Destiny 2: Best Weapons for The Final Shape

The highly anticipated expansion, The Final Shape, brings new challenges and powerful foes. Prepare for Legendary difficulty in the Pale Heart of the Traveler with these top-tier weapons guaranteed to aid your quest for victory.

Best Primary Weapons

Sunshot

A premier Hand Cannon for additive clearing. Sunshot boasts explosive kills and the Scorch effect. Scorch synergizes flawlessly with Solar builds, providing melee, grenade, and Firesprite energy regeneration loops, making it an exceptional choice for Solar subclasses.

Final Warning

This Strand Sidearm excels with its charge-up mechanic. Holding and releasing the trigger unleashes a concentrated burst of shots. This burst grants substantial critical hit damage. The Final Warning excels at taking down orange-bar foes with headshot accuracy during burst phases. It’s highly effective for Strand subclasses during surge instances.

Calus Mini Tool / Zaouli’s Bane

These Legendary weapons offer a significant advantage. Both provide an excellent perk combination that unlocks space for more desirable Exotics in your Kinetic or Heavy loadout. Calus’ Mini Tool boasts Unrelenting, while Zaouli’s Bane features Explosive Payload. Both are exceptional options for their high damage output. Notably, the weapons are craftable and offer great flexibility.

Graviton Lance

The upcoming damage buff for Pulse Rifles suggests that Graviton Lance will become a crucial PvE weapon. Its explosive, homing projectiles, especially after a precision kill, will be incredibly potent. Void subclasses will find this weapon extremely effective given the need for Void damage in certain Echoes and Aspects.

Outbreak Perfected

With its return via craftability following the re-release of Zero Hour, Outbreak Perfected offers a renewed sense of effectiveness. The Rewind Rounds perk allows the weapon to deal significant damage, making it a strong option for fireteam boss fights, like Ir Yût, potentially one-shotting them with coordinated fire.

Wicked Implement

This Stasis Scout Rifle complements Stasis builds perfectly. Bungie’s changes to Stasis shards now allow for stacking Frost Armor, boosting damage resistance. Wicked Implement will be invaluable in the Prismatic subclass’ use, given the prevalence of long-range engagements in the increased Legendary difficulty.

Wish Ender

The Wish Ender Bow is a formidable anti-barrier weapon, capable of delivering high damage per shot. Even on Grandmaster difficulty, this bow can one or two-shot red-bar adds. Against barrier champions, this bow makes quick work of the toughest foes. Its effectiveness is further enhanced in scenarios with many champions.

Malfeasance (Hunters)

Malfeasance, enhanced by the Lucky Pants Hunter Exotic, offers unique advantages. Its ability to inflict heavy weapon damage makes it stand out. This weapon excels against Taken enemies, offering a substantial advantage in The Final Shape. Its effectiveness is amplified when Hunters are lacking Heavy ammo.

Best Special Weapons

Riptide

A potent miniboss killer, Riptide excels with the Auto Loading Holster and Chill Clip perk combination. The Chill Clip perk allows for slowing, freezing, and shattering targets. This versatile weapon is excellent for single-target damage and is relatively easy to obtain from Crucible Engrams. Aim for a roll that suits your strategy and needs.

Scatter Signal

A strong alternative to Riptide, Scatter Signal is a Strand Fusion Rifle. The Slice and Controlled Burst perks make it a potent single-target weapon. Slice reduces enemy damage by 30% after using class abilities. Controlled Burst increases damage on the following shot after landing all shots in a burst. This gives great damage control while augmenting your next shot, which excels in the face of dangerous enemies.

Conditional Finality

Witherhoard

This weapon effectively sets up trap-based additive clearing. It can also inflict hefty DoTs on bosses. Strategic use of Witherhoard can lock down areas and augment your boss damage rotations.

The Supremacy

A highly effective sniper rifle, The Supremacy excels with the Rewind Rounds and Kinetic Tremors perks. This results in substantial single-target and decent AoE damage. The Kinetic Tremors perk doubles damage after landing shots.

Forbearance

This Wave Frame Grenade Launcher is exceptional for additive clearing. The Ambitious Assassin perk doubles the magazine, while Chain Reaction provides explosions upon kill. Despite recent nerfs, Forbearance remains a staple for clearing rooms of weaker enemies.

Izanagi’s Burden

This sniper rifle is a top choice for boss damage. With four Honed Edge stacks and focus on weak spots, it delivers substantial damage to minibosses. This weapon is highly effective in raid encounters where boss damage is critical.

Best Heavy Weapons

Gjallarhorn

While not the strongest DPS weapon, the Gjallarhorn supports your team. The Pack Hunter trait synergizes with other rocket launchers in your team, providing Wolfpack Rounds. This makes the Gjallarhorn a must-have in rocket-oriented DPS scenarios.

Apex Predator

Apex Predator is potent with the Reconstruction/Bait and Switch perk combination. Reconstruction adds rockets to the magazine. Bait and Switch increases damage by 30% on subsequent shots with an increased magazine size. This is a top-tier Legendary Rocket Launcher option.

Edge Transit

Edge Transit, particularly the Brave variant, excels as a versatile Grenade Launcher. With the Envious Assassin/Bait and Switch combination, it packs a punch, providing high damage with its large magazine size. Its use is justified in encounters requiring high DPS.

Whisper of the Worm

Whisper of the Worm returns, delivering outstanding precision damage. It is effective in encounters like Warpriest and Oryx. Its magazine refills after three precision hits. The Whispered Breathing catalyst provides a damage boost by maintaining the zoom for three seconds after firing. This makes it a compelling contender for a top-tier DPS Heavy weapon, especially alongside a Divinity user.

The Lament

The Lament excels in close-quarters combat. Its Light, Light, Heavy charge-up combo deals significant damage. This chainsword is a solid baseline for swords in close-quarters combat scenarios. It shines in encounters like Crota and Atraks-1.

Commemoration

For heavy additive clearing, Commemoration shines. The weapon’s Reconstruction and Killing Tally perks make it ideal for rapid spraying and targeting tough adds. Killing Tally resets its damage buff upon reload, making it ideal for maintaining a high damage output.