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After years of community feedback, Bungie finally brought crafting toDestiny 2alongside the Witch Queen expansion. Through The Enclave on Mars, players could finally create the weapons they wanted, provided they had previouslyunlocked the specificDestiny 2weapon frame pattern. However, players weren’t thrilled about all aspects of shaping weapons, namely with the high cost to experiment with perks and the various resources needed.
Surprisingly, Bungie is already planning major changes to how crafting works as early as next season. Specifically,Bungie announced that it is completely removing specific weapon crafting materials, revamping the entire process to make it a little less convoluted. To help players before that happens, a hot fix next week aims to increase the small resource cap limits from 250 to 1000 and the Neutral Element cap from 8500 to 10000.
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For those who don’t want to make their own weapons, they can instead visit the exotic merchant Xur, who has again returned toDestiny 2for the weekend. As always, follow this guide for his most current weekend location, news on his exotic cipher quest, as well as a review of all the exotic and legendary gear he’s brought for the weekend of Jun 16, 2025.
Where is Xur?
Once again this weekend, Xur has landed on Nessus.
From the Director, head to Nessus and load into Watcher’s Grave. Run towards the back of the zone where a massive tree is found. Jump up until players find the huge branch where the merchant is hanging out.
Class Armor and Exotic Cipher
Xur’s role continues to offer the usual weekly quests, exotics, and legendary gear. Not only are these quests required to purchase a second fated engram, but they’re necessary toacquire legacy exotic gear from the Tower kiosk. Players can earn a new cipher by completing strikes and winning crucible or gambit matches. Gain bonus points for playing with clanmates or finishing more challenging activities.
Xur continues to sell even more gear outside his usual content. In addition to his normal exotic gear, Xur now has Legendary Weapons and Armor for sale in exchange for Legendary Shards and Glimmer.
Exotic Armor
Chromatic Fire - Warlock chest armor
The Chromatic Fire armor is back on sale this week. Its perk, Crystalline Transistor, causes an explosion, in the element of the player’s equipped subclass, after a kinetic precision kill. Having lots of enemies in a tight spot really maximizes the elemental damage. For PvP players, other guardians have mentioned that this armor is good when using particular weapons that cause explosions like Ace of Spades.
Regardless of how valuable this gear is, the main issue is that the overall stat roll continues to be pretty poor making these very hard to recommend.
Arc Enhanced. Stat Values:
Sealed Ahamkara Grasps - Hunter gauntlets
Back again in the same month, the Sealed Ahamkara Grasps remain an underrated exotic especially when paired with a certain subclass like theGunslinger Way of a Thousand Cuts. Nightmare Fuel reloads the player’s currently equipped weapon after melee damage.
Disappointingly, the stat roll for the exotic armor with Xur continues to be lower than expected. This means that players can safely skip the armor unless they’re looking to fill out their collection.
Void Enhanced. Stat Values:
Peregrine Greaves - Titan leg armor
The overly rare Peregrine Greaves are back in stock with Xur this weekend. Peregrine Strike enhances all shoulder charge melee abilities to deal bonus damage when it is activated in the air. While these boots were, at one time, a trouble spot for Bungie, getting removed for 24 hours to not impact theGarden of Salvation World First Raid, many continue to view them largely as situational.
Similar to the rest of the exotic armor on here, the stat roll makes it very difficult to recommend overall until Bungie corrects this problem.
Solar Enhanced. Stat Values:
Exotic Weapon
For those who enjoy shooting strange objects out of weapons, like the newParasite exotic grenade launcher, then they’ll want to check out The Colony. Insectoid Robot Grenades is its intrinsic perk which causes the weapon to fire grenades that are actually spider robots. Once fired, these devices chase enemy targets (even up/around walls) and explode at close range. As if that isn’t enough, when holstered, the gun refills its magazine as well.
For now, this weapon remains a top pick for PvP players thanks to its homing rounds. Even withswords being the popular pickfor the heavy slot these days, The Colony remains an easy recommendation for those who don’t yet have it. Being able to track targets in the Crucible is also incredibly valuable.
Additional perks:
Since Season 16 removed the Presage and Harbinger exotic missions,Xur is also selling both Hawkmoon and Dead Man’s Tale with randomized rolls. Players should visit him each weekend as he’ll be carrying different rolls.
Hawkmoon Rolls:
Dead Man’s Tale
Here’s the complete rundown of Xur’s exotic stock inDestiny 2for August 04, 2025:
Legendary Gear
As previously mentioned, Xur now sells Legendary Armor and Weapons. All gear costs 50 Legendary Shards and 1000 Glimmer.
Destiny 2is now available PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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