Destiny 2’s Shadowkeep Raid Guide: How To Beat The Garden Of Salvation

The first new raid of the latest Destiny 2 expansion is here. Like all of Destiny’s six-player raids, it’ll put your team through its paces, testing your skills to play the game and your ability to effectively work together. The Garden of Salvation in the new Shadowkeep expansion sends you to the Black Garden, home of the Vex, and it adds some interesting new mechanics. Your reward for beating two tough Vex minds is a bunch of raid-specific armor and weapons. These are also considered Pinnacle drops, which are the only way you can advance your character’s gear beyond the Power level cap of 950.

Garden of Salvation is a very complicated activity and will require you and your teammates to know and fulfill your roles along the way. We’ve broken down every single encounter you’ll fight through in the guide below, which will tell you how to handle both bosses, as well as where to find the raid’s two hidden chests. While you’re in Garden of Salvation, you can also grab some hidden chests, as well as Divinity, the raid Exotic trace rifle–but you’ll need to complete a bunch of puzzles to do so. Here’s everything you need to know to invade the Black Garden, kill the Consecrated and Sanctified Minds, and beat Garden of Salvation.