Destiny 2: How to get Exotic class items & all perks in The Final Shape

The Final Shape will see plenty of new additions to Destiny 2, including the first-ever Exotic class items. If you want to know more about the Exotics and their perks, here’s all you need to know.

The highly anticipated The Final Shape DLC will be the finale of the decade-spanning Light vs. Dark saga of the Destiny series. It wouldn’t really be a proper send-off if it wasn’t packed with content, and one notable addition will be Exotic class items. 

If you want to know how to get them, as well as all the possible perks, here’s all you need to know. 

• How to unlock Exotic class items in Destiny 2 The Final Shape
• How Exotic class items work in Destiny 2
• All Exotic class item perks in Destiny 2 The Final Shape

How to unlock Exotic class items in Destiny 2 The Final Shape

Exotic class items in Destiny 2 can be unlocked by playing a new activity in The Final Shape that’ll be available in Week 2 after the Raid World First. 

Bungie revealed this in their May 10, 2024, TWAB and didn’t specify the exact activity as they wanted to avoid sharing spoilers so early.

The Final Shape Raid will be live on June 7, three days after the DLC releases. 

How Exotic class items work in Destiny 2

Exotic class items in Destiny 2 will have two random perks, and they’re all pulled from the existing Exotics. Their effect will be less powerful than the original, so the older Exotics won’t become obsolete. Some of these perks also belong to different classes, which means Titan can roll some perks that belong to Hunter’s Exotics, and so on. 

While random, there is a limited pool of 16 perks – eight in each column – that can be rolled. You can farm them in the not-yet-revealed The Final Shape activity and chase for your preferred rolls.  

One other limitation is that the Exotic class item only works when you have the new Prismatic subclass equipped.

All Exotic class item perks in Destiny 2 The Final Shape

Here are all the perks for Exotic class items in Destiny 2: 

All Titan Exotic class item perks

FIRST COLUMN	SECOND COLUMN
SPIRIT OF THE ASSASSIN: Finishers and powered melee final blows grant invisibility.	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 INMOST LIGHT: Using an ability empowers the other two abilities, granting them improved energy regeneration	SPIRIT OF SYNTHOCEPS: Improved melee damage when you’re surrounded.
SPIRIT OF THE OPHIDIAN: Weapons ready very quickly.	SPIRIT OF VERITY: Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your grenade grant a stacking grenade damage bonus.
SPIRIT OF SEVERANCE: Powered melee or finisher final blows unleash a damaging explosion.	SPIRIT OF CONTACT: Damaging a target with a powered melee causes all nearby enemies to suffer lightning strikes and become jolted.
SPIRIT OF HOARFROST: Your Barricade becomes a wall of Stasis crystals that slows nearby targets when created.	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 ETERNAL WARRIOR: Gain a damage bonus for weapons matching your Super’s element when your Super ends.	SPIRIT OF THE HORN: Your Barricade unleashes a blast of Solar energy that scorches targets
SPIRIT OF THE ABEYANT: Improves Drengr’s Lash. Drengr’s Lash projectiles track targets more aggressively and travel further.	SPIRIT OF ALPHA LUPI: Generates a healing pulse when Barricade is activated.
SPIRIT OF THE BEAR:  Move faster while guarding with the Unbreakable shield. Damage blocked with Unbreakable is converted to Super energy.	SPIRIT OF THE ARMAMENTARIUM: Gain an additional grenade charge.

All Hunter Exotic class item perks

FIRST COLUMN	SECOND COLUMN
SPIRIT OF THE ASSASSIN: Finishers and powered melee final blows grant invisibility.	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 INMOST LIGHT: Using an ability empowers the other two abilities granting them improved energy regeneration.	SPIRIT OF THE SYNTHOCEPS: Improved melee damage when you’re surrounded.
SPIRIT OF THE OPHIDIAN Weapons ready very quickly.	SPIRIT OF VERITY: Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your grenade grant a stacking grenade damage bonus.
SPIRIT OF THE DRAGON: Using your class ability reloads all weapons and increases weapon handling speeds for a brief time.	SPIRIT OF THE CYRTARACHNE: Gain Woven Mail when you use your grenade.
SPIRIT OF GALANOR: Hits and final blows with your Super will return Super energy after it ends.	SPIRIT OF THE GYRFALCON: Your Void weapons gain Volatile Rounds after you emerge from being invisible.
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 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 CALIBAN: Powered melee final blows trigger an ignition.	SPIRIT OF THE WORMHUSK: Dodging gives a small health and shield bump.
SPIRIT OF RENEWAL:  Allies inside the Duskfield take reduced damage, and targets inside the area deal reduced damage.	SPIRIT OF THE COYOTE: Gain an additional class ability charge.

All Warlock Exotic class item perks

FIRST COLUMN	SECOND COLUMN
SPIRIT OF THE ASSASSIN: Finishers and powered melee final blows grant invisibility.	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 INMOST LIGHT: Using an ability empowers the other two abilities, granting them improved energy regeneration	SPIRIT OF SYNTHOCEPS: Improved melee damage when you’re surrounded.
SPIRIT OF THE OPHIDIAN: Weapons ready very quickly.	SPIRIT OF VERITY: Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your grenade grant a stacking grenade damage bonus.
SPIRIT OF THE STAG: Your Rift provides damage reduction to allied Guardians standing in it.	SPIRIT OF VESPER: Rifts periodically release Arc shockwaves.
SPIRIT OF THE FILAMENTS: Casting an empowering rift will grant you Devour.	SPIRIT OF HARMONY: Final blows with weapons that have a damage type matching your Super’s element grant you Super energy.
SPIRIT OF THE NECROTIC: Damaging combatants with your melee poisons them. Defeating a poisoned enemy spreads the condition.	SPIRIT OF STARFIRE: Grenades recharge from empowered weapon damage, with empowered weapon final blows granting more energy.
SPIRIT OF OSMIOMANCY: Your grenades recharge quicker on hits. The seeker spawned from Coldsnap grenades travels further.	SPIRIT OF THE SWARM: Destroying a Tangle spawns Threadlings.
SPIRIT OF APOTHEOSIS: Temporarily gain greatly increased melee and grenade regen after your Super ends.	SPIRIT OF THE CLAW: Gain an additional melee charge.

As said earlier, you can roll any of the eight perks for each column and continue to farm until you get the right combination of rolls in each slot. 

That’s everything about class items in Destiny 2. For more on the game, check out:

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