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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Barrel: Polygonal Rifling or Smallbore
Magazine: High-Caliber Rounds
First Perk: Heal Clip or Attrition Orbs
Second Perk: Chaos Reshaped, Incandescent, or Burning Ambition
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.
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
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
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:
- Solstice weapons (100 tokens each)
- Ascendant Shards (300 tokens)
- Exotic Ciphers (300 tokens)
- High-tier armor engrams
- 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.
Flamekeeper Title 2025
Base Title (8 Triumphs)
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
Upgrade a full armor set to Sublime versions. Requires additional Incandescent Ingots beyond the base crafting cost.
Hit Event Rank 30. Focus on daily and weekly challenges for maximum XP gain throughout the event.
Do hard content in full Sublime armor. Dungeons, raids, Master Portal, or Trials wins. Three Master Portal runs is easiest.
Get A-grade in Portal activities with modifiers (3 times). Use score-boosting modifiers and aim for flawless runs.
What to Focus On
- Do Eva's quest right away
- Start crafting armor
- Farm weapon god rolls while modifiers rotate
- Work on triumphs that need specific modifiers
- 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