Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost is the spookiest contender in the game’s lineup of events. After all, nothing is scarier than a three-year-old activity—though this time, guardians have a few more rewards up for grabs when completing these activities and finishing event challenges.
For the 2022 version, Bungie leaned into the new event card system, which debuted alongside that year’s Solstice revamp. This year, Bungie is tripling down by making an extremely similar version of the event challenges for Festival of the Lost.
This year, though, Bungie thankfully watered down some of the grindiest challenges. You don’t need an obscene amount of Arc kills (though we’ll be forever thankful to Trinity Ghoul for getting us there last time), and the developer halved the 35 Haunted Sector completions needed for the Happy Haunting Ground triumph. You will need quite a bit of patience to get the Bookworm set of triumphs, though, as usual.
If you want to start crossing event challenges off your list, you’ll need to finish the introductory quest from Eva Levante, which asks you to complete a Haunted Sector. After that, you can start progressing through these goals, which will require you to engage with the event activity and with other aspects of the game.
All event challenges in Destiny 2‘s Festival of the Lost 2023
Here are the objectives you should keep an eye out for in this year’s Festival of the Lost. All values not specified in their triumphs were taken from light.gg.
- Cryptozoologist: Use a Manifested Page to restore a chapter in the Tales of the Forgotten: Vol. Three.
- Bookworm I: Use Manifested Pages to restore a chapter in the Tales of the Forgotten: Vol. Three3 (requires 11 chapters).
- Bookworm II: Use Manifested Pages to restore a chapter in the Tales of the Forgotten: Vol. Two (requires 22 chapters).
- Rewards: Magical Transformation shader
- Bookworm III: Use Manifested Pages to restore a chapter in the Tales of the Forgotten: Vol. Two (requires 33 chapters).
- Rewards: Nyxpterón ship
- Heads Will Roll: Defeat 100 Headless Ones in Haunted Sectors.
- Rewards: Tormentor Mask
- Candy Corner: Earn Candy from activities (17,500)
- Rewards: Pouka Mask
- Horrific Haunts: Complete a higher-difficulty Haunted Sector.
- Mystery Meet: Purchase Epic Mystery Gift Bags from Eva Levante.
- Sniperstition: Defeat combatants with sniper rifles.
- Rewards: Mechabre (Legendary sniper rifle)
- Automatic Transmission: Defeat combatants with auto rifles.
- Rewards: Horror Story (auto rifle)
- Third Shot’s a Charm: Defeat combatants with pulse rifles.
- Rewards: Jurassic Green (pulse rifle)
- Shocking Conclusion: Defeat 1,000 targets with Arc energy.
- Rewards: Caiatl Mask
- Occult Ritual: complete ritual activities, including Strikes, Crucible matches, and Gambit matches.
- Rewards: Calus Mask
- Hocus Focusing: Focus an Eerie Engram.
- Rewards: Nimbus Mask
- Masked Bandit: Complete Crucible or Gambit matches while wearing a Festival Mask.
- Happy Haunting Ground: Complete activities in the Haunted Sector playlist (requires 18 completions, but higher-difficulty completions grant more progress)
- Rewards: Mara Sov Mask
In addition to the 16 triumphs, Bungie also added four more objectives for players who want to gild their title:
- One of Many: Defeat all the Headless Ones in a single run of a Haunted Sector.
- Requires completion of Moon, Europa, EDZ, and Nessus Haunted Sectors.
- This event challenge was bugged in the 2022 edition of Festival of the Lost.
- Masked Mayhem: While wearing a Festival Mask, complete dungeons, raids, Master or Grandmaster Nightfalls, or win rounds in Trials of Osiris.
- Deathless One: Complete Haunted Sectors without dying.
- Requires completion of Moon, Europa, EDZ, and Nessus Haunted Sectors.
- Sweet Tooth: Collect Candy by completing activities and defeating combatants while wearing a Festival of the Lost Mask (requires 30,000 Candy earned).
If you already gilded your Ghost Writer title last year, you can start counting progress toward this last set of triumphs the second you load into Festival of the Lost, which will save some time if you’re after that bronze border for your name. The gilding will reset, though, so you’ll need to complete these objectives from scratch.
