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  • Still Standing
  • Legendary Liberator
  • Favored Warrior
  • Friendly Neighborhood Guardian
  • Unraveling The Sun
  • Dredgin' Up Victory
  • Adversaries Of Humanity
  • Righteous Blade

Destiny 2's Season of Defiance continues into its fifth week, releasing eight new Seasonal Challenges for Guardians to tackle. Most of these challenges encourage you to play higher-difficulty content, participate in all ritual playlists, and get your hands on this season's ritual weapon. So long as you've been leveling, these challenges should be fairly easy.

Related: Destiny 2 Season Of Defiance: All Week 4 Seasonal Challenges

Some of this week's challenges include playing weekly Lightfall campaign missions, farming bosses in Vanguard Ops, defeating Guardians in PvP, and completing Legend difficulty Defiant Battlegrounds. This guide will cover all eight challenges added this week, the rewards you can expect, and provide tips on how to complete them as quickly as possible.

Still Standing

Still Standing: Complete Week 5 of the "We Stand Unbroken" quest.

Reward

  • 25,000 XP

The fifth week of Season of Defiance has furthered the "We Stand Unbroken" seasonal quest. If you haven't started it yet, complete the First Contact Lightfall campaign mission and use the holoprojector on Neomuna. Complete the listed quest objectives until the challenge is complete.

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Legendary Liberator

Legendary Liberator: Complete a Defiant Battleground on Legend difficulty.

Reward

  • 25,000 XP

Legend difficulty is now available for Defiant Battlegrounds, accessed from the Legend Defiant Battleground playlist at the H.E.L.M. You only need to complete one Legend Battleground to complete this challenge, regardless of how many Champions you kill.

Legend Battlegrounds limit your Power Level, locks your loadout, adds additional shields to enemies, and includes damage modifiers through threats and surges. Matchmaking is also disabled for this playlist.

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Favored Warrior

Favored Warrior: Earn Favors of Justice, Grace, and Zeal during Season of Defiance activities. Bonus progress awarded for Favors earned during activities on Legend difficulty.

Reward

  • 12,500 XP

Earn ten of each Favor to finish this challenge. Favors are unlocked from the War Table at the H.E.L.M. You can spawn Favors in Defiant Battlegrounds and the Avalon Exotic mission. Grabbing Favors that your allies spawn will also contribute towards this challenge.

As for creating Favors, we highly recommend using a Machine Gun, Trace Rifle, and an ability-centric build to spawn all three Favor types with reasonable consistency. If spawn rates still seem low, equip Season of Defiance armor to increase Favor spawn rates.

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Related: Destiny 2 Season Of Defiance: Vexcalibur Exotic Quest And Hidden Chests Guide

Friendly Neighborhood Guardian

Friendly Neighborhood Guardian: Complete a weekly mission from Lightfall on Hero difficulty or higher.

Reward

  • 25,000 XP

After completing the Lightfall campaign, visit the Neomuna map to find a weekly campaign playlist. Complete this weekly mission on any difficulty (Hero, Legend, or Master) to finish this Seasonal Challenge. Matchmaking is disabled for all three difficulty variants, so we recommend completing this on Hero if you're attempting this solo.

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Unraveling The Sun

Unraveling the Sun: Defeat Guardians in the Crucible. Bonus progress is granted for opponents defeated with Strand, Solar, and Void ability final blows.

Rewards

  • 50,000 XP
  • 150 Bright Dust

Unraveling the Sun requires you to defeat 50 Guardians in any Crucible game type. This includes Control, Rumble, the rotating playlist, Trials of Osiris, and Iron Banner when it's active. Private matches do not count. Landing Strand, Solar, or Void ability kills will count as multiple kills, although we recommend you focus on getting kills with any loadout you're comfortable with.

Currently, most players are gravitating toward SMGs and Pulse Rifles. Some good picks include No Time to Explain, Tarrabah, The Immortal, and Autumn Wind.

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Dredgin' Up Victory

Dredgin' Up Victory: Complete Gambit matches. Earn bonus progress for wins.

Rewards

  • 25,000 XP
  • 75 Bright Dust

Dredgin' Up Victory hasn't seen any changes this season. This challenge requires you to complete eight Gambit matches, wins granting additional progress. Gambit matches only take a few minutes to complete, so this challenge shouldn't take much time to finish.

If you're looking to win these Gambit matches, we highly recommend curating a loadout centered around invading. Weapons like Xenophage, Eyes of Tomorrow, and Leviathan's Breath are fantastic for killing enemy Guardians and damaging the Primeval.

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Related: Destiny 2: Season Of Defiance Gear, Ranked

Adversaries Of Humanity

Adversaries of Humanity: Defeat Taken and Vex bosses in Vanguard playlists or strikes.

Rewards

  • 50,000 XP
  • 150 Bright Dust

Defeat five Taken bosses and five Vex bosses in Vanguard Ops or Nightfalls to finish this challenge. Some good strikes include Hypernet Current, Lake of Shadows, and The Glassway.

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Righteous Blade

Righteous Blade: Acquire Ecliptic Distaff.

Rewards

  • 50,000 XP
  • 150 Bright Dust

This challenge is retroactive.

Ecliptic Distaff is obtained by reaching Rank 16 with any ritual vendor—Commander Zavala, Lord Shaxx, and the Drifter. You increase your rank with each vendor by playing their respective activity. The weapon itself is a Void Glaive with a static roll. You can learn more about earning this weapon, its ornaments, and its static roll with our Ecliptic Distaff guide.

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