How to get Metastisized Essentia in Destiny 2

If there’s one thing Destiny 2 players are familiar with, it’s collecting new resources as they enter the game. Episode: Heresy adds a trove of new currencies and collectibleꦿs to fret over. However, only one requires as much labor to earn as its name is difficult to pronounce: Metastisized Essentia.

Destiny 2 is always getting new forms of currencies and resources. Many of these items are specific to a Season (or Episode), acting as the grease between the gears of new activities or whatever pursuit Guardians are currently chasing. Metastisized Essentia is one of the new Heresy currencies, working like the Radiolite resource from Episode: Echoes. While Metastisized Essentia can lead to even greater rewards during Heresy, Guardians must first set aside a tidy supply.

Where to find Metastisized Essentia

If players want to go out and farm a solid stack of Metastisized Essentia, the place to head is into The player-approved Nether activity. The new activity is a great way to earn rewards throughout this Episode, including new Heretical weapons, Sigil Stones, and, of course, Metastisized Essentia. Not to mention the Tome of Want, allowing players to direct their l🎃oot whilst in The Nether. Metastisized Essentia is strewn throughout the Dreadnaught while engaged in the activity and marked as a resource node by Ghosts if you use a Detector mod on♏ your Ghost Shell.

Visually, Metastisized Essentia is a spiked white ball sitting atop black tentacles. Looking a little closer at the resource, you can see it’s both riddled with eyes and apparently breathing. Interacting with the resource, Guardians will receive one or two Fleeting Metastisized Essentia and some Sigil Stones.

After collecting Fleeting Metastisized Essentia, it’s technically still not in players’ possession. The resource must be refined into regular Metastisized Essentia by looting the final chest in each zone. Of course, that chest is guarded by a boss who appears after Guardians clear three minor objectives.

In addition to the Metastisized Essentia readily available in The Nether, players can also get a supply of the resource from Eris’ flat in The Last City. On one side of the room is the Shaping Slab, the Episode’s main reputation vendor. Metastisized Essentia is a reward available on that reputation reward track.

How to use Metastisized Essentia

Metastisized Essentia is only valuable to players in clusters of 10, as that’s how the resource is exchanged back at Eris’ flat. Opposite the Shaping Slab, right near the doorway, there’s a Taken Altar hungry for Metastisized Essentia. 

For every 10 o𓂃f the reso𝔉urces turned into the Altar, Guardians will get a trove of rewards. 

• Essence of Desire x 10
• Enhancement Cores
• Enhancement Prisms
• Reprised Season of Arrivals weapons
• Episode: Heresy reputation

While it doesn’t appear that Metastisized Essentia is used for any Heresy systems itself, it is worth depositing what’s had in between runs through The Nether. Guardians will assuredly be amassing the resource as they interact with the Episode, so it’s worth converting it into some potential usable rewards.