How to activate the heroic event on Mercury in Destiny 2? We will show you how to start the public event “Vex Crossroads” heroically.
With Curse of Osiris, the largest public event to date has been introduced. It is called Vex Crossroads and takes place in the patrol zone on Mercury. Unlike most other public events, Vex Crossroads is specifically tailored for this planet – it is quite dynamic and sends you almost across all of Mercury.
How to trigger “heroic” at Vex Crossroads
As with the other events, there is a normal mode and a heroic mode for the Mercury event, with the heroic mode dropping better rewards. However, the heroic event needs to be triggered first – you must fulfill a requirement to make the event “heroic”.
- First, play the Vex Crossroads as in normal mode: Defeat the Vex, take down the gatekeepers, and deactivate the warp gates in the starting area.
- Now you can reach “Islands” with jump portals, where you also need to kill a big boss on each to deactivate warp gates.
- Now it becomes important: Once you have deactivated a warp gate on an island, a floating Vex crystal appears outside:
- You must destroy this crystal as quickly as possible. It only stays for a short time.
- Once you have destroyed it, platforms and additional crystals spawn. Jump along the platforms and destroy the crystals until you reach the roof of the island.
- On the roof is a Vex platform. Stand in it. If you were quick enough, the heroic mode will now be activated. If it is not activated, other players on the other island may have been too quick and thus blocked the heroic mode.
Nexxoss Gaming shows you the event and the Vex crystals in the video:
The heroic mode causes the gatekeeper to have an impenetrable shield around him at the end. To destroy the shield, you must defeat an additional gatekeeper nearby. This will drop a sphere that you must throw into a device. Now the gatekeeper is vulnerable.
As a reward, there are two chests that may contain exotics. But most of the time, they contain tokens and blue items.
How to activate the heroic modes of the remaining public events is explained here.
