All Relic Locations in Destiny 2 Equilibrium Dungeon

The Equilibrium Dungeon in Destiny 2 provides a unique quest called The Way Between, in which players must complete challenging puzzles in their next run in order to gain access to a relic that will provide them with a new powerful bonus for the Praxic Blade, and more.

There are 4 relics to collect, and we've listed each of them right here, along with how to get them and what rewards they will offer you once completed. If you're struggling to find the relics or simply need help with the puzzle encounters featured, we've got you covered.

Destiny 2 Equilibrium Dungeon Guide (All Encounters)

Here's a full walkthrough of Destiny 2's Equilibrium Dungeon to help you and your fireteam claim victory against the Dredgens within.

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By Jake Fillery

How to Visit the Inner Temple and Return the Relic in Equilibrium

Step 1: Enter the Inner Temple and Return the Artifact

After you've completed your first run of the Equilibrium Dungeon, you'll be given a relic for defeating Dredgen Sere. With this relic, you'll need to head back into the Equilibrium Dungeon. You will now want to head into the area of the first encounter, Harvester, where the large open room presents you with the Inner Temple.

Head towards the stairs of the Inner Temple, and the closed door will now open for you. Once you're inside, you can place the relic on the first altar on the right to play dialogue and receive the next part of the quest.

How to Find the First Artifact in Equilibrium & the Reward

Step 2: Find the Secret Artifact in the First Encounter

This relic is available after completing the first encounter, Harvester. Once you've completed this encounter, instead of boarding the ship, head back to the Inner Temple, where the path on the right will now have a Taken blight. This blight can be destroyed with the Praxic Blade to begin a trial encounter. To complete the trial, you need to destroy the Forgotten Eyes to build your Gathering Shadow buff into Shadow Master, and to extend your In Shadow timer.

If the timer hits 0, you'll have to restart the trial from the Taken blight you initially destroyed. The objective here is to build into Shadow Master and use the Shadow Power ability to break the shield of the Taken Captain so that you can kill him. After, you'll need to use the Praxic Blade to destroy the small Taken blight that appears.

With the Taken shield now lifted, take a Sparrow and continue forward, and shoot the Forgotten Eyes to continue extending your Shadow Master and In Shadow timers. Follow the path until you reach a large open space, where you'll need to kill all the Taken enemies. Grab the Shadow Master buff, use the Shadow Power on the Taken Captain, and finally destroy the Taken blight with the Praxic Blade that blocks the way forward.

You'll find the final encounter by continuing forward, where you'll again have to get Shadow Master and kill the Taken enemies along with the shielded Taken Captain. Once all enemies are dead, you'll need to hit the Taken blight on the left wall, and then hit the battery panel with the Taken power to open a room on the left that contains the relic.

This relic needs to be charged by completing the Equilibrium Dungeon, and upon returning to the Inner Temple on your next run, you'll be rewarded with the Offensive Form for the Praxic Blade.

How to Find the Second Artifact in Equilibrium & the Reward

Step 3: Find the Secret Artifact in the First Traversal Encounter

For the next relic, you'll need to reach the first traversal section after the Harvester encounter. Continue on the path to the first boss until you shoot the blue fuses to open the hangar doors to outer space. The door closest to the 2 fuses is open, and you can destroy the Taken blight with the Praxic Blade to begin the trial.

For this trial, you'll need to explore the room and destroy the Forgotten Eyes to extend the In Shadow timer and grow your Gathering Shadow buff to reach Shadow Apprentice, where you can shoot an open Taken-infused panel on the left, which opens a door just behind it with yet another Forgotten Eye. Backtrack to the start of the trial to find the Shadow Apprentice, and then kill him and the Taken blight that spawns at the blocked door.

Continue through the encounter as normal by crossing the hyperspace bridge to the other ship, and after destroying enough Forgotten Eyes for your timer, head to the right room to shoot another panel at the wall. There's a Forgotten Eye inside the unlocked door, and another past the main room, so you can use the Shadow Power to kill the Taken Captain in the middle room.

With his death, enter the right room, and you'll see a Taken blight to destroy with the Praxic Blade, and a vent to destroy to allow you to travel down through the encounter. Continue to the bottom to find more Forgotten Eyes, and a more spacious room by following the right, which contains the final set of Forgotten Eyes, Taken Captain, and a Taken blight on the right wall, that contains the final panel.

After destroying this panel, you'll get yet another artifact, and upon returning to the Inner Temple after completing the dungeon again, you'll be given the Invigorating Blade, a Blade Focus for the Praxic Blade.

How to Find the Third Artifact in Equilibrium & the Reward

Step 4: Find the Secret Artifact in the Second Traversal Encounter

The third and final relic can be found in the jumping puzzle just before the final boss, Dredgen Sere. Continue through the section until you reach a door that contains a Taken blight on the left to be destroyed with the Praxic Blade. Your goal is to collect Gathering Shadow and destroy Forgotten Eyes, and use the Shadow Power to push enemies off the edge to their deaths, so you can proceed into the next room.

Continue through these rooms, and you can look right to find Taken blights in the air, which can be destroyed with the Praxic Blade to create platforms that allow you to navigate the room and destroy more Forgotten Eyes. Follow the path and destroy all eyes, and on the back right, use the Shadow Power on the battery panel. Another battery panel can be found on the far opposite end, high up on the left.

After activating those two battery panels, head into the red pipe as you would for the boss encounter, and shoot the vent on the floor to continue through to the final room filled with more Forgotten Eyes, a Taken Captain, and Taken blight that hides the last battery panel. With this panel's activation, you can access the locked door beside it and grab the final relic, which grants the Gyro Core Power Core upgrade when returned to the Inner Temple after the Dungeon completion.

How to Complete The Way Between Quest in Equilibrium & the Reward

Step 5: Defeat the Shade of Sere Boss

After you've placed all relics, you can head to the back of the Inner Temple room to spawn a Taken blight and a Raid Banner. Upon destroying the Taken Blight, you will be teleported into a boss arena against the Shade of Sere. To enter DPS against the boss, defeat Taken enemies with the Praxic Blade to acquire Shadow Master, and then interact with the Shade of Sere to Compel him, and repeat this three times.

The boss will teleport upwards, and you can use the Taken blights to create platforms towards him to begin a DPS phase against him and the In Shadow timer, which will only extend after you deal enough damage. For the next phase, simply continue to eliminate Taken enemies to Compel the boss with Shadow Master another 3 times, and climb to his DPS arena and defeat him.

After the Shade of Sere dies, you'll get the Energy Conduit Catalyst for the Praxic Blade, and you can now interact with the Praxic Fire that spawns. Completing The Way Between quest allows access to Dungeon Focusing of Equilibrium loot, and provides the Catalyst for the Heirloom Exotic Crossbow.

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