So you... you've heard the whispers and want to know more about this fabled gun. First of all i'd like to thank Bungie for an amazing, truly well designed and fun mission. I wouldn't say the game is terrible, but there are obvious improvments to be made, however this mission shows that you guys can really put together an awsome experience for the fans, this is the most fun i've had in a while and i hope we get more of it! [b][u]Prerequisites:[/u][/b] You'll want to be at least 380 light, a good team may get away with slightly lower, and average team will need to be higher. Thats just what it is, get grinding if you arent at max light yet! As for weapons, you'll want a teammate to bring one of each element as an energy weapon, the shields take ages to take down even on normal enemies without the matching element. Your heavy weapon should be some sort of meta DPS powerhouse like the EP shotgun, but you can probably get away with other shotguns like Perfect Paradox or other weapons entirely like Sleeper. For Super you'll want a heavy hitting roaming super, one of the best for DPSing the boss is a Raiden Flux Arcstrider, you'll also want a Melting Point Hammer Titan, and for our runs we also had a Doom Fang Sentinel, it worked great. [b][u]The Mission[/u][/b] To get into the mission, you must first travel to IO - Lost Oasis and wait for the Taken Blight public event. You do not need to touch the event, instead when it starts a yellow bar taken enemy will appear in one of these locations near the blight. [url]https://imgur.com/a/j7niOA8[/url], when you find and kill this enemy, a portal will spawn and your fireteam leader and initiate the mission. When inside, you'll have 20 minutes to work through puzzles and jumping sections, these are fairly straight forward and it'd be hard to write a guide via text so either explore yourself or watch some videos. If anyone is kind enough to give me a video link i'll edit it in here. Also heres a helpful shortcut: [url]https://clips.twitch.tv/AgitatedHumbleLatteBCWarrior[/url] Past all the jumping sections comes the enemies, you'll need to clear every room of all the enemies, however you can ignore the blights. Work together with your team, the enemies hit hard and dont take as much damage. Start on one side and work your way through, after each section you can destroy a mini taken wall to progress. After all of these you'll reach the boss area. Kill the first enemies and the first boss will jump in, at this point use whatever you have, i advise destroying the blights at the front so that they dont block your bullets and such. Use your supers, EP shotgun, melting point all when you have them up. There isn't too much to say here, its quite difficult, just try to work together. When the first boss is dead the other two jump in, on your first run through, you can ignore the Knight and only need to kill the Cabal to end the mission. [b]Edit:[/b] You do in fact have to kill all bosses, perhaps there was some bungie magic on our end or the knight died at the exact same time as the cabal, but alas, you do indeed have to kill them all. Also from other sources, destroying the blights will make enemies spawn faster, though i still recommend destroy the front right one as it blocks lines of sight. [u][b]Whisper Of The Worm[/b][/u] Your reward for this awsome quest so far, is the one and only black hamm...err i mean black spin... err no its the Whisper of The Worm now! it features a new (and somehow imrpvoed) white nail perk, which doubles your precision damage and grants you the OG white nail, hit 3 and you get instant ammo perk! Its a really great weapon...but it can get better. So on to the catalyst. [u][b]Heroic Version[/b][/u] The heroic version will appear on your map to repeat whenever you please, just take a look at IO. This mission is similar to the original however this time there will be a Singe. At the time of writing it is Arc. The one tip i can give you is have an arcstrider and Riskrunner, they are amazing since the taken hit you with arc A LOT. The only difference in your objective here is to kill ALL the bosses and every other enemy in the last area, and done! Your reward is the catalyst. [u][b]Catalyst Progression[/b][/u] So what now? You'll notice the objective says "Blighted Essence" collected. These can be obtained in various ways inside the same heroic mission. 1. There are 5 chests hidden between the start of the mission and the first enemies. These will give you one blighted essence each (or 2% of the catalyst) and can only be collected once, per week. Here is a video: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7YONiSJdSc[/url] 2. Complete the weekly heroic version, this simply awards you another 12 (24%). 3. Complete the Oracles (yep you read that right, on to the next section). This gives you another 2% but can only be done once ever. Masterworked: [url]https://imgur.com/a/oSLZ22O[/url] [u][b]Oracles[/b][/u] The D1 nostalgia is real! These can be found next to chest 5 in the video above. Standing in the portal as shown will reveal the oracles, however to reveal all 7 of them you will need to open ALL 5 chests in the SAME mission between your fireteam (you dont all need to grab all of them). When you succesfully see all 7 oracles, you must shoot them in the order below. The numbers are listed from left to right, do not let their position in the front or back fool you, its 1 - 7 left to right. #1: 1 - 3 - 5 #2: 4 - 6 - 7 - 3 - 1 #3: 7 - 3 - 1 - 6 - 4 - 2 - 5 Once you've done that correctly, another new chest will spawn and you'll be granted a blueprint for a ship, this is unrelated to the Sniper but does seem pretty cool. It will ask you to complete the heroic mission (again) with each singe modifier active. You can do the arc one right away (at the time of this post), however the next ones will need to be done on future weeks, so i imagine this will take at least 2 more weeks to complete. Ship: [url]https://imgur.com/a/3Z7OIAY[/url] [u][b]Conclusion[/b][/u] And, thats essentially it! You'll be able to complete the catalyst on future weeks by doing the above mentioned tasks and that will grant you some extra reload speed AND the Box Breathing perk (increased damage by 4 x while zoomed in after a perioid of time). I don't know about you but that was a very fun mission to explore and complete and thanks to the community for working at it. If there are any corrections please feel free to comment and if you have an issue with the videos i have linked, please dont be afraid to PM me. If you are someone who wants to add their own video's also feel free to comment/pm! Thanks for reading and hope it helps.