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Destiny 2 100% Achievements guide [BEFORE BEYOND LIGHT]
By Nyxxi and 2 collaborators
A detailed guide about how to get every achievement in Destiny2.
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Note about achievements
- To 100% this game you'll need the Forsaken DLC.
- Shadowkeep has no achievements, but it is worth to get.
- If some achievements don't unlock for you, then press Esc -> switch character -> and log in to your account again. This is a common issue with Destiny achievements.
- Get ready for hours of grinding, personally I needed 485 hours to get every achievement.

The 3 secret achievements are the following:
               ✧ Nothing Left to Say
               ✧ Heart of the Awoken
               ✧ An Exotic Journey
Long and Winding Road

- Reach level 20.
- This is story-related, it can't be missed.
- It should unlock when you'll play the introduction story mission.
Cayde's Pathfinder
- Acquire each Hunter subclass
- This achievement will unlock when you create a Hunter character.
- Available subclasses for Hunter:
          ✧ Arcstrider [arc]
               ✧ Gunslinger [solar]
               ✧ Nightstalker [void]
Ikora's Protégé
- Acquire each Warlock subclass.
- Create a Warlock character and you'll get this achievement.
- Warlock subclasses:
          ✧Dawnblade [solar]
               ✧Stormcaller [arc]
               ✧Voidwalker [void]
Zavala's Lieutenant
- Acquire each Titan subclass.
- Same as the other class achievements, just create a Titan character.
- Titan subclasses:
          ✧ Striker [arc]
               ✧ Sentinel [void]
               ✧ Sunbreaker [solar]
In A Flash
- Complete a Flashpoint on Earth, Titan, Nessus, or Io.
- Flashpoints rotate weekly. You have to complete activities on the planet until the progress bar shows 100%. The progress bar can be seen by hovering over the planet's main vendor.
- Flashpoints now (Season of Arrivals) pop up after 1.000 light level, not require any completed campaign
- Here is a picture as an example:

- Some activities give more points, like heroic adventures or heroic public events.
- To get this achievement you have to complete the flashpoint on Earth, Titan, Nessus or Io. You don't have to do it on every planet, only on one of them.
- Flashpoint rotation during Season of Arrrivals:
          ✧ Tangled Shore
          ✧ Io
          ✧ Mercury
          ✧ Nessus
          ✧ Titan
          ✧ Mars
          ✧ EDZ
- After you complete the flashpoint, you have to talk to the planet's NPC to collect your reward. The map will show it anyway, but here is a list if you are not sure:
          ✧ EDZ- Devrim Kay
          ✧ Io- Asher Mir
          ✧ Titan- Sloane
          ✧ Nessus- Failsafe

- Vendors who don't count for this achievement, but who you need to talk to for their respective flashpoints:
          ✧ Tangled Shore: Spider
          ✧ Mercury: Brother Vance
          ✧ Mars: Ana Bray

The People's Hero
- Complete a Heroic public event.
- Each planet has different public events. For this achievement you have to turn these into heroic.
- You'll know that there is a public event, when you see this symbol on your map:


- Use these guides to check how to make public events heroic: https://www.shacknews.com/article/101337/heroic-public-event-guide-destiny-2
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1890068075&searchtext=heroic
Heart of Darkness
- Complete a Nightfall strike.
- Launch a nightfall strike from the Orbit to unlock this achievement. It'll unlock when you'll finish the strike.
Challenge Accepted
- Complete 30 challenges.
- Challenges rotate weekly.
- This gold icon on your map shows the weekly challenges :

- Weekly challenges are related to vanguard strikes, nightfall the ordeal, crucible, gambit matches, flashpoints, raids or earning xp for your clan.
- You have to complete 30 in total to unlock this achievement.
- Note: Shadowkeep adds more weekly challenges, but first you have to finish the campaign to see these. [Garden of Salvation raid, Pit of Heresy dungeon, replayable campaign mission and 6 nightmare hunt challenges]
The Life Exotic
- Collect 15 Red War exotic weapons or armor.
- This achievement is glitched, but in a good way. You have to own 15 exotic items, they don't have to be Red War only.
- Some exotic items are tied to exotic quests. The rest of them are rare drops from activities. There is a higher chance to get exotics from high level activities.
- List of exotics: https://www.light.gg/db/category/-1/all-exotics/
- You can also get exotics from Xûr, check the 'Lest Ye Be Judged' achievement below.
Show Me What You Got
- Complete Introduction: Crucible.
- Crucible is the PVP mode.
- As you progress with the game Lord Shaxx (located at the Tower) will give you a quest called Introduction: Crucible. Complete the quest and the achievement will be yours.
- It doesn't matter if you lose or win the match, you just have to play the pvp mode.
Lest Ye Be Judged
- Encounter an Agent of the Nine somewhere in the system.
- You have to locate Xûr to get this achievement. His location changes weekly. To check where he is, use this site: https://whereisxur.com/
- He is around only from Friday to Tuesday (until the weekly reset).
     - Xûr sells exotic items: one exotic weapon and 3 armor pieces (1 armor piece/class).
     You can also purchase one exotic engram (Note: limit is 1 engram/ week and can be
     purchased only for one character).

Belly Of The Beast
- Complete the Leviathan raid.
- This activity can be launched from Nessus Orbit. You'll need 5 more people to complete this raid.
- Note: 3 encounters (gauntlet, bath, dogs) rotate weekly.
- Check this video to learn the mechanics of this raid:
The Prestige
- Complete the Leviathan raid on Prestige difficulty.
- It has the same encounters that the normal difficulty offers, but it is more challenging.
- Differences normal vs prestige Leviathan:
          ✧ Higher Light level enemies
          ✧ Dying removes your revive token
          ✧ Extra mechanics during boss encounters
          ✧ Unique rewards for completion

Royal Pools differences:
Bathers will create a purple field upon dying, which will drop your protection faster if you stand in it. After the damage phase with the lamps, players will receive the Burden of Worthiness buff, and they will see a different symbol above the central plate corresponding to the corner plates. Go to that plate to clear the buff.

Pleasure Gardens differences: There are two new Beasts to contend with and ultimately destroy in order to succeed. Beast paths have also changed.

Gauntlet differences: Every player has to run the Gauntlet, instead of relying on the same set of players. An additional Psion will spawn every time a wall is passed during the Gauntlet run. Finally, at the end when everyone runs together, there are only three run-extending Orbs in each wall, instead of four.

Calus differences: Whenever a Psion is taken out in the Throne room after being called out by players in the dimension, that player will swap with one in the dimension at random.

Fashion Statement [DLC required]
- Complete a Collections Badge.
- Collections are available in the character screen (F1).
- The Destinations: Red War badge is the easiest to complete. You just have to grind materials and claim rank- up packages from Io, Titan, EDZ and Nessus.
- You have to complete the badge only on one character for this achievement.

Red War collection:

Seal the Deal [DLC required]
- Complete a Triumph Seal.
- Seals which count for this achievement:
          ✧ Wayfarer [can be done in solo]
          ✧ Dredgen [requires to play a lot of gambit]
               ✧ Unbroken [you have to play a lot of pvp for this]
               ✧ Chronicler [can be done in solo]
               ✧ Cursebreaker [mostly solo except the dungeon]
               ✧ Rivensbane [raid, requires a full team of 6 players]

- SEASONAL SEALS DON'T COUNT.
- If you are a solo player, I would recommend the Wayfarer seal.
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1896062235&searchtext=wayfarer
- Chronicler requires to collect lore entries, finding bones and destroying corrupted eggs.
- Dredgen - Gambit seal. You don't need to complete the associated badge anymore, the rest of the video is accurate:










- Unbroken - Crucible seal.










- Cursebreaker - this seal focuses on Dreaming City stuffs.
Our guide for this seal:
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2207317767










- Rivensbane- Raid triumph, go for this if you have a clan and you enjoy doing raids.
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1995734240
Legends Grow [DLC required]
- Earn 5,000 Triumph points.
- For some reason this achievement doesn't unlock for players who don't have the Forsaken DLC.
- You get triumph points for many activities. Triumphs are located in your character screen (F1 button).
- This will unlock as you progress, so you shouldn't worry about this one.
- You have to claim the points, here is an example:




- Once you get 5,000 triumph points in total, the achievement will unlock.

High-Stakes Play [DLC required]
- Win a Gambit match.
- Launch Gambit mode from the Orbit. For this achievement you have to win.
Nothing Left to Say [DLC required]
- Pursue Uldren and the Fanatic to the Watchtower, and finish what you started.
- Story related, you'll get this one when you will finish the Forsaken campaign.
- Walkthrough:
     ✧ Last Call
          ✧ High Plains Blues
          ✧ Scorned (this will require to kill 6 wanted enemies)
          ✧ The Machinist
          ✧ Nothing Left to Say
Heart of the Awoken [DLC required]
- Enter the Dreaming City.
- You'll get this when you first visit the Dreaming City.
An Exotic Journey [DLC required]
- Complete a Forsaken Exotic Quest.
- Cayde's Will exotic quest will obtained during the campaign.
- Quest steps are the following:
     ✧ Obtain the quest while playing the Forsaken Campaign
          ✧ Complete the campaign by defeating Uldren to reclaim the Ace of Spades
          ✧ Take the Ace of Spades to the Gunsmith at the Tower
          ✧ Get 5 Invasion Kills with a hand cannon while in Gambit (Kill 5 Invaders)
          ✧ Kill 250 enemies using a hand cannon while in strikes
          ✧ Get 25 precision final blows (headshot kills) with a hand cannon in the            Crucible
          ✧ Open all 4 of Cayde's Caches (EDZ in the Sunken Isles, Nessus in the            Sunken Cavern, IO in The Wraith Mines, Tangled Shores in Hellrise            Canyon).
          ✧ Complete the mission "Ace in the Hole" on Titan.
          ✧ Visit the gunsmith at the Tower to collect your Ace of Spades Exotic Hand            Cannon.

- List of exotics that you can get from exotic quests:
     ✧ Wish-ender ( link for the quest [www.polygon.com])
     ✧ Ace of Spades ( written above in the guide)
     ✧ Malfeasance ( quest link [www.eurogamer.net])
     ✧ The Chaperone ( quest link [www.eurogamer.net]).

Note: you'll randomly recieve the Chaperone quest from Crucible activites.
Darkness Falls [DLC required]
- Defeat a Forsaken Nightfall Boss.
- Nightfalls rotate weekly, so you have to wait until a Forsaken playlist will show up.
- Forsaken bosses are in the following ordeal playlists:
     ✧ Warden of Nothing
          ✧ The Hollowed Lair
          ✧ The Corrupted

- You have to defeat one of them to unlock the achievement.
Exotique [DLC required]

- Collect 10 Forsaken Exotic weapons or armor.
- You can collect 4 Forsaken exotic weapons from quests (check An Exotic Journey achievement above).
     - Forsaken exotics are also rare world drops.
     - Check Xûr weekly, sometimes he sells Forsaken exotics too.
Wishing for the Best [DLC required]
- Complete the "Last Wish" Raid.
-There is an easy way to skip encounters. Go to the Wall of Wishes and enter the 7th wish:

Recommended loadout for this method:
- Everyone should use Guillotine with whirlwind blade perks
- One person should use tractor cannon or 2 people with oppressive darkness nades from the artifact.

This will spawn you at Riven. Now just follow this video:











- Full Last Wish video without skipping any bosses:
Final words
If you have any questions, let us know in the comments. Good luck :)

24 Comments
Nyxxi  [author] 7 May, 2023 @ 11:50am 
Hey, the leviathan raid was vaulted years ago. They change the achievements often depending on the new content. Right now you have to do a nightfall strike on master and grandmaster difficulty... nightfalls have weekly rotation and they have higher light level requirements than the raid. :Kolobok:
Loclast 6 May, 2023 @ 1:42pm 
Where is the leviathan raid for Belly of the beast ? Can't find it
Kreymamba♔ 1 Jul, 2022 @ 12:06pm 
I cant get ikora's protegee and zavala's lieutenant achievement.. is it bugged?
tyl0413 17 Feb, 2022 @ 5:52pm 
just beat forsaken no achievement
Fight Systemic Racism 25 Mar, 2021 @ 4:04pm 
you should update The Prestige as it now unlocks with GM Nightfall completion. well done tho!
Cursey UwU 19 Sep, 2020 @ 7:23am 
I know of a different and instant way to gain 100%, play either Xbox or Ps4 and gain all the achievements then go to here and activate cross save, connect your playstation or xbox account and set it as your main, load the game and BAM, instant 100% (this is a joke btw, dont take it seriously)
SHAMANIAC 4 Sep, 2020 @ 6:45am 
Cheers Nikki...Happy to hear it!
Nyxxi  [author] 3 Sep, 2020 @ 7:29am 
Thank you for your kind words. :CatHapi: We have some triumph guides too (more will come soon).
SHAMANIAC 3 Sep, 2020 @ 4:27am 
Arrrrrrrgh.. Kind of new to all this, however recently purchased Destiny 2, Shadow Keep and Forsaken as a package. So I appreciate all the effort and time you must have put in to create such an in depth guide. For players like myself its absolutely priceless, so Cheers Nikki.....A friend in deed, my players name is Shamaniac.....:steamhappy:
Nyxxi  [author] 24 Aug, 2020 @ 2:36pm 
Thanks, I added it to the guide. :sfsmile:
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