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You get the quest randomly when turning in bounties to Shiro at Felwinter's Peak. From that the steps are:
Step 1: Echoes of Darkness: Face "The Wretched Eye" and defeat Kovik, the Devil Splicers' high priest. Doesn't matter what difficulty
Step 2: Harvest of the Lesser: Wipe out Fallen in the Plaugelands to feed the weapon's appetite. Quite a bit of splicers have to be killed.
Step 3: Feast Upon the Light: Use Void Damage to defeat Guardians in the Crucible. Private matches don't count. (No death penalty)
Step 4: Cleansed by The Light: Consume Motes of Light to Cleanse yourself and the weapon. 5 motes.
Step 5: Where it Began: Find a Skeleton Key and open the Strike Hoard at the end of "The Abomination Heist" Strike.
And thats it! Now I just gotta get the quest to drop.
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So you want us to have your gun, Dredgen Yor? [spoiler]The luckiest seven you will ever meet[/spoiler]
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4 RepliesEasiest way to get thorn in year 3 is. Well, as soon as you spawn in at the tower. Just go straight ahead. Make sure you go down stairs and not up stairs. Up stairs has a robot with a blue board behind it that hands out bounties. As you go down stairs. Go past the two desk on the right and left. Those are crucible vendors that sell weapons and armor. Proceed past them farther to a long table. There will be a hunter, titan and warlock standing at it. Once in front of it. Turn around but don't move. You will see a blue screen to the left and right of the door way you came through. Walk up to the weapon one. Look through it. You will see a Thorn you've already aquired. Buy it and there you go.
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2 RepliesI used to pve only, now I am a mix of both. So glad the void bit is in... the first thorn bounty was so hard but so good to get. I remember the grind to get the word of crota and atheons epilogue. Cant wait to get it.. :)
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10 RepliesEdited by TheLastRib: 9/23/2016 4:04:09 AMi can't get siva captain encounters in archons forge for the last shiro bounty.
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Do you have to actually turn it into him or can you turn it front the menu and he will have the quest ready?
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I like how Dredgen is the one who posted this.
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This is correct, I got the Thorn 2 days ago and it was from a Shiro bounty.
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How do you get keys and how many can you hold?
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3 RepliesSo.... I took a week+ in year one to grind through the quest, finished the last step with only my badly under-leveled girlfriend for backup, now I have to hope to randomly get the quest again. All the while noobs that just bought the game are earning it, without the worst part of the struggle, as I sadly check in on the year 1 version in the vault. Resentment... Building...
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2 RepliesI cannot find the last strike you have to play on my map anywhere says it's on the moon but when I look it isn't there so I can't complete the last step :(
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3 RepliesI have one bounty to turn in left and still no quest lol
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2 RepliesI feel a little annoyed that that they didn't SIVA the Thorn for it's return. I'm mean they spend a bit of time showing the Splicers experimenting on the Hive that it would have made sense for them to do the same to the Thorn.
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On my last part then I'll have thorn
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1 ReplyI believe the captain offering is wat grants the quest as i have completed all bouties from shiro this week accept that and still no thorn quest
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6 RepliesI still have my Void scholar sitting in my vault for this bounty. :D
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Let me bring out my Void Messenger/Void Felwinter, Truth out of the vault for this one.
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Damn. They seriously put that PVP part back in? Don't you PVPers get sick of this? I mean... The PVE players get forced into PVP and either: A. Cost you the game because they are focused on the quest and only the quest. B. Hiding and killing eachother just to get the quest done and over with. C. Complete the quest then bail leaving you short handed. I mean...you guys should be JUST as mad at Bungie as PVE players are for this BS.
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4 RepliesI bet quest developers at Bungie just sat at the table and said "make them kill like 125 Guardians with void, and 500 fallen. Make them grind" This is the problem with quests, everything is long and random, Gjallerhorn and Kvostov are great cos they make you do more than grind, you have seperate unique missions. but the fact that the Thorn quest is random is just annoying. Give us a specific way to get quests Bungie!
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How many bounties do you need to turn in to him? There was 4 bounties to start. Iv done 2 of them. The other 2 require grinding arkons forge. It's not impossible. But sure requires a lot of siva keys (other than splice Keys). If that's the case. Props to whoever has the quest right now.
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I got it off my second bounty, lol My bad luck streak is ending :)
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2 RepliesBungie needs to shed some -blam!-ing light on this don't know what bounties to focus on. Can u get them from all bounty types or just dumb ass shiro bounties will be bull shit if it's just his bounties cause they are weekly.
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4 RepliesEdit: year 2 Thorn. Although it's seems like year 3 to us, it's only year 2 to Bungie.
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5 RepliesTurned in 3 bounties so far. Is it guaranteed to drop from the 4th?
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So we have to wait until next week for more bounties?