Destiny 2’s Ascendant Challenges are one of the several moving parts involving the Dreaming City’s intricate Curse, which envelops the area in a three-week time loop.
The curse ranges from weak to strong to strongest, and each cycle brings players a ton of treasure to hunt for—if they’re brave enough to dive into the Ascendant Plane in search of riches. Destiny 2 has a total of six Ascendant Challenges, which rotate every week. They are a surefire source of Dreaming City gear, including reissued versions of Waking Vigil, Tigerspite, and Twilight Oath. Finishing an Ascendant Challenge grants a piece of Legendary gear, but players can get their hands on an extra drop if they have Petra Venj’s weekly bounty.
Ascendant Challenges yield one piece of gear each week, plus another from Petra’s bounties. Those objectives are character-based, meaning players can get six pieces of Dreaming City gear from Ascendant Challenges alone.
To find the entrance to the Ascendant Challenge, players must consume an item called Tincture of Queensfoil, available from Petra Venj for five Legendary Shards or found in chests throughout the Dreaming City. Each Ascendant Challenge will have its own entrance, and though the challenge itself changes every week, its entrance will remain in the same spot whenever it pops up.
What is this week’s Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2? (Jan. 30 to Feb. 6)
- Challenge: Ouroborea
- Entrance: Aphelion’s Rest (The Strand Lost Sector)
How to find and complete the Ascendant Challenge
The Ouroborea Ascendant Challenge is at the end of the Aphelion’s Rest Lost Sector in the Strand (don’t forget to check out the Rift Generator public event while you’re there). You’ll find the entrance at the end of the incline leading to the boss, though it may glitch if you’ve sparrowed past the enemies.
Once inside, Ouroborea has four Blights scattered over its dimly lit pocket of the Ascendant Plane. Find and destroy all four to clear the protecting casing on the crystals in the main room. If you’re struggling to find them, turn up your brightness and roam around a bit, since they can be in spots that are difficult to see in the dark.
With all Blights gone, you can now destroy the crystals in the center of the area. Once you’ve popped all of them, you’ll complete the Ascendant Challenge.
How to get Dreaming City gear in Destiny 2
Dreaming City gear got another revamp with Season of the Wish, making those weapons even more relevant. While they still performed decently, perks like Voltshot on Waking Vigil can give them even more of a fighting chance. Blind Well continues to be a good source of the new gear (though its new power delta makes it more of a slog than before), and some Season of the Wish activities can also drop the reissued weapons.
If you want to earn Dreaming City gear from exploration, though, Petra offers a weekly bounty for completing the Ascendant Challenge, which will award you with an extra piece of gear for your trouble. Each week, she’ll also offer a bounty that costs Dark Fragments and yields an Offering to the Oracle. Taking the reward to the Oracle in the Spine of Keres will give you an extra drop and, on weeks where the Curse is strongest, will let you visit Queen Mara Sov’s throne room. You can also find an Ahamkara Bone there if you’re hunting for Cursebreaker.
In addition, check out Petra’s bounties every day for a daily objective that gives out gear, as seen in its tooltip. Finishing eight daily bounties and doing Petra’s weekly quest will also yield Dreaming City gear if you have bought the objectives.
Like Ascendant Challenges, these are on a weekly lockout per character; you can accomplish them more than once a week as long as you’re not on the same Guardian.
