Destiny 2’s Season of the Haunted sends gamers again to the Leviathan, an enormous Cabal ship that is the house of exiled Emperor Calus and the previous location of Destiny 2 vanilla’s Leviathan raid. The Leviathan is the house to the brand new seasonal exercise, Nightmare Containment, which duties gamers with utilizing a particular machine to seize the evil Nightmare creatures we first noticed launched within the Shadowkeep enlargement. Containment has a number of transferring items and necessities you may want to grasp to maximise your time with the exercise and earn the perfect rewards you may.First, it is value noting that Nightmare Containment is a Public Event much like the Altars of Sorrow occasion on the Moon. The occasion may be triggered within the Derelict Leviathan’s patrol zones, and options a number of tiers you may want to finish to get your rewards–just just like the Altars. There are additionally new currencies you may need to earn all through the course of finishing the exercise so you may maximize your weapon and armor beneficial properties. Here’s every little thing you have to learn about Nightmare Containment within the Season of the Haunted.How to launch Nightmare ContainmentThere are two choices to get into the Derelict Leviathan, however both will allow you to participate within the Nightmare Containment exercise.The very first thing about Nightmare Containment that is prone to journey you up is the choice to both launch to a Derelict Leviathan location, just like the Castellum, or to leap into Containment instantly. From the Moon Director display screen, you could find the Derelict Leviathan node on the left facet, which incorporates these two choices. The fact, nevertheless, is that each can get you to Containment, and it would not actually matter which you select.The two Derelict Leviathan choices appear to be they’re geared towards ensuring there are sufficient gamers hanging round that you could full Nightmare Containment actions everytime you need. The exercise, nevertheless, is a Public Event, so you may take part everytime you need if you’re hanging across the Derelict Leviathan patrol zone. If you need to discover the Leviathan whereas possibly often collaborating in Nightmare Containment actions, select the Castellum choice. If you propose to tackle Containment actions particularly, select the Containment choice. It’s value noting, nevertheless, that neither choice locks you into a particular exercise; you may nonetheless get lost and discover in case you select Containment, and you may nonetheless play public occasions in case you select Castellum. The two loading choices appear particularly geared at getting gamers into the Nightmare Containment exercise as rapidly as attainable, if that is what they’re on the lookout for.Gather Vestiges of DreadLike the Season of the Risen’s Psychogenic Intel, the Season of the Haunted has its personal particular foreign money, referred to as Vestiges of Dread. These drop from a wide range of places–you can get them from enemies you kill everywhere in the Solar System and any accomplished exercise, and they’re particularly prevalent within the Derelict Leviathan, the place you may earn them from finishing Containment public occasions and patrols. You all the time need to have as many Vestiges of Dread as you may get, as a result of like Psychogenic Intel, they’re key to redeeming rewards in the course of the seasonal occasion and get you the utmost variety of weapons and armor with every spherical.Generally, you need to replenish 500 Vestiges of Dread earlier than you tackle a Nightmare Containment exercise (though it is value noting that you’re going to earn numerous Vestiges throughout Containment, additionally). You want 500 Vestiges to activate the Nightmare Harvester on the finish of Tier 3 of Nightmare Containment, which is able to get you seasonal rewards on the finish of the general public occasion. So keep watch over what number of Vestiges you are carrying and how briskly you are incomes them, and ensure to finish numerous occasions to maintain your depend up so you may redeem them on the finish of Nightmare Containment.Triggering Nightmare ContainmentWhen you are within the Castellum, an icon will seem in your display screen indicating the place the subsequent Containment exercise will happen. Head to the icon and work together with it with a view to plant the Nightmare Harvester, a glowing purple scepter that triggers the occasion. The concept right here is that you simply’re drawing highly effective Nightmare enemies to you with a view to kill them and bind them to the Harvester, eradicating them from the Leviathan and disrupting Calus’s plans.Nightmare Containment is separated into three tiers, and you may want to finish all three with a view to earn rewards for the occasion. They additionally slowly get tougher over time, with the third tier culminating in an enormous boss battle. There are three whole Nightmare Containment bosses, and it appears possible they rotate each week, as we have seen with seasonal occasions in previous seasons.Tier 1 and Tier 2: Gather Shards of DreadSearch out the Dread Bearer Nightmare enemies and eradicate them quick for extra Shards and to unlock the reaper scythe Relic weapon.Your first aim in Nightmare Containment is to filter a ton of enemies with a view to energy up the Nightmare Harvester. You’re trying to collect “Shards of Dread,” a foreign money you get from killing enemies throughout Containment. You get roughly one shard per enemy killed, so the thought is to mow down as many waves as attainable, as rapidly as attainable. The icon on the left facet of your display screen signifies what number of shards you have to full the primary wave of the battle.Sprinkled all through this primary wave are more durable Nightmare enemies referred to as Dread Bearers. These are Elite enemies with yellow well being bars, they usually’re powerful to convey down by yourself. Usually you may discover these enemies flanked by different Nightmares, and killing one will get you a ball of orange Unstable Essence, with offers you a quick injury enhance in opposition to Nightmares–so its’ a good suggestion to kill the smaller Nightmares earlier than taking up the Dread Bearers.When you kill a Dread Bearer, it will drop an orb referred to as a Core of Dread. Pick that up and take it again to the Nightmare Harvester scepter and you may dunk it for a small pile of shards, normally a batch of 5 or 10 at a time. The upshot of dunking the Core of Dread is not the shards, although; the cores causes a reaper scythe Relic weapon to spawn on the Harvester. That scythe is a strong, if short-term, weapon to make use of in opposition to the waves of enemies. It fires blasts of fireside with its regular assault in the identical manner that caster swords do, and you should use its highly effective assault to ship out waves of flame that may kill a number of enemies without delay. Note, nevertheless, that if you spawn the reaper scythe, you may additionally must take care of a Champion enemy that may seem close to the Nightmare Harvester.After finishing a wave to get Shards of Dread, you may face a distinct menace, wherein you may have to kill 4 Eregore Atavists. These are particular Psion enemies that seem inside bubble forcefields, which you would possibly bear in mind from actions just like the Leviathan raid. However, the Atavists are initially hidden, so with a view to reveal them, you may have to kill 4 different sniper Psion enemies, referred to as Atavist Illusionists. These are marked in your display screen with icons to make them simpler to search out, and you may need to observe down these Elite enemies as quick as you may.You’ll want to search out and punch the Egregore Atavist enemies with a view to eradicate them. Look for Psions referred to as Atavist Illusionists and kill them first to make the Atavists seem.Once you kill the primary two Atavist Illusionists, you may reveal two Eregore Atavists. You cannot shoot these guys, due to their forcefields; you may want to leap in shut and punch them within the face with a view to kill them. Repeat the method to kill the second two Eregore Atavists to finish the wave.For Tier 1, you may want to finish these two elements of the exercise twice each–two waves to get shards and two waves to kill Atavists. If you full all 4 elements of the exercise, the Nightmare Harvester will spawn a Heavy Ammo chest, which you should use to energy your self up for the subsequent tier. However, as with all three tiers, you do not really need to finish the tier to maneuver on to the subsequent one. If the timer runs out on the tier, it will finish, however you may nonetheless be capable of transfer as much as Tier 2.Look out for the diamond-shaped Resonant Splinter objects to look close to the Harbinger. Destroy them to knock out its protect.After finishing the primary tier of Containment, the set off for the second tier will seem elsewhere within the space after a brief timer ticks down. Like with Altars of Sorrow, you may have to activate it comparatively rapidly to maintain the exercise going. Tier 1 and Tier 2 have largely the identical necessities, with one caveat: Tier 2 will even characteristic a Nightmare Harbinger miniboss enemy to kill. As you injury it, the Harbinger will Tier 3: Nightmare of Elykris boss battleThe final a part of the Containment exercise is the hardest, largely as a result of it is in a smaller space within the Castellum with an enormous boss enemy. For the primary week, that enemy is Elykris, a Nightmare model of the Scorn Baron often known as the Machinist from the Forsaken story marketing campaign. Your aim to start out with is to do as a lot injury to the boss as rapidly as attainable. The boss’s well being bar is split into thirds, and hitting every of the three markers will set off a distinct part wherein you may want to interrupt a protect on the boss with a view to hold damaging it. Keep in thoughts additionally that when you’re preventing the boss, further enemies will spawn in throughout you, so you may need to clear them out often to maintain from getting overwhelmed.The boss will acquire a protect each time you take away a 3rd of its well being, so be able to act rapidly to destroy Resonant Shards and Emissary enemies with a view to hold damaging it.Once you get the boss’s well being down by a 3rd, it will acquire a protect that makes it invincible, with two Elite Abomination spawnintg close by, that are additionally shielded. To take down the protect, you may have to shoot six diamond-shaped Resonant Splinters floating across the boss arena–you would possibly acknowledge these nodes from the Vow of the Disciple raid and the Wellspring exercise in Savathun’s throne world. Knock out all six Resonant Splinters as rapidly as you may, maintaining in thoughts that extra enemies will spawn–including explosive Screebs.Destroying the splinters will not drop the boss’s protect, however it can eradicate the shields on the yellow well being bar Abominations. These are your subsequent targets, and you may need to take them out as rapidly as attainable. With each of them useless, the boss shall be weak once more, and you may resume doing injury once more till you’ve got knocked its well being bar right down to its final third.Note that when you’re preventing the Abominations and doing boss injury, the Dread Bearer Nightmare enemies will even present up across the area. Taking down these enemies will produce a Core of Dread, identical to within the first two tiers of Containment, and dunking these cores on the Nightmare Harvester will produce reaper scythes you should use in opposition to the boss. So as earlier than, it is a good suggestion to clear these enemies out as quick as you may to get the extraordinarily helpful scythe weapon into your palms or the palms of your teammates. The scythes are nice for clearing out enemies normally, so it is a good suggestion to prioritize grabbing them.Spend your Vestiges of Dread on the Nightmare Harvester scepter to unlock seasonal rewards from the Nightmare Containment exercise.Finishing off the boss will set off a reward chest identical to in some other public occasion (though you need not win to get rewards–you simply get extra rewards for efficiently killing the boss). You can flip in your Vestiges of Dread on the Nightmare Harvester, which is able to earn you further seasonal rewards on your bother. After that, you may have to attend a short time for one more spherical of Nightmare Containment occasions to kick off, throughout which period you may search the Castellum for secrets and techniques.Finding lockdown protocol chestsSearch for further chests after finishing Nightmare Containment Tier 3. Look for inexperienced switches that beep hidden across the edges of the realm.After you end Tier 3 of the Nightmare Containment exercise, you may have two minutes till one other exercise can start. With the Nightmare quickly banished, you may see a message telling you that “Lockdown protocols in the Castellum have temporarily lifted.” This means that you’ve got two minutes to discover the realm to search out particular treasure chests, that are solely out there throughout this era.The lockdown protocol refers to facet rooms which are usually locked off and inaccessible. If you discover the facet alcoves all through the Castellum, you must discover locked doorways with huge switches beside them. The message that seems in your display screen on the finish of Tier 3 will let you know what number of of those switches are presently lively. Look for switches which have inexperienced lights on them–normally, the lights are purple, indicating that the lockdown protocol is in impact. You can establish the switches by listening for them; they’re going to periodically beep, indicating which of them may be activated.Flipping the change opens the close by door, which is able to reveal a chest and supply further rewards. The rewards you get from these lockdown chests varies fairly wildly–they’re principally the identical because the chests you discover randomly in patrol zones–so don’t fret an excessive amount of in case you miss out on them.There’s possible extra to uncover within the Nightmare Containment exercise, particularly because the occasion rotates via further bosses, so we’ll replace this text as we study extra about it over teh course of the season.

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