What is the Ascendant Challenge this week in Destiny 2? (Oct. 14 to Oct. 21)

Destiny 2‘s Ascendant Challenges are among several moving parts involving the Dreaming City’s intricate curse, which envelops the area in a three-week time loop.

The curse ranges from weak to strong to strongest, and each cycle brings a ton of treasure to hunt for—if you’re brave enough to dive into the Ascendant Plane in search of riches. Destiny 2 has six Ascendant Challenges that rotate every week. They’re a surefire source of Dreaming City gear, including reissued versions of Waking Vigil, Tigerspite, and Twilight Oath.

Finishing an Ascendant Challenge grants a piece of Legendary gear per character, but you can get your hands on an extra drop if you have Petra Venj’s weekly bounty. These weekly objectives are also a prime target for stacking bounties since you can have up to six weeklies in total—one for each Ascendant Challenge.

Here’s this week’s Ascendant Challenge and how to complete it in Destiny 2.

What is this week’s Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2? (Oct. 14 to Oct. 21)

• Challenge: Cimmerian Garrison
• Entrance: Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector (Rheasilvia)

How to find and complete the Cimmerian Garrison Ascendant Challenge in Destiny 2

Each Ascendant Challenge has a special entrance that you can only see using the Tincture of Queensfoil, available from Petra Venj or found in Dreaming City chests. It grants a 30-minute buff that allows you to see the secrets of the Dreaming City.

Consume Tincture of Queensfoil and head into the Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector. Do the lost sector as normal, and in the boss room, there’s a Taken portal on the cliff. Jump inside the portal to enter the Ascendant Plane.

In the Ascendant Plane, run. There are Abyssal Champions that will chase you, and while you can deal damage to them, your primary objective is to escape. The path is straightforward, but it can get tricky in the dark.

Run forward until you encounter Shriekers where the path turns to the right. Follow it until you reach a spiral staircase. At the staircase, more Abyssal Champions spawn, except these are faster. Run up the staircase and then jump across a few floating rocks to reach the final arena.

In the arena, kill the Abyssal Champion boss that spawns. Be careful of the Taken Phalanxes, who also spawn in the arena, as they can push you off. Dying in the Ascendant Plane means you’ll have to do the entire challenge again.

How to get Dreaming City gear in Destiny 2

Dreaming City gear got another revamp with Season of the Wish, making those weapons even more relevant. While they’re not a part of the tier system introduced in The Edge of Fate, a gun like Waking Vigil with Voltshot can still perform well.

Blind Well continues to be a good source of reprised gear (though its new power delta makes it more of a slog than before). Petra offers weekly bounties for a piece of Legendary gear and an Offering to the Oracle that you can take to Mara Sov’s throne room on weeks when the curse is strongest. You can also find an Ahamkara Bone there if you’re hunting for Cursebreaker.

In addition, check out Petra’s bounties every day for a daily objective that awards gear, as seen in its tooltip. Finishing eight daily bounties and doing Petra’s weekly quest will yield Dreaming City gear if you purchase the objectives. Like Ascendant Challenges, these are on a weekly lockout per character. You can accomplish them more than once a week if you’re not on the same Guardian.