16 Exotics I Recommend for The Final Shape | Destiny 2

Today we are going over 16 Exotic weapons that I recommend brining into the Final Shape. Now you don't HAVE to use any of these, this is just my own personal list and hopefully this helps out some of our newer players just starting with Into the Light.
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[@MrSuspicious0]

A tip for getting the leviathans catalyst, the wizards that spawn above the entrance to the loot cave in the intro section of grasp of avarice is probably THE single bsst place to get the catalyst. Just slap on levi's and kill those guys repeatedly, and u should have it in no time.

[@brettadiah10]

100% this is the best way by far.

[@henrydecoster5823]

A handy tip

[@tristment2020]

Lost sectors with early spwns of champions also work too but loot cave is really really good

[@Patback22]

Dares is good you get unlimited ammo in phase 2 and 3

[@samvimes9510]

@@Patback22 you only get unlimited ammo if you can get the Starhorse's Favor buff (i.e. successfully complete the upper level obstacle courses). Even if you do get the buff, I'm not sure I'd recommend Dares, at least not for Levi. But for a machine gun catalyst? Definitely.

[@riskrunner4532]

Fifteen baby. I'd like to thank the academy for spot fifteen.

[@Creym464]

Yeah totally love it I mean it has "hit me daddy" perk

[@patrickoakley7890]

@@Creym464 wish we could petition Bungie to change the name of the perk to "Hit Me, Daddy!" LMAO its perfect

[@tpd1399]

Ishtar Academy

[@booperino8207]

10 for me 😊

[@rlantry3]

Do I have every single weapon? Yes. Will I also be watching the entire video? Also yes.

[@julioromero9055]

same, just to check if my fav weapons are in the top lol

[@10TARDIS]

Same

[@TommyN.]

Life is short

[@tdogrocker]

For those that just want the list: 1) Leviathan's Breath 2) Dragon's Breath 3) Gjallarhorn 4) Izanagi's Burden 5) Outbreak Perfected 6) Witherhoard 7) Tractor Cannon 8) Arbalest 9) Buried Bloodline 10) Thunderlord 11) Ager's Scepter 12) Final Warning 13) Sunshot 14) Graviton Lance 15) Risk Runner 16) Osteo Striga

[@smallestroar4966]

This helps i forgot thanks 🙏

[@Aj-rm6zq]

It’s a weird full circle thing that the three elemental weapons we all pretty much started with in d2 (riskrunner, sunshot, graviton) are still here at the end of the

[@jacks1678]

Love how he always mentions the pain trying to get Agers catalyst

[@route77productions]

Verglas will always be in my inventory. Especially after 55k kills Does so well in Onslaught with horde of enemies. Won’t be as good with Prismatic cause I doubt the “shatter crystals for grenade regen” fragment will be in there. But I’ll still find places to use it.

[@coinisinorbit]

It's a psuedo special weapon like quicksilver and revision zero. The shatter damage is heavy

[@T3mplar_Knight57]

For me it’s Stasis Trinity Ghoul🤪

[@tomis080]

And if you’re a raider, Conditional Finality is honorary spot 17. Hard hitting shotgun that is very good in both pve and pvp, absolutely bullies Unstoppable Champions, and synergizes with Solar, Stasis, and soon, Prismatic. It’s also very fun to use. One of my favorite weapons this year. Get it from Nezarec or from the 2nd Pantheon quest available either week 3 or 4, I’m not sure which.

[@KamitsukiLuciela]

From what I saw, it should become available Week 3 of Pantheon, which should start tomorrow at reset, iirc.

[@hip784]

Killed nez 7 times still nothing 😭

[@iovvf]

Final Warning sidearm with precious scars titan helmet, paired with banner of war is disgustingly good.

[@samrich4life]

That’s my weapon on my swarmers warlock build

[@dayhaven8442]

It's not tho, we all no what video you watched

[@tgixnz2769]

Thats just overkill with diminishing returns, why sacrifice better dps exotics for an exotic that does what your banner already does, makes zero sense lol

[@IAmTetsuo1]

Facts the two haters in the comments don't know what theyre talking about...

[@stasis760]

​@tgixnz2769 let bro play funny game with funny colors in a way that's fun for him

[@perooo8526]

The best exotic this season is indebted kindness.

[@youngswift5098]

Facts

[@JetTheReaper]

Very much worth the grind!

[@ghostrobot3714]

Sidearm main here. Amazing gun but switching out anti-barrier for anti-unstop next season is gonna reduce its effectiveness more than people realize.

[@RD22x]

@@ghostrobot3714 ? Artifact mods change every season

[@RD22x]

@@ghostrobot3714 people aren't running indebted for its one shot shield capabilities lmfao

[@GeremyG]

“Buried Bloodline the penultimate Void 3.0 weapon” poor Collective Obligation…

[@MementoMoriv2]

who?

[@seanspursss]

Literally the only exotic i dont have but will get it from pantheon lol

[@Davetheguitarhero108]

Collective obligation is goated

[@D4_Isnt_Real]

Collective obligation bad? Or is Buried Bloodline goated?

[@DustiestBoar734]

i used breakneck, and it was pretty quick

[@adamrice6631]

I’m a returning player back for Into the Light (quit during Curse of Osiris after putting thousands of hours into D1) and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks ‘Cross

[@DM.AZTECROSS15.ON.DISCORD___68]

Reachout ⏏️ I love your comment

[@legiontruehero]

For thunderlord you could also pair it with actium war rig for extra reload and longer firing potential

[@yaboysavoie4777]

Who else here has every exotic in the game but for some reason is still watching the video?

[@nevertruelydead]

Say 'aye' ... aye lol

[@bruceblack9975]

🤚

[@Gr1zzz92]

Leviathans breath catalyst Go to edz, widows walk lost sector, run it acouple times and the boss will drop this catalyst

[@Malibus-Most-Wanted]

Can also find those chest that need u to shoot symbols to open the chest shoot the wrong one spawn the knight an kill him over an over that's what I did an got it in 5 mins.

[@Gr1zzz92]

@@Malibus-Most-Wanted ^this guy get it

[@Uzi.1996]

@@Malibus-Most-Wanted what do you mean by that? where can i find these im trying to get the catalyst :/

[@Malibus-Most-Wanted]

@Uzi.1996 go to the spot where u can do the activity an then put a ghost mod on for finding chest an just run around an when u find a chest that has 3 symbols on it shoot the wrong one that is first in the room an it spawns a knight kill it with Leviathan breath. An it should drop very fast

[@supercharged3975]

Glad you gave us the heads up on outbreak perfeced . 💪

[@WakeNbake240]

MORE MORE MORE!!!! Uploads!!! 🎉 Right on time my G. 💪🏾

[@friskdreemurr1155]

Cross, I already did this to you once before, but penultimate means just before last, or just before greatest! Other than that, great video, keep up to good work!

[@pleasedontwastefood]

Ooof, I can't imagine what rocking Osteo Striga was like pre-nerf. This thing is already tearing ass as it is at the moment.

[@LakerTriangle]

It was literally brain dead hold down trigger and walk!

[@haydencox8006]

I just wanna say loved the off season build video very educational

[@Giga-Toad]

I got buried bloodline on my first run, which was really helpful since I don’t have time to grind dungeons

[@lunarramstore7588]

I love arbalest cross. I have an amazing lucky raspberry build that i utilize arbalest with, and with those exotics i can take care of every champion in the game with out any problems

[@Devmode_Nunchaku]

Legend of Acrius is laughing at me as the final exotic for me to unlock. I'm too lazy to farm the spoils for it at this point haha

[@dragonslast49]

No literally same! 😂

[@patrickoakley7890]

same bro. I just don't have the will to farm for spoils anymore. Maybe one day. Who knows. But for now Acrius stays in the kiosk.

[@nifty_biscuit3709]

Only one I’m missing is heart shadow, and I really hate that dungeon

[@michaelferrarini1463]

@@nifty_biscuit3709at least it’s super easy to farm and the other guns in the loot pool are pretty much all viable

[@MementoMoriv2]

pantheon

[@TheDRBC]

I always love when I watch an Aztecross video and the first clip is Hunter!

[@xco24]

You're pumping cross. Keep it up big man

[@MrLuc237]

As a witherhoard enjoyer, I already knew it was coming when you started the introduction to it.

[@mercable7574]

Aeger's Sceptre is my favorite gun to run with Stasis Hunter, the only Stasis build I really use revolves around reloading shuriken and using Cyrostene for survivability. I'll probably be taking Graviton Lance for non-damage encounters in the new raid, I fell in love with it during Day One VoD when Void 3.0 had just dropped and that was even before the buffs it's gotten since then and before I had the catalyst. Hopefully the new season is going to have pulse rifle friendly artifacts.

[@Demon666Dragon]

im so glad my favorite gun since day one is getting some love the Graviton Lance has always been my go to and people always complained about me using it then saw what it did. that was back when it was a 3 burst too. litterally the gun i have used the most in the game

[@charlestonjew7587]

Same It's one of the best add-clears in the game imo. Especially if you're using a void build with volatile rounds. The intrinsic elemental explosions spread volatile in a cascading effect that just explodes and vaporize every red bar in the room.

[@Abysslthrawn]

i would like to add Bad JuJu to this list, with prismatic/transcendence it will help fill your super faster, as well as both sides your transcendence bar with it being a kinetic weapon

[@str1pped.gh0st]

I've really fallen in love with Final Warning on Stasis. Just put on the Whisper of Rending and the damage is kinda nutty. Pair that with a Auto-Loading/Cascade Point heavy and it's pretty nice.

[@Chaduceus]

anyone else hate the exotic kiosk? I cannot think of a more boring dripfeed way to get exotics. especially when a lot of those had content that you acquired them from.

[@WakeNbake240]

😂Had to go back and watch the Agers Scepter catty video. Comedy gold Jerry! 😅

[@TheCafeLatte9]

I absolutely need that home run swing finisher

[@Davetheguitarhero108]

Collective obligation has infinite suppression, weaken, and volatile if done correctly. Also never have to reload while having devour. Gyrfalcon build with it is amazing.

[@hayes4762]

I'd like to shout out Ticuu's Divination, it's been my favorite weapon for onslaught

[@GingerBeardMan977]

if bunige is watching what we need for anarchy is for it to jolt. make it tie into 3.0. it would give us a good heavy arc option

[@WoozyD20]

It’s checklist time!!!!!

[@GK0.GK0]

Everytime I have to figure things out in high-difficulty, soloplay etc. I'll equip the Witherhoard. Its just amazing for every subclass, against every enemy, shield variantions and bosses. Sure its not the most damage, but its the most versatile with a good ammo economy and will absolutley fit into every single activity where you are met with uncertainty. One weapon slot done for the whole next campaign.

[@AKBoarder22]

I got leviathans breath catalyst when I was playing comp in crucible this week.

[@warlockfangirl]

Been chasing the Graviton Lance catalyst for a while. Fingers crossed it drops before June 4th!

[@McMuffins42]

I've had sunshot for a year and a half and still don't have the catalyst

[@charlestonjew7587]

Graviton Lance was one of my first Exotics in D2 and only just got the Catalyst last week and I've been grinding Vanguard Strikes and Crucible regularly. I was beginning to believe it was bugged but it exists. It's just a really really really really really rare drop apparently.

[@DamageStyle82]

Leviathans breath catalyst: Just went to EDZ and wen't to that first lost sector in Trostland and just killed the 2 yellow bar shanks and Boss with the bow. Took 4 of 5 runs but it dropped on the 5th run. Did this during season of the deep. Can't imagine they changed it.

[@abeanbean]

You have to kill orange bar enemies with Leviathans Breath for the catalyst to drop. I got mine when free roaming and by killing those 3 orange bar Harpies on Neomuna in Liming Harbor, it actually dropped fairly quick too, so you don't have to do an actual activity if you don't want to. If you're free roaming, keep an eye on the ground around where you kill orange bar enemies though as the catalyst does drop on the floor and you have to walk over it to collect it. It's the same colour as an exotic engram but it's prism shape

[@stuffandthings617]

Got my Sunshot from Amazon, when I started D2 there was a free bundle for Prime users with Sunshot and an ornament for it xD

[@mikeminnio8305]

Cross *Gives out incredibly important information for the exotics* also Cross: "with thunderlord, drink some liquor and tape down the trigger"

[@Xander--gd5lb]

I’d say that honorable mentions: Crimson, Merciless, and Parasite. Crimson provides health regen on kill. A great tool for survivability when you’re just starting out in higher end content. (World Drop/Xur) Merciless is one of the best special ammo dps weapons in the game. So use when out of legendary heavy weapon ammo. It’s also great at just nuking major enemies. (World Drop/Xur) Parasite is a nuke. Get 20 kills with other weapons and then your next shot with Parasite deals incredible damage. Meta weapon on very short boss phases like Atrax. Can be obtained from a quest in the Witch Queen after completing campaign

[@luciipher5582]

A friend of mine had Levi’s breath cat drop from a competitive win tonight. Same with legend of acrius

[@Anthony-ir6fl]

buried bloodline feels like it was made for prismatic, plus with some of the perk combos that are coming with the exotic class armor its gonna be in my rotation for the foreseeable future

[@DM.AZTECROSS15.ON.DISCORD___68]

Reachout ⏏️ I love your comment

[@Oh_Zer0]

Tip for seasonal exotic catalyst quest is that the coil does count towards calibration data. I forget the exact number but with rank 22 season pass a full run gave me like 16 points of progression

[@DM.AZTECROSS15.ON.DISCORD___68]

Reachout ⏏️ I love your comment

[@Guardian224]

1 Minute and 245 views cross is doing well.

[@hikami420]

8 minutes and 10 likes... Comment is doing well

[@Juliosguitarstuffs]

Ok this one was pretty good. Thank you for your service.

[@JTvTK]

​@@hikami420 13 minutes and 2 likes this reply is doing well

[@charlesholley6926]

Not to take away from cross, but all these views are because destiny itself is doing good rn. It makes me very happy all of the destiny content creators are doing well because they basically kept the game alive.

[@pedroveloso7130]

You are the first person i see that didnt say “fell off” in these types of comments

[@Zakharon]

Conditional Finality, great for prismatic since it deals solar and stasis damage filling up both meters for transcendence, better yet, Facet of Ruin increases the size and damage of shatters and increases the size of ignitions, they basically put a buff for the gun into the prismatic subclass, sadly it is a raid weapon, but a good weapon to keep an eye on.

[@Grassouillelafripouille]

like every campaign I will be rocking ace of spades in the final shape one, I really like the idea of my hunter using cayde 6 gun after his death. it will be even cooler to see him again while holding it

[@Lv6_Esper]

cross should've mentioned that witherhoard has a special ability that allows the target directly impacted with it to take more damage from malfeasance

[@CrazyProductions0002]

I would like to clarify, the Leviathan’s catalyst can be earned off orange bar enemies. Just go to sky watch, kill a bunch of orange bar knights until you get it. You DO NOT have to only kill bosses for it to drop.

[@corduroytm]

him struggling to get ager's catalyst is still one of my favorite videos to date

[@briangiordano8682]

Always use a rally, luna rift/well, etc with levi. It fixes the long reload animation and you can blow all your ammo quicker

[@iamGriffy]

I got leviathans breath catalyst this week randomly from playing comp, without it in my inventory

[@xsorrowxkingx5051]

The Levy's catalyst is super easy to get dropped by launching Prophecy and just killing the knights in the first room until you run out of ammo. Relaunch or grab heavy and repeat until you have it. Then just use the Breakneck checkpoint for the kills.

[@patschmautz]

buried bloodline is my favorite weapon to pair with the lucky pants hunter. the amount of ammo and damage the weapon does plus weaken into a lucky pants. it’s toasty for sure.

[@jesushorses]

You have hit us pretty hard. And I like it, baby! Keep me, I mean it comin’!

[@vCrux]

For leviathans breath catalyst you do have to get those kills BUT they don’t have to be bosses! They just have to be “powerful combatants” which is orange bar and up!

[@greedoiv]

So many of these in my vault and there never used - I better dig them out.

[@MisterBinx]

Man thank you for doing this video. Final shape is about to drop and I fell way behind on Destiny. I only have enough for one exotic in monuments and don't want to buy some nerfed trash.

[@Narutogeek02]

Tip for leviathans breath catalyst drop. It drops from any enemy killed by leviathan breath

[@spartans2805]

I remember getting my Levi's catalyst at a Shuro Chi checkpoint, don't remember if I had it equipped but it's worth the shot.

[@NakedAvanger]

I dont have all exotics so i was nervous throughout the entire video thinking i might not have some!

[@justinsinz]

Ngl i think touch of malice with its catalyst is a top primary contender atm. It dishes out some serious damage for a primary.

[@KingLeaps]

With 12, I really hope it gets a catalyst that give it intrinsic unraveling rounds for anti-barrier

[@Matthew-qw6bi]

Sunshot catalyst dropped for me this season while grinding basic strikes. Not nightfalls.

[@darthrevan7402]

Also for the keyosk weapons you need to have the corresponding expansion the exotics come from

[@charlestonjew7587]

It's worth pointing out that Shadowkeep, Beyond Light and Witch Queen are free right now until The Final Shape so if there's any exotics in that kiosk you've been eyeing, now's the time to grab them before The Final Shape.

[@Paladin1034]

Surprised Quicksilver wasn't mentioned. It's still super strong, even after the nerfs.

[@daviewarnock718]

So many exotic catalysts I don’t have, on top of exotics I don’t have. Leviathan just gave up, so many guns you think you’re levelling up, then realise you need to be in a certain activity!! Mida for an example. Think sometimes putting certain exotics behind gambit with daft kills. After all the other hoops you have jumped through. Graviton Lance, used it constantly, but it says I don’t have enough kills from the explosion… I played wave after wave on the moon with sweet business… hardly moved up a % Sometimes I think whatever they use to complete some quests is a bit dodgy. Think I’m still missing a stasis shard for my Warlock because no matter how I shatter, doesn’t prog. Anyway, thanks for the video, try get back into it and get them. Cheers.

[@ashron1791]

I’m pretty sure you can go pick up all of stasis rn without doing any quests

[@daviewarnock718]

@@ashron1791 you can if your character has never played the campaign, but because I was so far through it with my Warlock, I think I have to finish it. Plus malfeasance, I need to finish the og quest!! 😩😩

[@afloppingtuna]

Graviton goes crazy with gyrfalcons

[@holdenwoofter5896]

I feel like whisper of the worm is notably lacking. There's lots of places currently where it rocks and I think it'd be a very good pickup for anyone going into the new season. Especially so since it only takes like 3 hours and no rng to get the weapon crafted with all perks and everything available

[@CGormanR35]

Quicksilver is going into this list for me, Guns got me out of so much shit this year it has to take a spot though gladly i have most on this list barring the last one but i’ll grab that tonight and we roll 😎

[@myriad8275]

Unfortunately since your quicksilver was so good for so long, it got nerfed. So now my favourite weapon final warning took its place and is probably gonna get the same treatment

[@Machado1328]

My catalyst dropped in comp yesterday...I was surprised...I thought I already had the catalyst

[@HTSBarren]

I have all of these except the two sidearms, not bad

[@thelpha9600]

From what I remember, Levi's catalyst can drop from any yellow bar enemies/bosses.

[@TChuuch]

0:19 .. that leaked footage was crayZ 🤣

[@rjwashington9320]

Two-Tailed Fox will always be a sleeper pick especially with the catalyst!

[@CGormanR35]

Is it worth using? I’ve one just sat in my Vault

[@jhemp]

Not nearly as much since jolt nerfs

[@agoodtheory]

For dragons breath, don't seasonal activities also count now toward catalyst quest progression? I thought Bungie added that a while back.

[@bryce5621]

I got leviathans caty from grinding lost sectors I had it in my inventory however it wasn't even equipped

[@dannybz7421]

Witherhoard has been in my arsenal since the day it dropped. I have so many kills on it

[@imarubronzen]

I feel like wolf pack rounds should be applied to all legendary explosive weapons when around a G horn user.

[@Sylkoraa]

Does Izanagi's Burden catalyst drop from a weapon kill? I thought it was from playlist activities.

[@SumitShrivastava17]

Is Gjallahorn fine right now? Post nerf that is. Like would it be better to run 4 legendaries+ 1 Gjally or 5 legendaries. With a tractor for debuff. Only some of us in our group have recon + bait and switch, 2 peeps use basic rockets.

[@Potter_the_Giant]

Think I need to give Final Warning a 2nd chance wasn't a fan when I got it but thinking of pairing it with Foe Tracer

[@Sobergamer61]

Also on the subject of Levi’s breath, when you start progressing The cat, you have to get 1,500 kills with it to finish the cat. Just fyi

[@jaydonwilliams6941]

Being a new player (as in just downloaded the game ) I made a checklist of these now what legendary's do I need😭

[@Alchemy_Anarchy]

I recently got the LB catalyst. No kills, it’s just dropped at the end of wave 50.

[@blumiiout]

Leviathans catalyst 6 rounds in de upper sector in the edz with the bonus when in Rotation the exos for en extremly fast sector

[@abbtv8806]

I actually got the Levi breath catalyst during a random run of onslaught I wasn’t using Levi breath either

[@breezy4sho]

Thinking about buying a pc. What was the company name for the one he uses again?

[@alex62965]

ive done warlord ruin for 2 months solid every week on all 3 characters and not got the gun yet!

[@lizard2361]

Yo can you make a guide about exotic armor that is worth grabbing rn? althou it is build dependent I thing it will be great

[@cesarcastro2809]

Returning 2015 warlock player here Last story was shadows keep and I don’t remember finishing it. What do I do if I have duplicate exotics and I keep getting new drops of the same? I feel dumb like Titan.

[@joeyvanstiphout6969]

The leviathans breath cathalyst dropped for me in pvp comp

[@noahedenborg4221]

sadly now to get leviathins breath and some others u need to buy expansions to buy them from exotic archive so i recommend waiting for a sale for one of the expansions

[@rickyseo1]

Bro... I can stop playing Destiny & I will still watch your uploads

[@itsjeremymf3606]

Whats the best way to get alot of eggplants? I have a build i think youll love over everything

[@armo6851]

I played comp and it dropped for me there randomly, the catalyst for leviathans