At the same time, some content from the Forsaken (2018) expansion was removed from the game and placed in the Destiny Content Vault this included the full Forsaken campaign, the Tangled Shore destination and its activities, but not the Dreaming City, the Last Wish raid, the Shattered Throne dungeon, or the strikes. New and existing story content was expanded with a new "Legendary" difficulty, designed to be challenging for single players but with improved rewards for completing. Two additional dungeons will also be added over the course of the expansion. In addition to world activities, a new raid, "Vow of the Disciple", was released on March 5, 2022. The Witch Queen introduces a new location, Savathûn's Throne World, above Mars within the Ascendant Realm. The second and current season, Season of the Haunted, then began and will run until August 23. The first, Season of the Risen, released simultaneously with the expansion and ran until May 24. There are also four planned seasons of content to be released throughout Year 5. The expansion adds new content across the game, including new missions, Player versus Environment locations, Player versus Player maps, player gear, weaponry, and a new raid. The expansion revolves around Savathûn, The Witch Queen, the sister of Oryx, who was the antagonist of the original Destiny 's (2014) first major expansion, The Taken King (2015). Prior to release, Bungie reported that The Witch Queen had over 1 million pre-orders, "on track to becoming the most pre-ordered expansion in Destiny 2 history".
Representing the sixth expansion and the fifth year of extended content for Destiny 2, it was originally planned for release in late 2021, but due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the expansion was delayed by three months and was released on February 22, 2022. Action role-playing, first-person shooterĭestiny 2: The Witch Queen is a major expansion for Destiny 2, a first-person shooter video game by Bungie.