How to complete the Defenses Down challenge in Destiny 2

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The Exhibition encounter in the new Vow of the Disciple raid is one of the most hectic no breaks encounters in Destiny 2. The entire time you are working through the encounter every raid member must be aware of several different things such as the three different relics, the displayed symbols, and the multitude of enemies trying to kill them. If the encounter wasn’t already difficult enough, the Defenses Down challenge requires players to keep track of even more while chaos ensues around them.

The Defenses Down challenge is actually pretty simple once you tie it into the already required encounter mechanics. The only thing you need to do to complete the challenge is to only allow every member of your fireteam to kill one Taken Knight with the Darkness Relic. Sounds simple enough right? The caveat here is that there are a total of seven separate Taken Knights that will spawn, so you will need to do some quick thinking to overcome the challenge and complete the encounter.

To begin, assign each member of your fireteam a number one through six. These numbers will coincide with the order in which your fireteam members will eliminate their Taken Knights. The basic idea here is that once you kill your Taken Knight you will drop the Darkness Relic to the person after you, allowing them to kill the next Taken Knight and further extend the encounter timer.

Because there are a total of seven different Taken Knights that will spawn, you will need to skip a Taken Knight altogether and be extra quick in one of the encounter’s rooms. While you can skip a Taken Knight in any of the encounters rooms, we found that it is the least stressful to only kill one Taken Knight in the second room as you