Destiny 2’sAscendant Challengesare among several moving parts involving the Dreaming City’s intricate Curse, which envelops the area in a three-week time loop.
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The curse ranges from weak to strong to strongest, and each cycle brings you a ton of treasure to hunt for—if you’re brave enough to dive into the Ascendant Plane in search of riches.Destiny 2hassix Ascendant Challenges thatrotate every week. They’re a surefire source of Dreaming City gear, including reissued versions of Waking Vigil, Tigerspite, and Twilight Oath.
Finishing an Ascendant Challenge grants a piece of Legendary gear, but you can get your hands on an extra drop if you have Petra Venj’s weekly bounty. These weekly objectives are also a prime target for stacking bounties, since you can have up to six weeklies total—one for each Ascendant Challenge.
Ascendant Challenges yield one piece of gear each week, plus another from Petra’s bounties. Those objectives are character-based, meaning you can get six pieces of Dreaming City gear from Ascendant Challenges alone.
Tofind the entrance to the Ascendant Challenge, you must consume an item called Tincture of Queensfoil, available from Petra Venj for five Legendary Shards or found in chests throughout the Dreaming City.
Each Ascendant Challenge has a special entrance, and though the challenge changes every week, its entrance remains in the same spot whenever it pops up.
What is this week’s Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2? (May 28 to June 3)
- Challenge: Cimmerian Garrison
- Entrance: Chamber of Starlight (Rheasilvia Lost Sector)
How to find and complete the Cimmerian Garrison Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2
The Cimmerian Garrison Ascendant Challenge is essentially an obstacle course, where your goal is to avoid the Hive Knights and the enemies that spawn in, get to the end (and past a jumping puzzle), and kill a Taken enemy to wrap it up. The entrance is in the Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector in Rheasilvia.
Bring a mobility Exotic and a lightweight weapon of your choice, with an Eager Edge sword for an extra boost. Most enemies won’t pose much of a threat, though the two Shriekers can be annoying. The path is mostly straightforward, so keep following it. You know you’re close when you get to a winding staircase with Acolyte’s Eyes.
Climb to the top of the stairs and behold the floating island across from you, with just a small jumping puzzle separating you two. A few Acolyte’s Eyes will also spawn in this section, so take them down if they’re giving you trouble and get to the other side. Once you’re there, use a Super on the Phalanx boss that appears and burn your heavy on it if it’s still alive to complete the Ascendant Challenge.
How to get Dreaming City gear in Destiny 2
Dreaming City gear got another revamp withSeason of the Wish, making those weapons even more relevant. While they still performed decently, perks like Voltshot on Waking Vigil can give them even more of a fighting chance. Blind Well continues to be a good source of the new gear (though its new power delta makes it more of a slog than before), and some Season of the Wish activities can also drop the reissued weapons.
Petra offers a weekly bounty for completing the Ascendant Challenge if you want to earn Dreaming City gear from exploration, awarding you an extra piece of gear for your trouble. Each week, she also offers a bounty that costs Dark Fragments and yields an Offering to the Oracle. Taking the reward to the Oracle in the Spine of Keres gives you an extra drop and, on weeks where the Curse is strongest, lets you visit Queen Mara Sov’s throne room. You can also find an Ahamkara Bone there if you’re hunting for Cursebreaker.
In addition, check out Petra’s bounties every day for a daily objective that awards gear, as seen in its tooltip. Finishing eight daily bounties and doing Petra’s weekly quest will yield Dreaming City gear if you purchase the objectives.
Like Ascendant Challenges, these are on a weekly lockout per character; you can accomplish them more than once a week as long as you’re not on the same Guardian.
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