With Deluxe Edition, how do you get armor and weapons from seasons 16 and 17?

[Scarletfox]

Hello, im a new player to destiny 2 and I got the witch queen DE. I know that the Deluxe Edition gives you access to season 16-19, but since i missed season 16 and 17, I'm trying to figure out how I can get the weapons and armor you can still obtain from these 2 seasons that already ended. Do I have to complete the Witch Queen campaign first? Is there some sort of handy dandy list of armor and weapons you can still obtain for these 2 seasons somewhere that I could use? sorry for the noob question, but i'm kinda lost here. Thanks

[Ixamesh]

Not sure about now, but on release you could start Season of the Risen by doing first few missions of WQ campaign until you get the Rising Tensions quest, then following it. Season of the Haunted should be available by launching Operation: Midas node on the Moon map. The node should be near Derelic Leviathan on the left side of the map. You can also check the Quest Archive in HELM or Tower in case you've accidently abandoned them.

All seasonal armor and weapons will be available to farm once you get access to the corresponding seasonal activities. You can check available gear here, just filter by season https://www.light.gg/

[Nakos]

Basically, you'll need to do the S16 and S17 activities.

The S16 activities are the Lucent Hive Battle Grounds (and the story that derives from that).

The S17 activities start when you explore Calus' ship (orbiting the Moon). The public one is Containment, which has two modes one being open exploration (and sometimes Containment gets done) the other being specifically for players to do Containment. Containment is a 3 phase set of fights with a boss at the end of each.

Once you've done enough Containments, you'll need to go do Sever (which has 6 or 7 variations that you scale through).

Much to my personal surprise, the Crown of Sorrow Vendor is still viable, so check that as you level and do bounties for it.

If you have seasonal currency for either of those two seasons (which you get by playing the activities), you can use either the War Table, or the Crown of Sorrow to focus any Umbral Engrams to get specific gear, note that this costs shards, and Rahool will just pop them open for free. You won't get seasonal gear though.