How to Get and Complete All Exotic Quests in Destiny 2
Destiny 2: Black Armory – The Last Word
Kick off The Last Word’s exotic quest in Destiny 2 by visiting the Drifter down in the Annex.
The Last Word is a bit more straight forward than some of the other exotic quests in Destiny 2. You won’t need to do anything too crazy like say in Whisper of the Worm or Wish Ender. You’re just going to run down the following the steps until you complete ’em all and get your exotic weapon.
Step 1: After speaking with the Drifter, defeat Hive with Solar Damage, Collect 75 Hive Tablets and defeat 3 Hive bosses. If you go to Escalation Protocol you’ll knock all of this out in no time.
Step 2: Return to the Drifter, then defeat Guardians in the Crucible until you fill up the progress bar. You can use any gun you like, but keep in mind deaths erase progress, so try to keep at least a 1:1 KDA ratio to keep the progress moving briskly.
Step 3: A mission will now appear on Titan. It’s soloable at power level 500, but it will get a bit hectic. You’ll need to progress until you’re in a large room of Hive and an invincible acolyte. Defeat the three Major wizards that are in the room to bring down the acolyte’s shield. You’ll need to do this three times.
Step 4: Return to the Drifter again, and you’ll kick off the next multi-part step: Collect 15 Etched Crystals which are dropped by Wanted enemies in Lost Sectors, earn Best Served Cold and Blood for Blood medals 25 times in Crucible, defeat Hive with precision damage for a chance to drop Hive Larvae which you’ll need to collect, and then complete three heroic versions of the Hive Ritual on either Mars or Titan.
Step 5: Finally, you’ll have one more mission that you can also solo: defeat Enkaar a hive weapon master that’s in the Hellrise Canyon on the Tangled Shore.
You’ll work your way down to Broodhold and then go up against Enkaar in a western style draw. The goal is the shoot the gun out of Enkaar’s hand.
You’ll need to navigate some other Hive along the way but do this three times to kill him and then you’ll have The Last Word. Make use of the Last Word’s exotic perk, the accurate hip fire fanning, to easily complete the mission as the difficulty will ramp up each time.
Destiny 2: Black Armory – Izanagi’s Burden
Izanagi’s Burden is one of the longest and most taxing exotic quests in the game but the rewards are worth it. With the change in how forges work as of Shadowkeep (each forge rotates every day, it unfortunately will take a little bit longer even.
Step 1-3: First, wait until it’s Volundr Forge day on Earth. When you’re in the forge area, go up to the ledge of the nearby bridge and then onto a lower ledge on your right. Then you’ll see a small cave across the gap. Go ahead and jump over to it and the box is located there. If you’re having trouble finding it, this video from Esoterickk should help.
Then you’ll need to get all four keys to stick in this box, three of which can be found in each of the first three forges using a similar method.
Essentially in between the first and second rounds two small shield drones will spawn in two different locations on the map. You need to quickly get to these drones and kill them before they disappear. If you take too long you’ll need to start over.
You’ll know that you did it correctly if you get a buff called Maximum Temper in the bottom left of your screen. Finish the Forge Ignition successfully, and you’ll get the key for each of the three forges. You can do this with multiple people to make it easier to get the drones killed in time.
For the locations of the shield drones, you can check out these video guides from YouTuber Ninja Pups for each forge: Volundr, Gofannon, Izanami.
After this, if you haven’t already, Ada-1 will give you the instructions to forge the fourth and final key.
Step 4: First you need to get 24 Watcher Eyes from Watcher kills in the Underbelly of the Leviathan. Once again, a video is the best way to show how to get to the Leviathan’s Underbelly. You can check that out here courtesy of YouTuber Ehroar.
The best way to farm these is to find a Watcher room, kill as many as you can but leave one alive so that the alarm goes off. Clear the room, including all the Watchers, leave the room, and then reenter to let everything reset and rinse and repeat until you have enough Watcher Eyes. It shouldn’t take you very long.
Step 5: Next you’ll need to collect Glimmering Amethyst which drops from chests from strikes and public events, strikes count double towards your progress.
The fast way to get this material is to either burn through a quick strike over and over, or do a public event loop around the EDZ. If you want to multi-task with the weekly strike objectives, you can just run them from the director via the Vanguard Strike playlist.
Step 6: Then after that, you’ll need to kill the shield drones at Bergusia Forge. Once again, here’s a Ninja Pups video for visual help on that step.
We’re still just getting started unfortunately. After this is done you’ll need complete a Rare Black Armory Bounty. The only way to get these bounties is through RNG from completing a regular bounty from Ada-1.
Keep completing bounties until you get a rare bounty, then complete that one to move onto the next step.
Step 7: Then after that you’ll need to run through the Shattered Throne and defeat the final boss at the end. You’ll likely need a team for this but fortunately for you, as of Shadowkeep you don’t need to wait for a high-curse week. You can select this dungeon from the director. Bring two friends or LFG it.
Step 8: After you’ve done this, you need to do a hard version of the Pyramdion Strike. Even at a lower power level, it’s not designed to be solo’d. You can try, but it’s going to be unforgiving since if you die, you need to start back at the last checkpoint and all the enemies are going to be focused on you. We recommend bringing the same team that you completed The Shattered Throne with.
Step 9: Finally, after completing all of the above you’ll have access to a new mission on Earth. Go to its location, fire it up, and take out Siviks, the boss of this little mini-mission. This one can be solo’d if needed.
Return to Ada-1, and you’ll finally have Izanagi’s Burden. Trust us, it was worth the effort.
Destiny 2: Black Armory – Jotuun
As of Shadowkeep, Jotuun has been moved from its original RNG drop to a questable exotic. It’s very straightforward but it will possibly take a few weeks.
You you need to grab the exotic quest from Ada-1, A Giant’s Might, and then do the following:
- Forge 10 Legendary Frames
- Defeat Vex
Keep in mind, Bungie has stated recently that the legendary frames portion of the quest is bugged. We believe that it’s Ballistic Logs frames that count, but other legendary frames using Module Reports may also count. Also people are reporting that it’s bugged where they aren’t getting progress for anything. So experiment with both and see what happens.
In any event, once both those steps are complete, turn it in for Jotuun, an exotic fusion rifle.
Destiny 2: Black Armory – Le Monarque
As of Shadowkeep, Le Monarque has been moved from its original RNG status from Volundr Forge to an exotic quest. It’s very straightforward but it will take some time potentially.
You you need to grab the exotic quest from Ada-1, A Butterfly’s Grace, and then complete the following:
- Forge 10 Legendary Frames
- Defeat Fallen
Keep in mind, Bungie has stated recently that the legendary frames portion of the quest is bugged. We believe that it’s Ballistic Logs frames that count, but other legendary frames using Module Reports may also count. Also people are reporting that it’s bugged where they aren’t getting progress for anything. So experiment with both and see what happens.
In any event, once both those steps are complete, turn it in for Le Monarque, an exotic bow.
