Destiny 2 is all about hunting down the best armors and weapons to kit out your Guardian. If you’re going to play for sci-fi fantasy fashion, you need to hunt down some of the rarest gear. Most of the best and coolest-looking gear is of the Exotic variety.
There are over 60 pieces of Exotic armor in Destiny 2. Each of the three classes (Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks) has its unique Exotic helmets, chest plates, gauntlets, and pants to choose from. Here is our complete list of Exotic armor pieces in Destiny 2 so far.
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Titan Exotic Armor
Titans are the front line of any assault in Destiny. Most of their armors accentuate their stout and powerful abilities.
Titan Exotic Helmets
An Insurmountable Skullfort
“Kills with Arc melee abilities trigger health regeneration and restore melee energy.”
Mask of the Quiet One
“Grants ability energy when you’re damaged. When critically wounded, regain maximum health on kills.”
Khepri’s Horn
“Solar damage kills recharge your Barricade, which unleashes a blast of Solar energy when summoned.”
Helm of Saint-14
“Enemies that enter Ward of Dawn are blinded, while allies that pass through gain an overshield. Guarding with Sentinel Shield blinds nearby enemies.”
RIP Saint-14.
Eternal Warrior
“Gain an overshield when activating Fists of Havoc.”
One-Eyed Mask
“Marks the enemy that dares to damage you. Track down and destroy your enemy for increased damage and overshield.”
Titan Exotic Gauntlets
Stronghold
“Guarding with Swords increases move speed and does not drain ammo. Shots blocked immediately after guarding will heal you.”
ACD/0 Feedback Fence
“Melee kills build energy. Being struck by a melee attack reduces incoming damage and unleashes the energy in a devastating explosion.”
Doom Fang Pauldron
“Void melee kills give Super energy. While Sentinel Shield is active, melee kills recharge Shield Throw, which extends your Super on hits.”
Synthoceps
“Increased melee lung range. Improved melee and Super damage when you’re surrounded.”
Aeon Safe
“Summoning a barricade grants the following to nearby Aeon Cult allies:
Grenade energy to Warlocks
Barricade energy to Titans
Dodge energy to Hunters
Other allies receive a fraction of the shared energy.”
Ashen Wake
“Fusion grenades now explode on impact and gain increased throw speed.”
Wormgod Caress
“Melee kills increase melee damage for a period of time. Additional kills extend duration and increase effects.”
Ursa Furiosa
“Move faster while guarding when Sentinel Shield is active. Guarded damage converts to Super energy when the Super ends.”
Titan Exotic Chest Armor
Crest of Alpha Lupi
“Generates an additional Orb of Light from Supers and a healing pulse when Barricade is activated.”
Actium War Rig
“Steadily reloads a portion of your equipped auto rifle’s magazine from reserves.”
Hallowfire Heart
“Improves the recharge rate of your Solar abilities. Greatly improves recharge rate while your Super is charged.”
Armamentarium
“Gain an additional grenade charge.”
Heart of Inmost Light
“Using an ability (grenade, melee, or Barricade) empowers the other two abilities. Empowered means abilities have faster regen, melees and grenades to more damage, and Barricades have more hit points.”
Titan Exotic Leg Armor
Lion Rampant
“Provides additional aerial maneuverability and enables accurate hipfire while you’re in the air during Lift.”
Peacekeepers
“Reloads stowed submachine guns and allows you to ready them instantly. Improves your handling with SMGs and your movement while wielding one.”
Dunemarchers
“Increases sprint speed. Sprinting builds up a static charge. After melee-attacking an enemy, that charge will chain damage to nearby enemies.”
Mk. 44 Stand Asides
“Grants an overshield when you’re sprinting at full health with Seismic Strike, Hammer Strike, or Shield Bash equipped. Hits with these abilities recharge a portion of your melee energy.”
Antaeus Wards
“Improved slide. Sliding reflects incoming projectiles. Reflecting projectiles grant Super energy.”
Hunter Exotic Armor
Hunters are the fast-moving tricksters of the game. Their Exotic armors buff things like their speed, jumping, and dodging abilities. A few also benefit certain weapon types or enhance their unique ability to go invisible.
Hunter Exotic Helmets
Knucklehead Radar
“Provides radar while you’re aiming. Enhances your radar resolution while crouched.”
Celestial Nighthawk
“Modifies Golden Gun to fire a single high-damage shot. Enemies eliminated by the shot explode and grant you Super energy.”
Foetracer
“Visually marks targeted enemies. Deals more damage to low-health marked enemies.”
Graviton Forfeit
“Increases the duration of any invisibility effects. Your melee recharges faster while you are invisible.”
Wormhusk Crown
“Dodging gives a small health and shield bump.”
Hunter Exotic Gauntlets
Liar’s Handshake
“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.”
Young Ahamkara’s Spine
“Increases Tripmine grenade duration and blast radius. Ability damage grants Tripmine grenade energy.”
Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves
“Increases sidearm ready and reload speed. While you’re critically wounded, swapping to a sidearm increases its damage.”
Aeon Swift
“Dodging grants the following to nearby Aeon Cult allies [players with another piece of ‘Aeon’ gear:
Grenade energy to Warlocks
Barricade energy to Titans
Dodge energy to Hunters
Other allies receive a fraction of the shared energy.”
Shinobu’s Vow
“Improves Skip grenade, and you gain an additional Skip grenade charge. Skip grenade returns energy when it damages enemies.”
Sealed Ahamkara Grasps
“Dealing melee damage reloads your currently equipped weapon.”
Shards of Galanor
“Hits and kills with Blade Barrage will return Super energy after the Super ends.”
Oathkeeper
“Bow charges can be held indefinitely.”
Hunter Exotic Chest Armor
Raiden Flux
“Quick successive attacks with Arc Staff increase its damage output and duration.”
Lucky Raspberry
“Increases the chaining capabilities of Arc Bolt grenade and has a chance to recharge it each time it deals damage. A full chain always recharges.”
The Dragon’s Shadow
“Dodging reloads all weapons and increases both movement and weapon handling speeds for a brief time.”
Ophidia Spathe
“Grants two knives per charge.”
The Sixth Coyote
“Gain a second dodge charge.”
Gwisin Vest
“Each Spectral Blades kill you make before going into stealth with restore more of your Super energy.”
Hunter Exotic Leg Armor
Lucky Pants
“Precision hits load one round into the chamber of stowed hand cannons. Hand cannons ready faster and are more accurate immediately after swapping to them.”
Orpheus Rig
“Provides ability energy for each enemy tethered by Deadfall anchors. Moebius Quiver has more shots.”
St0mp-EE5
“Increases sprint speed and slide distance. Improved High Jump, Strafe Jump, and Triple Jump.”
Gemini Jester
“Dodging disorients nearby enemies and temporarily removes their radar.”
Fr0st-EE5
“Increased grenade, melee, and dodge regeneration while sprinting. Dodging increases your sprint speed.”
Warlock Exotic Armor
Warlocks are space magicians. Their Exotic armors are all about taking their magic abilities to the next level. Many of their Exotics also promote combos between certain abilities.
Warlock Exotic Helmets
Skull of Dire Ahamkara
“Provides additional damage resistance during Nova Bomb. Nova Bomb kills grant Super energy.”
Crown of Tempests
“Arc ability kills increase the recharge rate of your Arc abilities and extend the duration of Stormtrance.”
Eye of Another World
“Highlights priority targets and improves the regeneration speed of your grenade, melee, and Rift abilities.”
Nezarec’s Sin
“Void-damage kills increase ability energy and recharge rate.”
The Stag
“Grants Rift energy when you are critically wounded. On your death, creates a healing rift on your corpse.”
Verity’s Brow
“Energy weapon kills boost grenade recharge rate for you and nearby allies.”
Apotheosis Veil
“Immediately regenerate health, melee, grenade, and Rift energy upon activating your Super. Nearby allies recharge class abilities faster.”
Warlock Exotic Gauntlets
Getaway Artist
“Hold Q to convert your Arc Grenade into a supercharged Arc Soul. The Arc Soul functions as an autonomous turret.”
Sunbracers
“Increases the duration of Solar grenades. Solar melee kills grant unlimited Solar grenade energy for a brief time.”
Karnstein Armlets
“Melee kills instantly restore a large amount of health and continue to restore health afterwards for a short duration.”
Winter’s Guile
“Eliminating enemies with melee attacks increases your melee damage.”
Aeon Soul
“Throwing grenades grants the following to nearby Aeon Cult allies [players with another piece of ‘Aeon’ gear]:
Grenade energy to Warlocks
Barricade energy to Titans
Dodge energy to Hunters
Other allies receive a fraction of the shared energy.”
Ophidian Aspect
“Weapons ready and reload very quickly. Melee range is extended.”
Claws of Ahamkara
“Gain an additional melee charge.”
Contraverse Hold
“Resist incoming damage while charging your Void grenade with Chaos Accelerant, Feed the Void, or Handheld Supernova. Charged Void grenades return a random amount of grenade energy on a hit.”
Warlock Exotic Chest Armor
Starfire Protocol
“Fusion grenades have an additional charge and recharge from empowered weapon damage. Fusion grenade kills grant Rift energy.”
Wings of Sacred Dawn
“When Dawnblade is equipped, aiming weapons while you’re in midair suspends you there for a short time. Weapon hits extend this effect’s duration.”
Vesper of Radius
“Rifts release an Arc shockwave when cast. Rift energy recharges faster when you are surrounded by enemies.”
Sanguine Alchemy
“Standing in a Rift grants you and your allies heightened senses, allowing you to retain your radar while aiming down sights. Additionally nearby powerful enemies are visually marked and can be tracked without line of sight.”
Chromatic Fire
“Precision kills with your Kinetic weapon create an explosion in the element of your equipped subclass.”
Phoenix Protocol
“Kills and assists you make while standing in your Well of Radiance return Super energy.”
Warlock Exotic Leg Armor
Transversive Steps
“Sprint speed increased. After a short time sprinting, your currently equipped weapon is automatically reloaded.”
Lunafaction Boots
“Your Rifts gain the additional ability to automatically reload allies’ weapons. Empowering Rift makes weapons effective over longer ranges.”
Geomag Stabilizers
“When Chaos Reach Super energy is almost full, sprinting tops it off. Damaging enemies with Chaos Reach extends its duration.”
