Destiny 2 Scarlet Keep 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 give you everything you need to tackle and conquer the Scarlet Keep GM, including loadouts, preferred subclasses, tactics, and more.

Art	Nightfall	Burn	Shields	Champions	Requires
	Scarlet Keep	Arc	12x Arc 18x Solar	16x Barrier 4x Unstoppable	Shadowkeep

Loadout and Subclasses

Updated as of Season of the Seraph (S19).

The following guide was heavily inspired by Mac‘s excellent video covering all Grandmasters this season.

Subclasses & Exotics

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

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Omnioculus	Hunter	Chest	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 13	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "You gain a second Smoke Bomb charge and have damage resistance while invisible. When you make an ally invisible, they gain damage resistance while invisible and you gain melee energy."
Heart of Inmost Light	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams		Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "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."
Starfire Protocol	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams		Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Fusion Grenades have an additional charge and recharge from empowered weapon damage. Fusion Grenade kills grant Rift energy."

Loadout

With Barrier and Unstoppable champions, Arc and Solar shields, and an Arc elemental singe, loadouts for this strike are simple, with all players wanting Arbalest, an Arc hand cannon with an Unstoppable mod, such as the Waking Vigil, and either an Arc linear fusion rifle, such as the Stormchaser.

Art	Weapon	Type	Archetype	Rarity	Ammo	Element	Requirements	In loot pool?	Ammo?	Element?	Tier	Excels	Source	Craftable?	Requires	Released	Slot	Can be Crafted?
	Stormchaser	Linear Fusion Rifle	Aggressive	Legendary	Heavy	Arc	Deluxe Edition	Yes	Heavy	Arc	Best ❘ S	PvE	Duality Dungeon		Deluxe Edition	Season 17	Heavy	No
	Arbalest	Linear Fusion Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Kinetic	Best ❘ S	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 6	Kinetic	No
	Waking Vigil	Hand Cannon	Adaptive	Legendary	Primary	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Arc	Average ❘ B	PvE + PvP	Dreaming City		Free-to-Play	Season 13	Energy	No

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 Scarlet Keep 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:

• The Insight Terminus GM
• Birthplace of the Vile (coming soon)
• The Corrupted (coming soon)
• The Glassway (coming soon)
• Warden of Nothing GM

Scarlet Keep GM: A Step-by-step guide

According to Mac’s guide, the Boss room is the only part of this strike. His number one recommendation is not to phase the boss until all three Supers are available. You can simply hide until your Supers are up, use them and then take care of the ads.

For the second phase, two Unstoppable Ogres will appear. Deal with them using your Hand cannons and proceed with finishing up the final third phase of the boss.