Last Wish Raid Guide

This is a text-only field guide. Each encounter follows the same sequence: overview, room orientation, roles, numbered walkthrough, failure and recovery notes, suggested loadout philosophy, weekly challenge, and a compact quick reference. Riven receives separate intended-method and common-skip sections because the two executions teach different skills.

Recommended callout discipline

A shared 16-symbol vocabulary

The raid uses 16 pictograms across Kalli, the Vault, Riven's cleanse rooms, and the Wall of Wishes. Names are community conventions, not official UI labels. Pick one vocabulary and keep it for the full run.

Taken Essence: grenade action versus super action

Wall of Wishes

The wall sits before Kalli. From the approach, take the left-side route near the water and follow the greenery to the hidden chamber. Shoot each panel to cycle its symbol, audit all 20 panels, then step on the center plate to submit.

Entering the text codes

Stand facing the Wall. Read every grid below from Row 1 through Row 4, top to bottom, and Column 1 through Column 5, left to right. Blank means leave that panel unlit; it is a required blank position, not an omitted value. Set all 20 panels, have a second player audit them in the same order, then step on the center plate.

Wish 1 - Ethereal Key

Wish 2 - Glittering Key chest

Wish 3 - Numbers of Power emblem

Wish 4 - Shuro Chi checkpoint

Wish 5 - Morgeth checkpoint

Wish 6 - Vault checkpoint

Wish 7 - Riven checkpoint

Wish 8 - Hope for the Future

Wish 9 - Failsafe dialogue

Wish 10 - Drifter dialogue

Wish 11 - Grunt Birthday Party

Wish 12 - Guardian head effects

Wish 13 - Petra's Run

Wish 14 - Corrupted Eggs

Kalli opens the raid with a symbol-to-plate check. The fireteam captures 6 called plates, kills the Knights that open safe doors, damages Kalli in the center, and shelters from Obliterate before repeating.

Orientation and roles

The arena has a central pit and 9 symbol plates around the perimeter. The 6 required symbols appear in 3 matching pairs around the center. Safe doors are recessed beneath Kalli in the central pit; return there only after the plate Knights are dead. Use the displayed symbol itself as the plate callout rather than assigning clock positions that change with the team's entry angle.

Standard walkthrough

1. At center, read the 6 displayed symbols. They correspond to the 6 perimeter plates the team must capture; the 3 uncalled plates are ignored on a Standard clear without the challenge.

2. Spread to the matching plates. Each plate has 3 sectors and 2 Taken Blight bombs overhead. Stand only in the sector with no Blight above it.

3. Hold the sector through the detonations and clear the Taken. Kalli may teleport to a plate; damage her enough to force another teleport without abandoning the safe sector.

4. A Ravenous Taken Knight spawns when the plate completes. Kill it. That Knight opens one of the safe doors below Kalli for the coming Obliterate.

5. After all 6 called plates are complete, regroup at center and damage Kalli. Use a reliable close-to-mid-range setup; her small head makes precision-only plans less forgiving.

6. When Kalli prepares Obliterate, each Guardian enters a different open door below the center. Stay inside until the blast resolves, then return to damage.

7. If Kalli survives, leave center and repeat the plate cycle. New safe doors require new Knight kills.

Failure states and recovery

Suggested loadout

Weekly challenge - Summoning Ritual

1. Assign all 9 plates before the pull. The 3 uncalled plates spawn 3 additional Taken Ogres.

2. Complete every plate and kill every Ravenous Knight. The 3 uncalled plates also spawn 3 Taken Ogres; clear them before regrouping so they do not pressure center damage.

3. Do not damage Kalli until all 9 plates are confirmed complete. Plate completion is the Challenge check; clearing the additional Ogres first is the safe operational plan.

4. Regroup for the ordinary center damage and door cycle.

Quick reference

Shuro Chi is a timed ascent through 6 short damage rooms and 2 image rooms. Clear adds, form a crystal triangle, remove one health segment, solve 3 images, and climb to the next floor.

Floor and puzzle orientation

Each floor has 2 add-clear and damage stops. Floors 1 and 2 end in a puzzle room; the third floor ends with Shuro Chi's final health segment. In each puzzle room, the active projections resolve in order from the left wall to the back wall to the right wall.

Treat every projection as a 3-by-3 grid while facing it. Number its cells like a keypad: 1-3 across the top row, 4-6 across the middle, and 7-9 across the bottom. The row of floor plates nearest the active wall is the top row; the farthest row is the bottom. Because the active wall changes, the same physical plate receives a different relative number after the group turns.

Four sections are missing from each projection. Assign one player to each missing cell, confirm all 4 positions, then step on the corresponding plates together. A Guardian cannot activate the same physical plate twice during that room's complete 3-projection sequence. Another Guardian may use it later, so call the conflict and swap players before stepping on.

Roles

Standard walkthrough

1. Enter together and begin clearing immediately. The Song timer starts for the floor; the shield step does not unlock until the active add wave is dead.

2. Kill the Eye of Riven but leave its Taken Essence on the ground until it is needed. Rotate 2 designated carriers so Greed or a post-use lockout never strands the team.

3. When 3 crystal plates activate, 3 players step on them and pick up the prisms. Call one direction - clockwise/right or counter-clockwise/left - and keep that direction for the entire run.

4. Each carrier shoots the next carrier in the chosen direction, creating a complete triangle. The beams must connect quickly; the plates damage anyone standing on them.

5. The shield drops. Deal enough damage to remove exactly 1 of Shuro Chi’s 6 health segments. If she begins Obliterate before the segment breaks, an Essence carrier uses the super action beside her as late as safely possible to reset the cast.

6. Advance to the second room on the same floor and repeat the add-clear, triangle, and one-segment damage sequence.

7. In the puzzle room, face the active projection and call its 4 missing cells using the 1-9 grid above. Four players take the matching floor plates while 2 players keep Phalanxes and other Taken away.

8. Complete the left, back, and right projections in order. Track the physical plate used by each Guardian across all 3; if a later cell would reuse that plate, swap assignments before stepping on.

9. Take the newly formed platforms upward. Repeat the full process for floors 2 and 3 until all 6 health segments are removed.

Failure states and recovery

Suggested loadout

Weekly challenge - Which Witch

No Guardian may take damage from Shuro Chi’s long-range Arc blast. The current Rivensbane seal labels the completion record “Coliseum Champion,” while the activity modifier remains “Which Witch.”

1. Spread enough that one blast cannot catch multiple players, but keep the crystal team close enough to form quickly.

2. Watch Shuro Chi rather than the adds during her wind-up. Move laterally the moment the blast launches.

3. Use cover in the image rooms and on approach lanes; a late hit anywhere in the encounter fails the challenge.

4. Avoid damage-over-time confusion by treating any visible ranged blast contact as a reset.

Quick reference

Morgeth is a controlled collection encounter. The team gathers 10 Taken Strength without letting any Guardian reach 3 stacks, rescues trapped holders with Taken Essence, then burns Morgeth before his strength meter fills.

Arena orientation

From the rally banner, Morgeth is forward at center. The first and final Taken Strength appear on the center line. The remaining Strength spawns in left and right groups, so split the fireteam 3 and 3 and name every pickup by side before anyone collects it. The broad steps behind Morgeth provide a clear damage angle on his glowing back weak points, but any survivable position with clean sightlines works.

Roles

Standard walkthrough

1. Split 3 left and 3 right. Pick up the first center Taken Strength to start.

2. Clear the opening Taken and collect the first 4 Strength orbs, 2 per side. Call your total every time you pick one up.

3. When Umbral Enervation traps a Strength holder, that player calls side and stack count. A 0-stack rescuer kills an Eye of Riven, takes Essence, and uses the grenade action beside the trapped player.

4. The rescuer inherits the trapped player’s Strength. Never rescue while already at 2; receiving even 1 more stack causes death.

5. Repeat for the second wave of 4 Strength. Preserve one accessible Eye of Riven Essence if the team expects a long damage phase.

6. The final Strength appears near the original center location. Confirm the pickup will not create a 3rd stack, then collect it to make Morgeth vulnerable.

7. Regroup on the steps behind Morgeth or another agreed safe damage point. Damage the glowing weak spots while clearing Axion Darts.

8. If Morgeth’s strength meter approaches full before the kill, use a Taken Essence super action on him to reset/stagger the encounter and continue with the next Strength cycle.

Failure states and recovery

Suggested loadout

Weekly challenge - Forever Fight

1. Do not kill the 4 smaller Taken Ogres positioned in front of Morgeth.

2. Use cover and crowd control to manage their sightlines while runners collect Strength.

3. Avoid wide-area supers, explosives, or automatic tracking that can accidentally finish an Ogre.

4. Complete the ordinary collection, rescue, and damage sequence with all 4 Ogres alive.

Quick reference

The Vault is a 3-phase symbol-routing puzzle with no boss. Three readers determine whether each plate requires Penumbra or Antumbra, runners deliver matching Taken Essence, and room defenders prevent Mights of Riven from reaching the center.

Room orientation

Stand at the rally banner facing the center mechanism: Stairs is behind you at the banner, Tree is the room to the left, and Rocks is the room to the right. The 3 outer rooms form a loop of connecting tunnels. When Taken barriers seal direct access to center, the Essence runner follows that loop to whichever room is open, then re-enters center through its doorway.

Role setup

Reading Penumbra and Antumbra

1. All 3 readers step onto their plates and face the center mechanism. Each display shows a center symbol with one symbol to its left and one to its right.

2. Each reader calls only their room and center symbol first: for example, "Stairs center Branch."

3. Listen for the other 2 center calls and compare them to the side symbols on your own display. If either called center appears on your left, your own plate requires Penumbra. If either appears on your right, your own plate requires Antumbra.

4. Example: Stairs calls Branch. If Tree sees Branch on the left side of Tree's display, Tree is Penumbra. The location of Branch on Stairs' display does not determine Stairs.

5. Record the final requirements as a short string such as "Stairs P, Tree A, Rocks P." Repeat the read at the beginning of every phase; the previous phase does not carry forward.

Standard walkthrough

1. Start the phase by standing on the 3 center plates and completing the symbol read.

2. One outer room opens. Its pair enters, clears Taken, kills the Eye of Riven, and reads the Essence type: Penumbra or Antumbra.

3. Killing the Eye seals that room's direct door and opens a different room. Call the newly open room. The runner follows the outer tunnel to it, enters center, and moves to the plate whose recorded requirement matches the Essence.

4. At the destination plate, use the grenade action to cleanse. A correct cleanse locks that plate and advances the room rotation.

5. Room defenders kill every Might of Riven before it reaches the center and slams a plate. The pressure increases through the phase: expect 1 Might after the first Essence pickup, 2 after the second, and 3 after the third. Call each spawn room immediately.

6. Complete 3 correct cleanses before the phase timer expires. Repeat the complete symbol read and cleanse cycle for 3 phases.

Failure states and recovery

Suggested loadout

Weekly challenge - Keep Out

1. Assign one defender to each room and place them between the spawn lane and center door.

2. Call every Might immediately and use burst damage before it crosses the Taken barrier out of its room.

3. Runners do not abandon a live Might to deliver Essence; the cleanse can wait a few seconds.

4. The challenge fails as soon as a Might leaves its spawn room, even if it is killed before reaching a plate.

Quick reference

Riven is the raid’s most communication-heavy encounter when completed as designed. Two teams alternate between staggering Riven and cleansing an Eye-of-Riven symbol, transfer eye calls across rooms, resolve 6 eyes at the top, damage weak spots during the descent, and finish inside the Ahamkara.

Room orientation and eye numbering

After the opening descent, the fireteam splits between the room marked by a tree and the room marked by crystals. In either room, Riven enters through the black wall at the front. The viewing lens and lift are toward the rear. For cleanse directions, treat the Riven wall as 12 o'clock and the viewing lens as 6 o'clock; the lens reader calls a clock direction, distance from center, and live correction.

Use the common L1-L5 and R1-R5 eye labels below. Left and right mean the viewer's left and right while standing directly in front of Riven. "Inner" means closer to the center line of her face; "outer" means farther from it.

Some groups use 1-10 instead. Either convention works, but do not mix systems after the pull. Before starting, have the recorder call 2 test positions and require every prospective shooter to identify them from the table.

Initial teams and roles

Lower-room exchange

Both lower floors use the same 2-room exchange. The teams receive the jobs in opposite order, and the order may reverse on the next floor.

For the cleanse, the Essence carrier looks toward the central pillar or lower stairs and calls the one symbol repeated in a vertical column. A second player climbs to the rear viewing lens. Only the lens view reveals where that symbol sits around the room. The carrier moves to the called position and uses the grenade action after the reader confirms the location.

Intended walkthrough

1. Split 3 Crystal and 3 Tree, step on the starting plates, and descend. Call which room has Riven and which has the Eye of Riven.

2. Riven-first room: if her side tentacles extend, move close enough to bait a slam, dodge it, and damage the tentacle embedded in the floor. If she breathes fire instead, survive the volleys, then damage the glowing mouth. Continue until she staggers.

3. On the stagger, 2 eyes glow. The recorder calls and writes both numbers for the other room. Do not shoot them yet.

4. Eye-first room: kill the Eye of Riven. One Guardian picks up Taken Essence and calls the repeated symbol they see. Another climbs to the rear viewing lens, finds that symbol around the room, and guides the carrier with the agreed clock-and-distance call.

5. The carrier uses the grenade action on the confirmed symbol. A correct cleanse activates the lift and completes the room’s requirement.

6. Riven changes rooms. The receiving team damages the Taken blight in her mouth until it closes, then shoots only the 2 eyes called by the opposite room. A wrong eye causes a wipe. At the same time, the original Riven team completes its Eye-of-Riven cleanse.

7. After both rooms finish their jobs, take the rear lifts to the second lower floor. Repeat the same exchange, following whichever Riven/Eye order appears there, then take the center lifts back to the upper starting chamber.

8. Clear Taken Goblins and Ogres in the upper chamber. Riven appears through 3 different openings; stagger her each time and record the 2 glowing eyes, creating a list of 6. Assign one Guardian to each recorded eye as each pair is called.

9. On Riven's fourth upper-room appearance, damage the blight in her mouth. When her mouth closes and all 6 recorded eyes become vulnerable, the caller counts down and the assigned players shoot together. Clear the remaining Taken, then move to the 6 starting plates before Creeping Darkness reaches 10 stacks.

10. Descend past Riven. Damage the glowing sores on her body and clear the Axion Darts released by broken sores. If Riven does not reach her final health segment, the fireteam lands in the lower rooms and repeats the complete exchange.

11. When Riven reaches her final health segment, the team is pulled into the Ascendant Plane. Climb the floating path while Ascendant Atrophy drains health, remove blocking Phalanxes, and have any surviving Guardian touch the Taken Strength/light at the top to return the whole team.

12. Shoot Riven’s glowing mouth during the final attack, enter her mouth, and destroy the blight inside her body. The raid is not complete until the Heart relay is finished.

Failure states and recovery

Suggested loadout - intended method

Weekly challenge - Strength of Memory

1. Track eye ownership by Guardian, not only by phase.

2. No Guardian may shoot the same numbered Riven eye more than once during the encounter.

3. Before each 6-eye resolution, assign every called eye to a shooter whose personal list does not already contain that number.

4. Use a written eye ledger or Discord note. Do not rely on memory after a long lower-room cycle.

Encounter triumph - Eyes, Mouth, Heart

The current official record requires defeating Riven after progressing back to the top of the chamber. In practical terms, complete the intended eye-and-descent sequence rather than ending the fight solely through the lower-room limb damage skip.

Common wall-hug damage skip - patch-sensitive

1. Descend together and enter one chosen lower room, commonly Crystal. Watch the black wall for the arrival cue and determine whether Riven will reach that room first or second.

2. The goal is to meet Riven in the room she visits second. If the cue says the chosen room is second, stay. If it is first, use the known "Joining Allies" wall position to return to the upper entrance, then race to the opposite room before Riven's second arrival.

3. Stack at the agreed limb position, apply team support and debuff effects, and use the current highest reliable close-range or sustained burst.

4. If the damage threshold is not met, do not improvise eye shots without assignments. Reset and run the intended method or adjust the damage plan.

Quick reference

Queenswalk begins immediately after Riven’s death. A rotating Fate’s Chosen carries the Heart back through the raid while the outside team stays inside its protective aura and absorbed players collect Taken Strength inside the Heart to extend the relay.

Roles

Route in words

Walkthrough

1. When Riven dies, one Guardian becomes Fate’s Chosen and picks up the Heart. Call "Heart, 15" and begin moving immediately.

2. The Heart aura protects nearby players from Creeping Darkness. The outside team runs inside the aura and clears only enemies blocking the route.

3. At about 5 seconds, the carrier calls "5, back." Teammates move behind the carrier and outside the shrinking pulse radius so only the current carrier is absorbed.

4. At 0, the carrier and anyone still caught in the pulse are drawn into the Heart realm. The next Fate’s Chosen, not simply the nearest player, must pick up the dropped Heart and continue. This also applies if the carrier dies early.

5. Inside the Heart, collect Taken Strength. No Guardian may hold more than 2; a 3rd kills. Leave the final orb until the outside timer reaches roughly 3-5 seconds, then collect it to reset/slow the Heart once for that carrier.

6. Kill Mights of Riven inside before they reach and slam the plate. As more players are absorbed, divide the available Strength safely.

7. Outside route: follow the route table from Riven's mouth through the left doorway, right doorway, blighted room, then right and left toward the Vault. The route caller announces the next turn before the carrier reaches each doorway.

8. At the Vault, call whether Tree or Rocks is open. Enter that room and take its longer outer tunnel to Stairs; do not circle back toward the room you entered from.

9. At Stairs, drop through the old lift opening, then carry the Heart up the long central staircase into the small Techeun room. Move to the center to deposit it, free the Heart-realm players, and complete the raid.

Failure states and recovery

Suggested loadout

Quick reference

Hidden chest 1 - bridge before Shuro Chi

1. Reach the Shuro Chi checkpoint through the raid route or with Wish 4.

2. Turn away from Shuro Chi and backtrack toward the long bridge. Follow the rocky outer edge to the bridge supports rather than crossing the main span.

3. At the appropriate support, drop to the narrow ledge below bridge level. Enter the small opening in the support wall to find the chest; its portal returns players to the route above.

Hidden chest 2 - traversal before Morgeth

1. After Shuro Chi, descend through the tower, climb the large tree, and continue until the route emerges at the next cave/load-zone area.

2. Take the nearer exit on the left instead of continuing toward Morgeth. Follow the trees and protruding ledges up the left cliff face.

3. Double back above the cave entrance and continue upward to the high ledge beside a tree. The chest sits on that ledge; retrace the climb to rejoin the main route.

Glittering Key chest

Wish 2 spawns an additional chest between Morgeth and the Vault. It only opens with a Glittering Key. Enter Wish 2 before the run in which you plan to use the key.

Ethereal Keys and final chests

• Riven kills award Ethereal Keys; Wish 1 grants an additional key once per account.

• After Queenswalk, each Ethereal Key opens one chest beneath the Awoken statues.

• The final chests can award raid weapons, armor, and One Thousand Voices.

Current reward-tier behavior

Under Destiny 2 Update 9.7.0, pre-The Edge of Fate raids use tiered rewards. When Last Wish is featured, Standard encounters and challenges award Deepsight weapons or Tier 5 armor, and hidden chests award Tier 5 armor on a weekly lockout. When it is not featured, Standard encounters have a chance to award Deepsight weapons or Tier 3 armor. Featured status changes reward quality and farmability; it does not change the encounter instructions in this guide.

Craftable Last Wish weapons received updated perk pools and can be upgraded to match tiered weapons. Check the current Raids and Dungeons rotation before planning a farm because featured activity rules can change in later updates.

Weekly Deepsight - O Deepsight Mine

• Pick up the quest before the run.

• Complete all 6 encounter objectives in the same weekly quest cycle.

• A weapon must have been obtained previously before it can be purchased with Deepsight.

Raid-wide weapon pool and crafting

The 8 legendary raid weapons are craftable. Encounter-specific legacy curated drops are less useful as a permanent organizing system than the current raid-wide pool, so this guide lists the complete pool rather than promising a specific boss drop.

Great Hunt armor

Each class has a full Great Hunt armor set. Encounter rewards can award raid armor and legendary weapons. Last Wish hidden chests have historically used a broader loot pool than later raids, but Update 9.7.0 formally guarantees Tier 5 armor from featured hidden chests; do not plan a weapon farm around a specific hidden-chest drop.

Last Wish raid mods

The current Rivensbane seal exposes 18 records. Group them by execution type so a team can plan efficient full-raid runs rather than treating the title as one undifferentiated list.

Encounter challenges

Full-raid composition records

Raid, collection, and flawless records

Additional current record

Eyes, Mouth, Heart is an additional Last Wish record for defeating Riven after progressing back to the top of the chamber. It is useful as the explicit intended-method target even though it is not one of the 18 current Rivensbane records listed above.

Fill this before the run. Use role labels in voice chat; player names belong only in this planning table.

One-line encounter loop

Primary current-state source

• Bungie, "Destiny 2 Update 9.7.0." Used for current tiered raid rewards, featured/non-featured behavior, and craftable raid-weapon upgrades.

Read the source on bungie.net

• Bungie, "Destiny 2 Update 7.1.0." Used for Last Wish crafting, Hawthorne's weekly pursuit, guaranteed pattern progress, and the weekly Deepsight exchange.

Read the source on bungie.net

• Bungie, "Destiny 2: Season of the Wish." Used to distinguish the story's Fifteenth Wish from the 14 enterable Wall of Wishes codes.

Read the source on help.bungie.net

• Bungie Destiny 2 live manifest, English component definitions, checked July 31, 2026. Used to confirm the current activity label, weekly modifier names, Rivensbane records, weapon recipes, keys, One Thousand Voices, and Last Wish raid-mod presence.

Encounter mechanics and cross-checks

• Destinypedia, "Last Wish." Used to cross-check every encounter sequence, Kalli's 3 extra challenge Ogres, Shuro Chi's plate rejection, Morgeth's rescue transfer, Vault reading and challenge boundaries, intended Riven, Queenswalk timing and route, and the Wall's 15-wish status.

Read the source on destinypedia.com

• Shacknews, "Destiny 2 - Last Wish raid guide." Used as an independent cross-check for Shuro Chi's 3-projection plate rule, Taken Essence lockouts, Vault match ownership and tunnel movement, intended Riven's 4 upper appearances, and Queenswalk's 15-second relay.

Read the source on shacknews.com

• Destiny 2 Wiki, "Last Wish." Used as a second independent cross-check for Shuro Chi's relative plate orientation, Morgeth's transfer rule, hidden-chest landmarks, and intended Riven.

Read the source on d2.destinygamewiki.com

• Soup Spoon, "Last Wish - Full Raid Guide." Used as a recent independent cross-check for the Shuro Chi 1-9 text convention, Vault call structure, L1-L5/R1-R5 convention, and complete encounter ordering.

Read the source on soup-spoon.github.io

Wall-code transcription audit

• The u/Tiredness consolidated Wall of Wishes reference was the first transcription pass. Every Blank panel was recorded explicitly.

Read the source on reddit.com

• Shacknews hosts a separately owned set of full-resolution in-game captures for Wishes 1-14. Every one of the 280 text-grid coordinates was checked against those captures; all 280 agree.

Read the source on shacknews.com

• Professionalism.gg's symbol chart was used only to translate common aliases into the guide's 16-name vocabulary.

Read the source on professionalism.gg

• The supplied Last Wish DOCX, PDF, and PNG files were treated as editorial and spatial reference material. The asset PDF is byte-identical to the current guide PDF, so it was not counted as an independent verification source.

Editorial boundaries

• The guide uses Standard throughout because that is the current in-game label. Encounter challenges remain inside their relevant encounter sections.

• The release is text-only. Spatial mechanics are expressed with consistent room names, observer orientation, ordered routes, and semantic tables.

• Specific damage weapons are suggestions, not encounter requirements. The Riven wall-hug skip is explicitly marked patch-sensitive.

• Current encounter-specific legendary drop promises were avoided; the guide lists the verified raid-wide pool and current crafting support.