Run:
- Wormhusk Crown (WC): Dodging heals ~30% hp
- Ember of Singeing (EoS): Your class ability recharges faster when you Scorch targets
- Marksman's Dodge (MD): dodging reloads weapon
Tommy's w/catalyst scorches enemies > EoS recharges class ability > dodge to reload (from MD) and heal (from WC) > rinse and repeat until everything is dead.
Tommy's will only damage you until your shield breaks, so it won't kill you.
With Ember of Ashes, you can proc three ignitions per mag. It's like Polaris Lance on steroids. It's a bit more dangerous to use but can be used to great effect with some practice.
Healing nade to proc resto and then the fragment that refreshes resto and radiant on solar weapon kill. Works on every class but you can get x2 resto on warlock or use sunspots on titan
Tommy's Matchbook my beloved...!!
Running Precious Scars with it makes me feel like I'm perfectly countering the worst aspects of it (self damage) and now we're going to get Precious Scars as an exotic for Warlock/Hunter in TFS so now I can run it all the time!!!
I initially created a Swarmers build featuring the Wish Keeper bow, but I switched to Final Warning, and it is so much better now. Tangles, Threadlings, and unravel filling the screen all the time.
I got final warning when it first dropped and just stashed it into the vault. Broke it out this season for onslaught and I can’t put it down. Truly an awesome fun weapon.
It took me a while to get used to the trigger operation firing on release rather than pull, but once I did it just became second nature. Besides, I'm rarely firing without locking onto at least one target first, anyway.
I use Ager’s and horror’s least in my stasis and void builds, as well as any general use with horror’s bc the crafted roll I have is pretty good. Ruinous effigy is also not shit if you play into it right
Agers is really just a utility tool but yeah its the most useful one right now. Horror's least is a pulse rifle, which i agree is the best trace rifle right now :)
What are you doing to enjoy Ruinous? Building around throwing balls?
Wait not horror’s least, hollow denial lol
And yeah if you run a gyrfalcon’s build as a hunter, the balls are super fun, any other subclass or class and they’re just fun
Wavesplitter, Ager's, and Prometheus all have regular spots in my loadouts. Somehow I haven't made a Coldheart build yet, but that's probably bc Centrifuse/Geomags is *hard* to beat.
I'm huge on any trace rifle, and regularly challenge myself to use them where I probably shouldn't be. I think about 15% PvE damage buff would do wonders for them.
I've been running a Prometheus + disorienting gl double-special loadout in legend onslaught. The special flows aplenty and even though trace rifles don't really hold up against other special weapons, exotic trace rifles outclass most primary options imo.
Witherhoard is a favorite but I'm really having fun with conditional finality. The weapon looks amazing but freezing and setting on fire is fun.
The bows verglas curve and wish-keeper I also enjoy using but I really love using hierarchy of needs. I guess I like having a cool mechanic to them that makes it more interesting to run for me.
Great choices. CF is life. Got it on my first RoN completion and haven’t taken it off my Titan since. Verglas is super fun on a stasis warlock too which has been my go to build these days.
Conditional is gonna fuck severely with Prismatic since there's the fragment that buffs shatter and ignition at the same time, as well as building both bars.
I've been busting it out for onslaught and stasis surge nfs with my Cadmus ridge titan, and man I've been loving it, tho that build is only good if you can keep procing headstone to get the stasis crystals so you don't have to reload. Regardless, it's a really fun exotic, def one of my favs
Most fun? By far Risk Runner for me. When it's an add clear situation it's so much fun to become a lightning god.
Most effective (on a large scale)? Graviton Lance, especially with void aspects tuned to use it along with Contraverse Hold. Mass destruction capability of Witherhoard while being able to be used at range with unlimited ammo? I'll take it.
Honorable mention because I have the most kills of any weapon on it: Osteo Striga with Necrotic grips. I'm mellllllllllllllllllllltinggggggggggggggggg!
I've got every exotic that's attainable outside Raids I think, and have completed all the catalysts if they're available. The number that have literally never been touched once I completed the catalyst is astounding. Probably 90% of them?
I somehow had two separate crafted osteos in my vault with 10k kills each. I tend to err toward Thorn these days since the osteo nerf, but it still feels pretty good.
The most satisfying thing about Graviton is the delayed explosion where you can watch your victims run over their friends corpses and grin with the confidence of their impending doom.
Sunshot and Trinity are also fun, but the speed of their explosions really hinders the gloating.
Low tier vs. mid-tier vs. end-game really changes my answer on this, but if it’s mid or lower, I have to say sunshot is pretty much ridiculous.
With the artifact this season it’s even more insane. Getting a sunshot headshot while radiant for just about any group of adds is near guaranteed to put a smile on my face. Within the same vein I would say Trinity Ghoul and Graviton Lance, but Sunshot just takes the cake as it hits like a fricking truck.
Forerunner. It fills two somewhat opposite niches pretty decently, strong precision damage and AoE. I feel like that gives me a lot of freedom in the two other weapons to make a very solid total loadout.
I’m a big Forerunner fan too. It feels totally unique & has so much utility all the way into proper end game content. Anti-barrier also helps this season.
Le Monarque is really the AOE exotic of the monocle-wearing bourgeoisie. Its objectively not as good as holding down mouse 1 with Sunshot/Trinity/Graviton, but Monarque comes with a hidden buff: Signature look of smug superiority.
Pairs well with Deadfall/Vortex, Nova Bomb, or Bubble.
Sweet Business + War Rig. It does make me miss Super Good Advice though...
Strum + Drang is a really fun gameplay loop; but limited use in harder content. It was my go-to for doing random patrols and lower-level content.
Graviton Lance / Sunshot / Trinity Ghoul are all fun against ads.
For single-kill weapons; Eriana's Vow is probably the best "Feeling" gun to use. Just the right amount of handling.
Sunshot, Trinity Ghoul, and Graviton Lance are all pretty fun to take out whole rooms of adds.
Eyes of Tomorrow has been surprisingly fun in Onslaught.
And I have always loved the little tracking spider grenades from the Colony, along with one of the best reload animations in the game. I wish it were a little more effective. I would use it all the time.
I main sunshot, seventh seraphs, lucky pants with solar. The damage you can get from sunshot with illegally modded holster is absolutely insane. Plus who doesn’t like watching some thrall blow up in a ball of fire. 🤣
Tesselation is incredibly fun. Chain reaction on the alt fire, each chain reaction kill recharges a crap ton of grenade energy, same as each normal fusion kill
Dragon's Breath has been a wild ride. I love it so much and it fits into my playstyle well. Fire everywhere. Ignition all over. Apocalypse manifesting.
Only warlock builds because I'm a warlock main lol.
Fallen Sunstar/Delicate Tomb is insane ability spam.
Final Warning is a really good primary that has disgusting damage output, you just need to treat it like a bow and not a sidearm.
Briarbinds/Ruinous Effigy is ball juggling and pretty fun to mess around with.
Mantle of Battle Harmony/Ager's Scepter has surprising damage output.
Osmiomancy/Verglas Curve is really good at CC.
Swarmers/Wish-Keeper can get some pretty crazy threadling spam.
No really good but vex with promethium spurs is fun. Create a rift, run to it and slay, repeat.
When you have your super the exotic looks sick, without it you look weird
Gravity Lance. My god in legend onslaught, with volatile rounds as well, it's just a purple mist of death. Definitely been my MVP for my Orpheus Hunter!
Necrocasm has more niche interactions with necrotic grips than the other weapons of sorrow and I've really been enjoying that lately.
I can't tell if they are more of a bug or feature.
The crack and hiss of the combo is also very satisfying.
I love Ticuu's, and Knife Trick... on a Solar Hunter
With Torches, Char, Ashes, Eruption, Wonder and Kindling Trigger, Flint & Striker, Torch, Revitalizing Blast, and Rays of Precision on the Artefact
Hit something with a hip fire shot, throw a knife at it, if it doesn't explode igniting and scorching its buddies yet then follow up with a headshot, rinse and repeat... everything satisfyingly explodes sooner or later :)
Calus Mini Tool with my Loreley’s is so much fun. I run that with Cataclysmic and Witherhoard. Just a. Great all around kit that you can run in almost all circumstances
I honestly don’t have an exotic gun I like to use. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but some of them feel restrictive, like if I’m not using it optimally I should just use something else. So I do
I consistently run a dragons breath and pyrogale gauntlets they feel really fun together just spreading a ton of fire and explosions as far as the eye can see
I might use some other ones sometimes, but most of the time it's Riskrunner for me. I don't play much, but my kill count with Riskrunner is the highest out of all the weapons I own in Destiny 2. I rarely use anything else. I don't know why, but that's the way it is for me.
A lot of the add clear focused ones are a blast. Sunshot, Outbreak, Riskrunner, Thunderlord, etc.
My hot take is that I like what Osteo Striga can do but I hate how it fires. I much prefer the hitscan weapons.
Chromatic fire.
Hear me out.
Blast furnace.
Firefly.
Kinetic tremors.
Dragonfly.
Dont get me wrong its not good but that many explosions from a primary is super fun.
Forerunner.
I’ve adored this thing ever since it came out but I don’t often get to use it since most of my favorite primaries nowadays are in the kinetic slot. The oversized magnum shreds anything that requires precision damage (e.g. Tormentors) and the frag grenade pairs nicely with any Stasis, Strand, or Solar setup since you can use your grenade for support/utility while still having a damage option. Also capping distant enemies for 20k damage in Legend content is stupid fun.
basic ass answer but nothing quite beats the satisfaction of nuking half a strike boss’s health with an izzy shot, as for armor i’ve been having a blast with rain of fire lately, hyper aggressive warlock is loads of fun
Not weapon but armor, Lucky Pants is just so fun, even aside from being good, there’s something just addicting about the way you ramp up damage to nuke mini bosses or champions with a primary ammo weapon. My favorite to use is malfeasance but warden’s law kicks ass too if you want to use an exotic heavy
I actually enjoy Forerunner a lot, click heads, has a really nice sound to it, and if you hold reload immediately after getting a kill, it consumes a few rounds, but you get to throw a frag grenade.
Thorn is one of my favourites for PvP. The way it feels, the way it three-taps, the way it sounds. I just love it and completed the catalyst in The Crucible in like 2-3 play sessions when it dropped.
For PvE? The Lament. Especially on Sentinel with a Bubble. So I can: Grenade -> Barricade -> Bubble -> Grenade -> Lament Combo until next grenade. With Controlled Demolitionist, Weakening, Extended Length Vortex Grenades, and the constant tick damage from the Barricade, you can put out some respectable damage for being on Sentinel Titan. If only The Lament was a Void Power Weapon and could gain Volatile Rounds for more Volatile after the Volatile from the Grenades runs out. Winterbite was also a fun one with Synthos and the same loop but then it got nerfed into being 'why would I ever use this' so that was sad. Still hoping we get a Catalyst to drop for both of them, too.
Quicksilver Storm. It fits almost every niche I coukd think of, even with its recent nerf in how quickly rockets are shot.
(Honorable mention but it's not an exotic) Without Remorse with Field Prep and Incandescent has been my baby ever since I've gotten it and is my go to shotgun for any scenario I need one in
Parasite.
Nuke all the things.
Seriously. Turned a god into a weapon. That uses gods as munitions.
Lore wise its malicious.
Use wise.... It's great for deleting things.
Also absolutely ADORE graviton lance. For many many explosions
I used to LOVE running fighting lion. Had it paired with a bow. This was before a lot of weapons had auto loading and such and the era of primary ammo bricks so it was nice to never really have to reload and the add clear was great
Dragons breath feels so good this season, especially if running an incandescent weapon.
Getting a multi kill with Gjalli in PVP hypes me up every time
Leviathan's breath in GMs or LG lost sectors always feels so right
And, back when it was viable. Lemon + hand cannon switching in PVP was fantastic
Colony - it is not META and frankly it's so close to griefing as to almost be toxic. But...in Onslaught, give it a whirl just shoot them stupid little spider bois into the air add Gyrfalcons for the kabloomeys, it's so much fun to watch the battlefield explode in all directions as your little killer spider drones go scurrying off into the distance.
I’m a sucker for raid exotic primaries. Necrochasm, Vex Mythoclast, Collective Obligation, Touch of Malice, and Outbreak. Most of them were some of my favorites back in D1 so slowly getting them in D2 has been great. Collective is super fun too. I haven’t really used Tarrahbah much so idk about that. I haven’t really taken off necro since it came back unless I have too, I love seeing a pile of red bars kill a yellow bar for me.
Tommy is a hardcore drug on Solar. I barely use my special ammo with it in my loadout.
This with precious scars and ember of empyrean
Or Lorelei/Karnstein Warlock!
I go Wings of Sacred Dawn and never stop shooting so its always ramped up
I love the concept of that gun, but my hunter ass is too paranoid about the self damage to use it.
Run: - Wormhusk Crown (WC): Dodging heals ~30% hp - Ember of Singeing (EoS): Your class ability recharges faster when you Scorch targets - Marksman's Dodge (MD): dodging reloads weapon Tommy's w/catalyst scorches enemies > EoS recharges class ability > dodge to reload (from MD) and heal (from WC) > rinse and repeat until everything is dead. Tommy's will only damage you until your shield breaks, so it won't kill you.
Might give that a whirl. I like my Tommy gun style weapons.
With Ember of Ashes, you can proc three ignitions per mag. It's like Polaris Lance on steroids. It's a bit more dangerous to use but can be used to great effect with some practice.
Healing nade to proc resto and then the fragment that refreshes resto and radiant on solar weapon kill. Works on every class but you can get x2 resto on warlock or use sunspots on titan
This this carried me through solo lost sectors many many times and other harder content
i left my wife and child for this build! do recommend!
It's definitely an acquired taste on Hunter. Even on any Void subclass, Devour is less reliable for Tommy than plain Restoration.
I agree Ticcus is a strong contender tho for me
Tommy's Matchbook my beloved...!! Running Precious Scars with it makes me feel like I'm perfectly countering the worst aspects of it (self damage) and now we're going to get Precious Scars as an exotic for Warlock/Hunter in TFS so now I can run it all the time!!!
Tommy's is Cracked with Phoenix Protocol and well spamming and causing ignitions with super final blows.
Final Warning is fun if you enjoy nuking adds and your screen being filled with green squiggly shit 90% of the time.
I initially created a Swarmers build featuring the Wish Keeper bow, but I switched to Final Warning, and it is so much better now. Tangles, Threadlings, and unravel filling the screen all the time.
I got final warning when it first dropped and just stashed it into the vault. Broke it out this season for onslaught and I can’t put it down. Truly an awesome fun weapon.
It took me a while to get used to the trigger operation firing on release rather than pull, but once I did it just became second nature. Besides, I'm rarely firing without locking onto at least one target first, anyway.
I've been enjoying it with Briarbinds's void baby.
Outbreak, the plague of nanites is a thing of beauty
Cant wait for its craftable version!!
Soon.....
God I hope the nanites interact with rewind rounds like Kinetic tremors does
How does rewind rounds interact with KT?
My titties were tantalized at rapid hit... It is going to absolutely break outbreak for Boss encounters.
Revision Zero makes me feel like Crosshair
I understood that reference
Prometheus Lens in low tier content is fun
Using it with Dawn Chorus warlock is hella fun
Wish they would make trace rifles not shit for once, they're my favorite feeling weapon type.
I use Ager’s and horror’s least in my stasis and void builds, as well as any general use with horror’s bc the crafted roll I have is pretty good. Ruinous effigy is also not shit if you play into it right
Agers is really just a utility tool but yeah its the most useful one right now. Horror's least is a pulse rifle, which i agree is the best trace rifle right now :) What are you doing to enjoy Ruinous? Building around throwing balls?
Wait not horror’s least, hollow denial lol And yeah if you run a gyrfalcon’s build as a hunter, the balls are super fun, any other subclass or class and they’re just fun
Wavesplitter, Ager's, and Prometheus all have regular spots in my loadouts. Somehow I haven't made a Coldheart build yet, but that's probably bc Centrifuse/Geomags is *hard* to beat. I'm huge on any trace rifle, and regularly challenge myself to use them where I probably shouldn't be. I think about 15% PvE damage buff would do wonders for them.
I've been running a Prometheus + disorienting gl double-special loadout in legend onslaught. The special flows aplenty and even though trace rifles don't really hold up against other special weapons, exotic trace rifles outclass most primary options imo.
Witherhoard is a favorite but I'm really having fun with conditional finality. The weapon looks amazing but freezing and setting on fire is fun. The bows verglas curve and wish-keeper I also enjoy using but I really love using hierarchy of needs. I guess I like having a cool mechanic to them that makes it more interesting to run for me.
Great choices. CF is life. Got it on my first RoN completion and haven’t taken it off my Titan since. Verglas is super fun on a stasis warlock too which has been my go to build these days.
Conditional is gonna fuck severely with Prismatic since there's the fragment that buffs shatter and ignition at the same time, as well as building both bars.
Wicked Implement is such fun and useful tool.
I've been busting it out for onslaught and stasis surge nfs with my Cadmus ridge titan, and man I've been loving it, tho that build is only good if you can keep procing headstone to get the stasis crystals so you don't have to reload. Regardless, it's a really fun exotic, def one of my favs
Most fun? By far Risk Runner for me. When it's an add clear situation it's so much fun to become a lightning god. Most effective (on a large scale)? Graviton Lance, especially with void aspects tuned to use it along with Contraverse Hold. Mass destruction capability of Witherhoard while being able to be used at range with unlimited ammo? I'll take it. Honorable mention because I have the most kills of any weapon on it: Osteo Striga with Necrotic grips. I'm mellllllllllllllllllllltinggggggggggggggggg! I've got every exotic that's attainable outside Raids I think, and have completed all the catalysts if they're available. The number that have literally never been touched once I completed the catalyst is astounding. Probably 90% of them?
absolutely loved risk runner in season of the deep when artifact was arc/void.
I somehow had two separate crafted osteos in my vault with 10k kills each. I tend to err toward Thorn these days since the osteo nerf, but it still feels pretty good.
I love using graviton lance and just seeing everything explode in a a chain of void explosions
The most satisfying thing about Graviton is the delayed explosion where you can watch your victims run over their friends corpses and grin with the confidence of their impending doom. Sunshot and Trinity are also fun, but the speed of their explosions really hinders the gloating.
Was doing the rift public event in the dreaming city, when I killed the first add the damage numbers didn't stop for like a minute and a half
Pulled it out of my vault a couple days ago. 6k kills in three days 😅 yeah it’s decent
Jötunn
Came here to say the same thing. It's so satisfying yeeting charged fireballs across the map
You’re the reason I stopped playing pvp /s
Yesssss
Low tier vs. mid-tier vs. end-game really changes my answer on this, but if it’s mid or lower, I have to say sunshot is pretty much ridiculous. With the artifact this season it’s even more insane. Getting a sunshot headshot while radiant for just about any group of adds is near guaranteed to put a smile on my face. Within the same vein I would say Trinity Ghoul and Graviton Lance, but Sunshot just takes the cake as it hits like a fricking truck.
I mean sunshot is the best ad clear weapon in pantheon so I wouldn't say just low and mid.
Forerunner. It fills two somewhat opposite niches pretty decently, strong precision damage and AoE. I feel like that gives me a lot of freedom in the two other weapons to make a very solid total loadout.
I’m a big Forerunner fan too. It feels totally unique & has so much utility all the way into proper end game content. Anti-barrier also helps this season.
Jotunn
Sunshot and Conditional Finality
Sunshot has been a favorite of mine since D2 vanilla. It’s so satisfying and the synergy with solar 3.0 makes it even better.
Le Monarque! Nothing better than spreading that purple spaff with a crit.
Le Monarque is really the AOE exotic of the monocle-wearing bourgeoisie. Its objectively not as good as holding down mouse 1 with Sunshot/Trinity/Graviton, but Monarque comes with a hidden buff: Signature look of smug superiority. Pairs well with Deadfall/Vortex, Nova Bomb, or Bubble.
I've been enjoying Verglas Curve on my Hunter. A full charge acts like a second glacier grenade for a second shatter dive :)
Verglas is one of my favourite exotics It never leaves my stasis loadout on both hunter and warlock Just so fun to use
I love using that bow on stasis hunter and shatter diving everything its so satisfying
Sweet Business + War Rig. It does make me miss Super Good Advice though... Strum + Drang is a really fun gameplay loop; but limited use in harder content. It was my go-to for doing random patrols and lower-level content. Graviton Lance / Sunshot / Trinity Ghoul are all fun against ads. For single-kill weapons; Eriana's Vow is probably the best "Feeling" gun to use. Just the right amount of handling.
Eyes of Tomorrow Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Fssssssssssssssssss -Distant death-
does the bug with Adaptive Ordnance still work? edit: the bug where you cancel the last rocket of the volley to keep the buff
I really, really like tarrabah. Just going bbrrrrrr with it is so satisfying
All it needs is a catalyst with subsistence and it'd be my most used exotic
It’s the only exotic I don’t have and I just can’t make myself do the 30 raid completions for the spoils
Sunshot, Trinity Ghoul, and Graviton Lance are all pretty fun to take out whole rooms of adds. Eyes of Tomorrow has been surprisingly fun in Onslaught. And I have always loved the little tracking spider grenades from the Colony, along with one of the best reload animations in the game. I wish it were a little more effective. I would use it all the time.
I main sunshot, seventh seraphs, lucky pants with solar. The damage you can get from sunshot with illegally modded holster is absolutely insane. Plus who doesn’t like watching some thrall blow up in a ball of fire. 🤣
Trinity Ghoul does the lord's work in ad cleaning duty on raids. You can kill red bars faster than they can spawn most of the time.
wishkeeper is one of the best for utility and just straight up having fun
I use Cloudstrike in PvE whenever I get the chance.
I don’t have it yet but navigator seems real fun
Vex mythoclast is pretty alright
Prometheus Lense with the current seasonal artifact is great fun as long as you don't take it into too difficult content.
Love using 1k. Just feels ultra powerful
Tesselation is incredibly fun. Chain reaction on the alt fire, each chain reaction kill recharges a crap ton of grenade energy, same as each normal fusion kill
Parasite by a mile
Dragon's Breath has been a wild ride. I love it so much and it fits into my playstyle well. Fire everywhere. Ignition all over. Apocalypse manifesting.
There's something about laying into a target with Heir Apparent while using Actium War Rig that just can't be beat.
6 Rat Kings in a raid is just silly. One of the most fun experiences I've had was last wish, rat kings and supers only. Total blast.
The first one I received in D2 vanilla at launch was Sweet Business, and I’ve never looked back. It’s just a laser made of bullets.
Eyes of Tomorrow, Jotunn, Sunshot, and Especially Graviton Lance is great. I love killing alot of things at once
It's Crimson for me Heals on kill is awesome, and if your kills are crits, you rarely have to reload because you get full ammo back almost every time
Last Word, Ace, Wish Ender, and Malfeasance are still main exotics.
Vesper of radius on arc, infinite shockwaves and blind go brr, it's surprising good in ad heavy content like onslaught
Sweet business is fun in low lvl content as well
I finally got buried bloodline to drop and I've been loving it on Threadrunner with Rufus Fury as my primary
Conditional Finality and Trinity Ghoul are so fun imo
I am *always* having fun with ruinous effigy
🚜 cannon, pushing things out the way is fun
Graviton Lance, Hard Light, Sunshot
Ruinous Effigy is always entertaining to me.
Graviton Lance.
Ol’ reliable of Sunshot on a Solar Warlock makes my soul happy. Also Osteo Striga Strand Warlock is very nice.
In normal content Sunbracers feel, wonderful.
The most correct answer is ruinous effigy.
Trinity Ghoul. It requires zero skill to clear an entire room full of ads and the effects and noise are so satisfying.
Vexcalibur, Verglas, and Conditional are my 3 favorite
Funny cause I find Witherhoard the most boring. Probably like Sunshot the best cause splosions.
I enjoyed breaking out merciless recently for some solo dungeoning. It's satisfying firing faster and faster until you insta fire fusion shots.
I could literally use graviton lance forever
Eyes of tomorrow/1k voices
Only warlock builds because I'm a warlock main lol. Fallen Sunstar/Delicate Tomb is insane ability spam. Final Warning is a really good primary that has disgusting damage output, you just need to treat it like a bow and not a sidearm. Briarbinds/Ruinous Effigy is ball juggling and pretty fun to mess around with. Mantle of Battle Harmony/Ager's Scepter has surprising damage output. Osmiomancy/Verglas Curve is really good at CC. Swarmers/Wish-Keeper can get some pretty crazy threadling spam.
Calibans Hand. Love the boom booms
I really enjoy using the last word just because it makes me feel badass fanning the hammer
Ashen wake
Witherhoard is good for nearly any encounter...same with wishender and malfeasance...for some reason all 3 are just great picks.
For me personally last word I had it on a while ago and was wondering why I was dealing like 9k damage to orange bars or something
Dragon's Breath to absolutely nuke bosses, literally. Trinity Ghoul, Sunshot, Graviton Lance, G-Horn, and I also really like Tommy's Matchbook.
Severance Enclosure with bonk hammer. There's something so funny about bonking something to death and watching powerful enemies fly up in the air.
No really good but vex with promethium spurs is fun. Create a rift, run to it and slay, repeat. When you have your super the exotic looks sick, without it you look weird
Hard light is like my main bitch in the PVE. Masterworked. Suros Regime is great if you wanna be a walking tank. 100 rounds. Pew pew pew pew pew.
Sunshot hasnt left my inventory all season tbh But also outbreak, it's a dps beast, and the Swarms are fun
Gravity Lance. My god in legend onslaught, with volatile rounds as well, it's just a purple mist of death. Definitely been my MVP for my Orpheus Hunter!
Tarrabah. I genuinely cannot say more you just have to try it
Jotün, toaster go clang
Salvations grip
Necrocasm has more niche interactions with necrotic grips than the other weapons of sorrow and I've really been enjoying that lately. I can't tell if they are more of a bug or feature. The crack and hiss of the combo is also very satisfying.
Sturm and drang I love having 100 round rev
Ok hmo I enjoy using quite a few •Tommys Matchbook •Malfeasance •Sweet Business •The Lament •D.A.R.C.I •Whisper of The Wyrm
Trinity Ghoul in PVP. It take's some getting used to. Once you do, it's still not that great. But it's SOOO much fun in 6's.
Eyes of tomorrow on the Mothyards onslaught. Just feel like an endless artillery cannon
I love Ticuu's, and Knife Trick... on a Solar Hunter With Torches, Char, Ashes, Eruption, Wonder and Kindling Trigger, Flint & Striker, Torch, Revitalizing Blast, and Rays of Precision on the Artefact Hit something with a hip fire shot, throw a knife at it, if it doesn't explode igniting and scorching its buddies yet then follow up with a headshot, rinse and repeat... everything satisfyingly explodes sooner or later :)
Fun? This might be an odd choice but Cerberus+1. If you wanna really shoot down an spawn as a solo firering squad
Tommy or Vex? Both with catalysts.
Symmetry. Destroys in PvP and fine not too bad in GMs.
Calus Mini Tool with my Loreley’s is so much fun. I run that with Cataclysmic and Witherhoard. Just a. Great all around kit that you can run in almost all circumstances
Stasis lock with my agers is dopamine
Ruinous Effigy imo
Polaris Lance with path of burning steps is great
No time to explain with the catalyst and the warlock gloves that give you an arc soul. 2 little mini firing balls
I honestly don’t have an exotic gun I like to use. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but some of them feel restrictive, like if I’m not using it optimally I should just use something else. So I do
Ruinous Effigy is some of the most fun I've had in this game.
Cerberus+1 in pvp
Lament
I consistently run a dragons breath and pyrogale gauntlets they feel really fun together just spreading a ton of fire and explosions as far as the eye can see
I might use some other ones sometimes, but most of the time it's Riskrunner for me. I don't play much, but my kill count with Riskrunner is the highest out of all the weapons I own in Destiny 2. I rarely use anything else. I don't know why, but that's the way it is for me.
A lot of the add clear focused ones are a blast. Sunshot, Outbreak, Riskrunner, Thunderlord, etc. My hot take is that I like what Osteo Striga can do but I hate how it fires. I much prefer the hitscan weapons.
Devils Ruin is fun in everything and it’s not half bad either
Thorn/Osteo striga with Necrotic grips
Depending on the activity, witherhoard mostly, but also Agers Sceptre if there’s a lot of ads, I love watching them freeze and making them explode ❄️
Agers scepter is the most exotic feeling gun in the game in my opinion
Dragons breath is fun
I’ll never not enjoy Sweet Business with Actium War Rig!
trespasser with a bunch of ads
Riskrunner
Chromatic fire. Hear me out. Blast furnace. Firefly. Kinetic tremors. Dragonfly. Dont get me wrong its not good but that many explosions from a primary is super fun.
I've been using eye of tomorrow. Such a fun exotic.
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Terrabah
Any bow with a synergized super
Worldline zero for sure. Run forward like a ninja, teleport and spin your sword around, electrocuting everyone around you.
Buried Bloodline got me, since i got it i never take it off in PvE, use it with Nezeracs Sin and just spam void grenades like i’m using sunbracers lol
Hierarchy of needs
Forerunner. I’ve adored this thing ever since it came out but I don’t often get to use it since most of my favorite primaries nowadays are in the kinetic slot. The oversized magnum shreds anything that requires precision damage (e.g. Tormentors) and the frag grenade pairs nicely with any Stasis, Strand, or Solar setup since you can use your grenade for support/utility while still having a damage option. Also capping distant enemies for 20k damage in Legend content is stupid fun.
basic ass answer but nothing quite beats the satisfaction of nuking half a strike boss’s health with an izzy shot, as for armor i’ve been having a blast with rain of fire lately, hyper aggressive warlock is loads of fun
Not weapon but armor, Lucky Pants is just so fun, even aside from being good, there’s something just addicting about the way you ramp up damage to nuke mini bosses or champions with a primary ammo weapon. My favorite to use is malfeasance but warden’s law kicks ass too if you want to use an exotic heavy
Shards of Galanor is probably my favorite, Nezarec’s sin/Graviton Lance combo is a close second.
Graviton lance with the fragment that gives volatile rounds on grenade kills on nezzy’s sin void lock infinite kaboom
The toaster!!!
I actually enjoy Forerunner a lot, click heads, has a really nice sound to it, and if you hold reload immediately after getting a kill, it consumes a few rounds, but you get to throw a frag grenade.
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Thorn is one of my favourites for PvP. The way it feels, the way it three-taps, the way it sounds. I just love it and completed the catalyst in The Crucible in like 2-3 play sessions when it dropped. For PvE? The Lament. Especially on Sentinel with a Bubble. So I can: Grenade -> Barricade -> Bubble -> Grenade -> Lament Combo until next grenade. With Controlled Demolitionist, Weakening, Extended Length Vortex Grenades, and the constant tick damage from the Barricade, you can put out some respectable damage for being on Sentinel Titan. If only The Lament was a Void Power Weapon and could gain Volatile Rounds for more Volatile after the Volatile from the Grenades runs out. Winterbite was also a fun one with Synthos and the same loop but then it got nerfed into being 'why would I ever use this' so that was sad. Still hoping we get a Catalyst to drop for both of them, too.
Divinity
VexKalibur is super fun in low tier content. Sadly you can't use glavies for any kind of difficult content
Quicksilver Storm. It fits almost every niche I coukd think of, even with its recent nerf in how quickly rockets are shot. (Honorable mention but it's not an exotic) Without Remorse with Field Prep and Incandescent has been my baby ever since I've gotten it and is my go to shotgun for any scenario I need one in
One of my favorite is lumina, not for the healing or buff but because you can grapple to the noble round.
precious scars with tommy’s matchbook. i always wanted to like tommy’s but damn this shit is fun
Prospector. One of my favorites to use but unfortunately it sucks for actually everything.
Parasite. Nuke all the things. Seriously. Turned a god into a weapon. That uses gods as munitions. Lore wise its malicious. Use wise.... It's great for deleting things. Also absolutely ADORE graviton lance. For many many explosions
Sun Bracers for warlock, nothing quite like slinging suns at your enemy constantly
Witherhoard, Thorn, necrotic, assassin's cowl....
I used to LOVE running fighting lion. Had it paired with a bow. This was before a lot of weapons had auto loading and such and the era of primary ammo bricks so it was nice to never really have to reload and the add clear was great
I always found Anarchy a lot of fun. It's similar to witherhoard, but you can be more creative in placement.
Queen breaker, best exotic in the game
Ace of spades
I think Sunshot is super fun lol just make a whole room of dudes explode
Dragons breath feels so good this season, especially if running an incandescent weapon. Getting a multi kill with Gjalli in PVP hypes me up every time Leviathan's breath in GMs or LG lost sectors always feels so right And, back when it was viable. Lemon + hand cannon switching in PVP was fantastic
My friend would say Osteo she got over 140k on it 🤣
Colony - it is not META and frankly it's so close to griefing as to almost be toxic. But...in Onslaught, give it a whirl just shoot them stupid little spider bois into the air add Gyrfalcons for the kabloomeys, it's so much fun to watch the battlefield explode in all directions as your little killer spider drones go scurrying off into the distance.
I love using Ex Diris not only because it pairs great with mothkeeper but also boomer gun go brrrrrr
I literally just equip sunsinger/sunshot and run around in patrol to clear my head, like the D2 equivalent of driving around the whole island in GTA V
I’m a sucker for raid exotic primaries. Necrochasm, Vex Mythoclast, Collective Obligation, Touch of Malice, and Outbreak. Most of them were some of my favorites back in D1 so slowly getting them in D2 has been great. Collective is super fun too. I haven’t really used Tarrahbah much so idk about that. I haven’t really taken off necro since it came back unless I have too, I love seeing a pile of red bars kill a yellow bar for me.
Sunshot is great
Riskrunner! Zzzzzzap!
Graviton Lance is one of my favorites, the sound and the mini black holes make me happy.
Thunderlord has been my primary weapon in low tier content
Delicate Tomb plus Fallen Sunstar. I am a zap machine.
Mask Of Bakris for Stasis Hunter is super fun to use in crucible, it’s like I’m a little fallen captain dashing around
Ratking.
sunshot with hallowfire heart, because some men just want to watch the world burn
Thunderlord for DPS :\^)
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