In this guide, you will learn how to complete the Dual Destiny exotic mission while playing Destiny 2. This guarantees players receive access to several exotic items upon completion, including Relativism, Stoicism, and Solipsism.
How to Unlock the Dual Destiny quest in Destiny 2
To unlock the Dual Destiny mission in Destiny 2, you will need to complete time-consuming puzzles that require specific steps.
Complete Overthrow in the Landing
After you finish Overthrow in the Landing, you will see a message saying “A Secret-Keeper of the Witch Queen is near…” which means a Hive Lightbearer has spawned in the area.
Next, find and kill the Hive Lightbearer Secret-Keeper in the Landing. This enemy appears in the southeast corner of the Landing near the entrance to the Forgotten Deep Lost Sector.
Complete Overthrow in the Blooming and the Impasse
The Blooming Secret-Keeper is in the northeastern part of the region among the tall rock formations. The Impasse Secret-Keeper is in the southwest corner, near the entrance to the Broken Deep Lost Sector.
Get the Savathun’s Envoy buff
Follow the vertical beam of green light through the Refraction to the crystal statue of Savathun to acquire a 7-minute buff called “Savathun’s Envoy”. This makes two waypoints visible.
Kill the Dread Expector bosses at each waypoint, collecting the Light and Darkness orbs they drop along the way. Then, take the orbs back to the room with the statue of Savathun and deposit them on the corresponding plates.
How to Complete the Dual Destiny quest in Destiny 2
The Dual Destiny exotic mission in Destiny 2 requires two players–one with a Light Subclass equipped (Arc, Solar, or Void) and the other must have a Darkness Subclass equipped (Stasis or Strand). For the duration of the mission, the player with the Light Subclass is “Light Aligned” and the player with the Darkness Subclass is “Darkness Aligned.”
This determines which plates can be activated, symbols that can be seen or interacted with, and the enemies that can be killed.
Start the mission by stepping on the plate matching your own alignment (Light player steps on the white plate, Darkness player steps on the black/orange plate) to bring down the barrier blocking the path. Proceed into the Refraction.
After this, head to the area in which you start the Moth-Infested Cavern Cyst. There are two Darkness barriers brought down when both players stand on the corresponding plates in the area to shoot the Darkness splinters on the barriers.
Dual Destiny Refaction Cavern
The cavern is the first major encounter of Dual Destiny, tasking one member of the duo with identifying symbols only they can see, while the other player shoots Darkness splinters with matching symbols only they can see. Stand in the corresponding Light and Darkness rings in the cavern to begin the encounter.
- The Light player kills two Light-aligned Servile Centurions and collects the Motes of Light they drop. This reveals two symbols on the plinths near where the Light ring was.
- The Darkness player kills two Dark-aligned Servile Knights and collects the Motes of Light they drop. This reveals several Darkness splinters with symbols at a time.
- The Light player tells the Darkness player which two symbols they see on their splinths in the order that they appear.
- The Darkness player shoots the matching splinters in the correct order. A confirmation message, “Paracausal energy tears through you!” will appear, and they will get teleported ahead.
- In the next room, the rules are the same, but the roles are swapped, with the Darkness player finding the symbols and the Light player shooting the splinters. However, now, three symbols need matching. Afterward, you will teleport to the final room.
- In the final room, the rules are the same as the first room, but four symbols need to be matched. If both players do everything correctly, and kill all the enemies, they will get teleported to the next area of the mission.
Dual Destiny Intrusion
Upon completing the Refraction cavern, both players will find themselves inside a massive black Pyramid structure. This next section involves a lot of platforming with more pairs of Light and Darkness plates to open the way ahead.
After fighting a bunch of Taken, the players will reach a large room with an orange barrier blocking the exit door. When they begin the encounter by standing on the plates, a Darkness obelisk appears in front of the barrier, surrounded by nine splinters in a clockface pattern.
To get out of this room:
- Identify the three Darkness splinters with lasers that both players can see on their clockfaces. One player should read out the positions of all six lasers, and then the other player compares and calls out the positions of the three matches.
- Shoot the matching splinters one by one at the same time as the other player. If done correctly, you’ll see the message, “Light and Darkness surge, destabilizing an obelisk!”.
- Repeat two more times and the barrier will deactivate, letting you press on.
Dual Destiny Final Bosses
Here, players will need to kill enemies, stand on Light and Darkness plates to activate gravity lifts, take the lifts to the next area, and then repeat until they get sent over to the final boss area. Next, players will need to face two Subjugators and use a combination of the mechanics from the symbols and clockfaces encounters to defeat them.
- Damage Selin until they retreat to a nearby Darkness obelisk and summon a shield.
- Both players must kill the Servile Wizards matching their own Light/Darkness alignment. The Light player will then be able to see three symbols arranged vertically in front of the obelisk, while the Darkness player will see many splinters with symbols around the obelisk.
- The Light player reads out the symbols from top to bottom and the Darkness player shoots the matching splinters in order.
- Continue damaging Selin until they retreat again. This will summon Yemiq.
- Repeat steps 1-4 on Yemiq except the roles are switched for the symbols – the Darkness player now reads out the symbols while the Light player shoots the splinters.
- Both players must kill the Servile Wizards matching their own Light/Darkness alignment that are near the laser clockfaces.
- When a laser pattern appears, both players must shoot the one splinter that is shared by both clockfaces at the same time. Like before, when a laser pattern appears, one player should read out the positions of all four lasers they can see, while the other player compares and calls out which one matches theirs. Do this three times to bring down Selin and Yemiq’s shields.
- Defeat Selin and Yemiq.
Once Selin and Yemiq are both defeated, the players can traverse across the newly formed bridge and head through the glowing doorway to claim their loot.
Dual Destiny Prepare for Battle or Choose Peace Choice
After unceremoniously getting trapped and killed when claiming the loot, players must make a choice by following the button prompts on the nearby Darkness splinters; prepare for battle or choose peace.
- If both players choose to prepare for battle, the mission turns into a PvP showdown where each player must fight the other to the death. The victor can then attempt to crush their opponent’s Ghost but fails and dies.
- If both players choose peace, they both die.
Neither outcome affects the Exotic Class item mission reward, and both players can claim them from the plinths after respawning, but you do get unique dialogue from Savathun depending on which outcome you choose.
Destiny 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Bungie and initially released in 2017 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.