Destiny 2 – All new weapon perks in The Witch Queen
Destiny 2 brought a huge influx of new weapon perks and traits with the release of The Witch Queen. A lot of these were relegated to Glaives and the new exotics. Combined with weapon crafting, there are a host of new options available to Guardians.
Destiny 2 Weapon Perks
Origin Traits
- Stunning Recovery: Stunning a Champion partially refills your magazine, triggers health regeneration, and improves recovery for a short duration
- Vanguard's Vindication: Final blows with this weapon grant a small amount of health
- Invader Tracker: Damaging the Invader with this weapon marks them for allies
- Hakke Breach Armaments: This weapon deals increased damage against vehicles, turrets, barricades, and Stasis crystals
- Veist Stinger: Damaging an enemy with this weapon has a small chance to reload the magazine and increase movement speed while aiming down sights. Bows receive faster draw speed and swords receive faster charge rate while this perk is active.
- Psychohack: Sustained damage from this weapon lowers the target's damage output for a short duration
- Souldrinker: Gain health based on the number of hits before reloading
- Land Tank: Final blows with this weapon grant increased Resilience and additional damage resistance from combatants
- Suros Synergy: Reloading grants this weapon bonus handling and reduces incoming flinch for a short time
- One Quiet Moment: Grants increased reload speed when out of combat
- Skulking Wolf: During the Hunt, final blows with this weapon grant enhanced radar and remove you from opposing radar
- Alacrity: Gain increased reload, stability, aim assist, and range when you are the last living member of your fireteam or running solo
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Glaive Traits
- Ballistic Tuning: Greatly increases range, Decreases shield duration
- Low-Impedance Windings: Increases shield duration, Slightly increases reload speed, Decreases range
- Tempered Truss Rod: Greatly increases handling speed, Slightly decreases reload speed, Slightly decreases range
- Supercooled Accelerator: Increases range, Slightly decreases reload speed, Slightly decreases handling speed
- Auxiliary Reserves: Greatly increases shield duration, Decreases reload speed
- Lightweight Emitter: Increases reload speed, Slightly increases handling speed, Decreases shield duration
- Tilting at Windmills: Blocking damage with your shield increases movement speed until you lower your shield
- Impulse Amplifier: Massively increases projectile velocity, Increases reload speed
- Unstoppable Force: Blocking damage with your shield increases projectile damage for a short time
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Exotic Traits
- Remote Shield: When weapon energy is full, consume it before firing to make your next shot deploy a protective shield on impact
- Edge of Action/Concurrence/Intent: Hybrid melee/ranged polearm with a frontal shield. Generates energy on dealing ranged damage
- Lightning Seeker: When weapon energy is full, consume it before firing to make your next shot track targets across the ground and unleash chain lightning on impact
- Restorative Turret: When weapon energy is full, consume it before firing to make your next shot deploy a healing turret on impact
- Screaming Swarm: Fires a stream of sentient, toxic projectiles that track the targeted enemy
- Toxic Overlord: Landing a final blow or multiple precision hits triggers a burst that poisons nearby targets
- Trinary Vision: One-shot handheld Grenade Launcher. Projectiles release a fan of three energy waves on contact with the ground
- Void Leech: This weapon leeches Void debuffs when damagin targets that are suppressed, weakened, or volatile. Once charged, swapping firing modes applies the same Void debuffs
- Umbral Sustenance: This weapon's magazine is automatically reloaded when you gain Devour, a Void overshield, or become invisible
- Worm's Hunger: This weapon fires Hive worms which explode on impact. The size and damage of the explosion scales with the number of denemies you've defeated just before firing this weapon
- Worm Byproduct: Taking damage from your own worm projectile detonation empowers your weapons for a short time
- Wrath of the Colossus: Heavy slug launcher that charges, then fires full auto while the trigger is held.
- Omega Strike: Land hits with the slug launcher to load missles and use the alternate fire to launch several missiles in a volley
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Update: 2023-07-14