In Destiny 2, you should perform a cleansing ritual in the Dreaming City. What it’s all about and how to find the knights, you can find out here.
How do I start the cleansing ritual? The cleansing ritual consists of queen’s bounties. To obtain them, you need to complete the weekly bounties with Petra, including “Audience with the Queen”. This is a rather detailed bounty, and we explain its steps in the link.
In this article, we present two quests of the cleansing ritual:
- Defeat sword-wielding knights in the Ascendant Challenge while you are ascendant
- Complete the strike “The Corrupted” while you are ascendant
- You can find out how to tackle the Source Pest here.
How does this work?
How to kill the knights in the Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2
The requirement for the cleansing ritual: First, look for a consumable item called “Queen’s Leaf Tincture.” This item opens your mind to the secrets of the Dreaming City for 30 minutes – you will be “ascendant.”
The tincture can be randomly found in all sorts of chests you find in the city.
Note: Since the weekly reset on 11.9., you’ll find the portal to the Ascendant Realm in the Gardens of the Dreaming City. Now you can defeat the knights there.
So it was in week 1 of Forsaken:
How to enter the Ascendant Realm: Head to Petra Venj. Now go into the Lost Sector that is directly next to Petra. When you activate the tincture, a portal will open at the end of the Lost Sector that teleports you into the Ascendant World.
Nexxoss Gaming shows you the entrance to the Lost Sector:
This Ascendant World is, by the way, the same one you need for the weekly bounty “Ascendant Challenge”.
How does the cleansing ritual with the knights work? While you should destroy crystals protected by knights during the Ascendant Challenge, for the cleansing ritual, you need to focus solely on the knights. Find a safe spot and shoot the knights with a strong sniper, like the Whisper of the Worm, from a distance.
The knights can take a lot of damage and have an enormous power level, which is why it’s best not to go alone into the Ascendant World but to bring friends. Andy Edition shows you in the video a good spot from which you can shoot the knights without disturbance:
Stay to the left from the starting point until you hit a tree. Jump onto the tree and from there onto the roof, where the knights cannot reach you. Make sure you have enough ammo for the sniper, set a strengthening Rift (Warlock, increased weapon damage) or a Barricade (Titan, gives you temporarily infinite ammo).
Now, kill one knight after another, all of whom spawn in the middle of the Ascendant World. You need a total of 4 knights, regardless of whether you leave the Ascendant World in the meantime. Each kill counts and won’t reset. But be careful, if you take too long with a knight, it will teleport away and regenerate. So try to defeat it as quickly as possible. High power levels are recommended.
The reward: Once that’s done, you will receive Dark Fragments, Baryon Stems, Legendary Gear, and a Cosmic Blessing (Armor Mod).
The strike “The Corrupted”
Update: The strike is now live! It was released with the World-First title in the raid.
Another bounty from the queen is also called cleansing ritual. For this, you need to complete the strike “The Corrupted” while you are ascendant.
So far, two or three new strikes have been introduced with Forsaken:
- Guardians of Nothing (Shattered Coast)
- The Hollowed Lair (Shattered Coast)
- Brutfeste (Shattered Coast, PS4-exclusive)
