Destiny 2's Season of Defiance has released its final set of Seasonal Challenges, providing a large chunk of XP and Bright Dust when completed. This week only has four challenges to complete, although you'll want to complete them if you're aiming to acquire the Large Bundle of Bright Dust for completing all 75 challenges this season.
This week's challenges are fairly easy to complete, requiring you to farm Defiant Battlegrounds, land Super final blows, and acquire the Vanguard ornament for Ecliptic Distaff. We'll cover all four challenges tied to this set of challenges, how to complete them, and give the exact XP and Bright Dust rewards you can expect.
Ultimate Defiance
Ultimate Defiance: Defeat combatants with Supers in the Defiant Battlegrounds playlist. Bonus progress awarded if you also have the Strand subclass equipped.
Reward
- 25,000 XP
Ultimate Defiance requires you to defeat 50 enemies with Supers while in the Defiant Battlegrounds playlist. Both the normal and Legend variants count for this challenge. Strand Super kills grant double progress, so we recommend using a Strand Super if you own Lightfall. All Strand Supers for each class are fairly powerful for clearing adds, so landing 25 kills shouldn't be an issue. If you don't like Strand, use any roaming Super.
Favored Liberator
Favored Liberator: Generate Favors in Seasonal activities. All members of your fireteam contribute to overall progress.
Reward
- 25,000 XP
As with previous Liberator challenges this season, Favored Liberator requires your fireteam to generate 60 Favors in Season of Defiance activities. Defiant Battlegrounds and the Avalon Exotic mission both count as seasonal activities for this challenge. Unfortunately, this challenge is not retroactive, so you'll need to spawn 60 new Favors.
The good news is that you can boost your Favor drop rates by equipping Season of Defiance armor. The more armor you have equipped, the more likely you'll generate Favors from ability, Special, and Heavy final blows. Use a double Special loadout and an ability-focused build to get this done quickly.
Europa Activities
Europa Activities: On Europa, earn progress by completing bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors.
Rewards
- 25,000 XP
- 75 Bright Dust
Completing activities on Europa will grant progress towards this challenge. We recommend purchasing bounties from Variks and farming Lost Sectors to get this done quickly. Bounties will each grant a small chunk of progress, and the Lost Sector clears will also grant challenge progress. Any Lost Sector will work, but we highly recommend farming Perdition since it's fairly short.
Defiant Vanguard Ornament
Defiant Vanguard Ornament: Acquire the Vanguard ornament for Ecliptic Distaff.
Rewards
- 100,000 XP
- 300 Bright Dust
This challenge is retroactive.
Aegean Spindle is the Vanguard ornament for Ecliptic Distaff, earned by resetting your rank with Zavala before reaching Rank 16 once again. Continuously farming Vanguard Ops or low-tier Nightfalls is the fastest way of getting Vanguard Rank. For more information on Ecliptic Distaff and all of its ornaments, check out our Ecliptic Distaff guide.