Destiny 2 Deep Weapons: How to get “Taken” weapons

On top of delivering Titan, a returning Destination, Season of the Deep also feature several brand-new weapons that are making a lot of noise. Referred by many as Taken weapons, some of these definitely have the potential to become top-tier, and you should definitely farm them before they go.

This guide covers all the weapons from Season of the Deep (S21) activities (Salvage or Deep Dives) and tells you how to best farm them.

The best Deep weapons in Destiny 2

The list below includes every Deep weapon in the game (it’s still a little too early to rank them, but we’ll update this section as we land diverse rolls to play around with):

Art	Weapon	Type	Archetype	Rarity	Ammo	Element	Requirements	In loot pool?	Ammo?	Element?	Tier	Excels	Source	Craftable?	Requires	Released	Slot	Can be Crafted?	Best of?	Top Perk?
	A Distant Pull	Sniper Rifle	Rapid-Fire	Legendary	Special	Stasis	Season 21	Yes	Special	Stasis			Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Kinetic	Craftable
	Different Times	Pulse Rifle	Rapid-Fire	Legendary	Primary	Strand	Season 21	Yes	Primary	Strand			Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Kinetic	Craftable
	Epochal Integration	Hand Cannon	Adaptive	Legendary	Primary	Solar	Season 21	Yes	Primary	Solar	Average ❘ B	PvE + PvP	Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Energy	No
	Rapacious Appetite	Submachine Gun	Aggressive	Legendary	Primary	Stasis	Season 21	Yes	Primary	Stasis			Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Kinetic	Craftable
	Targeted Redaction	Hand Cannon	Aggressive	Legendary	Primary	Void	Season 21	Yes	Primary	Void	Best ❘ S		Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Energy	Craftable	Top-tier
	Thin Precipice	Sword	Vortex	Legendary	Heavy	Strand	Season 21	Yes	Heavy	Strand			Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Heavy	Craftable
	Until Its Return	Shotgun	Rapid-Fire	Legendary	Special	Strand	Season 21	Yes	Special	Strand			Seasonal activity		Season 21	Season 21	Kinetic	Craftable

Deep weapons also feature a unique Origin trait.

-	Trait	Source	Activation | Effects	Specs	Source Type	Released
	Unsated Hunger	Deep weapons	ncreased handling, reload speed, and stability when no abilities are fully charged. Swords gain increased guard resistance and charge rate instead.	-	Activity	Season 21

💠 Did you know? Every single Deep weapon can be crafted! 

Deep weapons, Destiny 2

Deep weapons God rolls

It’s not always easy to figure out which weapons are worth farming at the start of a Season. And even for those weapons that rise to the top of the meta, what rolls should we look for?

We hear you and tackling Deep weapons one by one and tell you whether they’re worth it and respective god rolls:

• Targeted Redaction God Rolls
• (More are coming every day!)

Destiny 2 Deep “Taken” weapons farm: Where to find them

Unlike past Seasons that were plagued with confusing currencies and gameplay loops, Season of the Deep features the same streamlined system introduced with Season of Defiance. This system comes with fewer currencies and items to deal with and is, hands down, much simpler to understand. In a nutshell, there are mainly three methods to acquire Deep weapons:

• Completing seasonal activities: Salvage or Deep Dive
• Decoding Deep engrams at the Station at the H.E.L.M.
• Increasing your Sonar Station Reputation

If you’re specifically looking for the returning Reckoning weapons, you cover how to use Focused Fishing to them here.

Season of the Deep reputation, Destiny 2

Seasonal activities

Season 21’s gameplay loop is as straightforward as it gets. There are no intermediate currencies to farm nor steps to complete. You can simply head to the Deep activities playlist and start farming completions. And that’s it! You don’t need to farm Umbral energy or anything like that.

Pro tip: Having a Salvage Key will reward you with more seasonal loot, including Deep weapons, when completing Season of the Deep activities.

Deep engrams

Completing Deep activities when possessing a Salvage Key will reward you with Deep Engrams. These can be taken to the Sonar Station at the H.E.L.M. and focused into Deep weapons or Armor.

The cost to focus Deep engrams has been greatly reduced compared to previous seasons. You’ll simply require the following:

• 2 Deep Engram (or 4 if you want a specific weapon)
• 3,000 Glimmer

Deep weapons Decoding, Destiny 2

Before you go…

Don’t miss more of our guides featuring many of the exciting new features delivered with Lightfall and Year 5 seasons:

• New Exotic Armor
• New weapons
• New Exotics
• New Armor sets
• New Artifact
• Neomuna weapons