Ready to unlock the eerie secrets of Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost 2023? Master the art of farming Spectral Pages-the key to unveiling the mysterious Book of the Forgotten-by donning your Festival mask and diving into the fastest activities, from heroic public events to a clever checkpoint exploit in the Lightfall campaign’s first mission. Whether solo or with friends, this guide reveals the most efficient routes to amass Spectral Pages and transform them into Manifested Pages, unlocking rich lore and exclusive rewards before the festival fades.
Everyone’s favorite space grandma, Eva Levante, tasks you with collecting Spectral Pages, transforming them into Manifested Pages, and adding them to the Book of the Forgotten. This event has gone more-or-less unchanged for the past two years, and it’s seen some very minor changes this year. The name of the game has always been “how can I get as many Spectral Pages as possible as fast as possible?”
In this Destiny 2 guide, we’ll show you how to get Spectral Pages and teach you how to farm Spectral Pages as efficiently as possible.
How to get Spectral Pages
To get Spectral Pages in Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost 2023, players must wear a Festival of the Lost mask while completing various in-game activities. Spectral Pages drop upon completing events such as Strikes, Crucible matches, Gambit, Public Events, and seasonal activities like Haunted Sectors. Each completed activity awards a few Spectral Pages, with faster farming often done through quick Public Events or campaign missions like the Witch Queen’s “First Contact.” After collecting Spectral Pages, players can convert them into Manifested Pages by defeating Headless Ones in Haunted Sectors, which are then used to unlock entries in the Book of the Forgotten at the Tower next to Eva Levante. Efficient farming involves focusing on activities that can be completed quickly while always wearing the Festival mask to ensure pages drop.
Spectral Pages are what we like to call the “go play Destiny 2” currency for Festival of the Lost. The entire point of the currency is to get you out there playing the same stuff you play every week and every season: Strikes, Crucible, raids, what have you. Different activities award different amounts of pages (usually based on difficulty and length).
The only real caveat to collecting these is that you must be wearing the Masquerading Helm festival mask in order to get Spectral Pages from activities. The type of character mask you equip to the Masquerading Helm is purely aesthetic and won’t boost your page numbers or anything like that.
Once you have an inventory full of pages, you can take them into the Haunted Lost Sectors activity in the Tower. Kill as many Headless Ones as you can (up to 15 per Lost Sector), as that will determine how many Spectral Pages you transform in a single go.
You’ll need a whopping 126 Manifested Pages in order to fully complete the Book of the Forgotten this year.
How to farm Spectral Pages
To farm Spectral Pages efficiently in Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost 2023, players need to wear a Festival of the Lost mask while completing various activities such as Strikes, Crucible matches, Gambit, Public Events, and seasonal activities. The key is to focus on fast, repeatable activities; for example, Vanguard Ops strikes can yield 3 to 5 Spectral Pages per completion and can be done quickly, especially with a premade fireteam. Public Events on the EDZ are also a fast method, giving 2-3 pages per heroic completion. Another highly efficient method involves replaying the “First Contact” mission on Legendary difficulty, where players can use checkpoints to repeatedly farm Spectral Pages by defeating enemies and interacting with specific mission elements. After collecting Spectral Pages, players can convert them into Manifested Pages by killing Headless Ones in Haunted Lost Sectors, which are then used to unlock lore in the Book of the Forgotten.
Cheese Forever (an infamous Guardian who always finds new ways to break the game on YouTube), put up a quick guide explaining how to do First Contact checkpoint farming, which nets you nine to 10 Spectral Pages every few minutes.
This exploit has been in the game for a bit, but the general idea is that you load up the mission, get the checkpoint (either by trading it with a friend or just completing the mission), reload and do it again. Instead of having to redo the entire mission, you’ll only have to do a portion and get tons of rewards very quickly.
This is the most common community method for just farming pages, and Kackis even mentions a slightly different method in his guide below. It’s very tedious, but far and away the most efficient method there is.
For those that want to farm entirely solo or don’t want to use an exploit, your best bet here is to farm Heroic Public Events, like Kackis mentions in his video above. Most Public Events allow you to quickly reload the area and do them again if you’re fast enough, which lets you “double-dip” pages for very little effort.
Public Events are only your best option if you’re already done with Season of the Witch, however. If you have Strikes to do for the new seasonal weapon or Crucible ranks to grind, killing two birds with one stone (while wearing a mask) is going to be the best use of your time here.
Basically just determine what you need to do in the game before the next season and do that thing. As long as you’re wearing a mask, you’ll get some Spectral Pages out of it. But if the answer to that initial question is just “finish Festival of the Lost,” hit up the First Contact exploit or run a mind-numbing amount of Heroic Public Events instead.
Want to discover the fastest way to farm Spectral Pages in Destiny 2 Festival of the Lost 2023
The fastest way to farm Spectral Pages in Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost 2023 is by repeatedly running the first mission of the Lightfall campaign on Legendary difficulty using a clever checkpoint exploit. After defeating the Tormentor enemy, you save the checkpoint, switch characters (both wearing Festival of the Lost masks), and rejoin the mission to quickly trigger mission completion and earn 8 to 10 Spectral Pages per run. With good coordination, this method can yield up to 480 Spectral Pages per hour, making it the most efficient farm available. Alternatively, Vanguard Ops strikes offer a fast, low-risk way to farm pages, especially with a premade fireteam, while Nightfalls remain a decent but slower option.
How does completing activities in Neptune missions boost spectral page farming
Completing activities in Neptune missions boosts Spectral Page farming by providing a fast and efficient way to earn a significant number of Spectral Pages per run. Wearing the Festival of the Lost mask while engaging in activities like strikes, public events, and campaign missions-including those on Neptune-grants Spectral Pages upon completion. Specifically, campaign story missions on Neptune are among the shortest activities that reward the most Spectral Pages, making them ideal for farming. Additionally, defeating enemies such as Headless Ones in these missions contributes to the number of Spectral Pages you can convert later in Haunted Sectors. This approach maximizes your farming efficiency by combining quick mission completion with high page rewards.
