Buckle up, fellow loot goblin. It’s 2026, and I’m still side-eyeing Season of the Seraph’s week 6 challenges like they owe me Glimmer. If you’re here, you either time-traveled back to this banger of a season or you’re cleaning up old quests for that sweet, sweet FOMO-free closure. Week 6 is where Bungie really starts making you work for the Exo Frame’s approval.

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Here’s the deal: some objectives are quick and painless, others will have you questioning your life choices while resetting Crucible rank like a part-time masochist. Let me break it down, Guardian-to-Guardian, with just the right amount of crying.

Challenge Core Objective Pain Level
More Than A Weapon VI Kill 100 Hive/Fallen 🌕🌑🌑
Seraph’s Secrets Open 2 hidden chests 🌕🌕🌑
Apex Armorer Masterwork armor 🌕🌕🌑
Crucible Ornament Reset Crucible and climb again 🌕🌕🌕
Heist Battlegrounds V 30 chests, 5 Choristers 🌕🌕🌕
CQC Loadout Glaive kills, 50 melees 🌕🌑🌑
Absolutely Stunning Stun Champions 🌕🌑🌑

More Than A Weapon VI

This one continues the main seasonal quest, so it’s basically mandatory if you want the story to make any sense.

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  • Complete Week 6 of More Than a Weapon.

  • Defeat powerful Hive and Fallen combatants anywhere in the system. Bonus progress in Heist Battlegrounds and Operation: Seraph’s Shield.

  • Challenging combatants: 100.

Rewards: Exo Frame Module, Challenger XP++

Honestly, the 100 kills almost complete themselves if you’re not AFK in the Tower. Head to the H.E.L.M., talk to the Exo Frame in the eastern wing, and follow the Warmind Rasputin soap opera. Ana, Clovis, and the Witness all want a piece of that Warmind network, and you’re the errand Guardian stuck in the middle.

Seraph’s Secrets

Opening two hidden chests in Operation: Seraph’s Shield is easier said than done, because this mission loves hiding things behind lasers, vents, and pure disrespect.

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  • Open 2 hidden chests in Operation: Seraph’s Shield.

  • Reward: Challenger XP+

The mission itself is stunning, so even if you’re just here for XP, take a moment to enjoy the view between panic dodges. To get both chests, you’ll need an Exo Frame upgrade that lets you bypass traps. If you try to brute-force it early, you’ll just be a very pretty corpse.

Apex Armorer

This challenge is basically Bungie saying, spend your life savings on one armor piece, please.

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  • Masterwork any piece of armor.

  • Rewards: Challenger XP+, Bright Dust

Any armor works, but the final masterwork level will demand an Ascendant Shard and a small piece of your soul. If you’re like me, you’re hoarding Ascendant Shards for the perfect roll and then masterworking a random helmet out of spite. At least you get Bright Dust.

Crucible Ornament

Oh boy. If you love Crucible, this is fine. If you don’t, I’m so sorry.

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  • Acquire the Crucible ornament for Veles-X.

  • Reach Crucible rank 16 to get Veles-X, reset your Crucible rank, then reach rank 16 again for the ornament.

  • Rewards: Challenger XP+++, Bright Dust

Yes, you read that right. You’re climbing the Crucible mountain twice. Lord Shaxx will shout encouragement while you contemplate whether this ornament is worth your sanity. Spoiler: it probably is if you’re a completionist, but your teammates may hear some creative vocabulary.

Heist Battlegrounds V

This one is retroactive, thank the Traveler, but it still takes a while.

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  • Open 30 Seraph Chests in Heist Battlegrounds or Legend Heist Battlegrounds.

  • Defeat 5 Deathtongue Choristers before they finish Xivu Arath’s battlesong.

  • Rewards: Exo Frame Module, Challenger XP++

Seraph Chests are straightforward, just run Heists and open the chest at the end. The Deathtongue Choristers, though, require your fireteam to actually focus fire. In random matchmaking, that’s like herding cats with sidearms. Bring a pre-made group if you value your time.

CQC Loadout

Time to dust off your trusty Glaive and poke things until they stop moving.

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  • Defeat targets with Glaives; Guardians grant bonus progress.

  • Get 50 melee final blows in Heist Battlegrounds.

  • Rewards: Challenger XP+

Bring the Glaive into Crucible if you want to speed this up, but be ready for some side-eye from shotgun apes. Then complete 50 melee final blows in Heists. That’s just a warm-up for your giant stabby stick.

Absolutely Stunning

Stun Champions. That’s it. That’s the challenge.

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  • Stun Champions in any activity where they appear, such as Nightfalls or Heist Battlegrounds.

  • Rewards: Challenger XP+++, Bright Dust

Equip the right seasonal mods and matching weapons. If you forget mods, you’ll just be mag-dumping into an uninterested Champion while your fireteam silently judges you. No pressure.

Final Blurb

Week 6 is the point where Season of the Seraph stops holding your hand. You’ve got quest obligations, hidden chest treasure hunts, armor economics, Crucible double-grind, Heist mob management, Glaive enthusiasm, and Champion stunning all competing for your evening. But hey, at least the loot’s good and the views are pretty.

If you’re still working through older seasonal challenges in 2026, just know that I see you, I respect you, and I also have too many unfinished bounties.