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mal-luck · 3 years

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Are our exotics one of a kind?

Edit: there is some wiggle room as to whether or not the Young Wolf actually has some of these exotics because they have not received them in an exotic quest (Sweet Business, Cloudstrike, Wardcliff Coil, etc). Ultimately it’s up to you as a player or creator whether or not your Young Wolf or other OC has one of these weapons.

Kinetics slot:

Sweet Buisness: unknown, but likely mass produced by a city foundry

Sturm + Drang: unique, gifted to Sigrun and gifted to Victor respectively; recovered by the YW.

Vigilance Wing: unknown, but likely mass produced by the Cult of Osiris

Rat King: unknown

MIDA Multi-Tool / Mini-Tool: come from a different timeline and then mass produced by The City foundries

Crimson: unknown, officially does not exist

The Jade Rabbit: mass produced by Daito

The Huckleberry: mass produced by Tex Mechanica

SUROS Regime: mass produced by Suros

Cerberus+1: technically unique amalgamation

Wish-Ender: unique belonging to Sjur Eido

Malfeasance: the original is ours, but later mass produced by The Drifter

Ace of Spades: unique and in our possession.

The Chaperone: mass produced by Tex Mechanica, inspired by the original that belonged to Amanda Holiday’s mother

Izanagi’s Burden: mass produced by the Black Armory, but no more can be currently made

The Last Word: we are currently in possession of the original, but it has been mass produced by Tex Mechanica

Arbalest: unknown, possibly created by The Drifter or one of his associates during the Dark Age

Thorn: the one we have is a mass produced Shadows of Yor copy, see Lumina

Outbreak Perfected: we possess the original recovered from the old tower, unknown if there are more copies

Bad Juju: I believe we possess the original as created by Toland, the Shattered

Lumina: unique, the original Thorn reforged in the Light by The Young Wolf.

Monte Carlo: mass produced after it’s tech was sold to a City foundry by the hunter Egon Bash

Bastion: unique paradox weapon recovered from Corridors of Time

Witherhoard: unknown, probably created by the Drifter.

Traveler’s Chosen: unique, sidearm we owned when the Red War’s assault on the Traveler took place.

No Time To Explain: weapon pulled from another timeline gifted to us by Elsie Bray. Timey wimey.

Hawkmoon: reforged by the Traveler and now unique.

Dead Man’s Tale: unique, custom Tex Mechanica weapon owned by Katabasis.

Cryothesia 77K: unknown if truly unique, gifted to us by Mithrax according to the Season of the Splicer bungie page.

Ager’s Scepter: unique, created by Mara for Uldren.

Forerunner: original was inoperable, new version created by Banshee.

Osteo Striga: created by Jana-14, unknown if unique.

Energy slot:

Coldheart: mass produced by Omolon.

Fighting Lion: unknown if unique, original created by Wei Ning

Sunshot: unknown if unique, original created by the sunbreaker Liu Feng.

Graviton Lance: unknown, but likely mass produced after it’s debut. Original was found in Old Chicago.

Skyburner’s Oath: not unique, recovered cabal weaponry

Riskrunner: origin is complicated, likely not unique

Hard Light: mass produced by Omolon

Merciless: unknown if unique, but probably.

Borealis: likely mass produced

Prometheus Lens: unknown if unique, likely mass produced. Created by the Cryptarchy

Telesto: origin is complicated, in D1 was made by the foundry Cassoid (makers of Invective) but seems to be made by the Awoken of the Reef now.

Polaris Lance: semi-unique, both Ana Bray and the YW have a copy. Created by Ana Bray.

Trinity Ghoul: once belonged to Marin Mansanas, unknown if unique.

Wavesplitter: mass produced by Omolon

Lord of Wolves: not unique, captured eliksni weaponry

Jotunn: mass produced by the Black Armory, but no more can currently be made.

Le Monarque: see Jotunn.

Tarrabah: unknown if unique

Eriana’s Vow: likely unique, maker’s mark suggests it was created by Cassoid

Divinity: unique vex weapon recovered from the Black Garden

Symmetry: unknown if unique

Devil’s Ruin: I believe it is unique, repaired by the YW and Saint

Cloudstrike: likely unique based on its lore

Tommy’s Matchbook: likely unique

The Fourth Horseman: technically not unique, but we recovered the original I believe

Ruinous Effigy: unique

Duality: unknown if unique, but I believe it to have been constructed by Crow.

Ticuu’s Divination: likely unique based on its lore

Vex Mythoclast: unknown if unique, recovered from the Vault of Glass

Lorentz Driver: unknown if unique, likely not. Ours is a stable prototype.

Exotic glavies: ???, but probably unique

Dead Messenger: not unique, likely made by Cassoid considering the maker’s mark.

Heavy slot:

The Prospector: mass produced by Tex Mechanica

Tractor Cannon: property of the Ishtar Collective, probably not unique

Legend of Acrius: not unique, recovered cabal shotgun

D.A.R.C.I.: unknown if unique, but probably

The Wardcliff Coil: likely mass produced after the original prototype was created

The Colony: mass produced by Veist

Worldline Zero: I believe it was created by Elsie Bray, likely unique

Sleeper Simulant: mass produced by Clovis Bray company / Rasputin

Whisper of the Worm: unique

One Thousand Voices: unique, created from Riven’s bones

Two-Tailed Fox: mass produced by Daito

Black Talon: unique, created by the Awoken of the Reef

The Queensbreaker: not unique, recovered Eliksni weapon

Thunderlord: unknown, but possibly unique?

Anarchy: likely unique, created by Siviks, Lost to None

Truth: technically not unique but our version is stolen, originally created by Crux-Lomar

Deathbringer: unique

Xenophage: unique, very angry

Leviathan’s Breath: likely unique

Heir Apparent: not unique, recovered cabal weaponry

Eyes of Tomorrow: possibly unique, created by Clovis Bray

Salvation’s Grip: unique, prototype stolen from House Salvation

The Lament: unique, created by Clovis Bray

Gjallarhorn: not unique, presumably we own the second recreated copy since we gave the first away.

Parasite: unique

Grand Overture: probably not unique, modified cabal weaponry

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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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Riskrunner

Charge your soul and let the electrons sing.

Type: Submachine Gun

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Arc Conductor - When taking Arc damage, this weapon becomes more powerful and resists incoming Arc damage. Kills extend the time in this overcharged state.

Trait: Superconductor - When Arc Conductor is active, shots fired have a chance to become chain lightning and return ammo to the magazine.

Ornaments: Electric Violet, Summer Storm, The Third Rail, Cheerspreader, Leporine Jubilation

Origin & Description:

NOTE: The user must receive incoming damage to increase outgoing damage. However, the value we predict the user will receive in return for their discomfort far exceeds any momentary pain – assuming, of course, the user survives the attack.

In short: This may hurt. A lot.

Remember that scene in The Dark Knight where Batman drives a semi-truck towards the Joker and the Joker stands right in the middle of the road muttering, “Hit me, hit me, hit me,” under his breath? That’s what it feels like to wield Riskrunner. Its name also describes its playstyle: run the risk of making yourself a target in return for dishing out some truly spectacular Arc retribution. You stand out in the open, daring the enemy to hit you, and as soon as you take that first ping of Arc damage you open up on them like the hammer of Thor. Once you’ve triggered the Arc Conductor buff, every kill extends it, so you don’t have to take any more Arc damage to keep it going. And don’t be fooled by the “have a chance” wording of Superconductor - when Arc Conductor is active, you will never run out of ammo. In fact you’ll never get more than three or four rounds into the mag before it’s topped back up, even at the high fire rate of a submachine gun. You will run out of targets long before you run out of bullets. A player firing Riskrunner in full flow is less a person shooting a gun and more the source of a kind of lightning whip that lashes from enemy to enemy, frying them each in turn. These days Riskrunner is a staple exotic obtainable (with catalyst!) from the "Pain & Gain" quest given by Banshee to all new Guardians, which takes you to the Cosmodrome to raid an old stash of Cayde's. But no matter how common it is, when someone cuts loose it's always a sight to see.

All of Riskrunner's ornaments play on the theme of electricity and the spectacular lightning shows it can unleash.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #Riskrunner #god I love Riskrunner #dipping a toe in radiolaria and cutting loose on the Vex #ripping through the psions in the Dul Incaru fight #frying an entire EP wave knights and all #just the entire Exodus Crash strike #only decent thing about that strike #standing there yelling FIGHT ME IRL #COME AT ME*#*assuming you deal Arc damage!#otherwise please remain a respectable distance away!#fun fact: both cursed thralls and regular thrall melee trigger Arc Conductor!#Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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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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MIDA Multi-Tool

Select application: Ballistic engagement. Entrenching tool. Avionics trawl. Troll smasher. Stellar sextant. List continues.

Type: Scout Rifle

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Kinetic | Stasis | Strand

Perk: MIDA Multi-Tool - This weapon boosts move speed.

Trait: MIDA Radar - Radar stays active while aiming down sights.

Masterworked Trait: No Distractions - Aiming this weapon for a short period reduces flinch.

Ornaments: MIDA Tactical, Desert Camo, Titanium Alloy, Digital Ops, MARA Multi-Tool

Origin & Description: The paired MIDA weapons are a deep cut for Bungie fans: their description and the acronym “MIDA”, like the perk name of Jade Rabbit, reference the world of Marathon, Bungie’s second FPS and a story sometimes considered the unofficial prequel to Halo. In Marathon's timeline, MIDA was a political party on Mars that sought power through increasingly violent means, finally achieving a coup and a brief yet remarkably vicious reign during which fully 10% of Mars' population was killed. After being deposed they retreated underground and continued to plague the solar system as its most well-funded and stable terrorist organization. The MIDA weapons were made for the operative on the go, and thus in theory their onboard AI could fulfill any function said operatives needed to survive in the Martian wilds. It's implied in Multi-Tool's lore tab that these examples of MIDA tech somehow crossed over from a separate timeline into ours ("therefore they're outside your jurisdiction to ban," as Shaxx told a concerned Zavala.)

MIDA is a pair of weapons, one exotic and one legendary, allowing both to be equipped at once. MIDA Multi-Tool is the exotic; MIDA Mini-Tool is the legendary. While either can be used on its own, the Mini-Tool grants additional speed bonuses when both are equipped, and their weapon archetypes synergize well - Multi-Tool is a long-range scout rifle while Mini-Tool is a short-range submachine gun good for finishing off opponents.

You can use the MIDA weapons however you want, but they're built for PvP; so much so that getting the Multi-tool's catalyst requires not just playing in the competitive PvP playlist but winning a significant amount of the time. You can get the catalyst from any match after reaching Mythic rank in Glory, with the chance increasing until it becomes a guaranteed drop at the vaunted heights of Legend. For reference? That is not an easy rank to hit.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #MIDA Multi-Tool #MIDA Mini-Tool #Marathon #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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sundayswiththeilluminati · 5 years

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The Colony

We outnumber you. We will find you. You are alone, and we are the colony.

Type: Grenade Launcher

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Insectoid Robot Grenades - This weapon’s grenades are insectoid robots that chase targets and explode close to them.

Trait: Serve the Colony - Insectoid robot grenades quickly repopulate the magazine from reserves while The Colony is unequipped.

Ornaments: Sneak Attack, The Colony XZ812, Veist Silver, Blind Fury

Origin & Description: The City-based Veist Foundry’s contribution to the Guardian exotic arsenal, the Colony takes their obsession with venomous predators to an unsettling extreme. To quote from the weapon’s lore tab: “And now there’s the Colony. A grenade launcher packed with fully mobile, AI-controlled insectoid detonators, each one designed with a taste for blood. We’ve made some pretty messed-up stuff. You’ve probably seen it. You know. But we’ve never made anything like the Colony before.” Yes, that perk name is not a metaphor. When you fire this gun it fires a grenade that hits something and bursts and then tiny robot spiders come out and sprint along the floor and the walls and the ceiling and every other surface in search of a target to ram into and explode. It’s seriously unnerving to see in action, especially if it’s PvP and the spiders are coming for you. Those tiny robots want blood. As the kids say: big yikes.

Colony’s ornaments are fairly standard: “Sneak Attack” covers it in camo paint (camouflaging it from what?); “The Colony XZ812” is a “2.0” style look that slightly updates the aesthetic; “Veist Silver” is a shiny metallic silver; and "Blind Fury" is one of the Trials of Osiris-themed ornaments to recognize its role in top-tier PvP, where its high-speed homing ability helps players maximize their use precious heavy ammo.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #The Colony #Veist Foundry #those spiders want BLOOD #big yikes #Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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