What 6,415 paid Destiny 2 carries say about 2026

LFCarry is a game-services marketplace. This study reads every card-paid order on that marketplace for the year ending 29 August 2026: 9,176 orders, $572,772 in buyer-paid US dollars. Destiny 2 is 6,415 of those orders and $337,252: 70% of volume, 59% of dollars. The other large book is World of Warcraft ($81,611 across 663 orders, $123 average ticket). Apex, Tarkov, Division 2 and the rest are a long tail.

Money here is a confirmed card charge. Carts and store-credit companion rows stay out of the count. No buyer identities, emails, or order codes appear on this page.

On 4,575 Destiny 2 jobs with a Pro completion timestamp after payment (71% of the paid D2 book):

The mean is 105 hours. Quote the median. A thin tail of jobs that sit for weeks pulls the mean around.

Activity	Median hours	Share done in 24h	Sample
Equilibrium dungeon (standard)	10.9	74%	246
Dungeons (class)	14.3	66%	533
Pantheon 2.0	19.8	58%	274
Trials Flawless	20.4	56%	321
Contest-mode dungeon	20.0	55%	91
Desert Perpetual raid	26.6	46%	328
Raids (class)	30.0	42%	886
Light / power leveling	166	10%	51

A dungeon is an evening. A raid is a day. A 450 to 550 light climb is a week. Contest still lands on a 20-hour median. The contest premium shows up on the ticket.

Destiny 2 paid orders by month:

Month	Orders	Paid USD
2025-02 (Episode: Heresy launch)	3,646	$196,601
2025-07 (The Edge of Fate)	2,327	$152,567
2025-09	494	$28,666
2026-03	179	$8,514
2026-04	159	$8,718
2026-05	196	$11,977
2026-06 (Pantheon 2.0)	1,295	$74,382
2026-07	956	$50,129
2026-08	392	$20,144

Share of the February 2025 peak (3,646 orders). Bar width only. The table numbers are the figures to cite.

June 2026 is 6.6× May (1,295 vs 196). Pantheon 2.0 itself goes from 3 orders in May to 412 in June.

The same shape showed up a year earlier. Episode: Heresy (February 2025) is the busiest month in the 24-month series: 3,646 paid D2 orders. The Edge of Fate month (July 2025) is the next peak. Then volume sits in the low hundreds until the next named event.

Year-over-year: 6,415 vs 27,706 orders (30 Aug 2024 to 29 Aug 2025), $337k vs $1.40M, a 77% drop in orders. The prior year contains Final Shape's tail, Heresy, and Edge of Fate. This year is 1 event spike on a quiet base. The calendar moves the volume.

Raid-carry orders, 12 months, classified from the primary line on the receipt:

Raid	Orders	Paid USD	Avg ticket
Desert Perpetual	580	$25,415	$44
Salvation's Edge	128	$7,038	$55
Crota's End	86	$4,263	$50
Vault of Glass	74	$3,837	$52
Last Wish	56	$2,005	$36
Vow of the Disciple	52	$1,634	$31
King's Fall	50	$1,469	$29
Root of Nightmares	45	$1,991	$44
Garden of Salvation	43	$1,103	$26
Deep Stone Crypt	29	$800	$28
All Raids bundle	16	$1,904	$119
Other raid titles	37	$3,490	$94

Desert Perpetual is 580 of 1,196 raid orders (48.5%). It outsells the next 4 raids combined (Salvation's Edge + Crota + Vault of Glass + Last Wish = 344). Players pay for the raid in the weekly conversation.

Top primary SKUs (highest-priced real line on the order, discounts skipped):

Primary SKU	Orders	Paid USD	Avg ticket
Trials of Osiris Flawless Carry	490	$14,237	$29
Desert Perpetual Raid Completion	446	$16,793	$38
Equilibrium Dungeon Boost	370	$18,996	$51
Pantheon 2.0	321	$21,771	$68
Trials Loot Shower Bundle	302	$10,858	$36
Praxic Blade Boost	225	$12,983	$58

Trials (Flawless + Loot Shower) is 843 orders. That is the largest named activity after the seasonal grab-bag, at a $32 average ticket. Pantheon 2.0 is the opposite: fewer receipts than Trials Flawless, more dollars than any other SKU ($21,771).

Activity mix across 6,312 D2 orders with a classifiable primary line:

Class	Orders	Paid USD	Avg ticket
Seasonal quests / titles / farms	1,388	$87,099	$63
Raids	1,176	$51,397	$44
Exotic / weapon farms	1,095	$59,632	$54
Trials of Osiris	843	$27,117	$32
Dungeons	771	$36,280	$47
Pantheon	514	$35,256	$69
Campaign / story	200	$6,182	$31
Contest (opening 48h)	141	$14,048	$100
Light / power leveling	85	$9,483	$112
Competitive ranks	27	$1,967	$73

Weapon farms (Praxic Blade, Finality's Auger, Icebreaker, Necrochasm, 1K Voices) are a $60k book on their own.

Same primary SKU, contest vs the live standard version:

SKU	Orders	Avg ticket
Equilibrium Dungeon Boost	370	$51
Contest Mode Equilibrium	118	$88 (1.71×)
Desert Perpetual Raid Completion	446	$38
Contest Epic Desert Perpetual (opening 48h)	15	$194 (5.14×)

The contest dungeon still finishes on a 20-hour median. The raid contest sample is small (n=15). The $194 figure is a ticket average on a $30 to $480 range. The live Desert Perpetual list on 20 September 2026 starts at $40.

Power leveling is the other expensive quiet SKU: $112 average on 85 orders, median 166 hours. T-tier cost logic on that climb is T4 at $2 to $3 per hour, which lines up with a 50 to 80 hour week more than a 166-hour tail.

These are the live package prices on 20 September 2026, read from the same mega configs checkout uses. A year-window ticket average can sit next to a list price. The card you click today prints the list.

Page	Package	Live USD	Year ticket (study)
Desert Perpetual	Guaranteed Whirling Ovation	$40	$38 completion / $44 raid class
Desert Perpetual	Whirling Ovation Catalyst	$40
Desert Perpetual	Mediant Flourish Shader	$50
Desert Perpetual	Atemporal Title	$100
Desert Perpetual	Ultimate Collection	$150
Equilibrium	Stand Alone Emblem	$35	$51 dungeon ticket
Equilibrium	Guaranteed Heirloom	$50
Equilibrium	Praxic Title	$72
Equilibrium	Ultimate Collection	$135
Pantheon 2.0	Featured Boss / Weapon Farm	$20	$68 Pantheon ticket
Pantheon 2.0	All 3 Pantheons	$65
Pantheon 2.0	Insurrection Prime (All Feats)	$80
Pantheon 2.0	Godsbane Title and Seal	$130
Pantheon 2.0	Godsbane: All Triumphs	$187
Pantheon 2.0	Godsbane Grandmaster	$424
Trials	Flawless 7-0 Passage	$20	$29 Flawless ticket
Trials	Focus Pool Farm (3 Cards)	$39
Trials	Flawless Seal (Title)	$59
Trials	Ultimate Trials Bundle	$99

T-tier hours: T1 contest / flawless $15 per hour, T2 piloted endgame $10, T3 grind $8, T4 leveling $2 to $3. A $20 Trials Flawless on a 20.4-hour median is a product price, and the hour rate sits under T4 because the clock includes queue. A $424 Godsbane Grandmaster is a T1-shaped seal, priced as a package.

Pages: Desert Perpetual, Equilibrium, Pantheon 2.0, Trials.

This is 1 marketplace. Steam and other boosting sites sit outside the window. Direction is real. Industry share is unmeasured.

Game tags lag new titles. 1,390 orders ($109,567) sit on a generic Other id (GTA, ARC Raiders, Marvel Rivals, CoD, custom carts) and stay out of the Destiny 2 counts. 103 D2 paid orders had no classifiable catalog line. They stay in the 6,415 and drop out of the mix table.

Completion hours exist for 71% of D2 paid orders. The rest never got a Pro completion stamp we can trust. Those rows stay out of the hour table.

service.status is unused. On this database it says Not started on most finished work. order.price_total reads about 10× the card charge on the same rows. That column is an internal token. Dollars come from billing.

Window: billing.created_at >= '2025-08-30' AND created_at < '2026-08-30' (DATETIME). A UNIX_TIMESTAMP filter against that DATETIME column would have returned lifetime rows (523,913 vs 9,779 on a 365-day window).

Paid: type=1 AND status='confirmed' AND amount>0. 1 billing per order in this window.

Destiny 2: at least 1 service.game_id = 1 on that order.

Activity: primary line = highest-priced order_item that is a discount skip. Hours = minutes from payment to the 1st non-deleted Pro done_date, then the median.

Related: Destiny 2 hub · raid guide · Pantheon 2.0.