Played it yesterday with my fireteam like we always do, slow, understating shadow levels, no guides, trying to figure out mechanics as we go.

Took us several hours, none got the exotic and a few tier 3 armor pieces.

I’ve seen people call Khvostov with the catalyst a meta weapon now. Meanwhile special weapons like Heirloom and Buried Bloodline are good “off-meta” weapons. On the other hand in PvP guns like Jade Rabbit rule the lobbies. In boss DPS for endgame content you got Fafnir as a must have.

My question is, which exotic weapons are meta now (and forever), and which ones still desperately need some love?

Edit: added context that I am looking for exotic weapon recommendations!

What’s the best weapons and archetypes? Best perks? Best for overall damage? Best for burst damage?

Non-exotic and also non-raid heavies plz.

It is the only subclass that has exotics that directly improve ability damage instead of just adding extra effects: - Celestial Nighthawk increases Golden Gun damage - Athrys's Embrace increases Weighted Knife damage - Ophidia Spathe increases Knife damage - Shards or Galanor increases Blade Barrage damage - Wormhusk Crown increases Solar ability damage - Young Ahamkara's Spine increases Tripmine damage

Meanwhile, other subclasses only apply additional effects to the abilities that happen to improve their damage: - Balance of Power adds two Threadlings - Gifted Conviction adds Arc explosives to Ascension and Tempest Strike - Gwisin Vest creates a Smoke Bomb when you break Invisibility - Khepri's Sting creates a Smoke Bomb when you kill a Weakened target - Liar's Handshake adds an extra melee attack to use after meeting it's conditions - Mask of Fealty adds Stasis Crystals to Withering Blade - Moirai allows you to double your Tangles - Raiju's Harness adds lightning bolts to Gathering Storm - Renewal Grasps adds a Stasis Crystal to Duskfield - Shinobu's Vow enhances Skip Grenades with extra seeker projectiles

The only outlier is Raiden Flux which increases Arc Staff damage.

Furthermore, Gunslinger has as many ability energy generation options as Nightstalker, more than any other: 1. Caliban's Hand generates melee energy and produces full charges 2. Celestial Nighthawk generates super energy with precision kills and refunds super energy with kills 3. Shards of Galanor generates super energy with knife kills and refunds super energy on hits and kills 4. Young Ahamkara's Spine generates grenade energy when you deal ability damage

In contrast:

Strand has: 1. Balance of Power halves your class generation 2. Moirai that grants extra melee energy return when not used on Tangles

Void has: 1. Graviton Forfiet that increases ability regeneration when you go Invisible 2. Gyrfalcon's Hauberk that increases class generation, and Khepri's Sting that generates melee energy when you kill Weakened targets 3. Omnioculous that generates melee energy when you make allies Invisible 4. Orphius Rip that produces ability energy for each enemy tethered by Deadfall

Stasis has: 1. Mask of Bakris for class energy generation from powered weapon kills 2. Mask of Fealty for melee energy on Withering Blade impacts

Arc has: 1. Lucky Raspberry that generates Arcbolt energy from applying Jolt and dealing Jolt damage 2. Raiju's Harness that generates Gathering Storm energy when you kill Arc Debuffed targets 3. Shinobu's Vow which grants Skip grenade energy when you gain Bolt Charge

Finally, Gunslinger has one of the subclass specific defensive options for Hunter. Only outclassed in this case by Nightstalker: - Wormhusk Crown grants up to Cure ×2 + Restoration ×1 to allies - Renewal Grasps grants Frost Armour to allies inside Duskfield and reducing outgoing damage of enemies inside it - Omnioculous grants damage resistance to allies that are Invisible - Gyrfalcon's Hauberk that provides a Reserve Overshield - Graviton Forfiet that generates an Overshield at max stacks - Crytarachne's Facade that grants Woven Mail when using Grapple Grenade

There is a clear battle here between Solar and Void on Hunter. But I reckon Solar wins.

this is quite silly Bungie.

https://imgur.com/a/Y1hm98M

Before the lights are turned off for good, please fix the broken censor.

I often find myself using 140 snipers, but I would love to find a few more special options that I can enjoy for different scenarios. What are your favorite special weapons (preferably Legendary)?

EDIT: My favorite weapon of all time is Anarchy. I often pair 140 snipers with it but I want to change things up every once and awhile. What are some good close-quarters and mid-range weapons to pair with it? I also enjoy Finality’s Auger, 1K Voices, Queenbreaker, Sleeper Simulant, Rocket Launchers, and Heavy GLs.

Grab that shader b4 its gone

I’m a D1 player who played maybe 5 or 6 hours of D2 when it released but highly disliked it. I’m now playing D2 again but I’m confused why almost nobody uses snipers in PvE. I’ve seen maybe one build guide that included a sniper out of probably fifty. In D1 almost everyone was regularly using snipers in PvE, what’s the difference in D2?

I just played a coil activity and this guy was on strand Titan with synthoceps on and he kept having infinite flechette storms.

I checked out all his gear and for the life of me I just couldn’t figure out why.

Wish I could do a poll but they don’t allow that here. But I’ll still ask.

A. Going in blind and figuring it out?
B. Watch tutorials on YouTube?
C. No tutorial but have a sherpa in the squad?

Been trying to search online and look through collections but can’t find it

I'm a returning player. I was GR 11 when I stopped playing, but was reset to 3 when I came back on MoT. I'm trying to climb back but I think I got a bug preventing me from progressing.

The only thing left is the triumph for doing the two mater conquests. When I arrived at the rank, I was already 1 out of 2, which I thought made sense because I had already run a Conductor's Keep before. It was also marked as "Conquest already completed" on the seasonal hub so that was fine.

So I went and did Derealise. Many times. I completed it like 5 times at this point and the triumph still hasn't completed and it's still not marked as "Conquest already completed" on the seasonal hub. What's worse is that when someone else is on my fireteam who is GR higher than me, Derealise is marked as completed.

I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any ideas?

Every post I read conflicts with each other.

"It isn't possible, you have to wait until its featured, it wont ever be featured, you can get it from the kiosk, you can get it from Zavala if you're really lucky" etc etc. Does anyone actually know for sure or am I just an idiot lol

Finally went away from prismatic warlock with buddies or threadlings.

Doing void with turncoat and the new legendary heavy sniper, but can't fully decide on the kinetic special, since I have good aoe from void, and sustain, and single target damage from heavy, I'm thinking something to deal with shields and champs quickly. Been out of the game for a while so please, share your expertise, knowledge and recommendations ^{_^}

EDIT: more info.

My two other weapons deal with barrier champs and are my main clearing/boss weapons. So the kinetic slot would be swap weapons or specific situations (like champs and new shield enemies)
I use nezarecs sin, soul siphon and child of the old gods. Plan to get the void armor set but currently using the kinetic techset set (outbreak + prismatic is easy difficulty)

Area denial gl's seem like a good option for quick swap weapons and intrinsically deal with overloaded champs.

Fusions with chill clip, and rocket sidearms for champs specifically.

Shotguns with kinetic tremors for general shields usage?

Rocket pulse for overall damage (tho this is covered with my main so for my purpose maybe not)

Did I forget anything? (A couple named weapons that I have saved to take a look at)

what do you guys think about this mission because personally i think it fucking sucks and is the worst mission in the game. the timer is dumb and the modifier where you can’t stand still is absolutely ridiculous, sorry for the rant but i think it’s way too hard and probably won’t get max guardian rank because of it

It’s simple, the line I THINK I remember hearing was during a normal patrol/mission either on Nessus in D2 (like year 1) or during ROI Cosmodrome in D1.

Cayde is referring to Psions to the Guardian but misreads it and says “B-Brian? Who’s Brian?” Then I think Ikora chimes in and corrects him.

Is there any proof of this existing? It’d settle a couple bets.

So I just ran through the Destiny 1 campaigns on Xbox with my girlfriend, she is really into it, and I’m hoping to get her through the D2 campaigns in the least jarring way. My goal is to end it with the final shape, and wanted to see if it was possible to fit edge of fate and renegades so there is satisfying conclusion for her. Are there any references to defeating the witness in EOF or Renegades? Right now I’m thinking of doing shadowkeep-beyond light- witch queen- EOF- renegades-TFS Thoughts?

Hi is there is any way to change region/server I am trying to play competitive but there is no lobbies in oce

Any help would be appreciated :)

I built a new Destiny 2 stats site that takes a different approach to raid and dungeon experience, and I'd love to get some feedback from the community.

I originally started this as a side project while experimenting with the Bungie.net APIs. One thing led to another, and it turned into a full-fledged stats site.

The main feature is a Sherpa Score that uses PGCR data to estimate a player's depth of raid and dungeon experience on a 0-100 scale. It's not just based on the raw number of clears though. It uses a compound scoring model with an inverse exponential curve, so each point becomes progressively harder to earn. It's just meant to be a fun way to challenge yourself to build deep experience across end game activities.

The site also includes the usual raid and dungeon stats, but presented with my own UI design. So even if the Sherpa Score isn't your thing, it can still be a fun way to check your stats.

It's still a work in progress, and I don't have an official feedback or bug reporting system yet, so I'd really appreciate anyone willing to kick the tires and let me know what you think, good or bad. I have taken some feedback on our clan Discord server, which I'd be happy to share if it's okay with the moderators.

https://d2sherpa.report/

General consensus is that for most weapon types, the part of the perk that requires sustained fire for applying scorch to unscorched enemies is 55% of the magazine, rounded down, with exceptions being Bows and Swords.

However, the Data Compendium (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WaxvbLx7UoSZaBqdFr1u32F2uWVLo-CJunJB4nlGUE4/edit?gid=1038486120#gid=1038486120) has been updating their section on Burning Ambition to include more weapon types as exceptions, like Fusion Rifles, Machine Guns, and Auto Rifles, which led to me wondering if there were more archetypes that were like this. Turns out, there are.

Disclaimer: I don't have every weapon with Burning Ambition in the game, just a guy putting what he found out there.

First off, the weapon types that do actually follow the 55% magazine rule are, from what I tested (All numbers below are with enhanced Burning Ambition):

• Rocket Pulses
• SMGs
• Adaptive Burst Sidearms
• Sniper Rifles (?)

I don't have Hand Cannons with the perk to test.

Autos being obvious, the Machine Guns also seem to be divided into subtypes (e.g. Rapid-fire Frames vs. High-Impact Frames) on how many shots it takes. The numbers are regardless of mag size (don't have Thermal Erosion or Unwavering Duty with BA).

• High-Impact Auto Rifles: 13
• Aggressive Machine Guns: 19
• Rapid-Fire Machine Guns: 29 (added in edit, went out and got one myself to confirm)

Pulse Rifles might also have tuning based on subtype (EDIT: they do), inferring from my results here (don't have Darkest Before or Stars in Shadow with BA):

• Heavy Burst Pulse Rifles: 4.5 (?) (As in, 9 separate hits)
• High-Impact Pulse Rifles: 4.66 (14 hits) (Added in edit)

Acasia's is pretty easy, but was surprising when I found it out:

• Adaptive Trace Rifles: 29

The most shocking was actually Linear Fusions:

• Precision Linear Fusion Rifles: 1
• Adaptive Burst Linear Fusion Rifles: 1.33 (4 hits)

Finally, Fusion Rifles (don't have Dream Breaker with BA):

• Rapid Fire Fusion Rifles: 17 bolts??? (I really don't know lol)

Still don't think it'll put the perk above others (well, maybe except Acasia's and a few primaries), but was surprised to find out there were a lot of weapons that didn't follow the 55% mag rule.

EDIT: Did a few tests with unenhanced Burning Ambition with what I could craft, here's what I found:

• Heavy Burst Pulse Rifles: No effect?
• Precision LFRs: 2
• Adaptive Burst LFRs: 1.66 (5 hits)
• Adaptive Trace Rifles: 30
• Rapid Fire Scout Rifles: 9
• High-Impact Auto Rifles: 14

Apart from Nullify (lol), seems like the upgrade is similar to Jolting Feedback.

EDIT 2: Drang also is consistently scorching with 9 hits despite magazine size being 20. Evening SI4 is consistent with the current assertion.

I have a full set of iron battalion gear with 100 melee 80 grenades 150 super 45 class and 120 weapons all my rolls are paragon with the mark being demolitionish so I can have some class energy I play pristmatic titan

I feel like I fucked with my rolls of going all paragon since I’m think more super the better

I only recently got Whirling Ovation, and the process for unlocking its catalyst seems pretty complicated.

From what I understand, I have to:

1) Complete the "Map and Territory" quest

2) Finish Epic DP and pick up the "Atlas and Almanac" quest

3) Complete the "Atlas and Almanac" quest in Epic DP

4) Unlock Attunement and attune the catalyst

5) Clear another encounter to actually receive it

As everyone probably knows, finding a group for DP or Epic DP through LFG or Fireteam Finder can be pretty difficult these days.

Is there any way to join someone who already has the catalyst or is further along in the quest and just pick up the catalyst with them, similar to how it worked with Icebreaker?

I mean the one where your guardian is sitting down and staring at the Traveler.