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destiny-compendium-exoticarum · 2 years

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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

* 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.

#Destiny 2 #Compendium Exoticarum #testing out this sideblog thing #we'll see how it goes

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sundayswiththeilluminati · 5 years

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D.A.R.C.I.

Thank you for using the Data Analysis, Reconnaissance, and Cooperative Intelligence device. You may call me Darci.

Type: Sniper Rifle

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Personal Assistant - Aim at an enemy to view its health and other critical information on the scope.

Trait: Target Acquired - When Personal Assistant is active, this weapon has better target acquisition, deals significantly more precision damage, and jolts the target.

Ornaments: Mind of Its Own, Cleans Up Good, Cyberintellect

Origin & Description: This weapon’s lore tab begins with, “It is a fact generally understood that a Guardian must be searching for an exquisite weapon.” Yeah, “DARCI” is a straight-up Pride & Prejudice reference. It’s pretty great. DARCI itself wasn’t in D1, but its “Personal Assistant” perk is a callback to the D1 exotic Super Good Advice, a talking weapon created by a Guardian terrified of being alone after spending years lost in the spacetime-warping labyrinth of the Vex structure called the Vault of Glass. Neither Super Good Advice nor DARCI talk to you in-game, but DARCI’s scope helpfully pops up useful information about range, enemy shields, and enemy health when you aim at a target. Two of its ornaments visually reference other famous AI companions, HAL 9000 (“Mind of Its Own”) and KITT from Knight Rider (“Cleans Up Good”), and the third, "Cyberintellect," just looks cool.

Unfortunately DARCI is severely outclassed by more powerful long-range weapons like Sleeper Simulant and Whisper of the Worm, and it doesn’t see nearly as much play as it deserves. Masterworking it makes the gun extremely stable, virtually eliminating recoil, making it a great sniper rifle for new Guardians.

DARCI is also Destiny’s best ruler. It’s shockingly hard to measure things in-game, so DARCI’s ability to give you exact data on range to target, enemy light level, and enemy health is invaluable for players gathering statistics in a game that is notoriously terrible about coughing up numbers for anything.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #DARCI #you may call me DARCI #Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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sundayswiththeilluminati · 5 years

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The Destiny 2 Compendium Exoticarum

I love Destiny lore. If this is a surprise, welcome to this blog, I hope you’re enjoying your first visit. Destiny has 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, and some are the culmination of 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.

Each weapon I’m going to talk about has an archetype (what kind of weapon it is); an equipment slot (players carry one each of Kinetic, Energy, and Heavy); an element if it does elemental damage (Kinetic weapons don’t); a perk, the special ability that makes this exotic unique; a trait, a secondary ability that augments the weapon*; a masterworked trait, a special ability unlocked by upgrading the weapon to a Masterwork; any ornaments, purely cosmetic items that change the weapon’s look; and finally the story of its origin and its role in the game.

Compendium Armarum

* 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.

#Destiny 2 #buckle up there are a lot of exotics you guys #this isn't even all of them #just guns #not even getting in to exotic armor #Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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sundayswiththeilluminati · 5 years

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The Huckleberry

Nothin’ in the world that 30 rounds can’t solve.

Type: Submachine Gun

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Kinetic | Stasis | Strand

Perk: Ride the Bull - Increased rate of fire and recoil while you’re holding down the trigger. Kills with this weapon reload a portion of the magazine.

Masterworked Trait: Bull Rider - Kills with this weapon now reload the entire magazine.

Ornaments: The Devil’s Work, Snakebite, Dancing Harlequin

Origin & Description: Another Tex Mechanica product, the Huckleberry is a gun for when you need a gun and you need that gun to keep being a gun for a long time. There’s nothing flashy about the damage it does, but with care you’ll run out of targets before you run out of rounds in the magazine, and in some situations a Guardian just doesn’t have time to reload. As a submachine gun it already starts with a high rate of fire, and after a couple kills the Ride the Bull perk would drain its magazine in moments - except that kills also auto-reload part of the mag, so you can keep on shooting. It doesn’t get totally ludicrous until you complete its catalyst, which makes kills fully reload the magazine, and then you can just gun all day and all night. If that sounds like your jam (heh), the Huckleberry is here for you.

There's only one problem with Huckleberry: everything it does, Bad Juju did first and better. That was okay when Bad Juju hadn't yet been brought forward from D1 to D2, but now that it has...yeah. There's not much incentive to keep using this exotic. The changes to damage stacking for Rampage at the launch of Shadowkeep have boosted it somewhat, and maybe Bungie will update/tweak its perks to aim in a different direction, and it does have the cool ornament The Devil's Work - but until it gets significantly buffed or redesigned I'm afraid the Huckleberry's season has come and gone.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #The Huckleberry #rip Huckleberry #Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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