Destiny 2: How to Get One Thousand Voices Solo (Full Method)

One Thousand Voices only drops from the final chests after the Queenswalk encounter in the Last Wish raid, and both Riven and Queenswalk can now be cleared by a single player. On Warlock, you can teleport straight to the boss with the Wish Wall, burst Riven down with a Song of Flame build, stack Ethereal Keys, and then use an out-of-bounds route to finish Queenswalk on your own.

Quick answer: Input Wish 14 at the Wish Wall to reach Riven, kill her solo for an Ethereal Key, then run a fresh Queenswalk, glitch into the arena, carry the Heart to the Techeun, and spend keys on the end chests until One Thousand Voices drops.

What you need before starting

This method works on Warlock. You will swap between several loadouts across the run, so build them ahead of time and save them in your loadout slots. Stock up on Raid Banners from Petra Venj in the Dreaming City or Hawthorne in the Tower, since each banner refills your Super and ammo at a checkpoint.

The Riven fight uses two loadouts. The first stacks melee damage, the second handles the final stand.

Slot	Riven DPS loadout	Final stand loadout
Armor	Winter’s Guile, Reverie Dawn (Riven’s Curse)	Queensfoil Censer (Solo Operative, Argent Ordnance)
Subclass	Dawnblade: Song of Flame, Celestial Fire, Ember of Torches	Solar with Void Weapon Surge mods
Weapons	Tractor Cannon, The Heron glaive, Perfect Paradox (One-Two Punch)	Truth, Oxygen SR3 (Heal Clip)

Bind a separate key for your charged melee so your boosted melees hit Riven instead of tracking to nearby Psions.

Teleport to Riven with the Wish Wall

Launch Last Wish and head to the Wish Wall at the start of the raid, reached by platforming through the crystal cavern shortcuts past the Siren of Riven. Shooting the circular plates cycles the symbols on them, and matching the correct pattern teleports you directly to the boss.

Shoot the plates to arrange the Wish 14 pattern on the wall. This is the combination that sends you to the Riven encounter.

Inputting Wish 14 — Lining up the symbols on the Wish Wall plates to teleport straight to Riven. Shown at 01:10 in Esoterickk’s video. Image: Bungie

Step onto the central plate. The wall reads “You wish to stay here forever” and wipes your character, which sets the Riven checkpoint.

After spawning into the Queenswalk area, stand on the lift plate to the left to begin the encounter and drop into the lower chamber.

Initiating Riven Encounter — Standing on the left lift plate to start the fight and drop down. Shown at 01:27 in Esoterickk’s video. Image: Bungie

Find the correct side

Once you drop down, head to the same side you started on. Riven appears on one of two sides at random, so you need to confirm where she is before committing.

Once the music shifts, listen closely. Roaring and noise from Riven mean you should remain in that room. If you hear nothing, enter the corner marked “Joining Allies” to warp to the room across from it, where Riven actually spawns.

Burst Riven down solo

Riven takes about a minute to arrive. Use that time to build melee stacks, then unload a short, heavy burst into her claw.

Kill Taken Psions and Hobgoblins with glaive melees to build Warlord’s Sigil stacks from Winter’s Guile. Stop at 10 stacks and do not go over, which readies Warlord’s Fury.

With 10 stacks active, cast Song of Flame, hit Riven’s claw with Tractor Cannon for the weaken debuff, fire your One-Two Punch shotgun, and follow up with boosted charged melees.

Deal enough damage to be sent to the Ascendant Realm. Change to your final-stand loadout, including Truth and Queensfoil Censer. As you climb the floating platforms toward the light portal, use a scout rifle to pick off Taken Phalanxes and build Solo Operative stacks.

Come through the portal, strike Riven with a Celestial Fire melee to activate Radiant, then launch Truth rockets into her open mouth.

Riven Final Stand Damage — The final stand: Radiant up, Truth rockets into the open mouth. Shown at 04:36 in Esoterickk’s video. Image: Bungie

When the mouth opens, jump inside and shoot Riven’s Heart with any shotgun until the encounter completes. You have plenty of time here, so there is no need to rush the final shots.

Destroying Riven's Heart — Finishing Riven by shooting the Heart from inside her mouth. Shown at 04:49 in Esoterickk’s video. Image: Bungie

Defeating Riven grants an Ethereal Key even if you leave the raid unfinished. The kill is confirmed when the key appears in your inventory and the objective to carry the Heart is displayed.

Stack Ethereal Keys before Queenswalk

Each chest you open after Queenswalk costs one Ethereal Key, so more keys means more rolls at One Thousand Voices in a single run. You can hold five keys at once.

Return to orbit and reload the Riven checkpoint to farm the boss again. Beat Riven five times to bank five keys, then move on to Queenswalk for the maximum number of chest opens per completion.

Complete Queenswalk solo

After defeating Riven, go to orbit and load a fresh Queenswalk checkpoint. The first part relies on clipping into Riven’s arena before she spawns, which only works on a fresh checkpoint load.

Glitch into the arena

Load in with Astrocyte Verse, Voidwalker with Blink, and an Eager Edge sword such as The Other Half.

When the screen appears, keep forward held and rush ahead. Switch to the sword, leap and swing, blink, land, then leap, blink, and swing again to reposition. Maintain forward input throughout to preserve momentum. If the attempt fails, reload the checkpoint and try again.

Out-of-Bounds Glitch Execution — Blinking through the geometry to clip into Riven's room before she spawns. Shown at 07:57 in Esoterickk’s video. Image: Bungie

Once inside, swap to Transversive Steps, MIDA Multi-Tool, any rocket launcher with Bipod, and Strafe Glide for this opening section.

Loadout Swap for Queenswalk OOB — Swapping into Transversive Steps for the out-of-bounds traversal. Shown at 08:08 in Esoterickk’s video. Image: Bungie

Land on the invisible platform beneath Riven’s body, then head for the Heart’s spawn point. Stay close to the wall until Fate’s Chosen appears as a buff, then position yourself directly on the “Pick Up Heart Stone” prompt. From this point onward, do not change weapons.

Pick up the Heart with the Universal Cannon Glitch

The Universal Cannon Glitch lets you carry the Heart without starting its carry timer.

Open the Voidwalker subclass menu and toggle the Soul Siphon aspect off and on 70 to 80+ times. Around 80 swaps is a safe amount.

Close the menu, then interact with the Heart once. It won’t appear in your hands, but the glitch is active and no timer begins. Keep the same weapon equipped for the remainder of the run.

Carry the Heart to the Techeun

Jump back onto the upper roof with Strafe Glide, switch your jump to Burst Glide, and hop along the exterior roof toward the Vault.

Wait in the designated rooftop corner for 30 to 60 seconds to lock your respawn point there.

Jump forward over the Vault entrance and shoot a rocket at your feet to kill yourself before the “Joining Allies” timer expires. This drops the Heart down the roof.

Equip the Eager Edge sword as you respawn. Once revived, swing with Eager Edge, immediately change to MIDA Multi-Tool, collect the Heart, and drop over the cliff edge.

Enter the Vault room through the ceiling opening, race up the central stairs, and hold interact to deposit the Heart on the pedestal. Walk through the portal into the treasury of statues and chests to confirm the encounter is complete.

Open the chests for One Thousand Voices

In the final treasury room, spend an Ethereal Key on a chest for a chance at the exotic. One Thousand Voices is a rare, random drop, so it will not always appear on the first open. That is why banking five keys before Queenswalk matters, since you get five rolls per run.

These chests also hand out Tier 5 raid loot, Last Wish weapon red-border patterns, and armor. The One Thousand Voices Catalyst can drop here too, though farming Morgeth in the Pantheon is the simpler route for that upgrade. If the weapon does not drop, leave, reload the raid, and run the loop again.