#Ticuu's Divination

[khaoticspartan]

Destiny 2 x Arcane

Here's what exotic weapon I think each Arcane character would use.

(under here because it's gonna be long +maybe pics?)

Caitlyn Kiramman

Let's get the easiest one out of the way. Caitlyn uses Dead Man's Tale. Tell me she wouldn't. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Vi

Since this is about exotic weapons, this one took a while to come up with. But, Vi would use the Legend of Acrius. A heavy shotgun that sends out a shockwave and shoves enemies away. 👍🏻

Jinx

Jinx uses Sunshot. (it was either between Sunshot or Thorn) Hand-cannon that shoots exploding fire. Yep. Mhm.

Au!Powder

Powder is using Ace of Spades. It's similar to Sunshot with Memento Mori but more elegant.

Ekko

Ekko uses Vex Mythoclast. It comes from the time raid and the exotic perk is called 'Timeless Mythoclast'.

Jayce

Jayce would use a slammer sword, since we don't have hammers as weapons (that aren't supers), and the closest exotic weapons we have to that would be Lament.

Viktor

Viktor gets Divinity. Not only does the name fit but the div bubble kinda looks like a hex core.

Mel

Mel is using Ticuu's Divination. Elegant, can be fired down sights or from hip, does a lot of damage. ✍️

Ambessa

Ambessa would use an exotic glaive, and the she'd like the most would be Edge of Concurrence.

Silco

Silco would absolutely use Crimson. A hand-cannon that shoots a three round burst? Yeah. Absolutely.

Vander

Vander is using Lord of Wolves. Pretty self explanatory.

Sevika

Sevika uses Sweet Business. Don't ask me why, it just feels right.

Maddie

Maddie uses Khvostov. Why? The bullets ricochet.

[magicicapra]

i dont post about ticuu's divination enough i dont think

[s-mackattack]

Destiny 2 Hunter fashion shoot. I love the fact you can save cosmetics for a build.

For the Light Subclasses, there’s Solar, Arc and Void:

On the Darkness side there’s Stasis and Strand:

For PVP there’s a Solar and Arc options:

Lastly, there’s the Arc setup I use for running Legendary Lost Sectors (holding the wrong weapon here) and a Ticuu’s Divination build. I keep this because it was pretty much my ever reliable build for ages when I had no clue about buildcrafting:

[foxgirlsounds]

ticuu’s divination moment :3

my go-to exotic when I still played destiny

funny explosion bow that kills you in every timeline go brrrrr

[ate-the-wordsmith]

That's really hard either my beloved autorifles Hard Light and Sweet Business paired with the Shattered Cypher; Or my bows: Ticuu's Divination, Le Monarque and the Leviatan's Breath

My Holy Trinity of Exotic Hand Cannons is Ace of Spades, Malfeasance and Thorn

What's your Holy Trinity of Exotic Weapons?

They can all be the same kind (all Auto Rifle, all Sword, etc.) or different ones entirely, like a full set of weapons (primary, energy, heavy) or something

[lavenderarts]

Three points, pushed through forever.

Ticuu's Divination with the Solar Astrolabe ornament, for an Exotic weapon fashion zine. The first Exotic I fell in love with!

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

Ticuu’s Divination

Three points, pushed through forever.

Type: Combat Bow

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Sacred Flame - Hipfiring this weapon fires multiple tracking projectiles. Targets marked by these projectiles explode upon death, or when struck by another Sacred Flame's explosion.

Trait: Causality Arrows - Arrows fired while aiming down sights cause Sacred Flames to instantly detonate.

Masterworked Trait: Causality Quiver - Perfectly-drawn arrows that detonate Sacred Flame increase arrow damage. Striking targets unaffected by Sacred Flame instead refreshes Causality Quiver's duration.

Ornaments: Hasta Solari, Ferromancer, Solar Astrolabe

Origin & Description: Combining the best traits of Le Monarque and Graviton Lance, Ticuu's has my name written alllllll over it. And also Ticuu's name, because Ticuu was a person. A Cabal psion Flayer, to be specific, who with typical psion inscrutability decided that if he was going to make a bow, he was going to make the most confusing bow possible. It almost certainly cost Ticuu his life, or worse, his existence, to arm this bow; but once it was armed, it never needed to be reloaded. The three arrows inside this bow are not quite real arrows; or maybe they are real, but they're the same three real arrows looped over and over again through time. You don't need any more than three, because the bow doesn't fire them. Instead it fetches a future in which the targets have arrows in them. Or Ticuu fetches that future. Or he already had it, pinned into the bow by the three points in his mind harmonized across time's empty wheel. Consider the name: divination. There are many words for attempting to predict the future, but "divination" in particular evokes the examination of signs and symbols to discern what's already been fated to happen. You didn't choose to put arrows in those targets. They already had arrows in them, in the future, and this bow just fetched that future into the now. Yeah. Psions have an odd relationship to time.

And an odd relationship with the Cabal. The Cabal Empire uses the term "Cabal" to refer to both the empire and its main species, the seven-foot-tall exosuited space rhinos we so often dispatch. While the empire had a number of "client species," annexed races that lived under Cabal "protection," the psions are the most directly subjugated - likely an early conquest by Cabal military seeking to weaponize their abilities. Psions exhibit unique mental powers that function outside the common paracausality-fueled abilities known to Guardians, Hive, eliksni, etc. The Cabal keep the psions "indentured," at best skilled specialists with little hope of advancement, at worst outright slaves, in order to make use of said powers. Within the military psions function as engineers, pilots, and long-range fighters; many serve on the more intellectual side of combat operations, working as after-action analysts and intelligence experts.

A select few are "allowed" to grow into their full adult state, known as a Psion Flayer, though it isn't clear what missing element lets them do so. One theory says they need pure accumulation of knowledge, which might explain why a group tried tapping Rasputin nodes to enable the transformation.* Emperor Calus had a number of psions loyal to his cause, as he seemed to have been the most charitable towards their race - even claiming he would have freed them had he not been deposed - but it was his daughter Empress Caiatl who finally declared all psions free and equal citizens after Xivu Arath's attack, offering them the choice to stay and fight or leave the Cabal fleet. Surprisingly some did elect to continue fighting for the Empress, though the splinter sect that remembered the attempts at the Sundial and with the Almighty expressed their displeasure by attempting to assassinate Zavala (don't worry, he's fine).

*It worked, though Ana opined, "they're just gonna make [Rasputin] mad," so those Flayers might not have lived too long even if we hadn't intervened.

Even in their deliberately weakened state psions are capable of telepathy, telekinesis, and a harmony of minds known as "metaconcert" that allows several psions to pool their mental abilities to solve problems and create shared realities. Psion Flayers wield far more dramatic powers, calling down fire and lightning, freezing combatants in place or teleporting them around at will. A detachment of Psion Flayers assigned to the forward Cabal forces on Mars successfully lowered the small moon Phobos into a physically-unstable orbit around the planet, maintaining a dangerously-low altitude in order to use it as a staging base. One Psion Flayer, Otzot, constructed - or reconstructed - the clairvoyant OXA machine that could view both past and future, though it dispensed that information in maddeningly vague ways. Psions themselves have a complex social structure that included a domination early in their history by a small group of powerful individuals known as "God-Thoughts" who imposed their command on the rest of society by pure mental might; certain schools of religious thought are still considered verboten among them. They have a powerful sense of the community over the individual and a shared reverence for ancestors, implying that their spirits are still present - which, given the odd psion relationship with time, might literally be true.

Whenever I'm called upon to explain Ticuu's Divination to new players, I describe it as "mark for deletion." The tracking hip-fire arrows tag enemies to be deleted, and the ADS ones delete them. Simple. Less simply, Ticuu's is another exotic that has different behavior in hip-fire vs. ADS mode. In hip-fire mode Ticuu's will put up tracking markers on the first three enemies it picks up. Firing it in that mode - you don't have to draw the bow all the way, just pluck the string - sends marker arrows to seek those three targets and tag them with Sacred Flame. You can have more than three marked targets up at a time, limited by the timer on Sacred Flame. Tagged targets don't take burn damage but do show a visual flame effect. That part's important for the next step: switch to ADS mode, draw the bow properly this time, and precision-hit one of the marked targets. Nailing a Sacred Flame aura with an ADS-drawn arrow causes that aura to detonate - and if that detonation nicks another Sacred Flame aura, it'll go off as well. It's like a little homebrew Graviton Lance chain reaction, but only through the targets you've marked.

The catalyst adds a more complicated firing pattern that makes it more useful for heavy single targets: precision hits on a Sacred Flame target give stacks of Causality Quiver, which increases arrow damage. Sending out the marking arrows instead refreshes the timer on the Causality Quiver buff. So you can mark a heavy target with Sacred Flame, detonate it with a precision hit to gain a damage buff, then mark it again to refresh the timer. It requires more thought to pull off but expands the bow's range nicely. And yes, precision arrows will detonate Sacred Flame auras laid down by a teammate, so you can have one player doing nothing but marking targets and a second doing nothing but detonating them when they reach critical mass - or two people marking targets and a third killing them with a different weapon, since Sacred Flame will also detonate if the enemy just dies.

With the addition of Ticuu's Divination in Season 13 (the seasonal exotic of Season of the Chosen, to go with the Cabal theme) we now have crowd control bows in all Light elements: Ticuu's for Solar, Trinity Ghoul for Arc, and Le Monarque for Void. We don't have a Stasis bow yet, but I'm sure they're working on it; if it follows the current pattern for Stasis exotics it'll be in the kinetic slot rather than energy, a welcome addition that would double the number of exotic kinetic bows. In the meantime I'll be out here marking some fools to get deleted.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

[ Ace of Spades | Ager's Scepter | Anarchy | Arbalest | Bad Juju | Bastion | Black Talon | Borealis | Cerberus+1 | The Chaperone | Cloudstrike | Coldheart | Collective Obligation | The Colony | Crimson | Cryosthesia 77K | DARCI | Dead Man's Tale | Deathbringer | Dead Messenger | Devil's Ruin | Divinity | Duality | Edge of Action/Concurrence/Intent | Eriana’s Vow | Eyes of Tomorrow | Fighting Lion | The Fourth Horseman | Forerunner | Gjallarhorn | Grand Overture | Graviton Lance | Hard Light | Hawkmoon | Heartshadow | Heir Apparent | The Huckleberry | Izanagi’s Burden | The Jade Rabbit | Jötunn | The Lament | The Last Word | Legend of Acrius | Leviathan’s Breath | Lord of Wolves | Lorentz Driver | Lumina | Malfeasance | Merciless | MIDA Multi-Tool | Le Monarque | Monte Carlo | No Time to Explain | One Thousand Voices | Osteo Striga | Outbreak Perfected | Parasite | Polaris Lance | Prometheus Lens | The Prospector | Queenbreaker | Rat King | Riskrunner | Ruinous Effigy | Salvation's Grip | Skyburner’s Oath | Sleeper Simulant | Sturm | Sunshot | SUROS Regime | Sweet Business | Symmetry | Tarrabah | Telesto | Thorn | Thunderlord | Ticuu's Divination | Tommy's Matchbook | Tractor Cannon | Traveler's Chosen | Trespasser | Trinity Ghoul | Truth | Two-Tailed Fox | Vex Mythoclast | Vigilance Wing | The Wardcliff Coil | Wavesplitter | Whisper of the Worm | Wish-Ender | Witherhoard | Worldline Zero | Xenophage ]

[screaming-skvll]

“Didn’t know you were into metal sculpture.”

“Very funny.”

“What’s funny?”

“It’s not a sculpture, asshole.”

“It’s... not?”

“No.”

“Wall decoration?”

“No.”

“Fancy detail for your jumpship’s nose?”

“Fuck off.”

“Hey, c’mon. Whatever it is, I’m just trying to say it looks... artistic. No, artful. It’s fine work, whether or not I have the art-historical vocabulary to understand or describe it.”

“It’s not an art piece, and I didn’t make it.”

“Oh. Well it’s pretty artsy-looking. What is it?”

“A bow, of sorts. A very strange bow.”

“What’s so strange about it? And if you didn’t make it, who did?”

“Came off one of these Cabal challengers, but Ghost says the decorative detail isn’t Cabal. Between that and the weirdness about it, we’re guessing it’s psion work.”

“OK, and again, what’s so weird about it?”

“You ever seen a ball of rubber bands?”

“Like that one Holliday made that one time, until it got too big to lift, and then the Colonel—”

“Yes, like that. What’s weird about this bow is that under chronometric analysis it looks like a temporal rubber-band ball.”

“Huh. Ask Banshee about it yet?”

“Yeah.”

“And?”

“He wishes someone would bring him a normal gun to work on for once.”

(Ticuu’s Divination)

[sylasthehunter]

I guess Sylas just doesn’t know how to equip a bow??

[pandandesserts]

having some feelings about ticuus with the fireteam tonight

[lilredhoodie-not]

Ticuu's Divination

Combat Bow

Three points, pushed through forever.

[eliasdrid]

quick Callisto-5 sketch with the armor combo I was using during the Season of Seraph finale

Revenants sometimes need a bit of Ticuu's Divination to melt the ice

[a-driftamongopenstars]

I have polls now ehehehe

[flagellant]

trinity ghoul is just le monarque if le monarque was just ticuu's divination.

[destiny-compendium-exoticarum]

I love Destiny lore. It's a game with wonderful and wonderfully complex lore, and I want to share some of it with you. To do that I have created the Compendium Armarum Exoticarum, the index of Destiny's exotic weapons. You don’t need to know anything about the game to appreciate these posts. You just need to know that these weapons have cool names and cool space powers and I want to tell you all about some neat future scifi space wizard gadgets and their stories.

Destiny items have five rarity tiers: common, uncommon, rare, legendary, and exotic. Exotic weapons and armor are super rare and far more unusual than other equipment. These are the weird ones, the gimmicks and game-breakers - guns that shoot black holes, vests that turn you invisible, swords that slice through spacetime. A character can only equip one exotic weapon and one piece of exotic armor at a time, so character loadouts are often built around the choice of exotics. Many exotics also have deep story connections or are rewards for lengthy questlines. So, because of their importance, they get the most attention from Bungie’s artists & writers. Each has a unique appearance & aesthetic, often with animations and particle effects, and about a page’s worth of unique associated lore - plus the best names.

Compendium Armarum

[ Ace of Spades | Ager's Scepter | Anarchy | Arbalest | Bad Juju | Bastion | Black Talon | Borealis | Cerberus+1 | The Chaperone | Cloudstrike | Coldheart | Collective Obligation | The Colony | Crimson | Cryosthesia 77K | DARCI | Dead Man's Tale | Dead Messenger | Deathbringer | Devil's Ruin | Divinity | Duality | Edge of Action/Concurrence/Intent | Eriana’s Vow | Eyes of Tomorrow | Fighting Lion | The Fourth Horseman | Forerunner | Gjallarhorn | Grand Overture | Graviton Lance | Hard Light | Hawkmoon | Heir Apparent | The Huckleberry | Izanagi’s Burden | The Jade Rabbit | Jötunn | The Lament | The Last Word | Legend of Acrius | Leviathan’s Breath | Lord of Wolves | Lorentz Driver | Lumina | Malfeasance | Merciless | MIDA Multi-Tool | Le Monarque | Monte Carlo | No Time To Explain | One Thousand Voices | Osteo Striga | Outbreak Perfected | Parasite | Polaris Lance | Prometheus Lens | The Prospector | Queenbreaker | Rat King | Riskrunner | Ruinous Effigy | Salvation's Grip | Skyburner’s Oath | Sleeper Simulant | Sturm | Sunshot | SUROS Regime | Sweet Business | Symmetry | Tarrabah | Telesto | Thorn | Thunderlord | Ticuu's Divination | Tommy's Matchbook | Tractor Cannon | Traveler's Chosen | Trinity Ghoul | Truth | Two-Tailed Fox | Vex Mythoclast | Vigilance Wing | The Wardcliff Coil | Wavesplitter | Whisper of the Worm | Wish-Ender | Witherhoard | Worldline Zero | Xenophage ]

* I’ve elided the trait if it’s a standard one that also appears on legendary weapons, like Outlaw or Dragonfly.

** Names in parentheses are exotics previewed but not yet released in-game.

[demon-the-hunter]

Season 15's champion mods... what a mess.

Three unstoppable mods (two good and one awful), one great overload mod, and one good but could be better barrier mod.

Let's begin...

Anti-Barrier Auto Rifle: We had this mod for Splicer, and it was pretty good. When paired with an Overflow Summoner or Gnawing Hunger, it shreds through barrier shields and has ammo left in the mag to spare. Exotic options to use with this mod are Cerberus+1 and Sweet Business due to their ability to fire loads of rounds into a target in a short period of time. Tommy's Matchbook could also be useful with the overheat perk but when dealing with champions, the risk isn't worth it.

Unstoppable Linear Fusion Rifle: This mod seems to have potential. If paired with a Rapid Hit/Vorpal LFR such as Threaded Needle, it could bake champions extremely quick. Exotic options to consider with this weapon are Arbalest (because it takes special ammo), Sleeper Simulant (because of it's high damage output), and The Queenbreaker (because of it's blinding capabilities).

Unstoppable Fusion Rifle: This part of the mod is more interesting to me as it has a lot more potential. Pairing this weapon with Null Composure or Reservoir Burst Plug One.1 (especially the adept version so you can have better stats and Adept Big Ones) could stagger the champions and do huge damage to them. Exotic options to consider are Merciless (for it's amazing DPS), Telesto (for It's ability to explode into AOE damage and the fact it is definitely going to break something), Jotunn, and One Thousand Voices (because the stuff hitting the champion is going to stagger and the explosion is going to evaporate them)

Overload Bow: This mod is amazing. Paired with an Archer's Tempo/Vorpal Whispering Slab or Point of the Stag, champions won't be able to gain an inch that you don't allow them to. The real icing on the cake with this mod is when it is paired with Le Monarque. Everything about how this bow works overloads. The direct impact, the precision poison explosion, and the poison effect left behind after a precision hit all stagger overload champions. Other exotics to consider are Trinity Ghoul (amazing add clear and the arc might overload but don't hold me to that, I could be wrong) and Ticuu's Divination (The explosion will be amazing for damaging champions)

Unstoppable Pulse Rifle: This mod is very versatile and very handy. A lot of Pulse Rifles work with this mod. A couple that stand out are Field Prep/ Vorpal Stars in Shadow, and Rapid Hit/ Desperado Messenger. Exotic options to consider are Outbreak Perfected (nanites can deal more damage to champions) and No Time to Explain (Rewind Again will activate while damaging champions and boost your damage against them)

Unstoppable Sidearm: You'd have to pay me money to use this mod, but I'll still write options to use with it if you like this mod or really like sidearms in PvE. weapons that can pair well with this mod will be Rapid Hit/Vorpal Keening, Full Auto Trigger System/Vorpal Farewell, and Overflow/Demolitionist Lonesome. Exotic options are Traveler's Chosen (for ability regen) and Cryosthesia 77K (for it's freezing perk).