Insurrection Prime Cheese Guide | Pantheon Divinity Farm

Bungie patched Morgith, Argos, and the seven-stack artifact perk. They did not patch this. The exploit lets you apply the Divinity exotic trace rifle cage to Insurrection Prime's waist while he is technically immune, then pour precision damage directly into that cage until he dies. No buff collection. No cap swap. No damage phase theater. The boss falls in roughly a minute and you walk to the vendor.

Is it elegant? No. Does it feel like something Bungie intended? Absolutely not. Does it get you Spoils of Conquest and Tier 5 loot in a fraction of the normal time? Yes, and that is the entire point of this page.

One thing to be clear about: you still need to actually kill him. This is not a skip. It is a damage exploit. Bad DPS means a long, painful encounter where everyone stares at a number that barely moves. Bring real weapons.

What You Actually Need

The Pantheon raid cheese runs on two things: one exotic that you probably do not have, and enough firepower to matter. Here is the full breakdown.

Getting Divinity

This weapon is why some of your friends will not be able to run this. The Divine Fragmentation quest requires scanning Vex cores in three Nessus Lost Sectors, collecting 120 Sol Divisive Vex parts, empowering a decryption core at Eris Morn's Lectern of Enchantment, then solving seven tether puzzles across the entire Garden of Salvation raid — all in one sitting. You cannot checkpoint the puzzles. You must also defeat the final raid boss in the same run to claim the gun from the reward chest. It is a lot of work for a trace rifle. It is worth every second specifically because of cheese strategies like this one.

The Celestial Nighthawk Setup

The Celestial Nighthawk Still Hunt build converts Golden Gun from three weak shots into one enormous hit. Still Hunt has its own Golden Gun meter charged by precision hits, meaning a Hunter with this setup gets two supercharged shots per rotation. On Prismatic, layer three Solar Surge armor mods, maximize your Super stat, and pair with triple solar weapons. The damage output against a stationary target sitting inside a Divinity cage is, frankly, embarrassing for the boss.

Step By Step

This requires coordination, not skill. Run through it in voice chat before the attempt or watch someone do it wrong twice and learn from their suffering.

1. Hold a checkpoint Have one fireteam member hold the Insurrection Prime encounter checkpoint on a separate character. Load everyone into the encounter, then have that player reload on the second character. This keeps the checkpoint indefinitely, meaning failed attempts cost nothing except time and self-respect.
2. Identify the Divinity user One player — ideally the Warlock running Well of Radiance — holds Divinity. If you have two Divinities available, assign the second as backup. The Divinity user must lower their weapon stat below 100 if they are not running the Cutthroat feat, or they risk breaking the crit node and ruining the phase.
3. Start the encounter, let Prime jump to you Insurrection Prime will come to the initial spawn area. Do not do anything heroic. Wait.
4. Divinity user shoots a crit node, not through it The Divinity cage glitch activates by sustained fire on one of Prime's glowing crit nodes. You are not trying to break it. You are nursing it. After several seconds of sustained fire, a Divinity cage will begin forming around the boss's waist. Nobody else should be shooting the crit node.
5. Drag the Divinity beam to the waist cage Once the cage starts forming, the Divinity user slowly moves the reticle to the cage bubble at the waist. If done correctly, the cage stays active and damage numbers appear. This is the signal for everyone else to open fire.
6. Everyone dumps DPS into the cage Hunters fire Still Hunt and pop Golden Gun. Linear fusion players slam the cage. Well of Radiance must be active. The Divinity user stays locked on the cage — no tap firing, constant beam. Someone keeps the Divinity user alive. Kill the boss before the cage fails.

If a crit node breaks: the cage collapses and the attempt may be over. With the Challenge feat active, each player can only break one assigned node, so a second Divinity user must immediately pick up a different node and restart the cage. Without Challenge feat, the problem is easier but the accidental break is more likely since you hit harder.

The phase does not fail from low DPS. It fails because someone gets careless. The Insurrection Prime cheese guide dies in one of three ways: the Divinity user breaks the node by accident, the Divinity user gets killed because nobody was covering them, or the cage collapses because the Divinity user stopped holding the beam.

The Cutthroat feat: the one that puts you at a light level disadvantage: is counterintuitively easier for this cheese than running without it. Lower damage means the Divinity user is less likely to accidentally break the crit node. If you are not running Cutthroat and are having accidental breaks, drop your weapon stat below 100 deliberately. Yes, this means intentionally handicapping yourself. Welcome to Destiny 2 endgame.

Multiple Divinity users extend the damage window significantly. Player A runs their gun dry on one node, Player B immediately starts on another node. You can chain these rotations to create a long, continuous damage window that makes the encounter trivially short even with five feats stacking Prime's health pool.

Why BotherThe Actual Rewards

Insurrection Prime is the final encounter of the Pantheon 2.0 loot farm, which means clearing him puts you at the vendor. Every kill generates Spoils of Conquest, and the vendor accepts them for weapons including the Threat Level legendary shotgun: which only drops from this specific encounter initially. The Anarchy exotic catalyst is also here. For players farming Ferropotent armor or hunting Tier 5 stat rolls, this is the fastest route available by a significant margin.

A normal legitimate clear with full mechanics, buff collection, cap swapping, and damage phases takes substantially longer per kill. This cheese reduces that to under two minutes per attempt when the team executes correctly. The Spoils of Conquest farm math heavily favors running this repeatedly over doing it properly.