The Whisper of the Worm, the Black Spindle from Destiny 2, has been found. How to obtain the exotic sniper is explained in our guide.
Many have waited for this. The exotic sniper rifle Whisper of the Worm, the Destiny 2 version of the Black Spindle, can finally be obtained.
As in Destiny 1, the exotic sniper rifle is available in a time-limited mission. The anomaly on IO and therefore the mission Whisper (normal and heroic) are only active from Friday 7:00 PM to Monday 7:00 PM weekly.
Whisper of the Worm – How to get the exotic sniper in Destiny 2
The path to Whisper of the Worm is not easy: The enemies in this mission have a power level of 380. Since you must complete the task in under 20 minutes, you should ideally already be near the power level cap of 385 when you start the quest. Furthermore, it is recommended to tackle the mission in a 3-man team.
The Start: In the first step, you need to complete a public event with Taken in the area of the Lost Oasis on IO. Since Cabal and Taken alternate there, it may take a while until you have an event with the right enemies.
Find Urzok and take him down
Taken Champion: Once the event has started, a Taken Champion will spawn somewhere in the Lost Oasis. This will either be Urzok or one of the two other named Taken enemies with yellow health bars. You must defeat this enemy.
Once you have defeated this foe, a Taken portal will appear on a rock formation nearby. When the fire team leader interacts with the portal, the entire team will be warped to a nearby Lost Sector.
Lost Sector: Once you arrive in the Lost Sector, you need to find and destroy a Taken Blight – the so-called Taken Blight. Jump up and keep to the right. Once you find the Blight, destroy it. Below, you will find an opening in the ground. Jump in.
The Jump Labyrinth: From now on, the mission timer is running. You have 20 minutes to find the correct path through a jumping puzzle that strongly resembles the jumping passage of the Glass Vault. The way is hard to describe. However, the golden rule is: Follow the red light, jump from platform to platform, and do not let the moving wall elements push you into the abyss or get shot down by the numerous snipers.
Once you reach the column in the center, jump around the left side of the column and follow the wall. After a while, you will come to a room with Vex-like portals on the wall. If you enter the wrong portal, you will die. Keep to the right and jump into the upper right portal at the end of the room.
When you enter the room with a hole in the floor, do not jump down, but work your way up the wall to your right.
Taken Rooms and the Bosses: At the end, you will encounter rooms filled with Taken and their Blights. You don’t necessarily have to kill all the enemies, but a quick cleanup will greatly ease your life and progress.
After you have passed several such rooms, you will finally come to a room with three Taken Champions – a Captain, a Centurion, and a Knight. The three bosses must be defeated in this final fight to successfully complete the mission.
This is what the Whisper of the Worm can do
The Reward: If you manage to take down these three bosses, you will receive the Whisper of the Worm sniper.
The sniper has the same perks as the legendary sniper rifle Black Spindle from the Crota Raid before its nerf – before it became the Black Spindle. With Mulligan, missed shots have a chance to return directly to the magazine. White Nail fills the weapon’s magazine with precision hits in quick succession – without pulling the ammunition from the reserves!
All over again – Then on hard for the Catalyst!
How to obtain the Catalyst and what does it do? After you have mastered the mission once, a heroic version at power level 400 will be unlocked. This can then be selected directly from the IO map. Successful completion grants the exotic masterwork catalyst for the Black Spindle.
With the catalyst, you can upgrade the sniper to a masterwork. This will additionally grant it the perk Breathing Control. If you then aim with the weapon for a while without firing, it provides bonus range and precision damage for a moment while zoomed in.
A video guide to the Whisper of the Worm mission
The mission in video guide: The mission is challenging. Especially the jumping sections are tough and cost a lot of time at first. With a little practice and this video guide, the tasks should be manageable.
And everyone who is struggling with the mission or is not as agile can take a shortcut, which you can watch in this video:
Are you already hunting the Whisper of the Worm or have you perhaps already obtained it? Do you wish for more such missions?
By the way, the Exotic was found more by chance:
