How To Start Destiny 2’s New Exotic Fish And Broken Blade Exotic Quest

Some of Destiny 2’s Exotic quests are clearly telegraphed and presented in a way that makes them hard to miss. Others are far more secretive and hidden, including one that appears to have been added just recently but is seemingly not yet available in full. This new Exotic quest involves catching an Exotic fish, something called a Broken Blade, and those mysterious Deep Dive statues. While we don’t yet know all the details–or even what the reward is–below we’ve outlined what we have figured out, such as how to get started on this new quest, which is likely time-gated over some period of time.

How to start: catch an Exotic fish

At least to start, you won’t see anything in your quest log about a new Exotic to acquire. Instead, you simply need to know that this quest exists and go about acquiring an Exotic fish. Make sure to grab the Fishing Rally quest from Hawthorne at the Tower, too, since you’ll be doing a lot of fishing and can make progress on that simultaneously. This is a new quest that was introduced on June 20, coinciding with this Exotic quest.

You can consult our Destiny 2 fishing guide for more details on how fishing works if you haven’t done any yet, but it appears you’ll want to start by fishing on the Throne World, where you can get the Whispering Mothcarp. This appears to be exclusive to the Throne World, with an exclusive Exotic fish also set to come to the other two destinations with fishing ponds (Nessus and the EDZ).

Unfortunately, catching an Exotic fish is a crapshoot: Some players have reportedly caught hundreds of fish without one, while others get one much sooner. I was able to head to the Throne World and catch one within 10-15 minutes, but your miles may very much vary. This is where the Focused Fishing buff can help, so be sure to stick with the same fishing pond for as long as possible (and hopefully with as many other people as possible) to build up the Focused Fishing meter to improve your odds of catching an Exotic.

Release the Exotic fish at the HELM

Once you have your Whispering Mothcarp in hand, head to the HELM and dunk it into the aquarium as per usual. Alongside the typical rewards for catching an Exotic fish–including a piece of Exotic gear–you’ll also receive something called a Broken Blade. This, too, does not give you a quest, nor does it directly show up in your inventory, making it easy to miss if you don’t see the pop-up when you first acquire it.

Instead, you can see that you have a Broken Blade by hovering over the Fishing Tackle in your inventory; it will say that a Broken Blade has been acquired from Savathun’s throne world. That suggests similar ones can be acquired from Nessus and the EDZ, but for now, head into a Deep Dive activity.

Deposit the Broken Blade in a Deep Dive

If you’ve been playing Deep Dives, you may have noticed some conspicuous-looking Hive statues that you haven’t been able to do anything with. Now, with a Broken Blade in hand, you can deposit the item at one of these statues by approaching it and holding Use to offer the item up. This will prompt some dialogue from Xivu Arath, and flames will appear on the statue.

The first statue is located in the first underwater section, after you open the door. Drop down, and rather than proceeding as usual to the first cliff you can drop off of, head toward the right, where you’ll proceed down a small hallway-like corridor. At the end is a drop, where you’ll immediately be able to see the statue.

With the Broken Blade offered up, there appears to be nothing else to do at the time of this writing. It seems likely that over the next two weeks, a new Exotic fish will become available on the EDZ and Nessus, which will in turn provide Broken Blades to offer to the other Hive statues. Where things go from there, however, is anyone’s guess.