Garden of Salvation Raid Guide: All Four Encounters, Loot and Divinity

Short answer. Garden of Salvation has four encounters, and every one of them runs on the same mechanic: shoot a Vex box to tether a beam, then pass that beam between players to open gates, charge confluxes or repair the arena. It's not a free raid: you need the Shadowkeep Pack or Destiny 2: The Collection.

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How tethering works

Shoot a Vex box and a beam of light connects it to you. Walk close to another player or a tetherable object, such as a gate or a conflux, and the beam extends to them. The beam has a limited range, so the team spreads out in a chain instead of bunching up. You'll use it in all four fights.

Evade the Consecrated Mind

Goal: get through four rooms while the Consecrated Mind chases you.

1. Tether from the Vex box to the gate to open it.
2. Enemies spawn and the Consecrated Mind starts dropping Voltaic Overflow, a glowing white box on the ground. Someone picks it up straight away, or the team wipes.
3. Picking it up gives you the Voltaic Overflow debuff. You can hold only one stack at a time; a second one kills you, so rotate who grabs the next one.
4. Kill everything past the gate, including the Angelic Hydra, and tether the next gate. The Mind moves to the next room and the cycle repeats.
5. Room four needs three Vex boxes tethered, not one. After that gate, run the final stretch: Cyclopes fire from every side and the Overflows keep coming.

What wipes teams: an Overflow nobody picks up.

Summon the Consecrated Mind

Goal: charge five confluxes, four in the corners and one in the center, to pull the Mind back.

1. Tether a Vex box to a corner conflux. That opens a portal between the corner confluxes and gives the players who tethered it the Enlightened buff.
2. Only Enlightened players can break enlightenment shields, and every enemy here has one. Once a shield breaks it stays broken, so anyone can finish the target.
3. Each corner conflux brings three Angelic Hydras. Kill all twelve to unlock the central conflux.
4. Hold the center through three waves, then tether the Vex box that spawns at the end.

Loot to know: this encounter drops Reckless Oracle. A Sanctified Mind checkpoint skips this fight, so it never drops the gun. The Garden copy is one of the seven weapons in our GoS weapon farm, from $20 per weapon; the Pantheon copy is a separate Reckless Oracle Farm. Our Reckless Oracle guide explains the two versions.

Defeat the Consecrated Mind

Goal: fill the central relay with 30 motes, then shoot every eye.

1. The Mind starts immune. It keeps dropping Voltaic Overflow, but now whoever picks it up is Detained.
2. The Mind extends its eyes. Only the Detained player can see which eyes are weak spots; they call them, and the team shoots exactly those.
3. Kill the Minotaurs. Each drops five motes; bank them in the central relay.
4. At 30 motes the Mind comes to the relay and opens all its eyes. Shoot every one to start damage.
5. Damage ends when the Mind finishes retreating from the relay. Repeat until it dies.

What wipes teams: a missed weak spot or a wrong eye during the Detain phase.

Defeat the Sanctified Mind

Goal: fill two relays with 30 motes each, then tether the right Vex boxes to open damage on the Sanctified Mind, Sol Inherent.

1. The Mind destroys parts of the arena. Tether Vex boxes to repair them.
2. Two relays match the Mind's two weak spots, knee and shoulder. Shooting them opens a blue and a red portal.
3. A player who goes through a portal lands on a separate island. Kill the Vex there for motes of that color.
4. To come back, a teammate opens the same portal from the arena. Bank the motes in the relay of the same color and you get Enlightened, which you need for the shielded enemies the Mind spawns.
5. With 30 motes in both relays, an Angelic enemy spawns and locks the Vex boxes until it dies. The Mind shows a blue or red symbol: tether the box that matches it, then the opposite box. Damage starts.
6. Repeat until the Mind falls and collect the encounter loot.

If this is the fight where your team stalls, you can buy it on its own: a Sanctified Mind checkpoint run is $15.

Loot, featured weeks and Divinity

• Featured week. Two raids and two dungeons are featured every week. When Garden is one of them, Standard encounters and challenges drop Deepsight weapons or top-tier armor. Outside that week, Standard still has a chance at Deepsight weapons, and armor drops at a lower tier. What's still weekly in raids and dungeons explains the limits.
• Armor. Since Update 9.7.0 you can focus Garden armor at Hawthorne in the Tower for ten Spoils of Conquest per piece.
• Divinity. The raid's Exotic Trace Rifle got a buff in the same update. Penance hits harder and activates faster, and the cage needs 10 shots instead of 14.

Crafting Garden of Salvation weapons

Garden's Legendary weapons are craftable, and Update 9.7.0 gave the raid's craftable weapons updated perk pools. Unlock a weapon's Pattern with Deepsight drops first (Reckless Oracle needs five). A crafted weapon can then be raised toward Gear Tier 5 under Weapon Level Boost and reshaped at the crafting table for upgraded components. The extra tier-based stat bonus needs an Enhanced Intrinsic.

Garden of Salvation prices

• Full raid, Standard$30
• Sanctified Mind checkpoint$15
• All 4 challengesadd-on +$39
• Hidden chestsadd-on +$10
• Key to Divinity puzzleadd-on +$10
• GoS weapon farmfrom $20 per weapon

FAQ

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Full raid $30. Add all 4 challenges for +$39, or go Flawless for the Inherent Truth emblem at $129.

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