How to get Microcosm in Destiny 2: The Final Shape (2024)

Microcosm is a Heavy Exotic trace rifle in Destiny 2’s The Final Shape. It not only excels at breaking enemy shields, it also synergizes with your Super — no matter what Super you have equipped.

In this Destiny 2 guide, I’ll walk you through how to get Microcosm, including how to complete the Cooperative Focus missions in the “Convalescence: Budding” quest, where you’ll earn the Exotic trace.

If you’re after other The Final Shape Exotics, then we have an explainer on how to get Ergo Sum and Still Hunt.

How to get Microcosm in Destiny 2

You’ll get Microcosm from the final quest in the Convalescence questline, “Convalescence: Budding.”

Reaching “Convalescence: Budding” is fairly straightforward in Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Here’s a quick glance at everything you’ll need to do:

  1. Complete The Final Shape campaign
  2. Complete “Destined Heroes” (the Ergo Sum quest) step “Queens, part 1”
  3. Complete “Convalescence: Rootbound”
  4. Complete “Convalescence: Underbrush”
  5. Complete “Convalescence: Greenery”
  6. Complete “Convalescence: Budding”

How to complete ‘Convalescence: Budding’

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You’ll pick up the first quest in the Convalescence chain — “Rootbound” — while working your way through “Destined Heroes,” which you’ll start immediately after the campaign. Starting with “Rootbound,” you’ll then need to complete each of the Convalescence quests in order to reach “Budding” and Microcosm.

Thankfully, this entire questline is relatively straightforward, as it’s designed to teach you about The Pale Heart destination and all of its activities. But once you learn about lost Ghosts in “Rootbound,” Pale Heart mods in “Underbrush,” and Cyst activities in “Greenery,” you’ll need to learn about Cooperative Focus missions in “Budding.”

To complete “Convalescence: Budding,” you’ll need to complete the Cooperative Focus mode versions of three campaign missions:

  • Ascent
  • Dissent
  • Iconoclasm

For these missions, you’ll need at least one other Guardian — although you’ll ideally want a full Fireteam of thee, since the missions don’t scale. But no matter what, these Cooperative Focus mode missions are not ones you can tackle solo, so you need to pair up with friends or other players via Fireteam Finder.

When you’re ready, locate the Campaign replay nodes on The Pale Heart. You’ll find the three icons for these Cooperative Focus quests under them. The missions say they’re 2005 Power, but the enemies are actually less powerful than the Legendary campaign baddies.

When you complete these missions and return to Micah-10 in The Lost City, they’ll give you Microcosm.

You can play these missions in any order, but they all share three tricky mechanics: Glyphtouched, Berserkers, and Witness Fracturing. Here’s how they work.

Glyphtouched

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The first is a change to the Glyphtouched buff, which normally allows you to see symbols and walk into the correct ones. In the Cooperative Focus versions of the missions, only one player will be Glyphtouched, and they won’t be able to see what the symbols are. So you’ll need to communicate as a Fireteam, with the non-Glyphtouched Guardian instructing the Glyphtouched player what symbols to do.

Berserkers

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Second, the Cooperative Focus missions reintroduce Berserkers from the Scourge of the Past raid. When you get close to these enemies, they’ll unleash a slowing field and expose weak points. The catch is you need to destroy a weak point on their front and back simultaneously — something you’ll need to do as a group.

Once you kill the Berserker, two Darkness Cruxs in the area will have their immunity shields disappear. You and your Fireteam members will need to each shoot a Crux at the same time as the other player. If you fail to do this for long enough, you’ll wipe and have to start over.

Witness Fracturing

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Finally, in certain sections of each mission, The Witness will begin to afflict the Fracture debuff one member of your Fireteam at random. This stacking debuff increases every few seconds on the Fractured character. Once the debuff hits x7, the afflicted player won’t be able to use movement abilities anymore. But, at x7, you can interact with the Fractured player to take the debuff for yourself.

You’ll essentially need to juggle this between your Fireteam while the Fracture debuff is present. You cannot make it go away until you progress the objective, and it’ll kill your Fireteam members if they ever reach x10 stacks. Just coordinate together and play hot potato with the debuff until it goes away.

What does Microcosm do?

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Before even getting into Microcosm’s perks, the weapon is already unique for two reasons: it’s a Heavy trace rifle and it’s a Heavy weapon that doesn’t deal elemental damage (Kinetic). It also does pretty decent damage, so it’s a great pickup for any Prismatic builds where you’re trying to get Transcendence as often as possible.

Microcosm has two Exotic perks. The first is Paracausal Beam, which causes the gun to fire Kinetic light, dealing massive bonus damage to shields. The second is Paracausal Imbuement, which causes kills with Microcosm to grant you Super energy. Additionally, Microcosm does additional damage for a short time after your Super expires.

If you’re after other The Final Shape Exotics, then we have an explainer on how to get Ergo Sum and Still Hunt, plus one on the Legendary version of Khvostov.

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  2. Destiny 2 guides
  3. The Final Shape Exotics
  4. Power level guide
  5. Charge Transcendence
  6. How to enhance weapons
How to get Microcosm in Destiny 2: The Final Shape (2024)

FAQs

How to get Microcosm in Destiny 2: The Final Shape? ›

Microcosm is unlocked after completing Micah-10's final Convalescence quest: Budding. But to get to that point, you will need to finish The Final Shape's campaign and complete the Destined Heroes quest up until you finish the Queen Part I adventure.

How do you unlock shape patterns in Destiny 2? ›

Weapon Patterns are primarily unlocked from red-border Resonant weapons. A few Patterns can also be unlocked through the completion of specific quests. Pattern progress can be obtained by dismantling weapons with Deepsight or claiming the Pattern by inspecting the weapon.

Is destiny 2 ending with final shape? ›

No, The Final Shape won't be the end of Destiny 2.

Expansions should still be a thing after that, but we don't know yet whether Bungie is looking to shake things up after this saga or not.

What is the final shape in destiny 2 witness? ›

The Final Shape is the final showdown with the Witness, a powerful being of Darkness. The Witness is a hive mind of the first civilization chosen by the Traveler, and it has been plotting for many years to extort the Traveler's power for its ultimate goal: The Final Shape.

How do you unlock shapes? ›

Select a shape in your drawing. On the Developer tab, in the Shape Design group, click Protection. Select the shape attributes that you want to lock, or clear the check boxes for the attributes you want to unlock, and then click OK.

How to activate the relic in the enclave? ›

Inside The Enclave, you'll find the Relic. Approach the Relic and interact with it to begin the Weapon Crafting tutorial which will allow you to craft your first weapon - a legendary Glaive called The Enigma. To begin, you'll need to select 'Shape' to create a new weapon. Next, select the weapon you want to craft.

How is Cayde 6 alive? ›

The idea here is that it's entirely possibly that Crow was tricked into using an Ahamkara wish to bring Cayde back to life. The ship is called “Unforseen Consequences” and its flavor text is “Be careful what you wish for” which uh, is a pretty good clue up front.

Who is the bad guy in The Final Shape Destiny 2? ›

Plot. The Final Shape centers on the Witness, the main overarching antagonist of the Light and Darkness saga (which began with the original Destiny) who was first introduced at the end of The Witch Queen.

Is Destiny 1 still active? ›

Destiny 1 will no longer receive planned game updates or content. Destiny 1 content through Destiny: Rise of Iron will continue to be available on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Consoles, however players will have limited access to some Destiny 1 Activities.

Is the witness the main villain in Destiny 2? ›

The Witness is the major villain of the Light and Darkness saga and is, essentially, the main antagonist of Destiny 2 (and Destiny as a whole).

What is after the final shape Destiny 2? ›

Is The Final Shape the end of Destiny 2? No. The Final Shape is not the end of Destiny 2 and Bungie has already revealed plans to keep the story going afterwards with Episodes – a different take on the seasonal model that has been running since late 2019 – starting with "Echoes".

Is Savathun the witness? ›

Savathun, The Witch Queen, reveals that an entity known as the Witness manipulated Savathun billions of years before embracing the Worm Gods and thus the Darkness itself to deprive the Traveler of a race to enlighten.

How to unlock likely suspect pattern in Destiny 2? ›

Likely Suspect - Requires completion of 1 Deepsight Resonance extraction. Lubrae's Ruin - Requires completion of 5 Deepsight Resonance extractions. Forbearance - Requires completion of 5 Deepsight Resonance extractions.

How to get submission pattern in Destiny 2? ›

Submission is obtained in the Vow of Disciple raid from the Witch Queen Expansion. Specifically it has a chance to drop from the the first, second, and third encounters. Once acquired for the first time, it has a chance to drop from the two hidden chest as well.

How do you unlock disparity pattern in Destiny 2? ›

In order to craft Disparity you must first collect the pattern. This is done by completing Deepsight Resonance extractions on five different Disparities. Deepsight Disparities can be found via random drops. You can also spend another Exo-Frame module to unlock the Focusing Deepsight upgrade at the Exo-Frome.

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