Destiny 2 Exotic Engram Focused Decoding: Exotic Armor (2024)

After years of having to farm Lost Sectors for Exotics, Bungie is finally giving us a new method to get the Exotic armor we actually want: Exotic Armor focusing.

Exotic armor focusing allows us to spend currencies in order to take Exotic engrams and focus them into specific Exotics (or Exotic families). This guide tells you everything you need to know to get the most out of this feature.

What is Focused Decoding?

Since Season of the Deep (S21), Exotic engrams no longer auto-decrypt but instead sit in your engram inventory. With Exotic armor focusing, players can focus an engram to receive a random roll of a specific Exotic. You have two Exotic Focusing options:

• Focusing Tier 1: Focus an engram into an Exotic from a specific expansion (for example, a random Helm from the Shadowkeep expansion).
• Focusing Tier 2: Focus an engram into the exact Exotic you want (for example, a random roll of the Synthoceps Titan Exotic arms).

The requirements are the following:

• Focusing Tier 1: Ownership of the associated expansion and having previously acquired all armor pieces within the engram for your class.
• Focusing Tier 2: Ownership of the associated expansion and having previously acquired that piece of armor.

Alternatively, if you do not meet these requirements or simply do not want to spend your precious resources into focusing Exotics, you can decrypt the engrams for free. This will give you a random drop from the standard Exotic engram pool.

Destiny 2 Focused Decoding: What to do with Exotic Engrams

Focusing Exotic engrams is as straightforward as it gets. You simply need to take your Exotic Engrams to Master Rahool at the Tower. There, you’ll be able to choose either Tier 1 or Tier 2 focusing:

As you can focus Exotic engrams into an exotic from a specific expansion at a much lower cost, it is worth keeping in mind the following loot pools.

Destiny 2 Exotic Focusing: Loot Pools (per DLC)

Red War Exotics

The Red War loot pool was so big it had to be further split into one different loot pool per armor slot. Exotics from the Curse of Osiris and Warmind expansions are considered Red War Exotics.

Red War: Exotic Helms

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Apotheosis Veil	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Immediately regenerate health, melee, grenade, and Rift energy upon activating your Super. Nearby allies recharge class abilities faster."
Crown of Tempests	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Arc ability kills increase the recharge rate of your Arc abilities and extend the duration of Stormtrance."
Eye of Another World	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Highlights priority targets and improves the regeneration speed of your grenade, melee, and Rift abilities."
Nezarec's Sin	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Void-damage kills increase ability energy recharge rate."
Skull of Dire Ahamkara	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides additional damage resistance during Nova Bomb. Nova Bomb kills grant Super energy."
The Stag	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Your Rift provides damage reduction to allied Guardians standing in it. Grants Rift energy when you are critically wounded. On your death, creates a healing rift on your corpse."
Celestial Nighthawk	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Modifies Golden Gun to fire a single high-damage shot. Enemies eliminated by the shot explode and grant you Super energy."
Foetracer	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Damaging a powerful combatant or Guardian with an ability grants you a temporary bonus to weapon damage matching your subclass type. Defeating that target with a weapon matching the damage type of your subclass creates an elemental pickup."
Graviton Forfeit	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases the duration of any invisibility effects. While you are invisible, your melee recharges faster, your weapons reload faster, and your Recovery is greatly increased."
Knucklehead Radar	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides radar while you're aiming. Enhances your radar resolution while crouched. Visually marks targets. Deals more damage to low-health marked targets. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Wormhusk Crown	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "We strive to know infinity, and sharpen our minds on the whetstone of the impossible."
An Insurmountable Skullfort	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Kills with Arc melee abilities trigger health regeneration and restore melee energy."
Eternal Warrior	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Arc final blows grant an escalating damage bonus with Arc weapons. Gain an overshield when activating Fists of Havoc, and gain the highest tier damage bonus to Arc weapons when your Fists of Havoc Super ends."
Helm of Saint-14	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Enemies that enter Ward of Dawn are blinded, while allies that pass through gain an overshield. Guarding with Sentinel Shield blinds nearby enemies."
Khepri's Horn	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Solar final blows recharge your Barricade, which unleashes a blast of Solar energy that scorches targets when summoned."
Mask of the Quiet One	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Grants ability energy when you're damaged. When critically wounded, regain maximum health on kills."

Red War: Exotic Arms

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Aeon Soul	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods."
Claws of Ahamkara	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Gain an additional melee charge. Charged melee final blows spawn an Orb of Power."
Karnstein Armlets	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Melee kills instantly restore a large amount of health and continue to restore health afterwards for a short duration."
Ophidian Aspect	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Weapons ready and reload very quickly. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Sunbracers	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases the duration of Solar Grenades. Solar melee kills grant unlimited Solar Grenade energy for a brief time."
Verity's Brow	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your subclass energy grant Death Throes, which provides a grenade damage bonus and grants you grenade energy. When you have Death Throes and throw a grenade, nearby allies gain greatly increased grenade regeneration for a short time."
Winter's Guile	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Defeating targets with melee attacks increases your melee damage. Targets encased by Penumbral Blast automatically shatter."
Aeon Swift	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods."
Mechaneer's Tricksleeves	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases Sidearm ready and reload speed. While you're critically wounded, swapping to a Sidearm increases its damage."
Sealed Ahamkara Grasps	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Dealing melee damage reloads your currently equipped weapon. Charged melee final blows reload all weapons. Provides a large benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons, and movement speed and jump height after dealing melee damage."
Shinobu's Vow	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Improves Skip Grenade, and you gain an additional Skip Grenade charge. Skip Grenade returns energy when it damages enemies."
Young Ahamkara's Spine	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases Tripmine Grenade duration and blast radius. Ability damage grants Tripmine Grenade energy."
ACD/0 Feedback Fence	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Melee hits grant Armor Charge, and you take less melee damage while you have Armor Charge. Taking melee damage causes you to emit a burst of damaging Arc energy that Jolts targets, consuming your Armor Charge and dealing more damage based on the number of stacks consumed."
Aeon Safe	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk? Instead of an Intrinsic perk, Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods.
Ashen Wake	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Fusion Grenades now explode on impact and gain increased throw speed. Final blows with Fusion Grenades grant grenade energy."
Doom Fang Pauldron	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Defeating targets with Void damage has a chance to grant an escalating bonus to damage with Void weapons. Defeating targets with Void melee grants Super energy. While Sentinel Shield is active, defeating targets with melee attacks recharges Shield Throw, which extends your Super on hitting a target."
Synthoceps	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increased melee lunge range. Improved melee and Super damage when you're surrounded."
Wormgod Caress	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Melee kills increase melee damage for a period of time. Additional kills extend duration and increase effects."

See Also

Destiny 2 - Episode: Echoes All Season Pass Rewards

Red War: Exotic Chests

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Sanguine Alchemy	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "While standing in any rift, gain a bonus to weapons with a damage type matching your subclass damage type. Weapon final blows while standing in any rift pause the rift's countdown, extending its duration."
Starfire Protocol	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Fusion Grenades have an additional charge and recharge from empowered weapon damage, with empowered weapon final blows granting more energy. Defeating targets with Fusion Grenades grant Rift energy."
Vesper of Radius	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Rifts periodically release Arc shockwaves. Final blows with these shockwaves create an Arc explosion. While an Arc subclass is equipped, the shockwaves and subsequent explosions blind nearby targets. Rift energy recharges faster when you are surrounded by targets."
Wings of Sacred Dawn	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "When Dawnblade is equipped, aiming weapons while you're midair suspends you there for a short time, reducing incoming flinch and granting damage resistance. Weapon hits extend this effect's duration, and weapon final blows reload your Solar weapons from reserves. Provides a large benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Lucky Raspberry	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases the chaining capabilities of Arcbolt Grenades. Damaging enemies with Jolt lightning strikes and collecting Ionic Traces both grant additional Arcbolt Grenade energy. Arcbolt Grenades stun [Disruption] Overload Champions and delay their health regeneration."
Ophidia Spathe	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Grants two knives per charge."
Raiden Flux	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Quick successive attacks with Arc Staff increase its damage output and duration."
The Dragon's Shadow	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Dodging reloads all weapons and increases both movement and weapon handling speeds for a brief time."
Actium War Rig	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Steadily reloads a portion of your equipped Auto Rifle's or Machine Gun's magazine from reserves."
Armamentarium	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Gain an additional grenade charge."
Crest of Alpha Lupi	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Generates an additional Orb of Power from Supers and a healing pulse when Barricade is activated."
Hallowfire Heart	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Solar takedowns while standing in a Sunspot create a Sunspot. Greatly improves recharge rate of your Solar abilities while your Super is charged. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."

Red War: Exotic Legs

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Lunafaction Boots	Warlock	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Your Rifts gain the additional ability to increase weapon reload speeds. Empowering Rift makes weapons effective over longer ranges."
Transversive Steps	Warlock	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Sprint speed increased. After a short time sprinting, your currently equipped weapon is automatically reloaded."
Fr0st-EE5	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increased grenade, melee, and dodge regeneration while sprinting. Dodging increases your sprint speed."
Gemini Jester	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Dodging disorients nearby enemies and temporarily removes their radar."
Lucky Pants	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "When you ready a fully loaded Hand Cannon that deals kinetic damage or a damage type that matches your subclass energy type, each hit from that Hand Cannon increases the damage of the next shot for a short time against a combatant. Hand Cannons ready faster and are more accurate immediately after swapping to them."
Orpheus Rig	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides ability energy for each enemy tethered by Deadfall anchors. Moebius Quiver has more shots."
St0mp-EE5	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases sprint speed and slide distance while your dodge energy is full and improves High Jump, Strafe Jump, and Triple Jump."
Dunemarchers	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases sprint speed. Sprinting builds up a static charge. After melee-attacking an enemy, that charge will chain damage to nearby enemies."
Lion Rampant	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides additional aerial maneuverability and enables accurate hipfire while you're in the air during Lift."
Mk. 44 Stand Asides	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Grants an overshield when you're sprinting at full health with Seismic Strike, Hammer Strike, or Shield Bash equipped and charged. Hits with these abilities recharge a portion of your melee energy."
Peacekeepers	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Reloads stowed Submachine Guns and allows you to ready them instantly. Improves your handling with SMGs and your movement while wielding one."

Forsaken Exotic Armor

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Astrocyte Verse	Warlock	Helm	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 7	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Blink further and more frequently. Weapon readies quickly out of Blink and radar remains up. Provides a moderate benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Chromatic Fire	Warlock	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Precision final blows from Kinetic weapons create an explosion that deals damage in the element of your subclass and applies elemental effects."
Contraverse Hold	Warlock	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Resist incoming damage while charging your Void grenade with Chaos Accelerant, Feed the Void, or Handheld Supernova. Charged Void grenades return an amount of grenade energy on a hit."
Geomag Stabilizers	Warlock	Legs	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Damaging targets with Chaos Reach extends its duration. Collecting Ionic Traces grants you energy for Chaos Reach."
Getaway Artist	Warlock	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 6	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Convert your Arc Grenade into a supercharged Arc Soul. The Arc Soul functions as an autonomous turret."
Phoenix Protocol	Warlock	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Kills and assists you make while standing in your Well of Radiance return Super energy."
Gwisin Vest	Hunter	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Each Spectral Blades kill you make before going into stealth will restore more of your Super energy."
Khepri's Sting	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 7	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Punching someone with full melee energy will instantly cast Smoke Bomb. Gain Truesight while in your own Smoke Bomb effect. Your smoke bombs deal increased damage."
Liar's Handshake	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 6	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Using your Arc melee ability or being hit by a melee attack will allow you to follow up with an extremely powerful melee counterpunch that will heal you."
Oathkeeper	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Bow charges can be held indefinitely. Gain a bonus to the Bow's damage when released, based on how long the charge was held. Provides a moderate benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of Bows."
Shards of Galanor	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Hits and kills with Blade Barrage will return Super energy after the Super ends."
The Sixth Coyote	Hunter	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Gain a second dodge charge."
Antaeus Wards	Titan	Legs	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Improved slide. Sliding after sprinting for a short time reflects incoming projectiles."
Heart of Inmost Light	Titan	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Using an ability (grenade, melee, or Barricade) empowers the other two abilities. Empowered means abilities have faster regen, melees and grenades do more damage, and Barricades have more hit points."
One-Eyed Mask	Titan	Helm	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Highlights the enemy who dares to damage you. Track down and destroy your enemy for an overshield."
Peregrine Greaves	Titan	Legs	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 7	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "All shoulder charge abilities (Seismic Strike, Hammer Strike, or Shield Bash) deal bonus damage when activated in the air."
Stronghold	Titan	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 6	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Maximizes guard stats on equipped Swords. You take reduced damage while blocking with a Sword. Rapidly damaging targets after blocking shots with a Sword grants restoration for a duration determined by the number of shots blocked."
Ursa Furiosa	Titan	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Move faster while guarding when Sentinel Shield is active. Guarded damage converts to Super energy when the Super ends."

Shadowkeep Exotic Armor

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Felwinter's Helm	Warlock	Helm	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 10	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Powered melee final blows create a burst of energy that weakens nearby targets. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the radius of the burst and the length of the weakening effect."
Promethium Spur	Warlock	Legs	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 9	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Defeating combatants or Guardians while Daybreak is active creates a healing and empowering rift at their location. While standing in any rift, Solar weapon final blows grant Rift energy. When your Rift energy is full, final blows consume your Rift energy and create a healing and empowering rift at the target's location."
Stormdancer's Brace	Warlock	Chest	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 8	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Each target you defeat with Stormtrance increases the damage you deal with it and refunds Super energy when Stormtrance ends."
Assassin's Cowl	Hunter	Helm	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 8	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Powered melee final blows grant invisibility and restore a portion of health and shields. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the duration of the invisibility and the amount of health and shields."
Raiju's Harness	Hunter	Chest	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 10	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: " In Super, deactivate Arc Staff early to create a blinding explosion and gain a temporary boost to Arc weapon damage. Arc Staff consumes energy more slowly when not attacking."
The Bombardiers	Hunter	Legs	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 9	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Dodging leaves behind an explosive that detonates after a short delay, damaging targets around it and creating a secondary effect based on your subclass energy type: Arc Blinds, Solar Burns, Void Suppresses and Stasis Slows targets."
Citan's Ramparts	Titan	Arms	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 10	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "You and your allies can shoot through your Towering Barricade, which has reduced health and duration."
Phoenix Cradle	Titan	Legs	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 8	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Sun Warrior lasts twice as long. Allies who pass through your Sunspots are granted Sun Warrior."
Severance Enclosure	Titan	Chest	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 9	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Powered melee final blows unleash a damaging explosion. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the radius and damage of the explosion."

Beyond Light Exotic Armor

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Boots of the Assembler	Warlock	Legs	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 14	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Standing in a healing rift creates Noble Seekers that seek out allies that are not in a rift and heal them. Noble Seekers from Empowering rift grant both you and your ally a damage bonus. Each time a Noble Seeker finds one of your allies, the duration of your rift is briefly extended."
Dawn Chorus	Warlock	Helm	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 12	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Your Daybreak projectiles deal more damage and scorch targets on impact. Your scorch is improved and you gain a small amount of melee energy when your scorch damages a target."
Mantle of Battle Harmony	Warlock	Chest	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 13	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Takedowns with weapons that have a damage type matching your subclass element grant you Super energy. While your Super energy is full, you instead gain a temporary bonus to weapon damage of the type matching your subclass element."
Necrotic Grip	Warlock	Arms	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 12	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Damaging combatants envenoms them with poison that deals increasing damage over time. Defeating a poisoned combatant spreads the condition to nearby targets."
Nothing Manacles	Warlock	Arms	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 15	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "You gain an additional Scatter Grenade charge. Enables tracking for Scatter Grenade projectiles."
Athrys's Embrace	Hunter	Arms	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 12	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Weighted Knife gains a second bounce. Rapid precision hits with your weapons grant Weighted Knife a significant damage bonus, bonus strength, and the ability to stun unshielded combatants for a short time. Empowered Weighted Knife is strong against Unstoppable Champions."
Mask of Bakris	Hunter	Helm	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 12	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Replaces your Stasis subclass Dodge ability with a longer range, faster moving shift that partially cloaks you during use. After shifting, your Stasis and Arc weapons deal increased damage for a short time."
Omnioculus	Hunter	Chest	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 13	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "You gain a second Smoke Bomb charge and have damage resistance while invisible. When you make an ally invisible, they gain damage resistance while invisible and you gain melee energy."
Radiant Dance Machines	Hunter	Legs	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 15	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Activating your dodge ability while near targets allows you to dodge additional times for a short period. Defeating targets extends the duration of the additional dodge."
Star-Eater Scales	Hunter	Legs	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 14	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "You gain additional Super energy from Orbs of Power you pick up. While your Super energy is full, picking up an Orb of Power overcharges your Super, causing you to gain a burst of healing when cast and a bonus to your Super damage. At maximum overcharge, you also gain an overshield."
Cuirass of the Falling Star	Titan	Chest	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 13	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Greatly increases your Thundercrash impact damage. Gain an overshield that lasts longer the farther you travel before striking a target."
Icefall Mantle	Titan	Arms	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 12	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Stasis final blows have a chance to grant an escalating bonus to Stasis weapon damage. Replaces your Barricade ability with a personal overshield. When you activate your Barricade, you gain the highest-tier Stasis weapon damage bonus and create a burst around yourself that slows combatants. While you have this overshield, you are slowed and Barricade does not recharge."
No Backup Plans	Titan	Arms	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 15	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "While using a Void subclass, rapid Shotgun final blows or defeating a powerful combatant with a Shotgun will grant a Void overshield and start health regeneration. While you have a Void overshield, Shotguns deal additional damage, and Shotgun final blows refresh the overshield. Provides a moderate benefit to Shotgun airborne effectiveness and reload speed."
Precious Scars	Titan	Helm	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 12	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Final blows from weapons with a damage type matching your subclass energy create a burst of healing around you. After reviving or being revived, you gain an aura that provides overshields to you and nearby allies."
The Path of Burning Steps	Titan	Legs	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 14	Beyond Light	Exotic Perk: "Solar final blows periodically grant you an escalating bonus to weapon damage, and Solar grenade final blows grant you the highest bonus. You are harder to slow or freeze with Stasis, and when you break out, you take no damage from doing so, creating a burst of Solar energy around yourself."

The Witch Queen Exotic Armor

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Fallen Sunstar	Warlock	Helm	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 18	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Ionic traces you create move faster and grant you additional ability energy. Nearby allies also gain ability energy when you collect an ionic trace."
Osmiomancy Gloves	Warlock	Arms	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Your Coldsnap grenades have an additional charge that recharges quicker on direct impact. The seeker spawned from Coldsnap grenades travels further."
Rain of Fire	Warlock	Legs	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 17	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Air dodge reloads all of your weapons and improves the airborne effectiveness of Fusion Rifles and Linear Fusion Rifles; final blows with these weapons make you radiant."
Secant Filaments	Warlock	Legs	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Casting an empowering rift will grant you Devour. Damage dealt by you and your allies from within your empowering rift will disrupt combatants."
Blight Ranger	Hunter	Helm	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Attacks you redirect with your Arc Staff deal massively increased damage and generate Orbs of Power for your allies."
Caliban's Hand	Hunter	Arms	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 17	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Your Proximity Knife scorches targets it damages with its explosions, or ignites targets on a direct hit. After throwing a Proximity Knife, you gain increased melee regeneration until the knife explodes."
Gyrfalcon's Hauberk	Hunter	Chest	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 18	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Your weapons gain a bonus to damage briefly after you emerge from being invisible. When you are invisible and defeat a combatant using a finisher, you and your nearby allies gain a reserve overshield and improved class ability regen. These reserve overshields can be deployed by using a class ability."
Renewal Grasps	Hunter	Arms	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Your Duskfield grenades have a much larger effect radius. Allies inside the Duskfield take reduced damage and targets inside the area deal reduced damage."
Hoarfrost-Z	Titan	Chest	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "When using the Stasis subclass, your Barricade becomes a wall of Stasis crystals that slows nearby targets when created. Standing behind this barricade will grant you and your allies increased weapon reload speed, stability, and range."
Loreley Splendor Helm	Titan	Helm	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "When you have Sun Warrior, your Sunspots heal you. When you are critically wounded, create a Sunspot at your location."
Point-Contact Cannon Brace	Titan	Arms	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 18	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Defeating targets with your Thunderclap melee restores melee energy. Targets near you when you use your Thunderclap suffer lightning strikes and become jolted; being amplified increases the damage of these lightning strikes."
Second Chance	Titan	Arms	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 17	The Witch Queen	Exotic Perk: "Gain a second charge of your Shield Throw melee. Your Shield Throw melee now weakens targets and becomes shield-piercing, stunning Barrier Champions. When you stun a Barrier Champion with your Shield Throw melee, you regain a melee charge.."

How to farm Exotic Engrams & Exotic Ciphers

Remember that Exotics that drop from dedicated activities that award Exotics, such as Lost Sectors, Vex Strike Force, and Nightfalls, will automatically decrypt into an Exotic.

Exotic engrams shall be available from the following sources:

• Season Pass
• Activities that previously rewarded Pinnacles now reward Exotic engrams

We cover how to farm Exotic Ciphers here.

How to get the new Exotic armor in Destiny 2

Exotic armor can be obtained either from Exotic engrams or by completing Legend/Master Lost Sectors solo. Note that the Season pass offers several Exotic engrams. Xur also sells a single Exotic engram per weekend.

There isn’t much more to say about Exotic engrams, only that they have a higher chance to drop from end-game activities. If collecting exotics is your priority, Nightfall: The Ordeals are for you. And the higher the difficulty, the higher the chance of getting one.

Lost Sector farming

If you’re looking for new Exotic armor specifically, those can only be farmed by completing Legend and Master Lost Sectors solo on specific days (Lost Sector rewards are on a daily rotation, one day will reward Legs pieces, the next day only Arms pieces, etc). You can read more about how to farm Legend and Master Lost Sectors here.

Before you go…

Not all Exotic armor was created equal. In spite of Bungie routinely buffing and nerfing specific Exotics every Season, some will always be superior. Some are definitely more worth farming than others. To help you figure this out, we recommend checking our Warlock, Titan, and Hunter Exotic tier lists.