Destiny 2’s newest and oddest exotic SMG is here, and the quest to obtain it is a doozy. You’ll need to solve hidden puzzles, learn new mechanics, explore the Nether, and then finally complete an exotic quest to pick up the strangest gun to come toD2in a while. It’s a classic run-around-and-look-for-clues quest, so buckle in for the ride.
Barrow-Dyad is a disc-shapedSMG inDestiny 2with an interesting exotic perk.It’s called Panic Response, and it charges up Blight projectiles that load into your magazine when you reload.Though the Guardian doesn’t get to be cool and blighted like Sloane, you’re able to harness Taken power with this fascinating gun.
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Unlock A Hidden Quest And Follow It To Its Conclusion
You can start this quest in a few places, and it’s up to RNG which one you get. Load into the Nether, and thenkeep an eye out for a large Taken Blight clinging to the top of certain arenas.I found mine in the Trenchway, on the left side of the area.
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Once you get into the Blight, you’ll need to walk onto the teardrop-shaped platform in front of you. Look at the rune panel in front of you, anda text will appear at the bottom left of the screen that tells you that you will hear a whisper in a certain direction. Step off the plate in that direction, and you’ll be teleported to the other side of the blight. Pick up the Taken Osseus Fragment to gain the “The Taken Path” quest.
The Taken Path
It’s A Long Path, But Leads To A Neat Gun
Head back to the Slab with Sloane, who will give you what little information she can glean from the Fragment, but she ultimately gives it back to you. For the next quest step, you’ll need tounlock and insert the Scotopic Rune if you haven’t already, allowing you to see Taken stuff. You’ll need to have a Reputation Rank of four at the minimum to insert the Rune.
Once this is done, you’ll need to visit two Lost Sectors to collect two more Osseus Fragments. The first is theK1 Revelation Lost Sector in Sorrow’s Harboron the Moon. A while into the lost sector, you’ll see a small taken Blight and a little Taken dome. Shoot the Blight to dispel the dome and reveal another of the same puzzles you found in the Nether. Step on the panel, walk off in the correct direction, and you’ll be teleported to another area of the lost sector, but this time with a bunch of Taken Blight and enemies. Clear out the enemies to pick up your second Fragment.
The final fragment you’ll need for now isfound in the Veles Labyrinth Lost Sector in the Cosmodrome, specifically in the Forgotten Shore. This lost sector is annoying to navigate but stick toward the right-hand side to find the room with the puzzle in it. It’ll glow blue, so keep an eye out for this while you run.
The puzzle will function similarly to how it did in the K1 lost sector, defeating enemies until a large, yellow-bar Ogre spawns. Defeat it, and a nearby Blight will clear away, allowing you back into the maze. You can pick up the final Fragment for this stepin another room of the maze with a Hive trap after defeating the yellow-bar Keeper of Powerand then return to Sloane at Eris' apartment.
The Taken Path Step 5: The Curses
The next quest step in “The Taken Path” is three smaller quests, but they’re not too hard. For this quest step, you’ll need to find three different Taken curses and follow the instructions to clear them in their respective quest steps.The Quest of Endurance takes you back to Sorrow’s Harbor, the Curse of Urgency the Hallowed Grove Lost Sector in the EDZ, and the Curse of Revenge the “Pride” Nightmare Hunt on the Moon.
Each curse requires you to do something a little different:
Once you’ve done the three Taken relics, you’ll need to find three hive statues in the Nether.
The Taken Path Step 5.1: Find Three Hive Statues
At random places in the Nether, there will be Hive statues that spawn once you’re on this step of the quest. Walking up to them will reveal an interaction prompt that reads “Call to War” and spawns a yellow-bar enemy once pressed.Defeat this enemy to get another Osseus Fragment.
It appears you’re allowed to reload the instance of the Nether—that is, relaunch the activity—and then use the same statue again. If you get the Hall of Souls twice (or thrice) in a row, you’re able to pick up the Taken Osseus Fragment from there as many times as needed to finish this step.
The easiest place to find a statue is in the Hall of Souls, whereit spawns to the right and forward a bit from where you load in. There’s another in the Mausoleum, on the level directly behind where you spawn in that area. Drop down behind the spawn and look to the left for a statue on or near the wall. They spawn in other locations, but I only needed these two.
Complete The “Derealize” Exotic Quest
This quest is relatively simple overall, and it uses mechanics we’ve seen before.Use Taken Relics, avoid the eyes to prevent yourself from getting Suffocating Terror, and defeat the Dread that the mission throws your way.After such a complex quest, it’s a relief that the mission itself isn’t as puzzle and mechanic-heavy as some others have been.
After the first boss fight in Derealize, you’ll be stuck between dimensions with a sigil puzzle in front of you. In order from left to right, the symbols mean right, forward, backward, and left.Step on the panel and then wait until the symbol on the panel matches the leftmost symbol, then move in that symbol’s direction.Do this four times to escape.
You’ll be teleported every eight seconds whether you solve the step of the puzzle correctly, so don’t fret. You’ll know you’ve done something right if the leftmost symbol in the row disappears.
There’s a bunch of traversal, where you’ll need to avoid wall-spikes and Blight concussion, but you’ll eventually reach the final boss room. Defeat the boss while avoiding the eyes and their Suffocating Terror. You’ll defeat one version of the boss, then it’ll take another form, and you’ll be prompted to escape, sealing it inside the antechamber.
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Barrow-Dyad drops before the final boss fight butsticks around for the fight to get the quest that allows you to upgrade the weapon’s intrinsic trait.The catalyst for this Blight-themed gun is time-gated and unavailable at the time of writing, but it will surely make an already silly gun even sillier. Whether you add Barrow-Dyad to aStrand-centric loadoutor throw it right in the vault, that’s yet anotherDestiny 2exotic quest under your belt.
