Destiny 2 Sundered Doctrine Dungeon Guide

Preview: If you're looking for a Sundered Doctrine walkthrough, you've come to the right place. This new Destiny 2 dungeon takes Guardians deep into Rhulk’s Pyramid Ship, featuring deadly Dread and Hive enemies, intricate puzzles, and a powerful loot pool. Whether you're tackling it solo or with a fireteam, understanding the mechanics is key to survival. In this guide, we’ll break down every encounter, secret chest, and boss strategy to help you clear the dungeon efficiently and claim its best rewards.

Welcome to the most complete Sundered Doctrine dungeon guide for Destiny 2. This guide provides all the details about the dungeon, including information about the day-1 run challenge and its rules, full walkthrough of every encounter, detailed mechanics explanations, and the dungeon’s loot table, including the location of all secret chests.

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How to Start Sundered Doctrine Dungeon in Destiny 2

The Sundered Doctrine dungeon launches on Friday, February 7, 2025, after the Friday’s update at 9 a.m. PST/12 p.m. EST. To access it, you’ll need the Dungeon Key Dungeon Key. Before diving in, make sure to pick up the quest called “The Drowning Labyrinth”.

How to Unlock Sundered Doctrine:

1. Acquire the Final Shape Dungeon Key (unless you purchased the FInal Shape Deluxe Edition)
2. Pick up the The Drowning Labyrinth questline in the Tower.
3. Launch the dungeon from the Director

Also, make sure to have the 1995 Power, which is a standard requirement for most endgame content.

Dungeon Race Rules

Per tradition, the world’s first race of this dungeon will have certain weapons, armor, and perks will be disabled to maintain a level playing field for the world’s first race. Sundered Doctrine location is set inside Rhulk’s Pyramid Ship in Savathûn’s Throne World, the dungeon will pit players against the Dread and Hive while introducing new mechanics and loot.

As with previous Contest Mode events, Bungie is restricting certain powerful items to prevent unintended advantages. While more updates are expected, here’s what has been confirmed so far:

• Auto-Loading Holster Perk
• Class-Specific Exotic Glaives
• Microcosm (disabled across Destiny 2)

Bungie has stated that additional items may be added to the disabled list leading up to launch, with a final list being locked in by 7 AM PT on Friday. BLOG20

A bit of a disclaimer: the following Sundered Doctrine guide will be written based on the race walkthroughs but adapted for the normal runs.

Sundered Doctrine Dungeon Walkthrough

The Sundered Doctrine dungeon takes place inside Rhulk’s Pyramid Ship, and your first objective is to find a way forward. The starting area, Flooded Inspection, is relatively linear. Follow the path while eliminating Dread and Hive enemies, including two Subjugators that can be crowd-controlled and finished off.

As you move through the artifact examination room, take note of the large panel of buttons—it may be relevant for future quests. Exit the room, cross the bridge, and look to your left for an opening. Continue forward until you reach a large chamber with more enemies and another Subjugator.

Once the enemies are dealt with, locate two red lights high up in the back of the room. Beneath them, on the ground floor, there’s a small waterfall with a hidden passage behind it. Drop down to reach the first encounter: The Riddle.

Solving the Lens Puzzle

Inside the first encounter room, you'll find three rotating darkness lenses that direct a beam of darkness toward various points in the room. The goal is to redirect the darkness beam to a specific symbol on a circular plate in one of four adjacent rooms.

At the center of the area, you’ll notice a large tablet with seven empty symbol slots—this is your reference point. The symbols on the plates in neighboring rooms will change every time you activate the puzzle.

How to Activate the Encounter

1. Rotate a darkness lens to start the encounter. This will randomly assign symbols to the main tablet.
2. Darkness nodes will appear over the initial lenses—shoot them to activate the lenses.
3. Each lens can point in three different directions—your task is to align them correctly to complete a pathway of darkness.

Finding the Correct Symbol

1. Defeat a Truthspeaker Major Grim, a special enemy that drops a hint about which symbol to connect to.
2. Find the corresponding circular plate in one of the four rooms.
3. Kill a Subjugator to collect a lens. Place it along the beam’s path and rotate it to ensure the beam reaches the target symbol.

Puzzle Progression & Difficulty Increase

• First round – Complete one beam connection.
• Second round – Complete two beam connections.
• Final round – Complete three beam connections.

Only one Major Grim spawns at a time, so you must solve each beam one at a time before progressing to the next.

Failure Consequences

• Connecting the beam to the wrong symbol spawns a Tormentor in the center of the room.
• If a lens is placed and immediately connected to the beam, it breaks after three rotations. Always rotate before placing it to avoid unnecessary resets.

After successfully aligning all three beams, the encounter will end, and you can proceed to the next section of the dungeon.

After several rounds of solving the puzzle with increasing difficulty, you'll finally be able to proceed. At some point, you'll come across two lenses, each pointing to a tablet with a bunch of symbols. Enemies that spawn drop certain items that correspond to the symbols on the tablets. You need to slot the correct items into the lenses to open the door forward. Once the door is opened, there'll be a rallying point and a new task - Open the Locks.

Boss Encounter: Zoetic Lockset (Walkthrough in Progress!)

Once you enter the big room, you'll see a progress bar on your screen that says "Lockset Progression." The arena has a bunch of tablets with symbol,s as well as separate symbols printed on on displays around the room.

The Zoetic Lockset boss fight builds upon the lens-based puzzle mechanics from the first encounter but introduces rotating wheels with glowing symbols as the key to triggering the damage phase. Players must interact with resonance inputs (1, 2, or 3) to control which symbols glow and input the correct sequence to initiate the damage phase.

Encounter Breakdown

Phase 1: Understanding the Wheel Mechanics

Throughout the arena, you'll see four large wheels, each with a glowing symbol that can be rotated. Above each wheel, there's a Crux of Darkness—shooting it changes the rotation direction of the glowing symbol.

Your goal is to rotate the symbols on the wheels to input the correct sequence and start a long DPS phase.

How to Move the Symbols:

• Kill Wizards around the arena to collect Resonance Splinters.
• You can carry up to 3 Splinters, each increasing your buff level:
  • Heightened Knowledge (1 Splinter)
  • Brimming Knowledge (2 Splinters)
  • Overflowing Knowledge (3 Splinters)
• Dunk Resonance Splinters into a wheel to rotate the glowing symbol.
• The number of Splinters you dunk determines how far the symbol moves.

How to Choose the Correct Symbols:

• Each Shrieker in the arena gazes at a wheel, locking in the glowing symbol.
• Once locked, the wheel's effect will take place when DPS starts.
• Ideal symbol setup across all four wheels:
  • Three Commune symbols – Extends the DPS phase.
  • One Kill symbol – Starts the damage phase.
  • (Optional) One Stop symbol – Temporarily halts enemy spawns.

If you input the wrong sequence, the DPS phase will be shorter, or enemies will overwhelm the arena.

Phase 2: Inputting the Code & Shriekers’ Role

Once the Shriekers gaze at a wheel, they lock in that wheel’s glowing symbol, which dictates what happens during DPS.

The panels in front of the Shriekers display the locked-in symbols. Ensure that at least one Shrieker locks onto a Kill symbol to start DPS. Ideally, get three Commune symbols for the longest possible DPS phase.

Phase 3: Damage Phase & Additional Mechanics

Once you’ve correctly aligned the symbols and a Shrieker reads "Kill," the DPS phase begins.

1. The Lockset Progression Bar seems to track how far along the encounter you are—possibly tied to dunked Cruxes or DPS milestones.
2. The damage window is long, but Zoetic Lockset has a massive health pool.
3. Expect constant enemy reinforcements unless you used a Stop symbol during setup.
4. Use high burst DPS weapons like Linear Fusion Rifles, Rockets, or Thunderlord.

This encounter adds multiple layers of complexity, requiring players to manage Crux dunking, track Shriekers, input the correct code, and react to symbol effects. With strong coordination and awareness, teams can extend DPS phases and maximize damage output to bring the Zoetic Lockset down efficiently.

Boss Encounter: Kerrev, The Erased (Walkthrough in Progress!)

This is the final boss encounter in the Sundered Doctrine. It seems to combine mechanics from two previous encounters:

1. connecting lenses by rotating the pedestals.
2. input the correct symbols to initiate the damage phase.

Please stay with us as we are working on beating this encounter.

Destiny 2 Sundered Doctrine Secret Chest Locations & Hidden Quests

At this moment, we don’t have exact details on the hidden collectibles or secret chests in the Sundered Doctrine dungeon. However, if past Destiny 2 dungeons are any indication, there will undoubtedly be hidden objectives, collectibles, or puzzles that encourage replayability. Whether it's time-limited Triumphs, exotic catalysts, or bonus loot chests, players can expect to return multiple times to uncover every secret and maximize their rewards. As soon as more information becomes available, we’ll update this guide with precise locations and strategies for finding them.

Sundered Doctrine Loot Table

Like previous dungeons, Sundered Doctrine dungeon loot table contains exclusive items and gear. Here’s a breakdown of what drops from each encounter:

While not all rewards are yet known, we do already know about the new Exotic Linear Fusion Rifle called Finality's Auger is one of the Sundered Doctrine weapons and that it has a pretty cool design which you can see on the image preview.

Intrinsic Perk: Ruinscribe’s Forge

• [Alt-Fire] to deploy a Ruinscribe Turret.
• The turret automatically targets nearby enemies and fires at them.
• Deploying the turret costs 3 ammo per shot.
• Tip: Firing the projectile skyward provides better sight lines for the turret, maximizing its effectiveness.

Unique Trait: Ruinscribe’s Beacon

• While a Ruinscribe Turret is active, the weapon’s laser projectiles can "paint" targets.
• The turret prioritizes painted enemies and fires more powerful shots at them.
• [Alt-Fire] to swap between normal fire and laser fire modes, adding flexibility to combat.

With its unique turret mechanics and target-marking feature, Finality’s Auger is shaping up to be one of the most interesting weapons in the Sundered Doctrine dungeon. 

 

Sundered Doctrine Armor Set

While we don’t have the name for the armor sets from Sundered Doctrine, we do have the datamined images already.

The Hunter armor set from the Sundered Doctrine dungeon blends skeletal aesthetics with high-tech elements, creating an intimidating and battle-worn look. The helmet features a skull-like design with glowing blue eyes, while the chest piece combines metallic plating with leather straps and utility pouches. Jagged shoulder armor and clawed gauntlets add to its aggressive appearance, giving off a cybernetic assassin vibe. The legs feature reinforced plating with an exo-frame structure, and the tattered cloak enhances the set’s rogue-like feel. This armor strikes a balance between ancient warrior themes and futuristic enhancements, making it a standout design for Hunters. BLOG20

The Warlock armor set from the Sundered Doctrine dungeon features an intricate, almost ceremonial design with a mix of regal and battle-worn elements. The helmet has a sleek, golden faceplate with a sharp, angular hood that gives off a mysterious and intimidating presence. The chest piece is adorned with layered fabric, metallic embellishments, and circular detailing, adding to its arcane aesthetic. The asymmetric leg armor, with studded plates and draped cloth, enhances the set’s worn yet elegant appearance. This armor perfectly embodies a fusion of ancient mysticism and high-tech combat gear, making it a unique choice for Warlocks.

The Titan's armor set from the Sundered Doctrine dungeon features a sleek yet battle-worn design, blending advanced metallic plating with a rugged, almost scavenger-like aesthetic. The helmet has an angular, reinforced structure, giving off a tactical and militaristic vibe, while the layered chest and arm pieces showcase intricate engravings and tubing, suggesting a fusion of old-world craftsmanship and high-tech durability. The armor’s muted silver and bronze tones, accented by glowing elements, add to its futuristic yet worn-in look, making it stand out as both stylish and formidable on the battlefield.

Conclusion

Sundered Doctrine is a challenging but rewarding dungeon in Destiny 2, featuring intense combat, intricate mechanics, and hidden secrets that demand teamwork and strategy. With the introduction of the Dread, a new and formidable enemy faction, every encounter pushes players to adapt and refine their approach, adding an extra layer of difficulty to an already complex activity.

Its powerful loot pool, secret puzzles, and the highly anticipated Finality’s Auger Exotic Linear Fusion Rifle make this dungeon a must-play for both casual and hardcore Guardians. Whether you're looking to test your skill, farm high-end rewards, or uncover every hidden collectible, Sundered Doctrine delivers an experience that will keep players coming back for more.

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