Destiny 2 Exotic Class Items Rolls & How to Farm them

Unlike their Destiny 1 counterparts, Exotic Class Items in Destiny 2 have proven to be meta-defining. 

These Exotics can quickly turn the already strong Prismatic subclasses to 11, but first, you’ll need to unlock and farm them until you find the right roll.  

How to Farm Exotic Class Items

To obtain your exotic class item of choice, you’ll first need to unlock and complete the Dual Destiny mission in the Pale Heart destination. 🚨Unless you farm them during Festival of the Lost!

Festival of the Lost 2024

In a completely unexpected move, you can now unlock the coveted Exotic Class Items without having to complete Duality by participating in the Festival of the Lost. All you need is 2,500 Candy and 1 Eerie Engram, both of which can be farmed by wearing a mask and completing activities.  

Exotic Class Item Festival of the Lost farm, Destiny 2

Dual Destiny Mission

This mission forces you to be in a fireteam of two (going in solo or as a trio will not work), and it’s the only way to obtain your first class item. While this requirement has resulted in a fair bit of controversy, finding a friend or teammate on LFG for one run isn’t too hard, nor does it require you to enter a voice chat.

After obtaining the first copy from Dual Destiny, additional exotic class items can be farmed in various ways. If you enjoy the Dual Destiny mission (and have a friend to farm with), replaying the activity will grant another class item each run. Additionally, a weekly challenge (viewable from the Pale Heart map) will grant an additional class item once per week, giving you two for your first run each reset.

Dual Destiny Mission, Destiny 2

Overthrow Chests

The second method of farming these is participating in Overthrow in the Pale Heart. While generic world chests don’t contribute to it, opening Overthrow chests grants an increasing probability of receiving a class item, granting more with higher chest tiers.

Buy them from Xur

The final way of obtaining multiple copies of exotic class items was added with Update 8.5.0.2, released on August 20, 2024. Xur now (sometimes) sells randomly rolled exotic class items for 41 Strange Coins each.

Xur items, Destiny 2

When the offer is available (replaced by an Exotic Cipher offer when it’s not), you can purchase as many class items as you’d like, assuming you have the Strange Coins. Because Strange Coins come from ritual activities, many players will be drawn to this offer since it doesn’t require you to do something specific on the Pale Heart.

🚨 The only requirement is to have unlocked the regular acquisition path through the Dual Destiny mission for each character/class. 

Exotic Class Item attunement (coming soon)

To help assist players in farming for the perfect roll,  Bungie aims to release an Exotic Class Item attunement feature with Episode 2. While we don’t have too much information on this system just yet, it seems to function similarly to the BRAVE weapon attunement currently available at Zavala.

As seen in the screenshot below, only one perk can be attuned at a time (subject to change). This means you’ll still need to do some extensive farming to get the rolls you want, but the system seems to be a huge step in the right direction.

Exotic Class Item Dev Screen, Destiny 2

Destiny 2 Exotic Class Item Perks & Rolls

Hunter Exotic: Essentialism 

Class	Art 1	Column 1	Art 2	Column 2
Hunter		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.
Hunter		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.
Hunter		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.
Hunter		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.
Hunter		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.
Hunter		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.
Hunter		Spirit Of Caliban: Powered melee final blows trigger an ignition.		Spirit Of The Wormhusk: Dodging gives a small health and shield bump.
Hunter		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.
Hunter		Spirit Of Apotheosis: Temporarily gain greatly increased melee and grenade regen after your Super ends.		Spirit Of The Claw: Gain an additional melee charge.

We cover our favorite Hunter Prismatic Builds and preferred Relativism God Rolls here.

Warlock Exotic: Solipsism

Class	Art 1	Column 1	Art 2	Column 2
Warlock		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.
Warlock		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.
Warlock		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.
Warlock		Spirit Of The Stag: Your Rift provides damage reduction to allied Guardians standing in it.		Spirit Of Vesper: Rifts periodically release Arc shockwaves.
Warlock		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.
Warlock		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.
Warlock		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.
Warlock		Spirit Of Apotheosis: Temporarily gain greatly increased melee and grenade regen after your Super ends.		Spirit Of The Claw: Gain an additional melee charge.

We cover our favorite Warlock Prismatic Builds and preferred Solipsism God Rolls here.

Titan Exotic: Stoicism

Class	Art 1	Column 1	Art 2	Column 2
Titan		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.
Titan		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.
Titan		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.
Titan		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.
Titan		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.
Titan		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
Titan		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.
Titan		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.

We cover our preferred Stoicism God Rolls here.

Why these Exotic Perks?

As explained by Bungie, the plan for Exotic Class items is to include fan favorites as well as perks that align with the Prismatic abilities and Aspects.

Also, Exotic perks were put in the column where they would compound with each other better.