The exotic class item was one of the most talked about additions to Destiny 2 coming with The Final Shape, and now—in the second week of the expansion—it’s available to unlock. You’ll need two Guardians to complete the new mission added in week two of the expansion, but first you’ll need to do some prep—the mission itself doesn’t unlock until you complete some activities in the Pale Heart destination.
The trademark feature for the class item is that it will have multiple perks from existing exotics, meaning that you can create some incredible builds that synergize abilities in new ways. Some of the available perks are even from other classes.
The catch is that you can only use them with Prismatic, so if you still need to unlock everything for your Prismatic subclass, now is the time! You may be thinking, “That sounds really strong”, but hey, Bungie is still adamant that Prismatic isn’t overpowered. Let’s take a look at how we’ll likely unlock the exotic class item, plus all the available perks it can roll.
How to unlock the Exotic Class item
Unlocking the Exotic Class item requires completing the new Dual Destiny mission. To access that, though, first you’ll need to do some prep in the Overthrow events found in the Pale Heart patrol zone.
You need to complete the Overthrow event in each location—The Landing, The Blooming and The Impasse—beating the final boss. Afterwards, in the five minutes of peace before the event kicks off again, you’ll need to hunt down a Secret-Keeper of the Witch Queen who will be hidden away somewhere in the area. They’re easy enough to find if you ride around, looking for enemy markers on your radar, but to be sure of their location check the video below.
When the Secret-Keeper in each location is defeated, head to The Blooming and look for a green beam of light shooting into the air. The source of the light is The Refraction area. Inside is a small spot of light that you can interact with to gain the Savathun’s Envoy buff and a seven minute timer.
While you have the buff active, you’ll see two markers on the map. At each location, you’ll fight waves of Dread and, at the end, a Subjugator miniboss. Once defeated, the boss will drop one of two orbs—Refracted Light and Refracted Dark. After you pick up an orb, carry it back to the location where you got the Savathun’s Envoy buff, and dunk it on the corresponding Light or Darkness plate. When both plates are activated, the Dual Destiny mission is available.
If you don’t want to complete the mission straight away—you need to bring a friend along to complete it—don’t worry. Once unlocked, you can activate the mission from orbit, on the Pale Heart map. See the video below for an explanation of the mission.
How to farm the Exotic Class item
You’ll get a drop of the Exotic Class item for completing Dual Destiny, but fortunately you won’t need to grind it over and over for each new roll. Once you’ve completed the mission, Exotic Class items will have a chance to drop from any Pale Heart chest. Just play in the patrol zone, doing Overthrow missions and working on the destination Pathfinder, and you should pick up some new drops as you play.
Destiny 2 exotic class item perks: Titan
The Titan’s exotic class item, Stoicism, has the following perks available across two columns:
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| Spirit of the Assassin | Finishers and powered melee final blows grant invisibility. |
| Spirit of Inmost Light | Using an ability empowers the other two abilities, granting them improved energy regeneration. |
| Spirit of the Ophidian | Weapons ready very quickly. |
| Spirit of Severance | Powered melee or finisher final blows unleash a damaging explosion. |
| Spirit of Hoarfrost | Your barricade becomes a wall of stasis crystals that slows nearby targets when created. |
| Spirit of The Eternal Warrior | Gain a damage bonus for weapons matching your Super’s element when your super ends. |
| Spirit of the Abeyant | Improves Drengr’s Lash. Drengr’s Lash projectiles track targets more aggressively and travel further. |
| Spirit of the Bear | Move faster while guarding with the Unbreakable shield. Damage blocked with unbreakable is converted to super energy. |
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| Spirit of the Star-Eater | While your super energy is full, picking up an orb of power overcharges your super, granting it bonus damage. |
| Spirit of Synthoceps | Improved melee damage when you’re surrounded. |
| Spirit of Verity | Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your grenade grant a stacking grenade damage bonus. |
| Spirit of Contact | Damaging a target with a powered melee causes all nearby enemies to suffer lightning strikes and become jolted. |
| Spirit of Scars | Final blows with weapons that have a damage type matching your super’s element create a burst of healing around you that grants allies restoration. |
| Spirit of the Horn | Your barricade unleashes a blast of solar energy that scorches targets. |
| Spirit of Alpha Lupi | Generates a healing pulse when barricade is activated. |
| Spirit of the Armamentarium | Gain an additional grenade charge. |
Destiny 2 exotic class item perks: Hunter
The Hunter’s class item is Essentialism and has access to these perks across two columns:
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| Spirit of the Assassin | Finishers and powered melee final blows grant invisibility. |
| Spirit of the Inmost Light | Using an ability empowers the other two abilities granting them improved energy regeneration. |
| Spirit of the Ophidian | Weapons ready very quickly. |
| Spirit of the Dragon | Using your class ability reloads all weapons and increases weapon handling speeds for a brief time. |
| Spirit of Galanor | Hits and final blows with your super will return super energy after it ends. |
| Spirit of the Foetracer | Damaging a powerful combatant or guardian with an ability grants you a temporary damage bonus for weapons matching that ability’s element. |
| Spirit of Caliban | Powered melee final blows trigger an ignition. |
| Spirit of Renewal | Allies inside the Duskfield take reduced damage, and targets inside the area deal reduced damage. |
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| Spirit of the Star-Eater | While your super energy is full, picking up an Orb of Power overcharges your super, granting it bonus damage. |
| Spirit of the Synthoceps | Improved melee damage when you’re surrounded. |
| Spirit of Verity | Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your grenade grant a stacking grenade damage bonus. |
| Spirit of the Cyrtarachne | Gain Woven Mail when you use your grenade. |
| Spirit of the Gyrfalcon | Your void weapons gain Volatile Rounds after you emerge from being invisible. |
| Spirit of the Liar | Dealing damage with a powered melee or being hit by a melee attack will allow you to follow up with an extremely powerful melee counterpunch. |
| Spirit of the Wormhusk | Dodging gives a small health and shield bump. |
| Spirit of the Coyote | Gain an additional class ability charge. |
Destiny 2 exotic class item perks: Warlock
The Warlock’s Exotic class item, Solipsism, has these perks across two columns:
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| Spirit of the Assassin | Finishers and powered melee final blows grant invisibility. |
| Spirit of Inmost Light | Using an ability empowers the other two abilities, granting them improved energy regeneration. |
| Spirit of the Ophidian | Weapons ready very quickly. |
| Spirit of the Stag | Your rift provides damage reduction to allied guardians standing in it. |
| Spirit of the Filaments | Casting an empowering rift will grant you Devour. |
| Spirit of the Necrotic | Damaging combatants with your melee poisons them. Defeating a poisoned enemy spreads the condition. |
| Spirit of Osmiomancy | Your grenades recharge quicker on hits. The seeker spawned from Coldsnap grenades travels further. |
| Spirit of Apotheeosis | Temporarily gain greatly increased melee and grenade regen after your super ends. |
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| Spirit of the Star-Eater | While your super energy is full, picking up an orb of power overcharges your super, granting it bonus damage. |
| Spirit of Synthoceps | Improved melee damage when you’re surrounded. |
| Spirit of Verity | Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your grenade grant a stacking grenade damage bonus. |
| Spirit of Vesper | Rifts periodically release arc shockwaves. |
| Spirit of Harmony | Final blows with weapons that have a damage type matching your super’s element grant you super energy. |
| Spirit of Starfire | Grenades recharge from empowered weapon damage, with empowered weapon final blows granting more energy. |
| Spirit of the Swarm | Destroying a Tangle spawns Threadlings. |
| Spirit of the Claw | Gain an additional melee charge. |
