How to complete The Way Between quest in Destiny 2’s Equilibrium dungeon

If you’ve bested Dredgen Sere in the Equilibrium dungeon, your journey is just starting. The Way Between quest leads the Guardian to their own Praxic Trial, complete with guidance from Aunor Mahal, and completing it gets you some extremely handy rewards.

The Way Between follows a similar structure if you’re familiar with dungeon quests. You need multiple clears to get to the end of it, and you must solve a few puzzles along each step. Thankfully for guardians, Equilibrium is on the shorter side of dungeons if you’re familiar with the mechanics, and the bosses don’t have absurdly high health pools (looking at you, Ghosts of the Deep).

Here’s a breakdown of how to complete The Way Between in Destiny 2‘s Equilibrium dungeon—and what you get for your troubles.

Destiny 2 The Way Between quest guide

This quest truly starts after beating Equilibrium for the first time. Taking down Dredgen Sere drops an Integrated Relic at the end of the run. Take it to the Praxic Temple at the beginning of the dungeon, allowing you to open the door that was closed and leading you further into the structure.

Head inside and look for an area where you can place the artifact you got from Dredgen Sere. This will spawn a Taken Blight in the mission, just like the ones required to get the Praxic Blade catalysts in Fire and Ice.

The quest follows a pattern: destroy the Taken Blights, find a relic scattered around the mission, kill the final boss, then redo the dungeon and place the artifact inside the temple. We’ll break the detailed locations below, but some quick hits to keep in mind are:

• After the first encounter, just outside the Praxic Temple, before going into the ship (step four).
• After the first encounter, before jumping across space to reach the other side of the ship (step five).
• After the second encounter, in the jumping puzzle (step six).

Recover a Praxic Relic (step four)

For the first Taken Blight, finish the first encounter and don’t head inside the ship. Instead, backtrack to the Praxic Temple and take the path on the right (facing the door). Destroy the Taken Blight and stand on the pool of Taken energy on the floor to grab the Shadow Novice and In Shadow buffs.

Your goal is to clear the enemies in the area before the timer for In Shadow ends, and destroying each Acolyte’s Eye gets you 15 extra seconds. The first wave of foes spawns near the Blight, but once that’s over, continue around the race course, shooting the Acolyte’s Eyes in the way, until you end up on the other side of the door. With the shadow mechanic, use your alternate grenade to turn on terminals when necessary as well.

If you’ve destroyed all enemies within the allotted time, a door will open and reveal the first hidden relic you must find. Finish the dungeon, then deposit this artifact in the Praxic Temple to advance.

Master the Darkness to find another stolen Praxic Relic (step five)

Just like in the last run, your goal is to find another Taken Blight and break it with your Praxic Blade, kicking off a timed sequence. This time, look for it before you shoot a glowing fuse and jump to the other side of the ship. The Blight is behind the gap, leading you into a cramped hallway.

Once you’ve cleared all enemies on that part, then you jump into the other side of the spaceship and continue mowing down Taken as they appear. Follow the intended path for the dungeon, leading down into the shaft before fighting Harrow, Dredgen Apprentice (and don’t forget the vents leading there explode and will kill you if you’re too close). Destroy Harrow and Dredgen Sere, then deposit another relic inside the inner Praxic Temple to advance this mission.

Traverse the Imperium’s shadows (step six)

This is the trickiest of the relics to find. After taking down Harrow, you’ll come upon a platforming puzzle inside the ship, which hinges on the Shadow mechanics to lead you up a pipe and further up the spaceship. In this step, you’ll find the Taken Blight just before that platforming section. This is easier as a team, but can be done solo if you’re quick enough.

Destroy the Blight and pick up the remains of Taken energy on the floor. Clear the enemies in the first room, then head into the open area with the jumping puzzle. Use your alternate grenade on the shielded enemy to push it off the ledge, revealing a litany of Taken Blights.

Break these Blights with the Praxic Blade to spawn floating platforms, which lead you to different buttons all over the room. Once you’ve cleared the area, head up the pipe and race against the clock. If you’ve done everything right, another door will unlock, leading you to the final relic… and to something sinister inside the Praxic Temple.

Open the Taken portal in the inner temple (step seven)

Take the final relic into the temple and deposit it to unlock the quest’s final challenge. Doing so opens a portal leading to a shade of Dredgen Sere, which serves as an extra boss. The mechanics mostly stick to what you’ve done in the quest so far.

The portal drops you inside the Ascendant Realm, in a square room with sections walled off by Taken energy. As usual, stack the Shadow buffs as much as you can, taking down adds and Acolyte’s Eyes to keep the timer running. When you can, use the buff to strip the shields of the immune enemies that show up, since killing them breaks down the barriers in the area.

After taking down the shielded enemies, multiple Taken Blights will spawn. You know the drill: use the Praxic Blade to break them and create platforms that lead you to the shade of Dredgen Sere, way up high in the arena. If there are no shielded enemies, use the alternate grenade with the Shadow buff to deplete the boss’ shields. Do it twice to open up a damage phase, which gets you to half its health. Repeat the entire sequence, take down the Shade of Sere, and collect your goodies to wrap up this quest.

The Way Between quest rewards

You’ll get some upgrades for the Praxic Blade as you advance the quest, but completing The Way Between got us two sets of randomly rolled tier five gear (at 550 Power) and unlocked Attunement for the dungeon’s weapons and armor.

If you have the Heirloom Exotic, you can also obtain its catalyst from this quest by attuning to it. In our experience, this dropped for us after clearing the first encounter.