Complete Echoes ACT 2 Guide (Red Borders, New Weapons, Expert Battlegrounds) | Destiny 2

Echoes Act 2 has begun! We've got another guide for you detailing everything you need to know about what's new this Act, including the best way to farm Aberrant Action and Corrasion, how to optimize Expert Battlegrounds, and more!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:55 Act 2 Story Quest
3:22 Specimen Quest
5:39 Best Way to Get New Weapons
7:12 Expert Battleground Delve Guide
12:27 Perfect Paradox
12:50 Engrams and Reputation
14:38 Outro
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[timpanzeee]

You can also claim the top right normal echo engrams when you interact with failsafe on your alts that do not have any armor discovered to get only weapons, saves an extra engram which essentially doubles your weapon drops

[lucienmoolman]

The first thing I said when loading into D2 today was, "wher fire roket gunn"

[justanotherlemon]

This is definitely the wrong place to say this but after the final shape dlc i have just had no motivation to actually play the echoes seasonal things tbh

[burningpuppy]

Got lucky turning in engrams and crafted the side arm. Soo nice.

[sinbad]

I managed to matchmake into the 2nd battleground before I had actually done the regular version, but I definitely noticed the 1st was on much heavier rotation.

Also remember that you should bank your radiolite in the helm. You get generally better rewards, mainly because you can bank larger amounts at a time

[ksj]

These new battlegrounds are much better than previous ones

[LakerTriangle]

I was able to play both the battlegrounds from the playlist...Got tons of red borders

[Machado]

Probably cant do it on expert but the second battle grounds came up right after the first if I didn't go to orbit and just stayed with the fireteam

[fiddlestyx_rofl]

Not to mention it's high stat I got a leg roll with, 29 resistance, 30 discipline, and 2's on the rest of stats yesterday

[ssjavocado]

Best D2 Creator. Thanks for the info man. Keep it up.

[merandoitsme]

I'm not sure if anybody knows but if you have any characters that doesn't has the seasonal armor unlocked yet. You can actually decrypt the engrams from the top(using 1 engram) rather then focusing which uses 2 engrams. They will be all weapons instead having mix of armor and weapons :)

[jaypierce]

I got 4 red bordered abhorrant in 5 battlegrounds runs. Literally the fasyest weapon i ever crafted lol. Worth it

[Caenin-]

Thanks for the heads up for Perfect Paradox! That's the weapon I was going for.

[GothboiNinja]

these expert battlegrounds were kicking our ahh and we are only able to play the 1st one! excited to see the other 2 on the expert difficulty, even more when they become GMs 😅

[mikecheckmike]

Took all of maybe 6-7 runs to get red boarders for crafted Aberrant Action. Drop rates seem to be pretty good.

[adamschulz]

Right when you unlock the sidearm that’s when you start using your engrams to get weapons. I got my 5 sidearm red boarders done with 86 engrams. It’s soooo good fully crafted

[SilverDaysFail]

VAULT OF GLASS RED BORDERS FOR BOTH SIDE ARM AND PULSE RIFLE:
Tip1: TURN ON GHOST MOD FOR PLANETARY MATERIALS
Tip2: for future reference and heads up aztecross recommends you complete 5 battlegrounds roughly. He says this somewhere in the video

Step 1: echoes act 1 must be completed to get act 2 quests (&/+ receive the “a rising chorus: act II” quest from Ikora)

- says you should have /get a specimen quest from failsafe I believe
-stays next story quest step is to complete a new conduit battleground and that that’s found in nessus
- after that return to helm speak to saint thru projector and interact with com log’s in helm
- says we need to open chests at end of echoes activities - he proceeds to say we must run 5 echo battlegrounds now as stated earlier ; standard or expert ; or he says we can run expert breach executable . Says wit a competent enough team we can do this cus at very end multiple chests to open instead of 1. Mentions thats with a good enough squad you can do breach executable in about 15 minutes, make sure we hit the pistons and to always go for platinum this way we may open up all the chests at the end.
-aztecross says he finds the aberrant action and corrasion pulse rifle red border grind drop chances were higher in the battleground activity
- says to complete specimens quest breach executable is way to go
- next steps in video aztecross says we must focus 5 echo engrams into echo gear at failsafe
- next step: extract data in breach executable and defeat powerful combatants in echoes battleground (says you can complete this step in a single battlegrounds run and that we don’t need to do both activities?
- next step is to speak to failsafe for your reward which will be the “mirror encrypted hydra tail” specimen

6:51 start of explanation for and how what when why and where best way to optimize grind for red borders abberant action and corrasion in expert battleground to get the most loot at the end
-recommends planetary materials mod is on again here

8:33 recommends to turn planetary material mods turned on while in delve and before first portal there’s material and after first portal there’s a piston to activate for more materials
10:36 he says once the shield comes down that there will be more samples around to be collected and another piston to slam once the shields dropped

12:48 strongly suggests you just farm episodes engrams and pop them through a focussing at failsafe at helm for abberant action and corrasion

13:02 suggests wearing echoes armor for extra experience gains with failsafe to farm for echoes engrams

13:29 mentions specimen ID: NES004 ; hydra specimen tails tags on even more reputation bonus with fail safe

14:10 mentions previous battle passes able to be acquired in video in the description down below in this current video being watched where essentially you download an extension from Mozilla Firefox then go to season pass Pass and access previous seasons of destiny. Mentions this because you’re able to pull deepsight harmonizers

14:28 video finishes and wraps up

[valkyrien]

Got very lucky and have sidearm and pulse crafted, they are both very good easily the best weapons of the season

[stnedpenguin]

Bungie: We're gonna lay off on the timegating.

Also Bungie: We timegated everything you want.

[Alex-ugwx]

Are you keeping build battles going?

I managed to catch the end of your stream (don’t really watch streams that often) and saw how nasty chat were being, and how you wanted to give BB a rest for a while.

Hope they haven’t burnt you out! I quite like the series so it’d be a shame to see it gone!