Destiny 2 Arms Week Guide

Arms Week will be a returning event that happens over a week in Destiny 2. Each week, a different weapon archetype will be the focus. The first week features Hand Cannons with Phoneutria Fera, the new Spread Shot Hand Cannon, as the focus. The event has the Hardware PvP game mode, which disables Super and abilities. Players must use their weapons to reign supreme.

Destiny 2: Arms Week Questline

Players have a short quest to complete, which teaches them about the event and gives them access to the new weapons and mods.

1. Go to Ada-1 in the Shooting Range
2. Pick up the three bounties from Ada-1
   1. Precision Kills
   2. Portal Kills
   3. Rapid Kills
   4. Kills with Hand Cannons and on Guardians grant additional progress
3. Return to Ada-1
4. Purchase an Arms Week Engram
5. Equip your recently earned Volatile Weapon Mod on Phoneutria Fera.
6. Talk to Ada-1
7. She gives you two quests
   1. Chaotic Munitions – Defeat combatants in Portal activities
      1. Hand Cannon kills and Pinnacle Ops grant bonus progress
   2. Cowboy Grip – Final blows in Portal activities
      1. Precision final blows and Hand Cannons grant bonus progress
8. Return to Ada-1 once both quests are complete.

Weapons

Depending on the week, the focused weapon will change. For this week, it is Phoneutria Fera, which allows players to farm for other Hand Cannons. Activities during Arms Week award players Combat Telemetry, which you can use to focus weapons. Engrams cost 25 Combat Telemetry while weapon focusing costs between 25 and 30.

Arms Week Weapons

• Phoneutria Fera – Solar Spread Shot Hand Cannon
• Ribbontail – Strand Adaptive Frame Trace Rifle
• Synanceia – Solar Wave Frame Sword
• Trachinus – Solar Rapid Fire Frame Shotgun

Hand Cannons Available This Week

• Exalted Truth – Void Adaptive Frame
• The Palindrome – Arc Adaptive Frame
• Sightline Survey – Arc Precision Frame
• Luna’s Howl – Solar Precision Frame
• Exuviae – Stasis Aggressive Frame
• Warden’s Law – Kinetic Heavy Burst Frame
• Kept Confidence – Strand Adaptive Frame
• Austringer – Kinetic Adaptive Frame

Volatile Mods

The Volatile mods apply to Hand Cannons from Arms week and are disabled in PvP (except for Hardware) and the Desert Perpetual.

• Fragmentation Rounds – Precision final blows create multiple explosive submunitions
• Cowboy Grip – Supremely improved hipfire performance
• Chaotic Munitions – Precision final blows create randomized effects

Challenges and Rewards

The structure is nearly identical to the Seasonal Hub and the Heavy Metal Event. You can complete daily and weekly challenges for event XP and Event Tokens. The XP goes towards the event pass, which has materials, event currencies, and Holofoil Arms Week weapons. Players can reroll daily challenges, but not the weekly challenge. Event Tokens are used in the Reward Shop to purchase items like Exotic Ciphers, Arms Week weapons, and materials.

Arms Week: Hardware

Crucible players can jump into this game mode, which will remain active throughout the week. Players will not have access to Super or Weapons during this game mode, but can use Volatile Mods on curated weapons.

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