All Destiny 2 Exotic Weapons Getting Catalysts and Multiple Artifacts Revealed
Today’s Destiny 2 Dev Insight article was a hefty one. It covered most changes coming to weapons, artifacts, and gear, focusing on the Monument of Triumph update. As a result, one article is not enough to cover everything. If you want to see all the sandbox changes, have a look at our article covering that. Otherwise, here is everything you need to know about the changes.
Destiny 2: Weapon Tier Upgrading
Weapon Tier upgrading does exactly as it says. Player can upgrade their lower-tier weapons to tier 5. If you got that god roll Uncivil Discourse, but is it tier 2? Worry not, you can turn it into a tier 5 weapon. It gains everything except for the additional perks. If you want to have a multi-perk setup, you will need to earn the higher-tier version of the weapon. Upgrading tiers does come at a cost. Based on the image in the article, it will cost glimmer, Ascendant Alloys, and Enhancement Prisms.
Destiny 2: Exotic Catalysts
Right now in Destiny 2, not every Exotic has a catalyst. With the Monument of Triumph update, every exotic is getting a catalyst to increase its power fantasy. Some of the teased catalysts are:
- Chaperone – Triple Tap
- Parasite – Envious Arsenal
- Tarrabah – Ambitious Assassin
Some pre-existing catalysts are getting additional perks:
- Crimson – To the Pain
- Merciless – Heal Clip
In total, we are getting 25 catalysts and 9 perks added to existing catalysts that only granted weapon stats.
Destiny 2: Weapon Crafting
Crafted weapons have fallen behind their tiered counterparts since the release of the Edge of the Fate. The Monument of Triumph update will see crafted weapons brought up to par. How it works:
- All crafted legendary weapons get weapon tiering.
- At Gear Tier 3, you unlock Enhanced Weapon Mods
- At Gear Tier 5, you unlock cosmetics
- All other tiers correspond to unlocking other Enhanced components at the crafting table
- At Weapon level 11, you can upgrade to Tier 2 and gain access to Enhanced Traits
- Weapon level 25 unlocks Gear Tier 4 and Enhanced Components
- Weapon level 30 unlocks Gear Tier 5 and Enhanced Origin Traits
Most of the crafted raid weapons have gotten additional perks to fit the new sandbox. Adept weapons will also become a part of the Gear Tiering, and will remain slightly better than their non-Adept counterparts.
Destiny 2: The Artifact Overhaul
There are a handful of significant changes happening to the Artifact:
- Removal of Champion Mods
- Removal of the Refunding
- Locking the Artifact for Competitive and Trials modes
- Artifacts added to loadouts
- Multiple Artifacts with numerous perk options
Yes, you read that correctly. There will be numerous returning Artifacts that allow players the opportunity to mix and match. While we do not know all of the perks, Bungie teased some of them. A couple of examples:
- Radiant on precision hits
- 15% Weaken from Solar Abilities
- Radiant Solar Weapon Damage causing Ignitions
- Solo Operative, and more
The current Artifact is getting six new artifact perks:
- Fierce Proxemics
- Finisher final blows grant grenade and melee energy.
- Blinding Jolts
- Final blows on jolted combatants blind nearby combatants
- Tazer Tag
- Arc-powered melee hits jolt combatants and deal further damage for a short duration.
- Rapid Remedy
- Machine Gun rapid final blows heal you.
- Precision Equity
- Precision final blows build progress towards a large Orb of Power that also grants bonus weapon damage on pickup. Higher-ranked targets grant more progress.
- Sticker Shock
- Arc Flux, Magnetic, and Fusion Grenades deal more damage when attached to combatants; on final blows, they release several micro-missiles that seek nearby combatants.
Destiny 2: Anti-Champion Capabilities
Intrinsic Perks of every weapon will have the capability to stun champions.
Intrinsic Frames
- Aggressive – Unstoppable
- High Impact -Unstoppable
- Precision – Barrier
- Adaptive – Barrier
- Lightweight – Overload
- Rapid-Fire – Overload
Niche Intrinsic Frames
- Support (AR) – Overload
- Adaptive Burst (LFR) – Barrier
- Area Denial (Breach GL) – Overload
- Double Fire (Breach GL) – Unstoppable
- Micro-Missile (Breach GL) – Unstoppable
- Wave (Breach GL) – Unstoppable
- Compressed Wave (Drum GL) – Unstoppable
- Heavy Burst (HC) – Unstoppable
- Spread Shot (HC) – Overload
- Aggressive Burst (SMG) – Unstoppable
- Aggressive Burst (Pulse) – Unstoppable
- Heavy Burst (Pulse) – Unstoppable
- Legacy PR-55 Frame (Pulse) – Barrier
- Rocket-Assisted (Pulse) – Unstoppable
- Rocket-Assisted (Sidearm) – Unstoppable
- Disruption (Sniper Rifle) – Barrier
- Caster (Sword) – Barrier
- Vortex (Sword) – Overload
- Wave (Sword) – Unstoppable
- Dynamic Heat Weapons (Various) – Overload
- Balanced Heat Weapons (Various) – Overload
Some Exotic Examples
- Barrow-Dyad – Overload
- Izanagi’s Burden – Barrier
- Trinity Ghoul – Overload
- Xenophage – Unstoppable
- Parasite – Barrier
- Jotunn – Unstoppable
Destiny 2: Updates to Vendors
The Monument of Triumph will see updates to the tower vendors, including a return of the Reputation Rank Reward tracks. Players will be able to focus tiered gear at the vendors, including gear from The Edge of Fate, Ash and Iron, and Renegades.
General Updates
- Weapons focusable at tiers 3 and 4
- Tier 3 = 300-399 Power
- Tier 4 = 400+ Power
- Can upgrade weapons to tier 5
- Armor focusable at tiers 3, 4, and 5
- Tier 3 = 300-399 Power
- Tier 4 = 400-519 Power
- Tier 5 = 520+
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- Updated Shader Inventory
- Increased available shaders perk week
- Legacy armor is no longer on a rotation
- Will instead offer a wide variety
- Threader Bounties reset weekly.
Drifter
- Gambit Focusing
- Return of Gambit Engrams
- Can focus all new Gambit gear
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- Dismantling weapons and armor grants Gunsmith Rep
- Gunsmith focusing includes tiered weapons from Edge of Fate onwards
Hawthorne
- Clan engrams grant tiered gear
Saint 14
- Trials Focusing
- Trials TGear
- Return of Trials Engrams
- Tiered gear from Edge of Fate onwards
Saladin (Iron Banner Only)
- Uses Event Card, not Reputation Rank
- Iron Banner focusing
- Iron Banner gear
- Utilizes Iron Banner Ciphers (obtained from match completions)
- Tiered gear from Edge of Fate onwards
Shaxx
- Crucible Focusing
- Crucibe Gear
- Crucible Engrams
- Competitive Crucible Gear uses Crucible Ciphers
- Tiered gear from Edge of Fate onwards
Xûr
- Purchasing items grants rep
- Updated Xûr inventory
- New Catalysts
- Tiered Armor
Zavala
- Vanguard Focusing
- Includes Tiered gear from Solo, Fireteam, Arena, and Pinnacle Ops
- Utilizes Vanguard Engrams
- Pinnacle and Arena Ops use Vanguard Ciphers (Nightfall Ciphers become Vanguard Ciphers)
- Call to Arms rewards available from Zavala
- Updated Rotation for Weekly Vanguard Arms
Destinations
- All gear is tier 3
Destiny 2: Attunement
With the Monument of Triumph update, you can autotune to weapons from anywhere in the game. You can attune to one weapon per activity. Attuning increases the drop chance of the weapon of your choosing. You can change your attunement at any time, for no cost.
Related Destiny 2 Content
You can expect more raid and dungeon guides and Destiny 2 news to follow in the coming days. Below are previous articles we have on Destiny 2.
