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As Destiny 2’s Guardian Games comes to a close on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025, we celebrate a well-earned victory for Titans, who won with an overwhelming number of daily victories.
But that doesn’t mean you still can’t represent your class and participate. You can still scramble and earn as many medallions and weapons before the event ends after this weekend.
If you’re reading this, chances are you probably might not have had the chance to play through this year’s Guardian Games activity Rushdown just yet, or you want to earn the Guardian Games exclusive Allstar Vector skimmer or the Godly Array shader.
Worry not! This is a comprehensive yet brief guide to the 2025 Guardian Games, along with some tips and tricks for farming medallions so that you can best represent your class and earn your rewards!
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How To Access
If you haven’t even touched Guardian Games for the past two weeks it’s been out, then make sure to grab the quest from Eva Levante, who is standing in the very middle of the Tower.
She’ll give you a quest and an exclusive Guardian Games class item, which is a free Artifice Armor that you must equip to earn medallions passively.
Follow the instructions on the quest: equip your new class item, complete a Guardian Games activity, then talk to Eva, then Zavala, and lastly Shaxx. This should be pretty straightforward to complete.
Then, you’re free to do as you see fit, as you can either go about your business and play whatever you want or focus on Guardian Games activities like Rushdown and Supremacy.
You’ll also find that Eva sells bounties as well as Contender Cards that award Medallions from Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. The other two types of Medallions, Bronze and Silver, can be earned passively when you complete activities with the Guardian Games class item equipped.
Rushdown
Rushdown is a boss rush activity where you must complete five boss encounters, each increasing in difficulty within a certain timeframe. You’ll start with a default of 10 revive tokens.
If you fail to complete an encounter within the time frame or lose all revive tokens, you finish Rushdown early and only get a small amount of loot. You must complete at least three boss encounters to earn a guaranteed Guardian Games weapon.
The higher your score, the more likely you’ll get weapons with multiple perks. Your score is dictated by how quickly you complete the encounter and how many revive tokens you use.
There are three difficulties: Warm-Up has no modifiers and no revive tokens; Standard and Expert are the same, though enemies in the latter hit much harder and have much more health.
Ideally, you’ll want to be able to complete Standard relatively quickly and Expert at a much steadier pace. All Rushdown difficulties can be matchmade. I recommend going for Expert difficulty, as it is not much harder than a Nightfall.
Each encounter is a callback to a major boss fight throughout Destiny’s history, whether it’s an Exotic mission or a campaign mission.
The list of boss encounters during Rushdown also rotates daily. Their objectives are rather straightforward, but some encounter mechanics might not be as obvious.
For Expert difficulty Rushdown, I highly recommend bringing your best loadout. There are way too many encounters to give a comprehensive guide on, so make sure to bring builds with adequate add-clear and boss damage.
Survivability is most important, as it’s better to take your time rather than burn through your revive tokens.
Supremacy
Now for the PvP sweats—Supremacy should be pretty straightforward: defeat your opponents and secure their Crests.
I’ve seen way too many people ignore this, but make sure to pick up your allies’ Crests when they get knocked out to deny the enemy team a point.
While getting kills is pretty important, it doesn’t matter if you don’t pick up their crests.
The Guardian Games version is Class vs. Class and will have you facing off against an entire team of a single class while you’re teamed up with others of the same class as your character.
In my experience, Hunters are absolutely stomping people in the Crucible, so do what you will with that information.
Medallion Farming And Loot
Now, onto what you’re here for: Medallion Farming and loot. Whether you want to finish the Guardian Games pass or light all eight braziers, you’ll need to know how to maximize your efficiency so that you don’t spend too long grinding in the Guardian Games.
We’ll be focusing on efficiency—you don’t have all the time in the world, so let’s look at how to make these farming methods as painless as possible because it can get a little boring at some point.
I suggest spending an hour or two just working on farming for the rest of the weekend. Unless you’re very insistent on playing PvP, I recommend picking up the Platinum Contender Cards “Platinum Plunderer” and “Stand-Out Performance.”
I found that farming these two Contender Cards makes things much more tolerable. For “Stand-Out Performance,” all you need to do is complete a single Expert Rushdown or a Grandmaster Nightfall to fill up the progress bar.
“Platinum Plunderer” is a particularly easy Contender Card to farm, as all you need to do is load up a Shuro Chi checkpoint or Grasp of Avarice dungeon and farm orbs of power.
Make sure to put on every orb generation perk and armor mod, like elemental siphons. Put on a podcast or audiobook and start churning out orbs. Rinse and repeat.
If you’re interested in completing the Event Card or you want to complete the two other quests, then try not to burn yourself out.
Zavala’s “Shoot to Score” quest only requires you to reach the 350,000 score threshold to allow you to light all the braziers on the right side of the Tower.
Depending on how well you do, you might even need to do well in just one Expert Rushdown to get to this score.
Shaxx’s “Vying for Supremacy” works the same. You’ll need to complete Supremacy matches on the Guardian Games version in order to gain points.
Naturally, winning matches earns you more points. Just play Crucible like you normally would.
Most of these rewards can be earned by playing the game passively, as long as you remember to equip your Guardian Games class item and drop by the tower to restock on Contender Cards whenever you finish one.
Depositing enough medallions into the podium will eventually let you earn the Godly Array shader, which periodically shifts between red, blue, and yellow, which are the colors of the three classes.
If you managed to complete the “Drop-In” quest before the Closing Ceremony, you’ll also earn the Allstar Vector skimmer.
As for weapons, we have a separate article that ranks the Guardian Games weapons as well as Heresy Act 2’s weapons and god rolls.
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Released August 28, 2017
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