The Final Shape Walkthrough

"Wild Card" rewards Still Hunt, a sniper rifle that can mimic the Hunter's Golden Gun. Players need to complete The Final Shape campaign and "Queens, Part 1" from the "Destined Heroes" quest to unlock the "Wild Card" mission. The quest steps are as follows:

• Complete The Final Shape campaign.
• Start the "Destined Heroes" Quest to unlock "Queens, Part 1".
• Complete "Queens. Part 1" to unlock the "Wild Card" mission.
  • In this mission, use the Hive sword to deflect elemental damage to the rune with the same elemental color. For example, deflect the Shrieker's Void attack to the purple rune.
• Pick up "Wild Card" mission from Cayde-6 in the Tower area of the Lost City in the Pale Heart.
• Complete "Wild Card".
  • Jump off of the ledge at the Tower in the Lost City down to the banner to launch the mission.
  • Make camp, then begin hunting Screebs and War Beasts with a white smoke aura that indicates Dark Ether.
  • Follow the marker to the energy signature.
  • Defeat the War Beast, Devourer of Tainted Light. Follow the boss into the shielded area to continue fighting it. Return to camp to chat with Cayde-6 and Crow, then Meditate.
  • Defeat all of the Taken in the area to remove the Blight. Repeat this three more times.
  • Two more Blights appear, bolstered by more Taken enemies and their Dread friends. Defeat all enemies surrounding the Blights to remove them.
  • Return to camp and Meditate.
  • Follow the marker to a cave reached by dropping off the cliff. Follow the passage until you reach another small cave.
  • Use the small cracks in the rocks to defeat Shanks until the Shank named "Hoarder of Tainted Light" appears. Defeat this boss Shank.
  • Return to camp.
  • Follow the marker to a cave filled with Screebs. Continue until you are able to place a Rally Banner.
  • Defeat Lii'liks, Harvester of the Witness by defeating Screebs and placing their dropped Dark Ether into a barrel; every time the barrel reaches 10 motes, the boss's shield goes down. Do this three times to defeat the boss.
  • Return to camp.
  • Return to the Tower area of the Lost City.
  • Speak to Cayde-6 and receive Still Hunt.

Cayde's Retribution is the intrinsic perk for this weapon. Fill the meter by hitting precision shots with the rifle and collecting orbs of power, then hold reload once it is full to activate Golden Gun. For the Hunters out there, you can pair this with Celestial Nighthawk, turning your three shots into one powerful burst of damage.

"Convalescence: Rootbound" rewards players with Microcosm, the first Heavy Weapon Trace Rifle. This weapon can easily break through enemies with shields, and final blows give you Super energy. When your Super expires, Microcosm deals increased damage. The quest steps are as follows:

• Complete The Final Shape campaign.
• Start the "Destined Heroes" Quest to unlock "Queens, Part 1".
• Complete "Queens. Part 1" to unlock the "Convalescence: Rootbound" mission.
• Talk to Micah-10 to acquire the Convalescence mission.
• Complete "Convalesence: Rootbound".
  • Complete the Forgotten Deep Lost Sector in the The Landing region of the Pale Heart.
    • This lost sector utilizes 3 green hive wells that you must walk through to break the crystal to continue.
    • At the end of the Lost Sector, after all enemies are defeated, find the Ghost at the base of the tree on the platform.
  • Return to the Arbor in The Lost City and interact with the Ghost you saved.
• Complete "Convalescence: Underbrush".
  • Complete activities in the Pale Heart to acquire a Flickering Blessing mod.
    • Highlight the Pathfinder objectives on your map - the reward is always a chest.
    • Equip the Wombo/Combo mod on your Ghost shell and explore the Pale Heart to find chests. Keep opening chests until a mod is acquired.
  • Equip the Flickering Blessing mod by navigating to the Pale Heart map from Destinations. Right above the Blooming you can find the Traveler's Blessings node. Select it, then equip one of the blessings.
  • Return to the Arbor in The Lost City and interact with the Ghost at the tree as well as Micah-10.
• Complete "Convalescence: Greenery".
  • Complete public activities in The Landing to progress an Overthrow event, which reward chests.
  • Look slightly north of The Refraction on your map, and highlight the Convalescence: Greenery icon. Once in the area, follow the eagle made of Light to a cave locked with Hive magic. Shoot the corresponding crystals to open the cave.
  • Interact with the Hive altar to summon a hive sword. Kill enemies and destroy any crystals and Hive rocks in your path. Kill all three Lucent Hive Lieutenants, and do not forget to crush their ghosts.
• Return to the Arbor in The Lost City and interact with the Ghost at the tree as well as Micah-10.
• Complete "Convalsecence: Budding".
  • Complete the Cooperative Focus Mode of Ascent, launched from the southeast side of the Pale Heart.
  • Complete the Cooperative Focus Mode of Dissent, launched from the southeast side of the Pale Heart.
  • Complete the Cooperative Focus Mode of Iconoclasm, launched from the southeast side of the Pale Heart.
    • These missions are as hard as Legendary campaign missions.
    • In these missions, there are 3 types of mechanics the player should know:
      • Fractured by the Witness - a debuff from the Witness that slows your movement and kills you at a x10 stacks. Have a fireteam member interact with you to remove the debuff, and juggle between the fireteam.
      • Glyphtouched - One player can interact with but cannot see the symbols. Communicate with your fireteam as to where the player with the debuff must go.
      • Beserkers - Carefully get close enough to the enemy to see the Surpressed debuff. Have one player shoot the enemy in the chest and the other in the back at the same time. Once complete, you can kill the Berserker. Shoot the orange, glowing Darkness cruxes at the same time to ensure the Berserker does not respawn and to progress the mission.
• Return to Micah-10 and receive your brand new Exotic Trace Rifle!

Tessellation is an Exotic Fusion Rifle that matches damage type with your equipped grenade. Every final blow with this weapon gives you grenade energy. Tessellation was a pre-order special for The Final Shape. Even if you didn't pre-order it, you can still obtain it from the Monument to the Lost Lights in the Tower. The Final Shape DLC is still required to buy it.

The Khvostov 7G-0X is back and better than ever. The intrinsic perk The Right Choice gives every seventh bullet additional damage and lets it ricochet to nearby targets. The quest steps are as follows:

• Complete The Final Shape campaign.
• Loot all 9 Region Chests in the Pale Heart.
  • These are marked on the map by a cross with a dot in the middle of the icon. Section labeled "Region Chests and Feathers" of this Final Shape Walkthrough has specific locations of these chests.
• Obtain and complete the "Alone in the Dark" quest from Micah-10 in the Tower of the Lost City.
  • Throughout the "Alone in the Dark", players will need to find all Lost Encryption Bits.
    • Aerial Ace Lost Encryption Bit
      • When you heal the ghost, look to the back of the room in the lava pool and find the purple rock. Go to that rock and look to the right, you should see another area to continue walking. Walk forward to the roots on the right and then turn further right to see the crevice you can crouch through to collect the bit.
    • Moth-Infested Cavern Lost Encryption Bit
      • After the fight with Major Ogre in the blue crystal room, jump down beneath where the Ogre was standing and look in the cave.
    • Searing Light Encryption Bit
      • After you kill the boss, find the cave with the glowing purple aura. The bit is in the left corner.
    • Slayer Lost Encryption Bit
      • After the ogre at the end of the mission is killed, look for the cave with a tree trunk at the front of it. The bit is in the middle of the cave behind the second tree. There is also a Memory of the Traveler here; jump up on the rocks to the left and the memory is behind the purple crystal.
    • Smothering Darkness Lost Encryption Bit
      • After defeating the boss, find the purple crystal that has a cave next to it, and the bit is on the right.
    • Sword Dance Lost Encryption Bit
      • Acquire the sword and destroy crystals in this mission. After you fight the ogre, jump down instead of continuing up and destroy the wall with the sword. The bit is behind the wall.
  • Travel to the Impasse and make your way into the Cosmodrome Wall.
    • Continue on the path until you see what looks to be a region chest. Open it to receive the Legendary version of Khvostov 7G-02.
  • Find all the visions of the Traveler. There are 17 in total, and 8 need to be found. The rest are dropped from Overthrow Bosses. For the locatable Visions, players will see a "Near Objective" buff on their screen when they are near the Visions.
    • Vision 1
      • Enter the Slayer Cyst and enter the cave with the tree trunk in front. Jump up on the rocks to the left and and the vision is in the corner.
    • Vision 2
      • Travel to the Impasse in the Pale Heart. Just before you enter the temple that leads to The Transgression, look to the left. A vision is on top of the monolith.
    • Vision 3
      • Travel to the Tower inside the Pale Heart. Go through the Arbor and head to the right, the Vision is at the very back within the waterfall.
    • Vision 4
      • Fast travel to The Landing area. Turn to your left and the Vision is on a rock by the waterfall.
    • Vision 5
      • Fast travel to The Landing and go through The Refraction. When you reach the Ogre, go down the path to the left and go straight to the ledge. The Vision is below, within a waterfall.
    • Vision 6
      • Fast travel to The Blooming. Follow the path to the left until you are almost going through the cave to The Divide. The Vision is up in a tree on the right of the cave.
    • Vision 7
      • Follow the path through The Divide until you are at the top of the mountain and see the path downwards into the facility. The Vision is behind a satellite dish on the roof to the left.
    • Vision 8
      • Fast travel to The Impasse and go to The Transgression. Continue down the long path until you reach the second room with a slanted tree. The Vision is on the left behind another tree.
  • Kill all Overthrow Bosses. The Visions drop directly where the boss dies, not in the chest.
  • Place all Visions into the pedestals. They are found by loading into the Tower in the Pale Heart. immediately turn left and follow the path through the observatory and into the room where the Speaker stood in the original Tower. This will spawn a chest that rewards your upgraded Khvostov 7G-0X.

Hazardous Propulsion is an Exotic Chest piece for the Titan class. The intrinsic perk Danger Close works really well with Guardians wielding "Rocket" Weapons (Rocked Assisted Sidearms and Rocket Launchers, notably). Precision hits or final blows from any Weapon grant a chance at loading a Kinetic Exodus rocket. Activating one of your Barricades or Thruster automatically fires your loaded Exodus rockets at enemies in front of you - they're homing. This intrinsic perk also grants increased damage to all "Rocket" Weapons when you damage targets with the Exodus Rockets.

Gifted Conviction is an Exotic Chest piece for the Hunter class. The intrinsic perk The Gift of Certainty throws bouncing explosives that Jolt enemies when you activate Ascension or Tempest Strike. Jolting nearby enemies even grants a stacking damage resistance buff!

Balance of Power is a piece of Exotic Leg Armor for the Hunter Class. This enhances your Prismatic or Strand Hunter Subclasses, since the intrinsic perk Double Down Enhances your Threaded Specter. The Specter will last longer, is more durable, and it releases more Threadlings after detonating. And for PvP, Players near their Specters do not appear on radar!

Speaker's Sight is a Helmet for the Warlock class. The intrinsic perk The Lost Voice plays into the support role. Your Healing Grenades spawn a Restorative Turret that sends out a Curing and Restorative projectile to yourself and allies. Healing allies has a chance to spawn an Orb of Power.

Mataiodoxía is an Exotic Chest Armor for the Warlock class. Any Warlock running Prismatic or Strand should think about incorporating this into their build. The intrinsic perk Stylostixis makes your Arcane Needle strong against Barrier Champions, meaning it can stun the Champion, preventing it from putting up its barrier and regenerating health. Targets damaged by Arcane Needle create a Suspending blast when they are defeated, and landing multiple needles on the same target will emit a larger blast. Also, defeating Suspended targets grants melee energy!