Destiny 2's Vow of the Disciple Raid Breaks Two Trends at Once

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Because Destiny 2 is a looter-shooter where every piece of gear matters, a huge amount of emphasis is put on the weapons and armor pieces players can obtain that each have random rolls or unique perks. There are several elements and damage types in Destiny 2, and plenty of different weapon archetypes as well, meaning there are many possible combinations to explore — some of which haven't yet been explored. For example, the newly introduced glaive is a hybrid weapon that's both a melee polearm and a projectile-shooting gun, but because it's new there are only two variants: one that deals Void damage, another that deals Solar damage.

This limitation can be problematic when it comes to crafting builds because the elemental damage dealt by guns has an impact on the selection of mods and gear combinations one can use. Destiny 2's Vow of the Disciple Raid manages to break this trend for fusion rifles, which were widely used in Season of the Lost thanks to Particle Deconstruction, for which players have long been asking for a Stasis version. This is not the only trend that Vow of the Disciple breaks though, as another comes from the lack of new Exotic pulse rifles.

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Many players made the assumption that Season of the Lost was the perfect place to have a Kinetic fusion rifle added into the mix because of all the possibilities it would have opened in terms of build crafting. One could argue that there are (and were already, at the time) two Kinetic fusion rifles in Destiny 2, with one being the Exotic Bastion and the other being an Exotic linear fusion rifle called Arbalest.

However, the Vow of the Disciple Raid finally added a Kinetic Legendary fusion rifle that also deals