How to craft your dream weapon in Destiny 2' and extract weapons

Weapon crafting has been close to the top of the Destiny 2 community’s wishlist since forever, and with the release of the Witch Queen expansion Bungie has finally delivered. Guardians can now forge weapons to their exact specifications without having to rely on the fickle hand of RNG to bless them with the perfect perk roll.

How to craft your dream weapon in Destiny 2

1. Securing the weapon pattern

First, it’s important to note that not every weapon in the game can be crafted. There are currently 29 craftable weapons included, though Bungie plans to add more. While it is possible to unlock a few patterns through the completion of specific quests, weapon patterns are primarily unlocked via ‘Resonant’ weapons, which you can easily spot thanks to the red borders around their icons.

The Ragnhild-D is an aggressive frame shotgun. Enhanced One-Two Punch + Auto-Loading Holster will be spicy on melee builds, particularly with Hunter’s Liar’s Handshake exotic gauntlets.

For the launch of The Witch Queen we’ve partnered with Bungie to create a series of guides and explainer videos. These are being made by some of the best known Destiny 2 content creators and experts. This particular piece comes from CoolGuy, whose gaming channel specializes in weapon and perk analysis to help make you a better player. For full disclosure anything published as part of this program will include this panel.

Each of the 29 craftable weapons has two versions: The normal drop and the Resonant red-bordered one. (Reminder that non-craftable weapons can also drop as Resonant.) You will need to ‘attune’ the Resonant versions by getting kills and completing activities with the weapon equipped before you can unlock the associated pattern for crafting that particular weapon.

Some Resonant weapons drop from specific playlist activities while others are found randomly in the open world. It’s also possible to receive them from a vendor rank-up package, raids and dungeons, and using Dares of Eternity keys. In short, just play the game and you’ll soon be swimming in Resonant guns.

Each weapon that can be crafted has a Pattern Progress requirement necessary to unlock it for crafting. To review the requirements, go to the Triumphs section in the main menu, and on the right you’ll find a tab called Patterns and Catalysts. All of the weapons available to Shape (ie craft) are listed here. Hover over your desired weapon to learn more about its pattern progress requirements.

While some Patterns, such as the Empirical Evidence sidearm, only require you to attune one Resonant drop, others, like the Pointed Inquiry scout rifle, can require up to three. And it appears that raid weapons will require a whopping five attunements to unlock.

No idea why the pattern unlock requirements aren’t found in the crafting menu. Instead, you’ll need to head to the Patterns & Catalysts tab of the Triumphs menu. Byzantine!

2. Shaping your weapon

Once you’ve unlocked your chosen pattern, it’s a simple matter of crafting the basic version and then using it in the wild to level it up. Again, this involves getting kills and completing activities. As you level up, you’ll unlock more shaping options, including barrels, magazines, and enhanced intrinsic traits. Each time you reshape the weapon and swap in a new perk it will cost crafting materials to complete. There are various different mats involved, the most basic of which is Resonant Alloy, which is earned whenever you dismantle a legendary weapon. Here are the other types:

Expand the image above to see a list of all the crafting materials. Most of these stack up to 250, with the exception of Ascendant Alloy which is much rarer than the others.

Ascendent Alloy is the rarest material, and unfortunately you’ll need one each time you want to add an enhanced trait to a weapon. It can be obtained from completing the weekly Campaign mission and the Throne World’s Wellspring activity on Master difficulty. You can also buy one per week at the Tower from Master Rahool. Lastly, another can be obtained when you rank the gunsmith up (but that is going to be the most onerous method).

The other elements—Ruinous, Adroit, Mutable, Energetic, and Drowned—are aligned with certain perk styles. For example, you’ll need Energetic Elements to upgrade and unlock any ammo or reload-related traits.

Once a Resonant weapon has been fully Attuned, you’ll have the option to extract its materials. When extracting, you’ll usually have two elements to choose from. Choose the element that matches the perk you’re trying to make, or just pick whichever you currently have least of. Most of the legendary elements only stack to 250, so you’ll find you fill up quite quickly.

The Pointed Inquiry scout rifle feels surprisingly comfy for the 150 RPM archetype. It can feel even better if you pick the new Stats for All perk which grants multiple boosts when you hit three separate targets. Also look out for Focused Fury, which procs a damage buff when you land half the mag as precision shots.

3. Reshaping and refining your god roll weapon

Craftable weapons are meant to be reshaped and refined to allow you to dial in on the version that suits your playstyle best. You may also consider crafting weapons for a specific job, such as high DPS against a boss during a tight window. Maybe after some time playing with the gun, you realize it’s a bit sluggish. No problem, figure out what materials are required to add a perk that improves handling, then head back to the Relic on Mars and reshape.

Each weapon pattern offers perks that lean into various playstyles. It’s up to you how to shape the pattern to your own will.

Whether you’re a new or returning player, you’ll soon learn what kind of weapons suit you best. Maybe you’re more of a support player who likes plinking away at range, or maybe you like to build into high ability uptime, or perhaps it’s all about max DPS. Each weapon pattern offers perks that lean into a variety of playstyles. It’s up to you how to shape the pattern to your own will. This is the first time Destiny 2 players have been able to hand-pick the perks from all the possibilities on a particular weapon. Combine that freedom with the time you’re going to spend leveling the weapon up beforehand, and these crafted guns promise to become a defining part of the Destiny 2 experience.

EXTRACTING WEAPON PATTERNS

Not every weapon in Destiny 2 can be crafted, and you’ll get many Deepsight Resonance quests for guns that are only randomly rolled. However, you will need to use Deepsight Resonance to unlock weapon patterns (also called blueprints) for the weapons you can craft.

During The Witch Queen, the feature’s inaugural expansion, only three weapon sets are craftable: Throne World weapons, Season of the Risen weapons, the Vow of the Disciple raid weapons. But you won’t be able to craft these weapons until you unlock their pattern.

To unlock a pattern for weapon crafting, you’ll need to complete a Deepsight Resonance version of that particular weapon. This actually involves quite a bit of luck, as you’ll need to get the weapon from the raid or whatever activity, and get lucky enough for it to drop with Deepsight Resonance on it.

Some weapons only require you to finish a single Deepsight Resonance weapon, but others can take up to five Deepsight Resonance completions for you to unlock the pattern. You can check which weapons you can craft, as well as how many Deepsight Resonance completions you need to unlock it, in the Patterns and Catalysts section in your Triumphs menu.

Here’s a step-by-step example of how to unlock the Tarnation pattern in the Throne World:

Wait until Tarnation is the featured weapon in the Throne World’s Wellspring activity (every four days)
Complete Wellspring until you get a Deepsight Resonance version of Tarnation to drop
Run Wellspring again until you get a second Deepsight Resonance Tarnation (Tarnation requires two Deepsight completions to unlock its pattern)
Complete both your Deepsight Resonance Tarnations and extract resources from them
Go into the Triumph section and claim your Tarnation pattern
Go to the Relic and craft your Tarnation
Level your Tarnation up to unlock more perks for it

CRAFTING

The actual crafting part of Destiny 2’s new weapon crafting system is actually quite simple.

Destiny 2: The Witch Queen weapon crafting

Approach the Relic on Mars and select the weapon you want to Shape. Pick from your patterns, and then the game will take you into the crafting menu. Here you’ll need to spend Resonant Alloy to pick the Intrinsic perk for your gun. Then you can spend Neutral Element to pick your passive (barrel, magazine, stock, sight, explosion) and active perks.

Once you’re done, you can select what I’ll call the cash register node, and pay all the actual resources you’ve used up. You can also reset your weapon here if you want to make a change or it’s too expensive.

If you want to change something on your weapon, you can Reshape it later. Here you can spend the Elements and way more currency to buy enhanced perks and intrinsics. To unlock more perk options, use your crafted weapons out in the wild, much like leveling up a Deepsight Resonance weapon. All weapons have all perks available to them by level 20, but there is no weapon level cap. You can level up your favorite toys indefinitely.

What is the hardest exotic to get in Destiny 2?

While I won’t deny that whisper and outbreak are hard to get I would say divinity is the current hardest exotic to get seeing as how to complete the quest you have to do all 7 puzzles in the Garden of Salvation raid which means you have to have a raid group and be able to complete every encounter.

How many dreaming city weapons are there?

A week ago, alongside the Solstice of Heroes 2021 update, Bungie re-introduced a total of 12 weapons that were previously sunset in Destiny 2, with nine of them being from Shadowkeep’s Moon and the remaining three being from Forsaken’s Dreaming City.

What is the rarest weapon in Destiny 2 2021?

But even something labeled « exotic » still probably has 10,000 or more Guardians who can say they own it across the span of the game. But not so with one gun, The Fate of All Fools. It’s now officially the single rarest gun in the game, considering only one person on earth has it.

Can you farm blind well for weapons?

Tier I Blind Well is the quickest and the easiest and you’ll still get a weapon drop at the end, so if you are farming this is probably the most efficient way to do it. You can do Tier III, as the first time you do it each week you’ll get a double drop.