A new secret in Season 21 of Destiny 2 offers the option for better loot in the seasonal activity “Dives”. However, this is only for players who know how to dive deep and activate the mini-event. MeinMMO has the necessary insider knowledge for you.
What secret has been discovered? Every season in Destiny 2 brings not only new loot but also small secrets that you might not discover immediately and are not explained directly. This is also the case in the seasonal activity of Season 21 called “Dives”.
- In the “Dives” of the weekly mission, the Guardians dive deeper into the ocean of Titan to collect energy. This energy is needed by Sloane to communicate with the mysterious underwater being Ahsa.
Here, you dive to depths of 1000 m and 2750 m. But only Guardians who know how to dive properly to 5000 m gain access to better loot and a higher chance of Depths weapons.
To find this secret, you simply need to pay attention to your surroundings. MeinMMO will tell you exactly what to look out for, what difficulties there are, and how you can improve the loot from Tier-1 to Tier-7. So, look for loot with significantly improved stats.
Whoever calls the darkness gets better loot
Here’s how to get the extra loot box in Dives: The new secret requires all three players to interact with a sphere that looks like Toland and thereby “call the darkness”. This triggers a unique and challenging mini-event in the activity.
The sphere can always be found in fixed locations. So, if you know where to run, you can activate the event quickly. It is usually easy to recognize once you know what you’re looking for.
Every time you reach the next depth, you need to activate the sphere again. If successful, the strength of the challenge increases steadily.
- What you need to do exactly is random.
- Sometimes it’s about standing in glowing pools to cleanse them
- Or several Degraded-Fester spheres or domes appear that you need to eliminate quickly.
After that, the new challenge just needs to be mastered. It usually consists of killing a bunch of enemies and surviving all waves before the timer runs out. The deeper you dive, the harder and tougher the enemies become.
Such secret events happen repeatedly in Destiny 2 – for example on Neomuna:
What loot do you get for this? Without the interaction with the darkness by every Guardian, there is only a normal Tier-1 chest at the end of the activity.
However, for completing the special mini-event, all Guardians are rewarded with more and better loot. Then a second chest drops at the end of the dive.
- It is possible to maximize loot chests to Tier-7 – if you master everything.
- You also get an increased chance for weapons with Depths vision.
- Additionally, there is a large amount of reputation rank, over 500, for the sonar station, and fishing lures are also in abundant quantities.
- Materials drop as well, such as enhancement prisms or ascendant shards
What does the term Tier-1 or Tier-7 loot mean in Destiny?
Loot that drops for you in the game is classified in Destiny 2 by its rarity level. Tier-1 loot is the most common and easiest loot you can receive. Tier-7 loot drops generally have higher stats that can improve your abilities in the game. They usually drop only in special endgame activities, such as raids or Trials of Osiris.
Players have also confirmed on the Destiny Reddit that the extra chest dropped exotic armor for them.
Additionally, speculation occurs on Reddit that if the maximum dive depth in Season 21 is reached, this additional chest could drop the last remaining exotic weapon in the “Season of Depths”.
The mini-event has 2 major problems
With player search, it rarely works: The biggest difficulty of the mini-event is getting every player to interact with the sphere – otherwise, the chest won’t be activated.
Especially for Guardians who complete their dives using player search, this is a huge problem. Their teammates are often clueless and know nothing about the extra loot. And since the sphere doesn’t shout: “Interact with me for free extra loot,” many Guardians miss the opportunity.
As astorj writes on the Destiny Reddit: “Honestly, I’ve given up trying to get my teammates to understand that there’s a damn sphere. […]”
How absurd it is for the “informed” has been humorously captured by Destiny 2 player SpaceMagicgo in a humorous video on Reddit:
Players wish for a ping system: So it’s not that easy to get a random team to activate the option for more loot.
There is a chat system in Destiny 2 to communicate, but whether or not to activate it is up to each player. Additionally, it is usually disabled by default on consoles.
Basically, it’s a pure gamble if you don’t play the activity in a fixed fireteam without player search and try to activate the mini-event.
The solution would be a ping system for Destiny 2. Most competitive FPS games like Apex Legends, Overwatch 2, and Warzone 2 all have context-based ping options.
Additionally, the second problem is that it’s not always possible to master all challenges, as it is crucial to work with a coordinated team as the difficulty increases.
Just casually hopping through isn’t possible anymore and thus time runs out while players revive each other. As so often, communication is the key to success.
So don’t be discouraged by the challenge and dive deeper to reach the Tier-7 chest. Feel free to share this knowledge, as the more players know about the sphere, the higher the chances for everyone that the event is activated in each dive.
Have you already been among the initiated and knew about the sphere and the extra loot option? Or are you facing the same problem that you can’t get your random teammates to activate the mini-event? And what is the highest reward tier in the dive that you have reached so far? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
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