Destiny 2 The Insight Terminus Grandmaster Nightfall Guide

Grandmaster Nightfalls are perhaps the most challenging endgame activity in Destiny 2. With an insane Power Level requirement and unforgiving modifiers, Grandmaster Nightfalls will challenge all but the top fireteams out there.

This guide will provide you with everything you need to tackle and conquer The Insight Terminus GM, including loadouts, preferred subclasses, tactics, and more.

Loadout and Subclasses

Updated as of Season of the Seraph (S19).

The following guide was heavily inspired by Above‘s and Mac‘s excellent videos covering this Grandmaster.

Subclasses & Exotics

For class loadouts, Hunters want to rock an “Invis” Nightstalker build with Aeon Swift. Warlocks want to spec into Well of Radiance with Phoenix Protocol. And Titans want to run Arc Striker with Heart of Inmost Light.

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Phoenix Protocol	Warlock	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Kills and assists you make while standing in your Well of Radiance return Super energy.
Aeon Swift	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods.
Heart of Inmost Light	Titan	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Using an ability (grenade, melee, or Barricade) empowers the other two abilities. Empowered means abilities have faster regen, melees and grenades do more damage, and Barricades have more hit points.

Loadout

With Barrier and Unstoppable champions, Void shields, and a Void elemental singe, loadouts for this strike are simple, with one player wanting Arbalest, a void energy hand cannon with an Unstoppable mod such as The Palindrome, and either Taipan-4fr or Retrofit Escapade.

Art	Name	Type	Archetype	Rarity	Ammo?	Element?	Requirements	In loot pool?	Ammo	Element	Tier	Excels	Source	Craftable?	Requires	Released	Slot	Can be Crafted?	Best of?	Top Perk?
	Arbalest	Linear Fusion Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Kinetic	Lightfall	Yes	Special	Kinetic	B › Average	-	Exotic Quest	No	Lightfall	Season 6	Kinetic	No
	Retrofit Escapade	Machine Gun	Rapid-Fire	Legendary	Heavy	Void	The Witch Queen	Yes	Heavy	Void	A › Strong	PvE	Operation: Seraph's Shield	Yes	Witch Queen	Season 19	Heavy	Craftable	Top-tier
	The Palindrome	Hand Cannon	Adaptive	Legendary	Primary	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Arc	A › Strong	PvP	Nightfall: The Ordeals	No	Free-to-Play	Episode 3	Energy	No	Top-tier
	Truthteller	Grenade Launcher	Lightweight	Legendary	Special	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Void	A › Strong	PvE	World loot pool	No	Free-to-Play	Season 11	Energy	No	Top-tier

The other two players can run Leviathan’s Breath, which does wonders in this Nightfall, a Void grenade launcher with Blinding grenades, and a Pulse rifle with an Anti-barrier mod.

Art	Name	Type	Archetype	Rarity	Ammo?	Element?	Requirements	In loot pool?	Ammo	Element	Tier	Excels	Source	Craftable?	Requires	Released	Slot	Can be Crafted?	Best of?	Top Perk?
	Leviathan's Breath	Combat Bow	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Void	Shadowkeep Pack	Yes	Heavy	Void	A › Strong	PvE	Exotic Kiosk	No	Shadowkeep Pack	Season 8	Heavy	No	Top-tier
	Disparity	Pulse Rifle	Aggressive Burst	Legendary	Primary	Stasis	The Witch Queen	Yes	Primary	Stasis	A › Strong	PvE	Operation: Seraph's Shield	Yes	Witch Queen	Season 19	Kinetic	Craftable	Top-tier
	Truthteller	Grenade Launcher	Lightweight	Legendary	Special	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Void	A › Strong	PvE	World loot pool	No	Free-to-Play	Season 11	Energy	No	Top-tier

As always, these are simply recommendations. if you have something in mind that you feel would work better, feel free to throw it on. With all that being said, let’s get into the strategy.

The Insight Terminus Grandmaster Nightfall

GM Power Level

If you’re interested in running this GM, you need to have a proper Power Level:

More Grandmaster guides for Season 19:

• Scarlet Keep GM
• Birthplace of the Vile GM
• The Corrupted GM
• The Glassway GM
• Warden of Nothing GM

The Insight Terminus GM guide

As the Insight Terminus is a fairly straightforward Nightfall, this guide focuses on the most tricky sections:

First Plate

For the first plate in the strike, you’ll just want to use as many supers as necessary to spawn-kill everything as it walks out the door. Capturing this before the unstoppable begin to walk out makes life a lot easier.

Main room

Here, you’ll be spending the bulk of your time playing in the back right corner of the map. This is still the safest location, just make sure to back up whenever the legionaries throw their wrist grenades.

Boss room

The three-plate capture can get really hairy, considering that ads spawn infinitely in this section. Therefore, we highly recommend damaging the boss down to the O in technocrat, killing every single ad, and then sending each player to a different plate.

Once set up, you can do a little more damage to the boss to phase him out and activate the plates. You’ll have about 15 seconds to capture the plates before a single ad hit even spawns, at which point you can just use supers to keep them at Bay while you finish the rest of the captures.