King’s Fall raid guide

King’s Fall is the Taken King raid from Destiny 1, and it returned in Destiny 2 on August 26, 2022, during Season of Plunder. Six Guardians board Oryx’s Dreadnaught and fight their way to the Taken King himself. It is a long raid with lots of passing auras and buffs between players, two jumping puzzles, and one of the most memorable final bosses in the game. It comes in Normal and Master difficulty, and Master drops Adept weapons with the Harrowed name.

1. Opening: Hall of Souls

Split into two teams of three, one on each side. On each side one player carries the relic orb while the other two clear the way. Each deposit extends the path and the timer, and every orb is a little farther away than the last. New in Destiny 2, barriers block the carrier’s route and have to be shot down. Fill all six statues and the portal opens.

2. Tombship jumping puzzle

Hop across Tombships to the next area. It plays just like it did in Destiny 1. Take your time and watch where the ships go.

3. Totems (Basilica)

Two brands protect the players in their room: the Brand of the Unraveler in the left room and the Brand of the Weaver in the right. Kills made while holding a brand give Deathsinger’s Power, which you bank on the central plate. There is no boss: you keep rotating roles until the deposit is complete.

• Killing the Wizard spawns a Blightguard, which drops Brand Claimer. Use it to take the brand from whoever is holding it.
• Someone has to stand under every Annihilator Totem, or the team wipes.

4. Warpriest

Plate players read the glyphs and call out the next glowing monolith in sequence. The last reader in the sequence gets the Brand of the Initiate, and the team deals damage inside its radius. To keep damage going, kill a Blightguard, grab Brand Claimer and steal the aura before it expires.

When the aura finally ends, the Oculus fires and kills anyone who isn’t hiding behind a monolith. That monolith is destroyed afterwards, so you’ll need a different one next time.

5. Golgoroth

After the maze, destroy the orb in the centre to summon Golgoroth and clear the adds. Shooting his back gives Golgoroth’s Gaze, which keeps his attention on you. Two players trade the gaze back and forth, and a failed swap ends the damage phase early.

While he’s looking at the gaze holder, the rest of the team breaks the orbs in the ceiling to create Pools of Reclaimed Light. Standing in a pool gives bonus damage against the weak spot on his belly. There are six orbs per phase. Keep an eye out for the explosive debuff: whoever gets it in the pool needs to move away from the group before it goes off.

6. Transept jumping puzzle

Plates activate invisible platforms that carry you forward. Patience beats speed here.

7. Daughters of Oryx

Each plate needs someone standing on it. A random player becomes Torn Between Dimensions, which means they can only jump and cross the floating platforms to reach the Blightguard pieces. After collecting three pieces, the Torn player takes the Daughter’s aura. The Daughters’ song wipes the team after about two minutes, and the stolen aura is your shelter from it. Bring heavy burst for the Daughters themselves.

8. Oryx, the Taken King

Oryx slams a plate, and the Torn player again collects three Blightguard pieces. Light-Eater Ogres drop Corrupted Light, while Light-Eater Knights try to eat it, so kill those Knights quickly.

• The Torn player takes the Vessel of Oryx’s aura, which becomes the Aura of Immortality.
• When “Oryx calls upon the darkness” appears, detonate all the bombs together, shelter in the Aura of Immortality, then shoot his chest.
• After damage, either the Shade of Oryx appears (enter the dome and kill it, or wipe) or Oryx bombards the arena (dodge or kill the Knights on the plates).
• At 25% health comes the final stand, with two Ogres and no Knights.

Challenges

• The Grass is Always Greener (Totems): you can’t take the same side’s brand twice in a row.
• Devious Thievery (Warpriest): nobody may hold Brand Claimer for more than five seconds.
• Gaze Amaze (Golgoroth): the gaze holder must be in a Pool of Reclaimed Light when the gaze is swapped.
• Under Construction (Daughters of Oryx): nobody may stand on the same plate twice per set.
• Hands Off (Oryx): no player may kill the same Ogre or Knight twice.

Touch of Malice

The raid exotic, Touch of Malice, is a Kinetic scout rifle and a random drop at the end of the raid after Oryx. You get one chance per character per week, so running it on all three characters helps. The full loot table is below.