In Destiny 2, the Leviathan raid is soon closing its doors. An expert now shows you how to farm two coveted exotic items solo.
Here’s what it’s about: In this article, we present you a way to earn exotic items from the raid section “Starwatch” completely solo. With the tips from a Destiny expert, it won’t take more than 5 minutes to farm the soon-to-disappear items after some practice.
With the next major expansion of Destiny 2, “Beyond Light“, content will start to rotate. This means that content from the active game will disappear and make way for new material.
This includes several locations and the old Leviathan raids. So if you want to immortalize any items or weapons from it in your collection, you should do so soon.
These coveted items can be acquired solo:
- Catalyst for the Sleeper Simulant – The exotic masterwork catalyst compensates for the weapon’s slow charge time.
- Exotic emote “Luxurious Toast” – This emote is considered a cult among Destiny players and is inspired by the decadent Cabal Emperor Calus.
If linear fusion rifles receive a buff in the future, the Sleeper Simulant could overnight take a top spot among the exotics. Therefore, such a useful catalyst should not be missing from any collection.
We certainly don’t need to explain why guardians are so fond of the decadent emote – just take a look:
The catalyst drops randomly after each encounter on prestige, you get the emote also randomly after each encounter, but regardless of difficulty.
When do the items disappear? From September 22, the disappearance will be realized through the so-called “Content Vault”. MeinMMO has dealt extensively with the new system:
Expert provides guide for solo outing in the raid section
The expert recommends: The known PvE expert Esoterickk is known for his skill, which often leaves normal guardians breathless. But this time he consciously addresses the wider player base and shows how to quickly tackle the first encounter of the Starwatch solo, even on hardcore.
Configure your class like this:
- Hunter with the Void focus “Path of the Trapper”
- Guided Jump
- Vortex Grenade
- Ideally 100 mobility (for example, use the “Powerful Friends” mod)
- Artifact mod “Restrained Darkness” (class item)
- “Distribution” mod (class item)
If you still have room for more mods despite the high mobility value, you should focus on “Minor Resistance” and “Major Resistance”.
Focus on this exotic:
Your weapons are not crucial for the endeavor. It’s best to equip a weapon with increased mobility (lightweight).
Time for some training: Don’t start the raid phase immediately upon your arrival; first, you need to familiarize yourself with an important trick: You can reset the annoying “Greed” debuff that you receive from the ball in the encounter.
To do this, activate your super without holding the ball, and pick up the item shortly after. Your super remains fully charged, but the debuff is gone. If the “Greed” increases to 10, you die.
You can practice at your leisure. Only when this action is perfected should you get to work.
If you’re not familiar with the first encounter of the Starwatch, you’ll find our guide to the raid section here.
This is how to play the phase: Through your mods, the exotic, and high mobility, you can almost constantly dodge, granting you invisibility. This way, enemies ignore you, and you can calmly focus on your ball, the pillars, and resetting the debuff.
This is the procedure:
- Grab the ball and throw it into the middle flame
- Carry the charged ball to Pillar 1 and raise it
- Throw the ball between Pillar 1 and 2 – cleanse yourself of the “Greed” debuff
- Raise the next pillar
- When all pillars are up, throw the ball into the fire
- Repeat all processes
- Continuously activate your invisibility
- For the centurions, a grenade is completely sufficient
The whole thing takes about 5 minutes. Check out how the action looks in the video:
More expert tips: Esoterickk admits that the process seems quite complex at first and that the first attempts can be pretty hairy. However, with some practice, all guardians should be able to handle it.
For a successful completion, he has the following tips:
- You can take cover while raising the pillars – duck at the outer edge.
- He himself throws the centurion with the ball upon first entering Pillar 3 and picks up a new charge in the middle. This prevents further spawns – as long as you don’t kill anyone.
- If you are overwhelmed by enemies between Pillars 3 and 4, you can take the slightly longer but safer way outside.
If you stick with it, master the activity completely solo, and grab the disappearing exotic raid items? Rare weapons are also saying goodbye, but collectors and title hunters can breathe easy: Quests in Destiny 2 give away rare weapons that will soon disappear
