Salvation's Edge Challenge: Scenic Route Guide (2024)

Salvation’s Edge has been out for a couple of weeks, meaning players have discovered almost everything the raid offers. However, that excludes two things released with the most recent weekly reset: master difficulty and weekly encounter challenges.

Here, we’ll cover all the challenges in detail, including the rewards available for completing them on master difficulty. Let’s begin.

Challenge This Week: June 25, 2024

The Salvation’s Edge Master Challenge this week is “Scenic Route” from the raid’s first encounter.

Power Level Requirements

If you’re interested in farming Salvation’s Edge’s challenges, make sure your Guardian has the proper Power Level (including your Artifact’s bonus Power):

The master difficulty of Salvation’s Edge has a power cap of 2010, meaning your damage output won’t be increased if you exceed that number (although it’s highly recommended to get there before you jump in!).

Note that Fireteam Power is active in this activity, meaning if someone on your team has a power level of 2015 or higher, all other players will automatically be at the 2010 cap, regardless of their actual power level.

Scenic Route Guide

Each of the three phases featured in this encounter consists of three subsections: two which require you to defeat an Overload Minotaur and Tormentor, and the third being the conductor phase.

To complete the Scenic Route challenge, your fireteam must only kill the Overload Minotaur on the longer of the two paths. Typically, the encounter progresses once either path progresses to and defeats their respective Overload. One path will always have one spawn in the third room, while the other will have one spawn in the fourth. To satisfy the challenge conditions, you must only defeat the Overloads in the fourth room.

Completing this reliably requires you to be slightly more attentive to which rooms you’ve passed through in each phase. Simply count how many rooms your team has moved through, and kill the Overload Minotaur you come across only if it appears in the fourth room in the chain. If it’s in the third, ignore it and instead look for a Keeper of the Monolith. Alternatively, take note of what types of majors spawn in the first few rooms of your chain. If they’re Attendants, you won’t kill your Overload. If they’re Hobgoblins, you will. Note that majors in the Overload room itself will always be Attendants, no matter what path you’re on.

Doing this on master difficulty is no different than normal, other than enemies having additional shields and slightly more health. Unlike most master encounters, this one features no additional Champion spawns, allowing you to put all of your focus into completing the weekly challenge.

Salvation’s Edge‘s Master rewards

Completing a raid on master difficulty is no easy feat, which is why Salvation’s Edge is chock-full of suitable rewards!

If you complete a challenge on the standard difficulty setting, you’ll receive a second loot drop from the encounter whose challenge was completed.

If you step into master difficulty, all armor pieces will drop with spiky stat splits based on the weekly focused stat viewable from the difficulty selection menu.

Completing a challenge on master difficulty offers an Adept raid weapon, dropping on a knockout system. These can be upgraded to have enhanced perks and intrinsically roll with two perks to select from in the third and fourth columns.

They also have a chance to roll with a third selectable perk in the final two columns, which can be made more likely to drop through the “Salvation’s Edge Patterns Collected” triumph.

These are all the Enhanced Adept weapons that can drop from Salvation’s Edge Master mode:

Lastly, master difficulty offers cosmetic rewards as well. Completing each encounter on master mode unlocks the Timeless Bond ghost shell, while completing all weekly encounter challenges on master grants the Turmoil Engine sparrow.

Before you go…

Salvation’s Edge is one of the most appealing raids right now.Don’t be surprised if its Master Challenges become one of the most popular endgame activities this season.