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Destiny 2’sSeason of the Witch releases a new set of Seasonal Challenges every week for the first ten weeks, each containing a small bundle of time-exclusive Triumphs that award XP and Bright Dust when completed. They serve as your main source of completing Season Pass ranks and leveling your Artifact.
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This week’s challenges range from trivial to extremely difficult. You’ll need to defeat enemies with certain elements, complete bounties, and clear a Grandmaster Nightfall. This guide will showcase all seven challenges added this week, their rewards, and give some tips on how to complete them as quickly as possible.
Acolyte’s Ascent IV:Complete Week 4 of “The Bladed Path” quest.
Reward
As with previous weeks, this Seasonal Challenge simply requires you tocomplete the fourth set of objectives in Season of the Witch’s main questline.This week involves choosing a second elemental alignment and solving a short puzzle in one of three Lost Sectors:
Each Lost Sector has five Hive runes that must be shot at with a matching elemental weapon.For example, Arc users in the Extraction Lost Sector will need to use an Arc weapon to activate the runes. Should any of the runes break or despawn, you’ll need to reset the Lost Sector by leaving and reentering.
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Forgotten Power
Forgotten Power:Complete a Powerful encounter in the Altars of Summoning and defeat combatants using the damage type that matches your subclass.
Powerful encounters areT3 encounters inthe Altars of Summoning, created by sacrificing a Powerful Offering.These are incredibly difficult and should not be taken lightly. Be sure you have a Deck of Whispers curated before you attempt this.Only one encounter must be cleared to finish the first objective.
The second objective is much easier, requiring you todefeat 100 combatants with a damage type that matches your subclass.For example, if you’re playing Solar, you’ll need to defeat targets with Solar damage. The damage can come from your abilities or weapons.
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Luminary II
Luminary II:Master the Light by defeating combatants with Void, Arc, or Solar damage. Earn bonus points by affecting combatants with keywords.
Defeat 300 combatants with Arc, Solar, or Void damageto finish this challenge. If the target is affected by a subclass debuff, they’ll award additional progress. Some keywords include:
As for landing this many kills, we recommend farmingAltars of Summoningsince it’s required for a few other Seasonal Challenges, both this week and in previous weeks.
Bounty Conjurer:Complete daily bounties during Season of the Witch.
Bounty Conjurer’s objective is tocomplete three bounties from the Ritual Table in the H.E.L.M.This is the vendor tied to Season of the Witch activities, allowing you to focus your Witch Engrams into specific weapons and armor. Bounties are unlocked by unveiling Opaque Cards. The first two rows of Opaque Cards tend to unlock bounty slots when completed.
Last Rites
Last Rites:Get ability final blows in Season of the Witch activities.
Rewards
Last Rites requires you toland 150 ability final blows in Savathun’s Spire or Altars of Summoning.Either activity works here. We find Savathun’s Spire to be slightly better due to consistent enemy density values for every encounter, and the difficulty is fairly easy. As for ability kills, we recommend the following:
Grandmaster:Complete any Nightfall strike on Grandmaster.
Grandmaster Nightfalls are available to everyone this week,requiring at least 1,800 Power to enter. The Power limit is 1,815, equating to a -25 Power delta. This is rather high and causes enemies to deal substantially more damage than usual, so you’ll want to spec for 100 Resilience and equip multiple DR mods before entering. GMs also have no matchmaking; recruiting a fireteam before starting is highly recommended. The clear doesn’t have to be Platinum to receive credit, so focus on staying alive and clearing the GM above all else.
Calibrate Close Range
Calibrate Close Range:Calibrate close-range weapons—Sidearms, Submachine Guns, Shotguns, Glaives, and Swords. Bonus progress for defeating Guardians.
Eliminate 200 enemies with CQC weaponsto finish this challenge. We recommend using SMGs or Glaives. The kills can be achieved in any playlist, not just Season of the Witch activities. With that said, we recommend farming this inSavathun’s Spiresince that activity has high enemy density and is fairly easy.
