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01 · Core Systems
The new gear rules
Start here if you're returning. Everything — stats, archetypes, tiers, perks, and the DPS meta — was reworked in the Edge of Fate / Monument of Triumph era. These two guides decode the systems every build sits on top of.
System · Armor
Armor 3.0
The reworked stat system, all twelve archetypes, the 1–5 tier ladder, masterworking, and how to build a Guardian again under the new rules.
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System · Weapons
Weapon System
Weapon tiers 1–5, an easier role-first decision flow, archetype-by-archetype PvE use cases, perk recipes, frame-intrinsic champions, and roll targets.
Open guide02 · Class & Subclass
Classes & builds
One guide per class — identity, all six subclasses, five meta builds, fragment staples, and Armor 3.0 buildcraft — plus a cross-class deep-dive on Prismatic, the subclass that mixes Light and Dark. Then go a layer deeper: the Subclasses & Builds hub, a per-element deep dive for Solar, Arc, Void, Stasis and Strand across all three classes, and a Buildcrafting guide that wires the whole loop together.
Class · Support
Warlock
The synergy class — Rifts, Soul Siphon, Phoenix Dive, and Transcendence. Six subclasses and five meta builds, from Solar Starfire to the Getaway Loop.
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Class · Bruiser
Titan
The frontline — reworked barricades (including the Solar Aspect Shieldburst), melees that one-shot, and ability loops. Five Monument-era builds, with Heart of Inmost Light as the universal engine.
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Class · Tempo
Hunter
The edge — invisibility, dodge resets, melee chains, and the cleanest burst Supers. Five builds, from the Gyrfalcon invis loop to Nighthawk DPS.
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Cross-class · Light + Dark
Prismatic
Light and Dark on one subclass. Transcendence, Facets, the reality-bending exotic class items, and the best build for each of the three classes.
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Subclass · All elements
Subclasses & Builds
The routing hub for the whole subclass system — the six subclasses, a Light-vs-Dark verb cheat sheet, and a "which element should I run?" decision table. Start here, then dive into an element.
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Reference · The build loop
Buildcrafting
How a build becomes a self-sustaining loop — super → aspects → fragments → exotic → mods → stats → set bonuses → champion frames. Reading the six stats for ability uptime, the 125% cooldown cap, and a worked build from scratch.
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PvP & Crucible
For the players who came back to duel, not just to farm. The PvP spine: a Crucible hub for fundamentals and mode routing, a buildcrafting translation that reads Armor 3.0 for the duel instead of the room, and a weapon guide built on range bands and archetype jobs. It reuses everything the systems and class pages teach — pointed at Crucible.
Crucible · Builds
PvP Buildcrafting
Armor 3.0 read for Crucible — co-equal Weapons and Health, the 12 archetypes sorted by duel job, mods that matter when someone shoots back, and a starter template for each class.
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Crucible · Weapons
PvP Weapons
The range-band model instead of a brittle tier list — archetype jobs tagged by ammo, roll priorities for duels, the metered special-ammo economy, and where to farm Crucible loot.
Open guide04 · Endgame Activities
Dungeons
Start at the Dungeon Field Guide hub for roster triage and loot posture — read the Endgame Motifs page to spot the recurring mechanics — or jump straight to any of the 11 full deep-dive guides below.
Activity · All dungeons
Dungeon Field Guide
A roster guide to all 11 dungeons — mechanic summaries, run-risk notes, featured-week loot posture, and which dungeon to pick for your next solo, trio, or farm night.
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Reference · Endgame motifs
Endgame Motifs
The recurring mechanics every dungeon leans on — symbol-reading, plate and relic carries, buff/debuff states, and the tether motifs. Learn the pattern once and you'll read a blind dungeon on sight.
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Raids
Start at the Raid Field Guide hub for the full roster, the launch order to learn them in, and loot posture, open the newest raid The Desert Perpetual — or read the Endgame Motifs page for the recurring mechanics and jump into any of the 15 raid deep dives below.
Activity · All raids
Raid Field Guide
A roster guide to all 15 raids — the order to learn them in, complexity tiers, raid-exotic sources, and which fireteam-defining mechanic each one teaches. Current raids and the vaulted legacy lairs, side by side.
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Raid · Kepler · Newest
The Desert Perpetual
Destiny 2's newest capstone raid — a non-linear hub, three temporal branch encounters, and the Koregos final loop, where the Vex try to fold Unknown Space into the Network. Normal and Epic split heavily — treat them as two very different tuning tiers.
Coming soonRaid deep dives
Vault of GlassVenus
Deep Stone CryptEuropa
Root of NightmaresThe Essence
King's FallDreadnaught
Crota's EndThe Moon
Garden of SalvationBlack Garden
Vow of the DiscipleThrone World
Last WishDreaming City
Salvation's EdgeThe Pale Heart
The Desert PerpetualKepler
LeviathanNessus · Legacy
Eater of WorldsLeviathan · Legacy
Spire of StarsLeviathan · Legacy
Scourge of the PastThe Last City · Legacy
Crown of SorrowLeviathan · Legacy
Nightfalls
Returning from the "Nightfall: The Ordeal" days? They're now Grandmaster Vanguard Alerts. Start at the Nightfall Field Guide hub for the returning-player translation, use the Modifier Setup guide when the Portal launch screen gets confusing, then drop into any of the 18 route guides below.
Activity · Nightfalls / GM Alerts
Nightfall Field Guide
Where the Nightfall went, how Grandmaster Vanguard Alerts work, the difficulty→grade→Tier 5 reward ladder, a six-point GM readiness checklist, build routing, and a modifier glossary — Medusa, Focused Fire, banes, and the rest.
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Activity · Modifier Setup
Nightfall Modifier Setup
A practical launch-screen picker for Grandmaster Vanguard Alerts and custom Fireteam Ops: reward forecast first, which modifiers to add, which ones to avoid, and a Sunless Cell preset for first clears and Tier 5 farms.
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Birthplace of the VileLucent Hive · Throne World
Warden of NothingPrison of Elders
The Arms DealerCabal · The EDZ
Exodus CrashFallen · Nessus
The Sunless CellHive · Dreadnaught
LightbladeLucent Hive · Throne World
Defiant Battleground: EDZShadow Legion · The EDZ
The CorruptedTaken · Dreaming City
Lake of ShadowsTaken · The EDZ
The Scarlet KeepHive · The Moon
The DisgracedHive · Cosmodrome
The GlasswayVex · Europa
Proving GroundsCabal · Nessus
The Inverted SpireVex · Nessus
Fallen S.A.B.E.R.Fallen · Cosmodrome
The Insight TerminusCabal · Nessus
The Devils' LairFallen · Cosmodrome
LiminalityThe Dread · Pale Heart
Progression
Stuck on a Guardian Rank objective that won't tick? The Guardian Rank Walkthrough is the rank/objective translator — it tells Seasonal Hub Conquests apart from customizable Portal/Ops modifier chores, gets difficulty and unique clears right, and hands off to the modifier setup guide for the launch-screen picks.
05 · Lore & Story
Lore & Story
The story the game never quite says out loud — the Grimoire and lore-book tier. A codex covering Destiny 1 and 2 from before the universe through Renegades and the Monument of Triumph epilogue: a chronological timeline, the hidden cosmology, every faction's true history, and the figures the reveals hinge on. Now complete — the whole story, ending and all.
Lore · Timeline
The Timeline
Eighteen eras from "Before the Sky" to the end of the story — the chronological spine, each beat carrying the lore-tab context that normal play skips right past.
Open guideLore · Cosmology
The Hidden Cosmology
The Gardener and the Winnower, Light and Dark as Sky and Deep, the Veil, the Sword Logic, paracausality, the Final Shape — the ideas underneath everything else.
Open guideLore · Races & Powers
The Factions
Hive, Vex, Cabal, Eliksni, Awoken, Exo/Warmind, the Nine, the Witness and its Disciples — each with the true history the campaigns only gesture at.
Open guideLore · Key Figures
The Figures
The people the reveals hinge on — Oryx and the Hive sisters, the Disciples, Mara and the Crow, the Brays, Eris, Toland, and the rest.
Open guide06 · About the Set
One family, ninety-six guides
What this is
A companion set to the ThePsychDr (aka ThePsych) Destiny 2 videos — each guide is a single, self-contained visual reference you can keep open on a second screen. No login, no ads.
They're built as a matched design family on purpose: shared type, shared layout, one accent color per topic. All art is hand-drawn CSS and SVG — deliberately no copyrighted Destiny imagery.
Where to start
- New or returning? Read Armor 3.0 and the Weapon System first — they explain the rules every build assumes.
- Then open your class for ready-made builds, the Subclasses & Builds hub for the per-element deep dives, and Buildcrafting to wire it all into a loop.
- Run endgame? Prismatic is the flexible default; the Dungeon Field Guide hub triages all 11 dungeons, and 8 of them have their own full encounter deep dive.
Monument baseline: last gameplay patch Update 9.7.0.3 (2026-07-07). Update 9.7.0.4 (2026-07-28) shipped without notes; Update 9.7.0.5 (2026-10-07) is an anti-cheat back-end fix only. Checked 2026-10-08. Every guide assumes this Monument of Triumph sandbox, and Bungie's active Known Issues are the only thing that overrides the mechanics here.