Destiny 2 Warlord’s Ruin Dungeon Guide

Upon starting this encounter, you’re going to immediately notice that the boss is immune. Then, after fighting some enemies for a short while, the boss will spawn this right here.

It’s essentially the taken version of a Scorn Captains like Elemental turret, but before you can do much to it, you’re going to be teleported into a floating metal cage.

Now, if you do nothing in this cage, you will just die. All three teammates are going to be in a cage just in different locations around the map. To escape, shoot the blighted eyes that will spawn around this cage. There are three you need to shoot.

Then, when you shoot all three, the door will actually open and then you can just jump out. Now, you can shoot your teammates blighted eyes from across the maps like if they can’t find one, and you can see it, you can help them out.

Once you get back down here, you’re going to have a little bit of extra time depending on how fast you shot those blighted eyes to deal with those Scorn turrets.

To complete this task, stand inside the white circle. Shooting is not necessary, just standing near the circle will suffice. The orb will eventually turn purple and be destroyed. Destroying the turrets will grant a new buff called “Imminent Wish” with a countdown timer.

Once the timer reaches zero, it will be replaced with a buff called “Naeem’s Wish Empowerment,” which allows you to damage the boss. The more turrets you destroy, the more time you have with the Imminent Wish buff. The boss doesn’t have much going on besides stomping occasionally, so you can use close-range weapons like swords or shotguns.

Once the duration is up, the boss becomes immune and the sequence of events starts over. You will need to kill Scorn enemies, possibly get teleported into a cage, and then head to the turrets to shoot the center. You do actually have to be inside that white circle to damage it regardless you’re going to keep going. You might be teleported to a cage another time you destroy more of these Taken turrets, but you’ll get another buff with another timer to hopefully take down the boss.

However, when you do take the Scorn boss down, you’re not going to be able to get your loot yet, because you’re actually going to be teleported into a prison cell and you’re going to have to figure out how to escape.

What really does matter to escape and get the loot is to look around in the prison cell, there are small circular objects. They can be found above doorways and in various locations. When you shoot these objects, they start turning counterclockwise. If you shoot them again, they stop, and if you shoot them again, they turn clockwise. The directions will change.

In one specific cell, there is a lever to activate. And there are six spinning gears in total. The code is determined by scratched numbers in certain cells. White indicates clockwise, and orange indicates counterclockwise. To enter the code, a certain number of gears should spin clockwise and the rest should spin counterclockwise. Then, hit the lever to try the code.

Now after being let out of the prison cell, you’re going to grab your loot and then you have a pretty long traversal section. So what you’re going to need to do is make your way through the Castle. You are going to see enemies every once in a while, and importantly, there’s going to be a lot of traps hidden floor holes and deadly spikes.

You also want to be vigilant for the little vents on the side of the wall. Those are going to shoot out spikes if you go through them. If you see them on the ground, jump over them. If they are high up, crouch under them. If the vents are on one side, move to the opposite side of the wall.

One important thing to note is that there are many false chests. So, be on the lookout for a faint ether glow.

During the course of your journey, you will reach the area where you need to jump up multiple times until you reach the outside of the Castle on the cliff side. So climb up, cross the bridge, and move forward.

To enter the Castle, head to the left and stick to the side of the Castle, jumping on these kind of little objects jutting out. Eventually, you will see the open sewer. Jump in and continue moving forward into the Castle to the second encounter.

After traversing further, you will reach an outdoor area where you will encounter another enemy. Upon starting this encounter by shooting the Taken orb in the center of the Arena, a large Taken Ogre will spawn, initiating another boss fight.

In this task, you will encounter multiple enemies spawning in the center of the Arena. Among them are yellow bar enemies — Servile Minotaur mini bosses that you should prioritize taking down. Killing these bosses is crucial as it will trigger the appearance of other important ads, which we will discuss shortly. Additionally, you should also focus on defeating the blighted eyes.

Now after you do take those things down on the left side of this Arena and on the right side there’s going to be some big Scorn Captain Mini bosses. When you kill them they’re going to drop the Taken Scorn turret from the very first encounter. And you should destroy them in the same way by standing inside the white circle and shooting at the center.

But importantly during this whole process your screen is going to start to get more and more blur and if you look in the corner of your screen you will see the Biting Cold debuff and it will grow until gets to time 10. At this point the entire team will wipe. So how do you avoid this?

Well, located around the outskirts of the map you have the kind of pillars of flame. If you go near them, you’ll see in the corner of your screen you have Shelter From The Storm, and The Biting Cold debuff will go down extremely quickly. So you can go to these objects, get rid of the Biting Cold debuff, and then leave again if you need to destroy the Taken turrets, kill some bosses, kill some enemies, or revive a teammate.

After that you will see text appear in the bottom left of your screen that “the Howling winds die” and then the Biting Cold debuff will no longer be applied.

You should move around the arena and find a solar charge in the very center back of the Arena. You can pick up this solar charge, and you will have the buff Burning Desire.

Around the part of the boss arena are going to be four different stone pillars with metal tops. Have the Burning Desire you can interact with the pillars and essentially light these beacons.

Once all four of those beacons are lit with Burning Desire you’ll start to DPS the boss.

Importantly there’s going to be a storm ongoing when you’re dpsing. You should deal damage to the boss from the beacons with Burning Desire. And it’s also going to give you Shelter From The Storm.

The boss will get closer and closer and extinguish different pillars one by one. So after he extinguishes the first one you’re going to have to move your team to the next one. DPS from there, as the boss gets closer and extinguish that one, you move to the third one and so on.

And it’s very important to make sure, that when you’re lighting the final fourth beacon your entire team is there and they only hop into that one. If you light two at the same time then you’re going to get into damage. Because if you have two teammates standing on two different beacons, it’s going to waste one light. So definitely make sure to go from one at a time as a full team.

And finally, if you don’t do enough damage to kill the boss, then you simply have to run that whole mechanic again.

A helpful strategy is that even though the Captains spawn on opposite sides of the Arena you want to stick together as a team. By focusing on one side, the team can easily defeat the Captain, destroy the turret, and then move on as a team. The other Captain will eventually travel across the arena towards the center, where the team can quickly eliminate it. This strategy allows for efficient dispatch of the enemies and the Taken turrets.

During the gameplay, we found that using a sword outside of the lit beacons resulted in hitting immunes. However, the brand new seasonal Scatter Signal Fusion rifle, which has a rapid fire frame and controlled burst, proved to be an incredible weapon for this encounter. It is effective at close range, but not too close that swords need.

Now we are moving on to the last encounter.

After proceeding through the castle and the mountain cliff, you will finally reach the door.

To reach the Castle, go back through the door and find the entrance. Inside, you’ll see a large Taken sphere floating. Traverse the cliffside outside to move upwards. Along the way, you’ll encounter groups of enemies. There is also a challenging jumping puzzle after that group of enemies. Reach the top of the pillar of rock and follow the light to continue in the right direction. Jump across and keep going until you reach the final boss.

The boss is floating and immune, so continue climbing up the Castle. When you reach the top of the tower, you’ll face the final boss encounter. Jump down, find the rally flag, and prepare for the mechanics of the encounter. There are many things happening in this fight.

To begin the encounter, shoot the Taken Orb when the boss initially spawns. It will be immune at first, so it’s important that you stay on the platform where you start. Enemies, including Scions, will spawn, but you also need be aware of the blighted eyes that appear around the boss. Take them down, and be cautious of damaging blights that spawn in the surrounding area. Shooting the blighted eyes is necessary, as walking near them will cause ongoing damage.

Two of Scorn Captain mini bosses will spawn and they are relatively easy targets. As before, defeating them will cause the Scorn turrets spawn, and it is advisable stand near them in order to destroy them.

However there’s another mechanic you need to be aware of. You’re going to get a debuff called Hex of Vengeful Corruption and it has a timer of only around 15 seconds. So when this gets to zero you will just die. To avoid it, during the time that you have this debuff there are going to be immune Corrupted Hex-Drinkers. Dealing melee damage to them you actually transfer this debuff onto them. So they will start to glow all black. If they melee you back while they’re glowing black, you will get the debuff again and the timer will still run. So if you melee them with two seconds remaining and they melee you back, you’ll have like 1 second to deal with it right.

So what you actually need to do is, is to find one of the glowing white Hex-Drinkers, melee them, and then dip jump away. Make sure that they can’t melee you back.

Because they are immune, so you can’t kill them, a great way is suspend them with a grenade or something like that to just stop them for a second. They’ll be suspended, and you’ll have some time to go over and destroy the Taken turrets.

Now, why do you want to destroy those Taken turrets? Well, as long as you destroy at least one and get the Imminent Wish buff, you’re going to actually have a damage phase where you can finally damage the boss. And similar to the very first boss, it’s called Naeem’s Wish Empowerment.

The timer is linked to the number of turrets you destroy. Destroying three or four turrets gives you more time to damage the boss. Time is important because there is a white chunk in the boss’s Health that needs to be lowered to progress to the next section of the Arena. If you don’t lower it completely, you’ll repeat the same phase in the same location.

But if you do lower the chunk all the way down, then the boss is going to teleport to the area that was previously out of bounds, and you can now go to there.

You’ll see the blights disappear from the objects, so you can jump on to get to the next section of the arena. And after that repeat the same mechanics in this new area. Those same mechanics happen one more time, then you have another opportunity to damage the boss.

However, after doing it the third time, things are going to change. Because instead of just moving to a new location, once you lower the chunk for the third time, the boss is going to teleport in the center of the kind of ring of debris.

Standing on the first third of the ring, focus on dealing as much damage as possible. Blighted eyes will continuously spawn and become immune, teleporting the boss. So, you should assign one person to shoot the eyes to prolong the damage phase. If you don’t, the eyes will cause the damage phase to end sooner. After maximizing damage and managing the eyes, move on to the next third of debris for another damage phase.

To maximize your impact, focus on damaging the blighted eyes. After each phase, a Taken goop will appear, teleporting you back to the beginning. Repeat the process, navigating through mechanics and moving to higher areas to do damage. Reach the top ring of debris for a significant damage phase. If you deal enough damage, a final stand mechanic will trigger, teleporting you to a new area with spawning blighted eyes. And finally, you’ll defeat Hefnd’s Vengeance, Blighted Chimaera, and complete this brand new Destiny 2 Warlord’s Ruin dungeon.