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The Tower
Overview
Location:	The Last City, Earth
Connecting areas:	Bazaar; Hangar; Annex
Gameplay
Accessibility:	Complete A Guardian Rises
Player capacity:	26

Revision as of 12:14, January 7, 2023

This article is about the social space in Destiny 2. For the social space of the same name in Destiny, see Tower.

The Tower is a social space located atop the defensive wall encircling the Last City. It serves as the headquarters of the Vanguard and the home of the Guardians.

Following the defeat of Dominus Ghaul and his Red Legion, the Vanguard opened facilities on wall's ramparts while the original Tower, which was destroyed at the onset of the Red War, was being rebuilt. The new Tower provides a dramatic view of the reawakened Traveler.

Gameplay

In Destiny 2, the Tower acts as the main hub for Guardians in between activities. It was the second social space unlocked in the game, after the Farm. Once the Story mission Chosen is completed, The Farm's icon in the Director was replaced by an icon depicting the reawakened Traveler, which opened a map of the Tower and provides access to its landing zone. The Farm's icon was moved to the European Dead Zone map and could still be accessed, but as most vendors relocated to the Tower, the only features still available were the postmaster, vaults, and Cryptarch Tyra Karn. Following the release of Shadowkeep, both the Farm and the Tower are unlocked by default. The Farm has since been added to the Destiny Content Vault and is no longer accessible.

Activities

Purchase gear from vendors
Decode engrams with the Cryptarch
Acquire quests and challenges
Store and retrieve gear from vaults
Receive rewards for completing quests and challenges
Create fireteams with other Guardians
Play an assortment of mini-games and puzzles
Purchase exotic weapons from vaulted content at the Monument To Lost Lights
Track and manage vendor reputation and rewards
Pledge yourself to a Faction during a Faction Rally

Characters in the Tower

Courtyard

Banshee-44, Gunsmith
Commander Zavala, Titan Vanguard
Kadi 55-30, Postmaster
Lord Shaxx, Crucible Handler
Master Rahool, Cryptarch
Tess Everis, Eververse representative
Lord Saladin, Iron Banner representative
Eva Levante, holiday event vendor

Bazaar

Ikora Rey, Warlock Vanguard
Suraya Hawthorne, Clan Steward
Executor Hideo, New Monarchy representative
Yuna, Mugunghwa Vendor (Asian servers only)

Hangar

Amanda Holliday, Chief Shipwright
Arach Jalaal, Dead Orbit representative
Lakshmi-2, Future War Cult representative
Saint-14, Trials of Osiris representative

Annex

Ada-1, Black Armory representative/Armor Synthesis vendor
The Drifter, Gambit representative
Benedict 99-40, Emperor's Advocate

Mini-games

Lava Challenge
- Location: Courtyard
- Objective: Activate the crates on the bridge above where Guardians spawn into the Tower, the prompt will read "Don't !" Doing this grants a red aura and the warning that "The floor is lava!" Contact with any surface aside from railings, crates, and flowerbeds will rapidly damage the player. The goal is to reach a blue pillar of light located somewhere in the Courtyard. Failing will kill the player and reset the challenge, while succeeding will earn the temporary buff "Quicken", which grants increased sprint speed and jump height.

Ball puzzle
- Location: Courtyard
- Objective: A purple ball can be found near a stack of crates on the bridge above where Guardians spawn into the Tower. Kicking this ball to a specific location in the Courtyard will cause a green ball to appear in the purple ball's original spot. Move the green ball to its goal area to spawn a black ball, and then a blue ball. The puzzle is complete when a large Traveler ball spawns and fireworks set off across the sky.

Soccer
- Location: Hangar
- Objective: The eastern half of the Hangar features an open area much larger than the Farm's soccer field. The ball spawned in the middle, and the goals are at opposite ends. Scoring a goal will set off fireworks in the sky behind that goal. In addition, both goals are bracketed by a pair of controls that, when activated, will briefly raise floor panels in the middle of the area. The ball no longer spawned following Saint-14's arrival in the Hangar during Season of Dawn, meaning this mini-game can no longer be played.
- as of Dawning 2022 this minigame has been re-added, however the blast deflectors are all activated simultaneously by only one button, and none of the others work

Trivia

Eva Levante is notably absent from the new Tower. Ghost mentions that she survived the destruction of the original Tower and the Red Legion's occupation of the Last City, but has not been seen for some time. She appears later during various holiday events.

Gallery

The Director map of the Tower
A view of the old Tower under reconstruction
The clandestine Daito-themed room, located just above the passage to the hangar.
Another view of the Daito-themed room, featuring the round table where Ana Bray's journal sits.