The Ordeal: Grandmaster

Overview

The Ordeal: Grandmaster is the highest difficulty of Nightfall: The Ordeal, introduced in Season of the Chosen. Players need 1325 Power minimum in that era (the strike is set to 1350) and Contest mode caps higher Power. The Power listed in game data (1100) is an older, sunset-era figure.

Mechanics

Grandmaster adds heavy modifiers (such as Scorched Earth, Chaff, Match Game, Extinguish and limited revives restored by killing Champions) and both Unstoppable and Barrier Champions in strikes like Proving Grounds. See Grandmaster Nightfall.

Rewards

First time Adept weapons dropped in PvE: Shadow Price, Palindrome and The SWARM only at Grandmaster. It counts toward the Conqueror title (150,000 Ordeal score, 100 Champions, all four subclasses, six different Grandmaster strikes) and Grandmaster triumphs.

Strikes

Listed variants include Exodus Crash, Tree of Probabilities, Savathûn's Song, The Insight Terminus, The Corrupted, The Festering Core, Warden of Nothing, The Arms Dealer, Broodhold and Lake of Shadows. The Season of the Chosen rotation was The Devil's Lair, The Arms Dealer, Proving Grounds, Warden of Nothing, Fallen S.A.B.E.R. and The Insight Terminus. Later seasons changed power and rewards.