Destiny 2 Heretical Weapons: Adepts & How to get them

by | Feb 6, 2025

Kicking today, February 4, 2025, Destiny 2’s third and final episode features new story beats, new activities, and new weapons and armor.

This guide covers all Heretical weapons from Episode 3 and tells you how to best farm them.

Heretical Weapons: The Complete List

This list includes every weapon from Revenant activities and Revenant engrams:

Echoes weapons also feature a unique Origin trait, Willing Vessel:

Dealing damage or defeating targets with this weapon gradually grants increased stability, handling, reload speed, and recharge rate. This effect gradually decreases over time but is gained more quickly near allies.

Heretical Weapons featured Destiny 2

How to get Adept Heretic Weapons

The Nether activity can also drop Adept versions of the Heretical Arsenal. Think of Adapt Heresy weapons as a combination of standard Adepts and Into the Light Shinny variants. Heretical Adepts offer:

  • A unique color treatment (akin to Into the Light Shinnies)
  • Multiple Perks per column
  • An Extra Origin Trait 
  • Can slot Fragile Mods (powerful mods that will expire at the of the Episode)

What’s better is that you don’t have to do anything specific to get an Adept Heretical weapon. These can drop randomly by exploring the Nether, using the Tome of Want, and earning Seasonal reputation. 

Adept Drop Rates

According to Bungie, tackling higher difficulties increases the chances of getting Adepts, but drop rates appear to be generous, even in Expert mode. Based on community tests, Adepts have an estimated 34% Drop rate. Of the 200 chests tracked by user Ashamed-Ad4956, 68 dropped an Adept Weapon.

Adamanite God Rolls screen 2 Destiny 2

Adamanite God Rolls, Destiny 2

How to get Heretical weapons

Unlike older Seasons that were plagued with confusing currencies and gameplay loops (and Revenant’s horrendous tonic recipes), Episode: Heresy features a streamlined farming system. 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 Heretical weapons:

  • Completing Heretical activities, including The Nether activity
  • Increasing your Seasonal reputation
How to get Heretical weapon screen Destiny 2

How to get Heretical weapons, Destiny 2

Additionally, you can focus the weapon at the Tome of Want for an additional cost by using Scriptures, making it worthwhile to gather materials to get your hands on a good roll of a specific weapon.

How to get Heretical Weapons screen Destiny 2

Tome of Want, Destiny 2

Before you go…

Looking to farm more excellent weapons from Episode 3? We cover how to farm the returning Arrivals weapons here.

About The Author

Ric Molina
Ric Molina
I've been covering gaming since 2012, and some of my work has been featured by large brands, including MSN.com, Forbes, Rock Paper Shotgun, and more. I've been obsessed with Destiny 2 (and now Diablo 4) for years now, and I hope to provide new and returning players with the guides and resources I wish I had when I first started.
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