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, consume an item called Tincture of Queensfoil, available from Petra Venj for five Legendary Shards or found in Dreaming City chests.
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? (July 23 to 30)
- Challenge: Forfeit Shrine
- Entrance: Gardens of Esila
How to find and complete the Forfeit Shrine Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2
The Forfeit Shrine Ascendant Challenge starts in the Gardens of Esila and takes you all the way to the Ascendant Plane once again, completing another weekly cycle in Destiny 2‘s Dreaming City.
To find this Ascendant Challenge, head to the Strand area, which is easy to access from the Divalian Mists or even Rheasilvia. Look for the Gardens of Esila entrance, which is to your right if you’re coming from the Divalian Mists. The portal will be on the rocks to your left, past the circular archway. We recommend bringing an Eager Edge sword for faster movement.
On the other side, this Ascendant Challenge tasks you with collecting and dunking three Arc Charges in the pool of Blight in the middle. They’re marked on your HUD, so it’s not too hard to know where you’re going (assuming you can see anything in the darkness of the Ascendant Plane). The platform on the center has some Taken Phalanxes, though they’re more annoying than deadly.
Dunk all three Arc Charges to make the pool of Blight glow, granting you Super energy whenever you step on it. This is handy, since the next part throws three Abyssal Knights at you. Use your nearly unlimited Super energy to make short work of the Knights and the Thrall that appear in the middle, which lets you wrap up this Ascendant Challenge and grab some loot and a bounty.
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).
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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