‘Starcrossed’ Exotic mission and secret chest location in Destiny 2

The “Starcrossed” mission is new to Destiny 2: Season of the Wish. It operates equally to the “Avalon” mission from earlier this 12 months and “Operation: Seraph Shield” from Season of the Seraph in that they’re temporary asides that supply a robust weapon and some secrets and techniques to uncover every week.

In “Starcrossed,” you’ll enterprise into the Black Garden with Riven and Crow to tackle a military of Vex. Your reward? The new Strand Exotic bow: Wish-Keeper — which is ready to deploy a Suspending entice after getting sufficient kills or precision hits.

In this Destiny 2 information, we’ll stroll you thru easy methods to full the Starcrossed mission and discover its secret chest.

How to beat the ‘Starcrossed’ Exotic mission in Destiny 2

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“Starcrossed” is, primarily, only a straight line with a number of stops alongside it, so this information will focus much less on the place to go and extra on how the mission’s three main mechanics work: Sire’s Obligation, Dam’s Gift, and Crowned by Dragons. Let’s break it down.

Sire’s Obligation

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Your first massive mechanic, which you get simply earlier than the primary main encounter, is a buff known as Sire’s Obligation. You can get it from standing in a blue pool that seems in some flowers by a locked gate. It lasts perpetually whilst you’re standing in the pool, however solely lasts 45 seconds as soon as you permit.

Sire’s Obligation means that you can harm Obdurate enemies and means that you can see the Last Wish symbols. Use the buff to defeat the primary Obdurate Phalanx and open the door.

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You’ll put Sire’s Obligation to sensible use in the primary encounter. Get the buff from one of many swimming pools and look to the gate on the finish of the world. You’ll see three symbols in a random order. You’ll must verify the order your self each time, however for the sake of this information, let’s use this order for instance: Dragon, Fish, Bird.

Now, along with your buff (ensure that to resume it in case you run out of time), run across the enviornment and search for Obdurate Phalanx enemies. There are three of them, every residing underneath one of many three symbols you noticed on the door. Defeat them in the order of the mix on the door (Dragon, Fish, Bird, for this instance) and you’ll open the way in which. Defeat them in the mistaken order, and they’ll all respawn.

Dam’s Gift

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Dam’s Gift is the second mechanic in this mission, and comes from a crimson puddle that comes from sure flower patches. It lasts for a similar period of time as Sire’s Obligation.

Dam’s Gift means that you can stroll into the orange mist, which you’ll encounter for the primary time simply forward of the primary crimson flower patch. Without Dam’s Gift, you’ll take harm contained in the mist and get the Unwelcome debuff, which is able to finally kill you. However, you’re secure in the mist so long as you keep Dam’s Gift.

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After you run via the preliminary mist, you’ll want to make use of Dam’s Gift to finish the second encounter. You’ll discover a crimson puddle in a small enviornment and three passageways coated in orange mist: left, proper, and center. Use Dam’s Gift to stroll every of those paths and rapidly kill the Gatekeeper Wyvern’s inside. Once the Wyvern is lifeless, a protect will disappear over a Vex node, which you’ll work together with.

Repeat this course of till you’ve killed three Gatekeeper Wyverns and interacted with all three nodes in the world to finish the problem.

Crowned by Dragons

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At the top of the mission, you’ll want to mix these two buffs collectively. When you enter the subsequent enviornment, head to the left to get Sire’s Obligation and to the suitable to get Dam’s Gift. Once you might have them each, the buff will remodel right into a single buff: Crowned by Dragons.

While you might have Crowned by Dragons, you’ll be capable to see symbols, harm Obdurate enemies, and traverse the orange mist. Running via both buff will renew Crowned by Dragons again to 45 seconds.

With Crowned by Dragons in hand, look to the large door in the middle of the room to get your lock mixture. Then, run across the room and kill the Obdurate enemies in the right order. There’s one Obdurate enemy in the primary room, and one in every of the world’s two wings. In order to get to the wings, you’ll must traverse orange mist, so be sure you by no means lose Crowned by Dragons.

How to beat Akardon, Pitiless Mind, in Destiny 2

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Once you open the door, proceed right down to the ultimate boss, which is an enormous Vex Hydra: Akardon, Pitiless Mind. You can harm the boss from the beginning of the struggle so long as you might have Crowned by Dragons. However, you’ll have a a lot simpler time killing the boss in case you take away its rotating protect, which tends to dam plenty of incoming harm in case you don’t time your photographs nicely.

To do that, use Crowned by Dragons to kill each of the Pitiless Attendant Phalanx enemies in the room with the Hydra. Once they’re each lifeless, the boss will lose its protect and begin spawning Taken enemies. Kill it rapidly and then proceed into the treasure room to complete the mission.

Destiny 2 ‘Starcrossed’ secret chest location

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When you first begin “Starcrossed,” you’ll be in an space with an enormous chasm, and might want to leap throughout some plant leaves. The first a part of this space is pretty open, however you’ll finally want to show proper and stroll throughout an enormous tree department, which is able to lead you to a slim opening and the remainder of the mission.

Once you flip and hit that massive tree department, cease. Instead of continuous alongside, look down and round you. You’ll discover an edge that leads right into a small alcove.

Head down into this small space and you’ll discover a Dreaming City chest nuzzled in opposition to the wall. Open it for a Season of the Undying weapon.

If you’re fighting this chest, I like to recommend placing the Wombo Detector Ghost Shell mod on, which is able to assist you to detect close by treasure chests and sources.