosions and Void debuffs

Repulsor Brace + Destabilizing Rounds

Balances offense and defense with overshields

Archer's Tempo + Precision Instrument

Traditional bow gameplay with scaling damage

Fortunate Star Void Bow — Fortunate Star excels at Void synergy builds with multiple viable perk combinations

Solstice 2025 Armor Guide

Lustrous Armor (Base Title Requirement)

The free armor set comes from a recolored 2019 Solstice design. You'll craft each piece through the Solstice Forge for 100 Solstice Alloys. Once you unlock pieces through crafting, they start dropping from Solstice Engrams too.

Activity Type	Solstice Alloys Earned	Time Investment
Solo Ops	25 alloys per completion	4-5 minutes
Pinnacle Ops	51 alloys per completion	8-12 minutes
Master Portal	75+ alloys per completion	15-20 minutes

You need 500 total alloys to craft a complete set (5 pieces × 100 alloys each).

Sublime Armor (Gilding Requirement)

Sublime armor is the enhanced version you need for gilding the Flamekeeper title. Take your crafted Lustrous pieces back to the Solstice Forge with additional Solstice Alloys and Incandescent Ingots to create the glowing Sublime versions.

Eververse Beach Collection

If you want the premium cosmetics, Eververse sells beach-themed sets for 1,500 Silver or 6,000 Bright Dust per class.

Solstice 2025 Farming Guide

Where to Farm

Portal activities are your only option, but it's not bad since you can do normal Portal stuff at the same time.

For Weapons: Look for Portal activities that show "Distorted Solstice Engram" in the rewards. Make sure you finish the bonus objective during the run, usually precision kills or ability kills.

For Materials: Pinnacle Ops give 51 Solstice Alloys vs 25 from Solo Ops. Solo Ops are faster though since you don't need a team.

Weapon Drop Rates

Solstice weapons drop at way higher tiers than normal:

Drop Rate Tiers by Power Level

400+ Power

375+ Power + Rank 8

300+ Power + Rank 7

Much easier than getting high-tier stuff elsewhere.

Event Token Management

Daily and weekly challenges give you Event Tokens that expire when Solstice ends. Spend these on:

Priority Purchases

Solstice weapons (100 tokens each)
Ascendant Shards (300 tokens)
Exotic Ciphers (300 tokens)
High-tier armor engrams

Low Priority

Enhancement materials (cheap token dumps)
Glimmer stacks
Basic armor pieces
Cosmetic items before expiration

Solstice Scorched PvP Mode

Crucible gets a special playlist during Solstice where everyone uses Scorch Cannons regardless of loadout. This covers the standard modes (Clash, Control, Rift) but with the weapon restriction. You need this for some triumph completion.

PvP Tip

Solstice Scorched is required for the "Heat of the Crucible" triumph. Play 7 matches to complete this requirement for the Flamekeeper title.

Flamekeeper Title 2025

Base Title (8 Triumphs)

Flamekeeper Title Requirements

Complete all 8 base triumphs to earn the Flamekeeper title. Additional gilding triumphs unlock the golden version.

Like a Phoenix - Get your first Solstice armor from Eva's quest. Automatic.
Forged in Sunlight - Craft all 5 Lustrous armor pieces. Costs 500 Solstice Alloys total.
Knight of the Solstice - Hit Event Rank 15. Do Portal activities with modifiers for XP.
Solstice With Yourself - Finish 7 Solo Ops with Solstice modifiers.
Solstice Vacation - Finish 7 Fireteam/Pinnacle Ops with modifiers.
Heat of the Crucible - Play 7 Solstice Scorched matches.
Around the Sun - Do activities with all 8 different modifiers. Need 7 completions total, but each must use a different modifier.
Beneath the Sun - Get B-grade in Portal activities with modifiers (3 times). Run Master difficulty if you're having trouble.

Gilding (4 More Triumphs)

Gilded Flamekeeper Requirements

Sublime Glow

Upgrade a full armor set to Sublime versions. Requires additional Incandescent Ingots beyond the base crafting cost.

Hero of the Solstice

Hit Event Rank 30. Focus on daily and weekly challenges for maximum XP gain throughout the event.

Sunlight 'Em Up

Do hard content in full Sublime armor. Dungeons, raids, Master Portal, or Trials wins. Three Master Portal runs is easiest.

A Sunny Score

Get A-grade in Portal activities with modifiers (3 times). Use score-boosting modifiers and aim for flawless runs.

What to Focus On

Week 1 Priorities

Do Eva's quest right away
Start crafting armor
Farm weapon god rolls while modifiers rotate
Work on triumphs that need specific modifiers

Week 2 Priorities

Finish any leftover triumphs
Spend Event Tokens before they disappear
Push to Rank 30 if you want gilding
Do the hard content for gilding triumphs

Time Management Warning

Since you only have two weeks, don't waste time. Get the basics done first, then work toward whatever your end goal is. The good news is Portal activities count for regular progression too, so you're not really missing out on anything else.