How to complete the King’s Fall raid’s Deepsight Resonance puzzle in Destiny 2

Similar to Destiny 2’s Vow of the Disciple raid from earlier this year, the redux King’s Fall raid offers a special puzzle that will spawn a guaranteed Deepsight Resonance red border chest for diligent Guardians. Completing this puzzle is one of the only ways to get a guaranteed DR weapon each week, and will drastically speed up your ability to craft the raid’s excellent suite of guns.

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You can find this article here Destiny 2 King’s Fall guide, we’ll teach you how to find the Runes throughout the raid and unlock the secret red border chest each and every week.

Notification: At the time of this writing, the puzzle is bugged and occasionally doesn’t work. Bungie is aware of the issueHowever, we have found that the Runes 1 through 4 will activate randomly. You can reset the raid using orbit, and retry if you have a Rune Grouping that includes Runes 1 – 4. If you get a Rune grouping where all the Runes appear after teleporting into Golgoroth’s maze (5-9), you should be able to complete the puzzle without issue.

The Runes:

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When you first spawn into the King’s Fall raid, before grabbing the Relic, run through the hallway with the Thrall statues and up to the podium that houses the portal that leads to the rest of the raid. Turn around and go under the podium to face your spawn point. You’ll notice three green runes staring at you: one on your left, one on the ceiling, and one on your right.

This Rune display is telling you which three Runes you need to activate as you run through the King’s Fall raid. Write down their descriptions (or take a screenshot) so you don’t forget.

Notification: The runes can be read after the encounter with the Tomb Ships, but not before the encounter with the Portal to Tomb Ships.

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Compare your Runes to the cipher above — taken with permission from Skarrow9’s great video on this puzzle — and assign them numbers. This correlates to the order you’ll encounter the Runes in. For example Rune 1 is almost immediately after you enter the portal, whereas Rune 9 is all the way in Oryx’s chamber.

Once you know which Runes you need to hit, jump through the portal and start making your way through King’s Fall.

All runes locations

There are nine total Runes that you might need to activate in King’s Fall. Below, we’re going to quickly run through each of them so you know where to go.

Shoot the glowing green button on the wall to activate the Rune. The Rune will appear and activate when you do this. You can’t have more than three Runes active to complete the puzzle. To turn off the incorrect one, you can press the button once more.

Notification: If you’re confused by some of the areas we’re describing, you can use our King’s Fall guide to follow along.

Rune 1

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Rune 1 can be found on the swinging pendulums just before the Tomb Ship Jump Puzzle. You can hop on the first pendulum, and then turn around. Here you’ll find the green button attached to the wall.

Rune 2

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Move to the first secret chest, located during the Tomb Ship jumping puzzle. Turn around when you have reached the chest and locate the green button by looking up.

Rune 3

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Rune 3 lies on the balcony at the left end of the Totems encounter. When you have been deemed worthy by the Warpriest, go over to the left and glance up to see the green button in the corner.

Rune 4

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Rune 4 is located on the right-side balcony of the Warpriest encounter. Once you’ve killed the boss, head up the stairs on the right side until you come out the balcony at the top of the room. On the wall next to the entrance is the green button.

Rune 5

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Make your way to the end of Golgoroth’s maze, where the big Knights spawn. Before entering the boss’ chamber, turn around and look into the final death pit. You’ll see the green button attached to the wall.

Rune 6

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Jump down to the Golgoroth area after you have killed the boss. Then, make your way towards the bottom left, where the first bubble will drop. Walk into the small cave near the bubble and you’ll see the green button on the right.

Rune 7

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Rune 7 will be in the exact same place as the third hidden chest. Make your way up to the hidden chamber and you’ll see the green button to the left of the chest.

Rune 8

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At the end of the Dick Wall puzzle, at the locked door that will only open when all six members of your team are present, look up at the ceiling and you’ll spot the green button.

Notification: If you enter the vertical jumping puzzle with the big lantern — the one just before Oryx’s chamber — you’ve gone too far. This Rune: InThe Dick Wall Room.

Rune 9

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In the final boss room, Oryx’s chamber, walk to where the rally flag can be placed and turn around to face the entrance. Look up and you’ll see the final green button.

If you’ve done the puzzle correctly, you’ll see a message that says “The Runes accept your offering” pop up in the activity feed. Once you have killed Oryx in the raid, a bonus chest will appear and you’ll receive your Deepsight Resonance raid weapons.

NotificationDR Weapons are only guaranteed once per account and per week. Even with three characters you can only complete the puzzle one time per week.