The Path of Ambition may only have arrived in Destiny 2 with the second Act of Heresy, but it’s quickly proving essential to the whole Episode. Once Guardians have access, they’ll want to level it up as fast as possible.

Episode: Heresy has introduced a lot to Destiny 2 in its short time, including the player-approved Nether activity and now Act II’s Court of Blades. Unlike other Episodes, Heresy even has two reputation reward tracks: one called Path of Resolve and another known as Path of Ambition. The latter Path is the key to certain rewards and milestones, like earning the second Barrow-Dyad Exotic Catalyst or the Elemental Siphon Boost Engraving on the Tome of Want. But it can feel like an uphill battle s🍰tarting⛎ over with a new reputation track.

Thankfully for players, there are some ways to make the Path of Ambition easier to walk. There are a few ♛tricks Guardians can lean on to earn all of the Path of Ambition reputation they need, and some methods will even work if you still need to rank up the Path of Resolve.

Reputation Gains

The activity loop to grind Path of Ambition rep

Based on how reputation is doled out, players can plan the order in which they do activities to maximize earnings. For example, it might make sense just to defeat the first boss and open its chest during a Nether run on Expert. Doing this a few times in a row, you’ll net more rep than doing a complete run in the same amount of time. Thankfully, plenty of Essence of Desire will be dropping from defeated foes. So as long as players are keeping an eye out, they’ll earn a nice little bonus every so often.

Afterward, once players have amassed a stack of 20 or 30 Metastasized Essentia, running a Court of Blades will reward an extra 175 XP and allow players to deposit the Metastasized Essentia at the end. Of course, Guardians can also take Metastasized Essentia to Eris’ Flat in The Last City, but we’re trying to optimize our time spent.

Don’t count the story out

If players have the option, another great way to fast-track rep gains is by going through the Episode: Heresy story with a different character. Another Guardian will earn rep XP towards whatever Path is set in Eris’ Flat. Assuming that’s the Path of Ambition, catching an alternate character up to your others can help hasten the reputation grind. That said, before embarking on these one-time narrative missions, you should still check the Flat to ensure the right Path is set.

Another good thing to keep in mind is that characters retreading the story will already have access to Court of Blades. So the same loop as described above can also work to maximize the rep earned. After all, the Heresy story will frequently send players into The Nether, and there are plenty of M✃etastasized Essentia to pick up whi🔴le in there.

It will definitely take some time and concerted effort, but so long as Guardians keep up with Heresy activities, they’ll eventually master the Path of Ambition. If you want to speed things up a bit, it’s all about optimizing the activities you’re running.