Wild Card (activity)

Overview

Wild Card is a Story mission in The Pale Heart, added with The Final Shape. It is the mission step of the Wild Card Exotic quest, which is started by speaking to Cayde-6 at the Lost City Tower after finishing The Final Shape campaign and the "Queens, Part I" step of Destined Heroes. You investigate an unknown threat with Cayde-6 and Crow. Fireteam size is 1-3 with no matchmaking. The mission is not a Contest-mode activity; sources describe its Power as fixed (about your level minus 5) with no Contest modifier, and the difficulty as moderate. Respawns are limited in the Darkness Zones. Checkpoints are given after each major boss. It is not sunset or vaulted as of the sources below.

How to launch

Select the quest from your tracker and start it from the banner marker in the Lost City Tower, once the requirements above are met.

Encounters and mechanics

• Devourer of Tainted Light: a War Beast corrupted by Dark Ether. After taking damage it flees into shielded areas; clear the reinforcements and follow it.
• Taken Blights: defeat the Taken guarding each Blight to destroy it. Sources disagree on the count (four in one, six in another), so expect to simply clear every marked Blight.
• Hoarder of Tainted Light: a giant Shank fought from across a canyon; kill the lesser enemies to bait it out.
• Lii'liks: a Scorn Abomination boss that summons Taken and Screebs. Kill Screebs, collect 10 Dark Ether and deposit it in the barrel to advance each damage phase.

Rewards

Completing the quest rewards the Still Hunt Exotic Sniper Rifle, which lets any class fire Golden Gun rounds. Completion also counts toward access to Salvation's Edge Contest mode, per the sources. See Wild Card for the full quest.

Related

Destined Heroes, Cayde-6, Crow.