Destiny 2 A Rising Chorus Act 3 walkthrough: All steps, explained

While the future of Bungie developers might not include Destiny 2 thanks to Sony’s restructuring of certain people, the post-Final Shape story is still trucking along. We will update this week by week to give you the best Destiny 2 A Rising Chorus Act 3 walkthrough, detailing all the steps and side quests you need to complete.

Week 1 — A Resounding Truth

Our first quest line takes us to the everpresent H.E.L.M. location to speak to Failsafe about a new update regarding the big bad of this story, Maya Sundaresh. An interesting cinematic will play, showing the reasoning behind Maya’s sudden transformation.

Once it’s over, speak to Failsafe again and she instructs you to return to the last place you were in Nessus’ core and continue further into the planet. This coincides with the brand-new exotic quest Encore, which just so happens to be our first step in the story quest.

Step 1 — Defeat the Conductor’s forces in the Exotic mission Encore

For our first step, you must launch and complete the new Exotic quest Encore from the H.E.L.M. If you need help getting through the fairly long and arduous mission, we’ve got a great Encore Exotic mission guide just for you.

However, it should be mentioned that if you have not completed Act 1 and Act 2 of A Rising Chorus, you will not be able to start the new Exotic quest or receive the weapon if you join a friend who has the mission unlocked.

Once you complete this mission, not only will you get the new Exotic auto-rifle Choir of One, but your next step of the weekly quest will appear.

Steps 2 & 3 — Meet with Ikora in the H.E.L.M, then speak with Failsafe

Upon returning to the H.E.L.M., Ikora speaks to you about the reasoning for all of this, and what Maya truly wants to accomplish. She leaves you with a lot of questions, and a large AI in the middle of the room to talk to.

Interact with Failsafe, and she expresses her excitement in locating the specific coordinates of the Conductor’s base. In order to help Failsafe with this task, you need to bring her a piece of Golden Age tech, and she just so happens to know where you might find it.

Step 4 — Find the stolen Golden Age component on Nessus

There are a total of 5 Golden Age tech pieces located in The Rift lost sector on Nessus. Teleport to the Exodus Black landing zone on Nessus, and from here, go left towards the wall and you should see the entrance to the lost sector in front of a fuselage on the ground.

Once you get inside, follow the markers until you reach the last area where you’ll find the boss. You can take care of the enemies first, as it will make collecting the tech that much easier.

Golden Age Component #1

The first chest and by far the easiest one to find, is located above the lost sector chest. Simply jump up to the platform and interact with it to grab your first Golden Age Component.

Golden Age Component #2

Our second component is found slightly in front of the lost sector chest in a crate if you’re looking from the start of the room. Head to the left side of the arena and you should see a rectangular box with an opening. Enter the crate and you’ll have your second Golden Age Component.

Golden Age Component #3

Our third piece of tech is found over on the right side of the arena right next to the wall. It should be about midway across the wall, right on the other side of a large object. Interact with it and we are more than halfway done finding the components.

Golden Age Component #4

Immediately from where you found the third component, head straight to the back of the wall. You should see the fourth chest on the right back side of the arena.

Golden Age Component #5

After you snag the fourth piece of tech, turn around looking towards the entrance to the arena, and you should see a raised platform to the right of where you found the third component. Jump up to the second area and inside a room is our final Golden Age Component.

Step 5 — Upgrade Failsafe in the H.E.L.M.

Travel back to the H.E.L.M. and interact with Failsafe to upgrade their systems to version 3.0. She gives you a perfected Radiolite Sampler and asks you to complete the latest NES00 quest to progress the story.

Step 6 — Help Failsafe research specimen NES007 and discover its secrets

The next step of A Rising Chorus Act 3 requires you to complete the NES007 side quest, and this might take some time.

NES007: Step 1 — Defeat Vex with Solar damage

Our first stop on the specimen express requires you to defeat 100 Vex with Solar damage. This can be completed anywhere in Destiny 2 but there are a few options that expedite this process.

The Arena Breach Executable activity spawns a decent amount of Vex, and you can gather a ton of new Radiolite along the way. However, there are other types of enemies, so you most likely won’t complete this step on your first go around.

Alternatively, if you travel to Artifact’s Edge landing zone on Nessus, you can enter the Orrery Lost Sector which boasts a plethora of Vex to take care of. Take out as many vex as you can without defeating the boss, and then teleport back to the landing zone and head back to the Lost Sector to respawn the Vex. This helped me complete this mission step in no time and is a good place to keep in mind for a later step.

NES007: Step 2 — Secure the data Failsafe needs

Once you’ve melted enough Vex with Solar, our next step asks us to grab Extracted Data and defeat Vex bosses from the Arena Breach Executable activity. While you can complete this by performing other seasonal activities, I chose the Breach Executable activity since you can easily complete this step in one run alone.

NES007: Step 3 — Rapidly defeat Vex to acquire a large sampling of their CPUs

Next up on our fetch quest of the week, we must rapidly defeat Vex in order to progress the quest. Similar to the first step of this sidequest, I chose to head back to the Orrery Lost Sector, slapped on a machine gun and the new Exotic weapon, and went to town. If you optimize these kills, you should get through this step in one or two runs of the lost sector.

NES007: Steps 3 & 4 — Speak with Failsafe in the H.E.L.M. to review her report and display the specimen in your collection

With all those steps complete and out of the way you can return to the H.E.L.M. to speak with Failsafe, who gives you the seventh specimen and asks you to place it in your display behind her.

Step 7 — Visit the holoprojector in the H.E.L.M.

Return once again to Failsafe and interact with her to listen to a message from Saint-14. He goes into detail about how he feels about his whole situation in regard to the Conductor. Furthermore, he tells you that Failsafe is hard at work researching all the readings you provided from the core of Nessus. Until the next week of quests, this is where the story ends, waiting for the next news about Sundaresh and her grand plans.

That will do it for the first week of A Rising Chorus Act 3, and while not a lot happened, there’s surely enough build-up to be interested in next week’s story content. In the meantime, if playing with Solar weapons for the week 1 quest was enticing, then our Solar Warlock builds might be right up your alley.