Destiny 2is celebrating the fall season with Festival of the Lost, a Halloween-themed event where Guardians get to dress up as some of the franchise’s most iconic NPCs. Explore macabre variants of Lost Sectors to uncover new weapons, a unique Engram type, and complete Triumphs that unlock the unique Ghost Writer title.
This year’s Festival of the Lost event has seen some minor changes compared to previous years, notably the addition of Eerie Engrams that allow for specific reward focusing. This guide will cover how Festival of the Lost works this year, explain how to complete Eva’s introductory quest, and cover every Event Challenge and unique weapon tied to this year’s Festival of the Lost.
What Is Festival Of The Lost?
Festival of the Lost is Destiny 2’s annual Halloween event that runs from October 17 to November 07.Besides adding festive decorations to the Tower, Festival of the Lost (FOTL for short) adds a unique playlist called Haunted Sectors to the game. These play quite differently from your typical Lost Sector, requiring you to initiate summoning rituals to spawn Hive Knights with pumpkin heads. Slay as many as possible to acquireCandyandEerie Engrams, this season’s unique currency types. you’re able to then use Candy to acquire event-exclusive weapons orfocus your Eerie Engramsinto specific rewards.
In essence,FOTL is a great event for New Lights and returning Guardians that want to expand their Exotic collection.The Eerie Engrams you obtain from Haunted Sectors may be focused into Exotic armor, potentially dropping an armor piece you don’t own in your collection. This makes Haunted Sectors a fantastic alternative to Legend Lost Sector farming. There’s also an exclusive weapon memento up for grabs this year that provides anall black shaderto any crafted weapon it’s installed onto.
Classic Carving Quest Guide
When you first log in during Festival of the Lost, Eva Levante will give your character the “Classic Carving” quest when you first talk to her. You’ll find Eva in the Tower, located in between Rahool and the Postmaster. The quest is fairly short and acts as a tutorial for the event. Eva will ask you to:
After grabbing the quest, Eva Levante will give you a Festival of the Lost mask.You must equip the mask to earn Candy from slain foes.The mask counts as a helmet and is equipped like any other armor piece; it is not an ornament. Once you have a mask equipped, you can boot up the Haunted Sector playlist in the Tower to start earning rewards.
Haunted Lost Sectors
Matchmaking
Both the Normal and Legend variants of Haunted Sectors feature matchmaking.
Haunted Sectors is a dedicated Lost Sector playlist that’s located in the Tower. This playlist will launch you and two other Guardians into one of four Lost Sectors.Your fireteam’s goal is to complete as many summoning rituals as possible.Unlike a traditional Lost Sector, Haunted Sectors spawn summoning circles that spawn Headless Ones when charged. These are Ascendant Knights with pumpkins for heads. They’re fairly tanky, especially on Legend difficulty, so don’t be afraid to use your Heavy or Super. Each slain Headless One will spawn Candy and reveal another circle. Kill as many as possible within four minutes.
Once you’ve dealt with the Headless Ones, a boss will spawn at the center of the Lost Sector.This boss' HP is partitioned into three chunks, one for each phase of the fight. Removing 33% of the boss' HP will cause it to become immune. Summoning circles will begin to appear when the boss is immune, summoning Headless Ones when activated.Defeat the Headless Ones to spawn pumpkin bombs, then use those bombs to strip the boss' immunity shield.Repeat this process until you’ve slain the boss. A chest will spawn shortly thereafter with your rewards, concluding the Haunted Sector run.
Spectral And Manifested Pages
As you complete activities during Festival of the Lost, you’ll acquireSpectral Pages.These pages are unusable on their own, but they can beconverted intoManifested Pages by defeating Headless Ones in Haunted Sectors.The more Headless Ones you slay, the more Spectral Pages you’ll convert to Manifested Pages.
These Manifested Pages can then be used to unveil lore pages in theBook of the Forgotten,an object located beside Eva Levante in the Tower. Each year of Festival of the Lost has a volume of lore pages to uncover—this year is tagged as Vol. 3. If you want to earn this year’s Ghost Writer title, you’ll need to uncover all the lore entries from the latest volume.Those not interested in titles can more or less skip this entire system, however, as it doesn’t provide weapons, Exotic armor, or Candy. There are 33 lore pages added this year. Each lore entry costs anywhere from 2-7 Manifested Pages to decipher.
Candy And Eerie Engram Focusing
During Festival of the Lost,defeating combatants while wearing a Festival of the Lost helmet will drop Candy.This is an event currency used to obtain FOTL weapons and focus Eerie Engrams.Eerie Engramsoccasionally drop from Haunted Sectors with a higher drop rate in the Legend playlist. These Engrams always decipher into Festival of the Lost weapons or Exotic armor. Through the use of Candy, you can focus these Eerie Engrams to drop specific weapons or a category of Exotic armor—helmet, gloves, chest, or boots. You may also obtain FOTL weapons by purchasingMystery Bagsfor Candy. This is a solid option if you don’t own any Eerie Engrams but have a surplus of Candy.
If you wish to acquire Exotic armor or a specific FOTL weapon, speak with Eva Levante in the Tower to access theHocus Focusingmenu. This menu allows you to spend Candy on your Eerie Engrams to receive specific Festival of the Lost weapons or Exotic armor pieces. Exact focusing options are listed below.
FOTL 2023 Event Challenges
Event Challenges are time-sensitive Triumphs that award event currencies and title progress. They’re identical to Seasonal Challenges but with event-oriented objectives. Festival of the Lost has 17 Event Challenges this year, all of which must be completed toearn the Ghost Writer title.You can view your Event Challenges from the “Quests” tab or by speaking to Eva Levante in the Tower.These challenges remain active until Festival of the Lost ends.
Rewards
Cryptozoologist
Use a Manifested Page to restore a chapter in the “Tales of the Forgotten - Vol. 3.”
Bookworm I
Use 11 Manifested Pages to unlock chapters in the “Tales of the Forgotten - Vol. 3.”
Bookworm II
Use 22 Manifested Pages to unlock chapters in the “Tales of the Forgotten - Vol. 3.”
Bookworm III
Use 33 Manifested Pages to unlock chapters in the “Tales of the Forgotten - Vol. 3.”
Complete ritual activities, including strikes, Crucible matches, and Gambit matches.
Complete Crucible or Gambit matches while wearing a Festival mask.
FOTL 2023 Rewards And Weapon God Rolls
Festival of the Lost gives you a chance of earning four unique weapons, the Ghost Writer title, and a great means of farming Exotic armor.Haunted Sectors and Eerie Engram focusing allows you to earn the Horror Story Auto Rifle, Jurassic Green Pulse Rifle, Mechabre Sniper Rifle, and Acosmic Grenade Launcher. Additionally, the Eververse store is also stocked with Halloween-themed ornaments and armor sets. Each armor set may be purchased for 6,000 Bright Dust or 1,500 Silver.
Twilight Triumph And Lost Memento
The unique weapon memento for this year’s Festival of the Lost will only drop after completing the “Twilight” Triumph. It requires the following:
Once completed, claim the Triumph to earn the new memento. Additional mementos have a chance of dropping from Eerie Engrams for the duration of this year’s FOTL.
A second set of cosmetics is also obtainable through the Event Pass, a sort of secondary Battle Pass that runs parallel to this year’s FOTL event. Season Pass owners donothave Event Pass ownership. The Event Pass isnotrequired to complete Event Challenges or unlock the Ghost Writer title.
Acosmic God Roll
Acosmic is a 150 RPM Void Grenade Launcher with theSearch Partyorigin trait, buffing your ADS strafe speed and ADS speeds while no allies are nearby. This isn’t a particularly useful origin trait, an unfortunate theme with this weapon. The Rapid-Fire Frame on Acosmic also means that it deals less DPS in PvE and features a lower Blast Radius value than Adaptive GLs, making Acosmic much less desirable for both PvE and PvP. It’s also a Heavy GL, arguably the weakest weapon family for PvE DPS.
Unfortunately, perks don’t save this weapon either.Clown Cartridgewith eitherCascade PointorExplosive Lightis a solid combination for melting stunned Champions or minibosses, but this same gimmick is already fulfilled by Regnant, a craftable Void GL from Season of Defiance. Crucible players should skip this weapon outright since its Blast Radius stat is well below Adaptive GLs, but newer players might get some use out ofImpulse AmplifierandExplosive Lightfor 6v6 playlists. It’s not the worst GL in the game, but it’s far below the likes of Regnant, Wendigo GL3, and therecently-released Cataphract GL3.Only New Lights will get use out of Acosmic.Everyone else can safely skip farming this weapon.
Blast Radius
Horror Story God Roll
Horror Story returns in this year’s Festival of the Lost, complete with a perk refresh. This weapon is a 450 RPM Auto Rifle that deals Stasis damage, rolling with theNadir Focusorigin trait in addition to Search Party. This makes Horror Story a fairly accurate AR without any perks, perfect for Crucible games.
As for perks, this weapon’s ideal roll is more nuanced than most Primary weapons. For PvE,Demolitionistwith eitherFrenzyorAdrenaline Junkiewill put in some solid work. Throw a grenade, max out Adrenaline Junkie’s damage bonus, and land a few kills to refresh your grenade. Frenzy will prove to be more consistent in endgame content.
Crucible players have some solid options but nothing meta-defining.Dynamic Sway Reductionis the clear standout in the third column, mitigating accuracy bloom with sustained fire. This stacks with Nadir Focus to make Horror Story quite accurate for lengthy gunfights.Elemental Capacitoris also a great pick for Arc and Stasis builds. The final column has access toTarget Lock, although we don’t recommend it since it only improves the TTK leniency by one body shot for most Resilience tiers.
Instead, we recommend you useCollective ActionorFrenzy.The former will give you a 10% damage buff after grabbing an elemental pickup, while the latter gives you a 15% damage buff if you consistently deal and/or receive damage over a lengthy period.Both perks reduce Horror Story’s TTK to 0.67s, a much more noticeable jump than Target Lock’s slight TTK leniency shift. You can easily proc Collective Action with Stasis Shards, Strand Tangles, or Arc’s Ionic Traces. And if you prefer to run double Primary,Cascade Pointturns this gun into a 37-meter SMG if you can land a kill with another weapon. Overall, Horror Story is a solid Auto Rifle with many viable perk combinations. PvE has a clear god roll, but Crucible players might struggle to pick a definitive perk combination.
Collective Action or Frenzy
Range
Jurassic Green God Roll
Jurassic Green is a 540 RPM Pulse Rifle that deals Solar damage. PvE players have a few options for scaling this weapon’s damage, yet Jurassic Green’s archetype (Rapid-Fire Frame) greatly holds it back. 540s don’t deal much damage in PvE content outside of seasonal activities, so you’ll be forced to use a neutral DPS perk likeFrenzyto bump the weapon’s damage to reasonable levels. And since the other column seems tailored for PvP, your only options areSubsistenceandKeep Away.We recommend the former since Frenzy already maxes your reload speed stat.
Crucible players might disregard Jurassic Green for its poor base range, but this can actually be fixed with the right perks.Killing WindandEncoreis a standout combination here, allowing this weapon to reach just shy of 40 meters after a single precision kill. Land another precision kill, and this gun can fight out to 41.5 meters. Of course, both perks require you to land a kill with an otherwise below-average weapon archetype.
If you want to make Jurassic Green competitive at 1v1 duels, you’ll need to lean heavily on consistency perks.Keep AwayandHeadseekerare ideal for this, causing your bullets to have greatly increased accuracy and aim assist throughout an entire duel. You’ll likely trade with Hand Cannons and other Pulses at Jurassic’s intended range, but these perks will ensure that landing your optimal TTK is trivial.
Mechabre God Roll
Mechabre is a 72 RPM Sniper Rifle that deals Arc damage. It features 45 zoom, a clear scope, and theSearch Partyorigin trait that gives the weapon a 0.85x ADS scalar while you’re away from allies. For comparison, Snapshot Sights is a 0.75x scalar and is considered an S-tier perk for Snipers, so having a slightly weaker version of Snapshot Sights for free is fantastic.
As for perks, PvE players can turn Mechabre into a versatile Special weapon withKeep AwaywithVoltshot.Keep Away will buff your reload speed while Voltshot infuses your next shot with Jolt lightning after a reload kill. Land a kill, reload, then fire again to fire a lightning-infused round that deals massive damage to nearby targets. For PvP, it’s tough to topSnapshot SightsandOpening Shoton this gun. Paired with Search Party, Mechabre’s low base handling is hardly noticeable. you may also drop Snapshot Sights for Keep Away if you prefer the accuracy boost over Snapshot’s faster ADS time.
Opening Shot
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