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Every Public Event (HEROIC)

By Sentarry

How To Make Every Public Event Heroic

The first one I'm gonna start off with is a public event that a lot of kindergaurdians dont know how to make heroic is... Taken Blight.
( ugh, stop destroying the smaller shielded blights!! )

tl;dr follow what most of the other veterans are doing

Use the Guide Index to Navigate to the Public Event you are looking to make Heroic. Some of the Locations/Event may have been "vaulted" or removed from the game but I will keep them in this guide so pepperidge farm we all can remember when they were in the game.

Award

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Category: Achievements, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer, Secrets, Walkthroughs

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Guide Index

Overview

Taken Blights

Warsat Down

⁠Glimmer Extraction

Ether Resupply

Spider Tank aka "The Arsenal Walker"

Cabal Drill

⁠Injection Rig

Vex Construction

Witches Ritual

Cryo-Pod

Ether Ritual

BLIND WELL

Rift Generator in Dreaming City

Vex Crossroads on Mercury

Escort the Resonant Splinter

Summary (Photo)

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Taken Blights

General Location(s): Dreaming City, IO, EDZ

Objective: Destroy "Immune" Blight

You'll notice a BIG floating blight appear that is immune at first...

Step into the Shielded blights on the ground and receive a buff called “blight receding” which lasts about 5 seconds.
- REMEMBER, do not destroy these smaller blights you get the buff from.

While the buff is active, you can damage the giant blight in the sky. Step in and out to regain the buff.

After enough damage to the floating blight has been dealt, it’ll spawn the Blightmaker.

Pretty simple dps boss. no extra mechanics.

Edit: You can weaken the floating blight by re-locating it twice by destroying the shielded blights. Normally, I always just use Wardcliff Coil (Exotic Heavy) on first spawn location which does a great job making it heroic right away.

note: this Public Event can be found on EDZ, IO, and the Dreaming City.

Warsat Down

General Location(s): Vaulted Mars, Cosmodrone

Objective: Destroy Wizards and Shriekers.

Dont forget to scan the Warsat to begin the event.

Stand next to the Warsat.

Throughout capturing, You will notice 3 Shriekers surrounding you nearby that are closed & immune when shot at.
- Kill waves of enemies and continue capturing.
- a set of Wizards will fly in towards the warsat and attempt to cloud the area which will hurt and suppress your movement if you are near the warsat.
- Killing the set of Wizards, per wave of enemies, opens a shrieker.
- Destroying all 3 three shriekers nets you the Heroic Version

Ogre Boss Spawns.
- On Mars, He's weak against the Valkarie.

note: This Public Event can be found on Mars and the Moon with slight variations from each other.

⁠Glimmer Extraction

General Location(s): IO, EDZ

Objective: Destroy Glimmer Drills

A few seconds after the Public Event has started, A little glimmer drill thing will spawn nearby.

What? It has no critical spot?! NOPE.

Destroy 3 of them (one at each of the 3 locations) before clearing all enemies.

If you miss one or two, they will spawn at the next relocation,
giving you a narrow window to catch up. So destroy them quickly as possible.

After All 3 three drills are destroyed, its heroic time. a big captain will spawn to stop you from capturing your precious glimmer pile. kill it!

welp, it killed me. But kill it for me! he owes more glimmer than I'm sitting on.

note: These Public Event are found on All around EDZ and there's one on Tangled Shore and Nessus. Can be difficult to solo kill the Boss.

Ether Resupply

Objective: Make DAD Prime Ether Servitor Angry

Damage the Prime Ether Servitor

He will spawn his little child, "Servitor Jr". (Yes, Kill it.)

After Killing the little servitor, Damage the Prime Ether Servitor until 3 smaller servitors shield it at the same time.

Oh no, he has a family!

Destroy all the kids the small servitors within about 20 seconds which will make the Boss "enrage"
Now, ITS HEROIC TIME! Oh no, Dad is angry you destroyed his fam...!

note: This public event is found on EDZ, Moon, and Nessus.

Spider Tank aka "The Arsenal Walker"

Objective: Deposit Orbs

Every time you destroy a leg, the Walker aka Spider Tank's critical spot opens which will spit out three orbs

Don't Kill the Walker Just Yet!

Pick up those orbs and deposit them at the shielded blast cannons.

Do this for all 3 shielded Blast Cannons; 6 Orbs, 6 Deposits.
- Remember... Don't destroy the Spider Tank until you've done this.

Congrats! You've made it Heroic! Oh, but suprise! You thought you just killed the first spider tank....

note: This Public Event can be found on EDZ, Titan, and the Moon.

Cabal Drill

Objective: Destroy a ship

"You Know the Drill" -Devrim Kay
*ba dum tss*

Somewhere around 30% completion, a red thresher (ship) will spawn. Shoot it down. thats it.

Quick! Its Heroic. Now Kill that Brute of a Cabal!!

note: This Public Event can be found on Nessus, EDZ, and IO. Can be solo'd

⁠Injection Rig

Objective: Destroy Vents

There are THREE sets of vents that open up.
You can see all of them open at the same time when the event starts.

Every time you kill this yellow bar psion,

You get the “Evacuate” notice & take damage inside the shield.
This is your chance to destroy the vents.

Yes, stay inside while it burns you. I've died plenty of times from this.

Once the vents are Destroyed, They should no longer show as a glowing orange color meaning you've successfully destroyed a vent.

"ssssssmokin'!"

Again, Just Kill Yellow Bar Psion, Shoot Vents, Rinse & Repeat until all vents are destroyed.

I recommend using a powerful shotgun or any other rocket launcher (or try using Exotic Fusion Rifle, Telesto at any time when the vents are closed) to destroy the vents fast enough since You only get 3 chances at "destroying" all vents.
You can destroy 2 vents yourself or have your whole fireteam take them out at the same time.

note: This Public Event can be found on Mars, Earth and Nessus.

Vex Construction

Objective: Capture 3 Plates

From the main conflux, you can see 3 subtle digital threads connecting to a plate
on the ground that will spawn when you are near.

Stand inside all 3 plates until they’re at 100%.

Also, Don't let Vex absorb themselves into the center (conflux). If too many get absorb by the conflux, then you will possibly fail reaching the heroic version.

With that said, once all 3 plates are complete, It should turn heroic. Get ready because we made the vex mad. They are organic after all. Emotions and all, i suppose.

Hint: Have 2 or more people standing on a plate speeds up progress of plates slightly. This public event can be very difficult to make heroic by yourself.

note: This Public Event is mainly found on Nessus but there is one in Giant's Scar, IO

Witches Ritual

Location(s): Mars, Titan, Moon, Throne World

Objective: Destroy Crystals
just standing on the plates is not enough to make it heroic

At First, You'll notice two Wizards and there are also two plates.
One to the left & one to the right. Killing the wizards spawns the shielded crystals near the portal at the Top-Left & Top-Right of the portal.

Each crystal corresponds to the plate you are stepping on: Left and/or Right side,
The plate will glow when stepped on, and the shields protecting the crystals at the top of the portal on either side goes down.

Just have one person stay on a plate when breaking crystals; Yes, You can step on both plates at the same time. it won't hurt.

You can now break the crystals.

That's all you need to do. Break Purple Crystals. Heroic. Easy.

Now, Get ready for a Big Hive Boss to Spawn during the Heroic.

note: This Public Event is only found on HellMouth (Moon), The Rig (Titan) & Glacial Drift (Mars), and somewhere in the Throne World

Cryo-Pod

Location: Tangled Shore (you will be missed)

Objective: Freeze the boss and Capture Him.

To make this heroic, the answer is to damage the boss a bit until the floor surrounding the pod starts to hurt you. Then shoot the vents off his Cryo-Pod that the boss came out of.
Specifically the one that are steaming on the sides (4 vents in total.)

Then grab the orbs from the vents and throw them at the boss.
(About 2-3 orbs should do the trick!)

FREEZE SUCKA! I'm about to read you your interagalatic planetary miranda rights.

Note: These Public Events are only found in Tangled Shore

Ether Ritual

You'll Notice 3 destroyed servitors around the central main destoyed servitor.

Each Time You Kill a Yellow bar Scorn cheiftan...

Ether-like spirits spawn from the outer servitors which will then make their way to the central servitor.
This has been updated to look like small spheres floating across to target them easier.

Look Ma! I'm a Professional Excorcist extraordinaire. Just shooting spirits with ma auto rifle
- All you have to do is make sure you shoot all the ether spirits. Too many spirits reaching the centeral Servitor could stop the heroic version from happening.

If done correctly, You should now have made the event heroic and the boss spawns.

This Public Event can be one of the most and by far more annoying Public events to deal with to make heroic by yourself.

hint: I recommend using an auto rifle.

Note: This Public Event is Found on Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City

BLIND WELL

Location: Dreaming City

After completing a Tier 3 Blind Well event, the central pedestal can be charged further using an Unstable Charge of Light. Players will have a few seconds to make it back to the center and input the Unstable Charge of Light, else the Tier 3 will be considered complete and the reward chest will spawn.

As soon as the Unstable Charge of Light is inserted, the Heroic Blind Well will begin.

Note: you can purchase Unstable Charges of Light from Petra using dark fragments; Dark Fragments are obtained by completing Petra Venj's bounties and/or completing other activities around the Dreaming City.

Rift Generator in Dreaming City

Objective: Destroy Blights then Wizards

Keep the generator's core integrity above 50 percent (recommended).

There will be Scorn Abominations out in the distance.

Orbs/charges will drop from the abominations after they are killed.

Bring These orbs and deposit them into the generator to keep it charged.

Now, Where you saw these abominations,
Look Out for Black Globs in the distance or Blights. One to the left, middle, and right. They sink into the ground and you'll miss your oppurtunity if not destroyed in time.

You got roughly 5 chances to shoot 3 down. They shrink into nothing. Thats how you know you destroyed it.

It doesn't take a lot of damage to destroy these.

Once You've destroyed all the blights,
Taken Wizards will spawn around the generator which will try to destroy the generator.

Kill the Taken Wizards to make it heroic and you will get teleported to a taken realm of the same location where you fight the boss.

note: This Public event can only be found in Dreaming City

Vex Crossroads on Mercury

Objective: Activate the Islands' plates.

This DLC expansion was meh at best but I digress...

Defeat the yellow-bar near the portals which will drop charges.
- Slam the charges into a glowing side of the portal,
DING! You just activated your way to the island.
Next, go for a quick trip to an island via Vex Ring Launcher.
- Kill the Major/Yellow bar there.
  - Pick up the Charge/Orb that it drops.
    - Slam it into the middle of the room there

WAIT, Dont Leave just yet!

Crystals will appear in the sky nearby opposite of the ring launcher.
- Shoot the crystals & follow the steps up,
- Destroy additional crystals to spawn more steps
- Jump up to the top, grab the regional chest (if there is one),
  - and stand on the plate in the center.

Rinse and Repeat
Now return to the main area and do the same to the other side (if necessary).

Once both Islands plates are complete, a few seconds later, the heroic will trigger.

P.s. There's really no difference to the heroic encounter vs normal encounter. Just an extra chest after boss kill which gives out very underwhelming rewards.

note: Only Found on Mercury (Obviously) ... wait thats vaulted... riiiight. good riddance

Escort the Resonant Splinter

"Heroes Never Die!" - oh wrong game...

Location: Throne World

Objective: Escort the payload the RESONANT SPLINTER!

Stay by the resonant splinter, to make it advance forward. ...Yeah, its just a baby pyramid ship
Kill Powerful (yellow bar) Scorn which will drop orange sphere bomb charge-y things ...heh, guess they've been taking their vitamin C
Someone has to pick up the charge and throw it at the resonant splinter. ...ooh! enemies... dang, i think i forgot to pick up that thing with all that action happening... oh you're telling me I wasnt supposed to use that ball on the enemies? <- don't be that gaurdian
Throw five charges (or more, if needed) into the circular part of the pyramid weapon to charge it up. ...aw, i think it likes you...

If done correctly, The resonant splinter will arrive at its final destination and the heroic version will begin. Time for it to grow up and... oh no, its a trap!

CLEAR OUT THE AREA quickly to complete it.

Summary (Photo)

Summary Photo Credit to Niris.tv [this photo is slightly outdated]

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44 Comments

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Jesse Buchanan: Rookie 2 Sep, 2022 @ 2:25pm

very comprehensive.

Dbkickva 5 Jun, 2022 @ 1:10pm

Nice

Sentarry [author] 28 May, 2022 @ 2:34am

@kavertt Blind Well Heroic? After completing a Tier 3 Blind Well event, the central pedestal can be charged further using an Unstable Charge of Light. Players will have a few seconds to make it back to the center and input the Unstable Charge of Light, else the Tier 3 will be considered complete and the reward chest will spawn. As soon as the Unstable Charge of Light is inserted, the Heroic Blind Well will begin. Note: you can purchase Unstable Charges of Light from Petra using dark fragments; Dark Fragments are obtained by completing Petra Venj's bounties and/or completing other activities around the Dreaming City.

Sentarry [author] 28 May, 2022 @ 2:26am

Note as of May 2022: You may find this guide outdated... I have not played the game in a while and Bungie removes content often while also making some gear irrelevant which has caused me to stop playing in recent months. I'm keeping the guide because some of it is still relevant. I plan on adding the how-to's for new public events for the latest witch queen area this year.

Dbkickva 27 May, 2022 @ 12:34pm

I already know how to make this heroic, but what about blind well?

Captain Cosmos 16 Apr, 2022 @ 5:51pm

I apologize for all those public events I have screwed up. Thank you for the help

Ғüﾚ爪Σ†ÅﾚҜγōjıи 20 Sep, 2020 @ 2:58pm

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DKlimax 29 Nov, 2019 @ 1:29am

Correction for Vex Crossroads:
After heroic version is triggered Vex Boss gets shield that has to be taken down by killing yellow-bar and dropping charge on gate.

DKlimax 29 Nov, 2019 @ 1:27am

Soloing:
Easy heroic:
Cabal Drill (Just one needs sufficiently powerful weapon - many Fusion Rifles will suffice)
Witches ritual
Taken Blight
Warsat down (Fusion rifle recommended)

Medium Difficulty (aka some preparations advised)
Ether Resupply (High damage heavy and energy strongly recommended)
The Arsenal Walker (lots of running and dodging)
Cryo-pod (damaging ground and later lots of enemies)
Ether Ritual (fast firing gun required - machine gun is excellent for this)
Vex Crossroads (at least two fast firing and/or autoreloading weapons to destroy all crystals in time)
Glimmer Extraction
Injection rig (so far never got it right solo, should be still doable)

Very hard/nearly impossible
Vex Construction (It might be doable on Nessus in Exodus Black (it is possible to cover two approaches out of single place, but it is hard to know if one solos since third plate is out of radar range)
Rift Generator (later too many enemies from different directions)

Zeta 11 Oct, 2019 @ 3:12am

Personally I'm already a veteran player, but I appreciate the work that went into the guide with the screenshots for easy reference. I've linked it to a few of my New Light friends.

Thanks for the guide!

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