The latest Exotic mission released in Destiny 2 with Season of the Seraph no doubt draws players in with its grand vistas and the promise of the Revision Zero Exotic pulse rifle, but there’s more than meets the eye in this orbital platform. Operation: Seraph’s Shield—like the Exotic missions that precede it—features a wealth of secrets tucked away throughout it, one of which is bonus chests that contain seasonal gear.
There are two bonus chests in total to find aboard the Seraph Station, and they can only be looted once a week per account. These can be a great way to farm additional rolls of the seasonal and IKELOS weapons with no cost, and these secret chests also seem to come with a greater chance of dropping a roll with Deepsight Resonance.
To make accessing the bonus chests easier, players will require the Tactical Armor upgrade from the Exo Frame vendor in the H.E.L.M. These can’t be purchased like normal upgrades, but instead are granted by the Exo Frame vendor on a weekly basis. You can choose which upgrade to take each time, so make sure to prioritize the most impactful ones first.
All the secret chest locations in Operation: Seraph’s Shield in Destiny 2
Warsat Control Nexus
In the final room of Operation: Seraph’s Shield, located on the right side of the panel where you upload the virus is the first secret chest available in this Exotic mission. This chest can only be collected once per week and will reward you with a seasonal weapon that has a high chance of having Deepsight Resonance.
Because this chest can be accessed without any specific upgrades, it requires a few extra steps to acquire. The door it sits behind will be closed unless you bypass its security earlier in the mission.
To do this, you will need to disable a group of small drones located somewhere aboard the station, in any of the larger rooms leading up to where you upload the virus as long as a Scanner augment is available nearby. These drones come in packs of four or five, working maintenance on a section of the Seraph Station. You disable them by shooting them, but you will need to shoot them in the correct order if you want to successfully bypass security with their destruction.
You can figure out the order by using the Scanner augment. With the Scanner augment equipped, one of the drones will be highlighted in yellow. Shoot this drone and then another drone will be highlighted for disabling, giving you an order to follow that must be kept to. Destroy the wrong one and you will fail to open the door at the end of the mission.
The potential locations of the drones in the Engineering Sector can be found here:
Engineering Sector (First Operator room)
The second secret chest can be found in the first area after the introduction of the Operator augment. Behind the room that contains the two Hive Shriekers that need to be killed is a doorway blockaded by a laser fence. You will need the Tactical Armor upgrade from the Exo Frame vendor in the H.E.L.M to pass through this traditionally, but it can be passed through via certain mechanics such as the heavy attack of the Falling Guillotine sword or a Blink jump ability.
Once inside, the bonus chest is tucked away down one of the short hallways. This chest will reward you with a seasonal weapon, with no guaranteed Deepsight Resonance but a high chance of it. Within this room is also one of the yellow Clovis drones that need to be destroyed with the Revision Zero Exotic pulse rifle for a separate triumph.
