It’s a doodad you feed doohickeys to make more powerful.
Destiny 2’s season missions are finally here and if you expected to get out of this one without finding some new piece of technology to grind levels out of you have sorely mistaken this for another game. The center of attention for this week’s update is Uldren Sov now in the form of Crow, a Guardian working under Spider as a henchman of sorts to hunt down Wrathborn enemies and ultimately take down the Hive Celebrant that killed the ghost belonging to Osiris.
After completing a few intro missions you’ll get your hands on the Cryptolith Lure which is the forefront of the seasonal tasks. You need to charge the lure in order to initiate a hunt and you’ll never guess how you charge it. Go ahead, guess. Did you guess “by completing crucible, gambit, and strike matches?” If so, then you understand how Destiny works. If not, well now you know.
So the whole idea of the Cryptolith Lure is that you charge it up by completing gambit, crucible, or strikes. Your choice of poison. The lure can hold three charges and doesn’t take a whole lot of time to fill up a single charge. I didn’t do any sort of scientific approach but I did play a number of crucible and gambit matches and I found that each one filled the charge 33%.
Once you have the Cryptolith charged you then pick a mod that decides who you summon (which in turn determines what slot gear you get) and pick some modifiers that change the rolls on the gear. Finish that up to complete your lure and take it to either the Tangled Shore or Dreaming City (it will tell you). You’ll start a public event at the location indicated where you need to kill your lured monster.
After bringing your lure down in health it will run off and that’s when Destiny takes a page out of Monster Hunter’s book and has you tracking it down by its green trace. You’ll track it down to an instanced mission and kill it plus another boss. Honestly this is the simplest part of the sequence, the timeline to get from charged lure to killing the boss is maybe five minutes.
Completing hunts rewards you in more than one way. For starters each successful hunt grants you recon data that can be turned in to Crow to unlock more upgrades for your Cryptolith. These upgrades offer more powerful weekly rewards from hunts, a wider array of enemies, and better upgrades. You also receive mods for the lure that change what kind of gear you can obtain for completing the hunts. It’s very similar to the Opulence Chalice.
Very simple, as long as you really enjoy running gambit, crucible, or vanguard strikes.
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