37 Weapons that Defined the Destiny 2 PvP Meta
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Since 2017, Destiny 2's Crucible has gone through a number of changes with each major patch, update or expansion. This video looks at the top few weapons of each major era in PvP history through time.
Some of these weapons are still very good today, while others have been overshadowed. Which weapons would you add or remove from this list? I'd love to hear from you!
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Nostalgia hits deep but seeing those maps that have been removed just hurts 😭
They sucked but at least they provided variety
Bungie has an agenda against snow!
@@ythom6163 imo the only ones that sucked were equinox and the Nessus map
nostalgia at first, but then followed horrible flashbacks
😭😭
I have so much respect for you making this vid. It's time consuming, a smart content idea, and a way for ppl to get nostalgic. I hope this vid does well numbers wise because you deserve it!!!!
Thanks! It was so much work but really fun to make
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@@PattycakesGaming don't get me wrong I truly enjoy your input on pvp but cmom u guys don't know what's lot of work TH-cam isn't that bad sry but I have to say it ... u guys live inside a bubble ...
@@hugofrederico7054 you know this how exactly?
@@hugofrederico7054 I think the word "hard work" isn't very specific. Nothing on TH-cam will ever be as hard as a doctor/nurse losing a patient for example. Definitely agree on that front.
In terms of sheer hours, this is the third "career" I've done as a full time job and I definitely put in more hours on this job than any of the others. I consistently work about 80-100 hours per week across all of the various jobs required to grow my channels. But it's overall really fun and I realize not many have the kind of opportunity that my channel and fans have given me, so I'm trying to make the most of it while I can! :)
One thing I really appreciate about this video is the music switches from era to era. Really gets you in the headspace of that season or when that weapon *just* released and you were playing with it for the first time.
Thanks! I did my best to use soundtracks from each era of the game. Like the mindbenders section was The Fanatic song, and the pulse rifle section was The Rifleman 😅
Honorable mention for Y1 days: Autumn Wind and Darkest before. There was a period when they were just slaying. And swords, like quick fang, let's you move quicker, and they were lethal back then when specials didn't exist and ttk was slow, and they had more ammo. And Last Hope when it was the pinnacle as a dueling weapon. Tractor cannon too, when heavy ammo was almost as common as primary, you'd walk around with it all the time shutting down supers
Tractor cannon woulda got me my first 7th 4 years ago :(
Well darkest is meta rn
God I remember a clan I ran with posting something about tractor cannon on discord during that. Idr exactly how it went but it was something like:
“Alright, let me just get this ki- WOMP. Oh? Some heavy ammo, don’t mind if I- WOMP. The other team is kinda concentrated, let me just pop this- WOMP.”
Darkest before for sure
and now autumn wind is back
I was all about that Mida + Uriel’s Y1 meta. Hilarious now to think that was considered a cheesy loadout by some at the time lol
simpler times
That meta broke me
Uriels was amazing, I kind of miss that.
Year 1 PvP complaints were hilarious. “It’s a team shot meta!!1!1” what else are you supposed to do? What other game’s community complains about teamshotting being OP?
Honestly I must admit, when I got killed by uriels , I would always say, yup of course can't use anything else lol. I'm basically an average to sometimes slightly above average pvper, but those were the early days when I was very green, barely knew how to use radar
Thumbnail should have been:
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"37 Weapons that Defined the DESTINY 2 PvP Meta". Not Destiny PvP as a whole, Destiny 2.
@@DawnSentinel r/whooooosh
I remember Bygones absolutely SHREDDING everything at one point
Still got my old one, weve had some good times....some bad ones too but there you go.
Mines has a roll they will never use again, rampage and head seeker, I loved that gone, if all chips where down I’d switch to that.
#BringBackBygones
I don’t even care if better options exist, it’s one of the coolest looking guns. They would have to make a REALLY REALLY sick looking 260 Scout to replace my Servant Leader, for example
Mountaintop + recluse + 21% is Imo the best/most versatile overall weapon loadout in destiny 2 history, you wouldnt have to change your weapons regardless of what you were doing
Probably true
Sometimes you’d swap mountain top for izanagis 😂
Id take wendigo over 21 tbh but i agree
They need to un-nerf mt and bring back delirium’s pinnacle perk
I like how even though not forgotten got changed to a 140 it still has stability and less recoil like a 180
It went from a 180 to a 150 to a 140 and it kept the frame the same the whole time. Quite the journey I must say!
It has perfect in air accuracy and no recoil lol
Thank you for making this history vid. I would probably add the Thorn to this list pre 140, since it was a hand cannon that could two tap, have ridiculous dot to kill behind cover, and had handling to help swap speeds.
I really thought about both thorn and hawkmoon but it never seemed like we had an era where either were dominant. I love both though
Omfg the antiope was my absolute favorite and i never thought about it but it actually was a rare drop
Never knew it was rare I’d get one like every other game. Kept like 3 good ones but dismantled 15-20
I’m kinda glad no one knows the true strength of NTTE. Literally the best exotic pulse in the game and you can’t tell me otherwise.
What is NTTE?
@@kaleb_salinas i don’t really think there’s time to explain :/
*Laughs in messenger with rapid hit-desperado*
@@svnave8375 messenger isn’t exotic
OH I JUST GOT IT!! NTTE IS NO TIME TO EXPLAIN🤓
the shatterdive section was genius lmao
Hearing the Queenswalk music while talking about Recluse fits way too well.
First off, can we just acknowledge the Mita Multi Tool has been usable in almost every meta. Truly a weapon of its time.
I just got the catalyst and literally cannot kill anyone with it. Going to try again this week in momentum control :/
@@dukedub - really play it’s range, it has the largest aim assist cone of any scout rifle in the game. The flinch will push almost anything off you.
@@matthewcaimbeul8722 yeah I'll try it out. I played like 5 games and only had 1/200 progress on the catty
@@matthewcaimbeul8722 I played momentum control all night and finally finished the catalyst! Only catalyst remaining is the 4th horse man
Best part of the double primary era was that precision kills were more important than ever to secure a win. Wish the crucible had a double primary gun fighting mode for more one on one duels, besides rumble of coarse.
If ur talking about the number values ur asking for less forgiveness when most non full auto weapons have barely any
Man, I think I miss these maps more than I miss the guns
Lord Of Wolves meta was pain incarnate.
What pissed me off is that we said...Hay this s kinda stong could you tone it down...
*bungo* LAMO LET'S FUCKING BUFF IT BECAUSE FUCK YOU THAT'S WAY, CAN'T GET MAD WE'LL Make it a meme.
It's literally the fact that they buffed it whilst ignoring everyone's feed back...at least lense was a bug and I got that day 1 XD
Ow god I just remembered the irony of the Lord of wolves catalysts literally reverting the nerf
I didn't mind it at all because backup plan erentil destroyed lord of wolves users. It was basically just lord of wolves with more range and all you had to do was swap weapons at the right time.
To me, the Lunas/Dust Rock meta was worse. Just so boring.
Also....I almost forgot how absolutely WILD Recluse was pre-nerf. To me the most OP weapon in Destiny franchise history.
Yeah that shit was real painal
@@Mike_Viola back when I was a bot who would think a 2kd player is a god I got a clip of me wiping out 8 people in like 15 seconds with recluse, it made the game easy mode
24:14 you made me smile right after i realised its time to talk about DMT
I remember the community discovering the massive hidden range bonus that ricochet rounds used to grant, and real gamers swapped out Uriel's Gift for The Number from FWC.
The Omolon Sidearm The Last Hope was also busted at this point. Basically, any gun that rolled with Ricochet Rounds was either meta, or at very least Best-in-Slot.
Another prominent archetype was pre-Forsaken breechload GLs, which would give 8 rounds for a single heavy brick, and had obscene AOE for blinding/concussion nades. They were pretty slept-on for a long time, but they really took off in the weeks leading up to Forsaken
I KNOW WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT, THAT IRON BANNER GL HURT ME EMOTIONALLY. EVERYTIME I GOT HIT MY ROOM WPOULD LIGHT UP.
The nostalgia from Graviton 😭 I never took that thing off during Warmind
I remmeber all these metas. Mida in week one trials of the nine wow.
Maaaan Bygones was such a good gun. Almost got 10k kills on mine lol. Also, love that you added the destiny music, really adds the the nostalgic factor!!
I forgot how insane shotguns used to be. That dust rock was more lethel than aggressive were in the last 2 years
So much nostalgia for vanilla... I left for a couple of years, so I don't know much about the middle years meta, unfortunately. But Uriel's was my baby along with Origin Story. I do hate how Dire Promise was basically nerfed without any compensation. It naturally rolls with lower stats as it is (something I will never understand- why some guns are just built inferior instead of being balanced) and the loss of the lightweight archetype definitely hurt it. Sucks, too, because I have a God Roll with Opening Shot, Rangefinder and Ricochet that still gets beat by my Fatebringer and Palindromes.
@@ADUSN same here man. Same here.
My range masterwork Inaugural address....
Amazing vid! So much nostalgia! Also, thorn catalyst when?!?
Antiope is pronounced "Ann Tie Oh Pee". She's a figure from Greek myth, which Destiny pulls a lot of item names from, as well as other cultures' myths.
Well ut right and ur late ... and if I can improve in your 2 cents lots of names and mentions and lore books are based on t book of t devil ... bungie isn't that bright as u think soo... they can also be liars deceptive and misleading all t community... don't naive thinking this is same bungie from other times ... no wonder
@@hugofrederico7054 what are you talking about??
@@hugofrederico7054 What are you on about?
@@anthonywise1989 i get a bunch ... peace
@@hugofrederico7054 learn to spell
1. Great video. 2. I love the music decision to have it match with the season of release or activity of each weapon.
Thanks! It took some extra work but I thought it was worth it. For the fellow music nerds, a few really match up like The Fanatic playing for mindbenders and The Rifleman playing for pulse rifles
What weapons would you add to this list?
Watch this next: I Ranked Every Playstyle in a Tier List - th-cam.com/video/8-Uo-cQcnwo/w-d-xo.html
Release subclass tier list video!
Excited to watch this one too though, keep hope the good work man
Dust Rock Blues is cracked to this day
@@MakinaMakinaMakina Haha I'm debating if it makes sense to wait until we see the Dec patch because they might change up everything on us right before we publish it...
@@Illegal0Insanity It still is, but wow watching old clips of it makes me wonder how it was added to the game in such a hot state
On console we used in year one omolon 3 round burst sidearms with vigilance wing, instead of smgs
this is pure nostalgia
Seeing the Antiope reminds me of my first days in Destiny 2, as i watched a video of some guy opening 50 or so Legendary engrams and still not getting it.
Meanwhile it was my very first Legendary and i still have it to this day with many thousands of kills in the Killtracker!
ow man seeing the footage of the dire @ 150 RPM i miss 150s
This video certainly is a trip down to memory lane. So many amazing weapons and different metas from a different time. Thank you, Patty! An outstanding job as always.
Oh I am beyond happy Uriel's Gift was mentioned. I just got one doing Nessus stuff the other day and had flashbacks to getting beamed by that in Crucible. Good times, honestly.
I miss all of these metas. A ton of variety and memories. Opulence was probably peak PvP IMHO.
Nowadays it’s all shotgun chimpanzees.
Ace is still my favourite weapon of all time and I use it everywhere (except nightfalls and the seasonal activities) it feels great and as a hunter using my vanguard’s handcannon just feels right :)
Also whats the song at 9:20?
Great vid. But I have to admit it saddens me seeing all of those vaulted maps. Sure, some of them weren’t so great, but having that variety would do wonders.
Back in the MIDA days, I also loved using the Origin Story. I can’t remember now if it was popular amongst the community, maybe it was only my friends but man that thing was really good if you could use it well. Basically, if you haven’t played with it, it feels similar to how using Uriel’s Gift did in it’s prime. I haven’t seen many people talking about Origin Story much since then, sadly.
Really cool vid! What a trip. And the pronunciation for the Antiope would be "anne-TIE-oh-pee" emphasis on tie (and is pronounced like a neck tie, not like tea)
I was using the 600rpm Scathelocke back in the pre-Forsaken days because it also had high calibur rounds and under pressure. It was a counter meta pick that outdueled Uriel's Gift. Scathelocke has been reissued but the year one version had a sight for every range, now it doesn't even roll with sight perks, it has barrels instead
I miss the graviton lance
I got so nostalgic you were talking about dust rock blues only time I ever got a hate message was when I using my god roll dust rock blues
Mountaintop Recluse was just amazing. Basically invalidated every other weapon in the game but my god was it an incredibly fun loadout. Going to a raid? Cool, MT Recluse. Going over to PvP after? Cool I... won't change my loadout at all.
I don’t know why I’m watching this because I lived through every single one of these hell filled metas but it was pretty nostalgic to get reminded about the insane team shooting in year 1
Yeah I forgot all about that.
Patty could you possibly make a Grenade tier list in PvP?
I'd love to see what experienced players think are S tier grenade choices and which ones are D
I’ve thought about making something like that
@@PattycakesGaming Always wanted to see a grenade/melee tier list. I hope you go for it
Yes! Please do!
I'm so glad you made this video! I was just thinking about the meta throughout the years the other day and trying to find a list on Google or reddit. One thing you forgot was the last hope meta. The 3 round burst sidearm that would delete you in like, .4 seconds
You should look into covering the history of different weapon archetypes in their own videos.
I got tears watching this, as a day 1 vet I had troubles coming back this season, coming across this video gave me good trials of the 9 memories.
When you consider the totality of the gun, meaning it’s power in ALL game modes, the fact that it was legendary, etc etc, Recluse in its original form is the strongest weapon in the history of Destiny and there really is no argument IMHO.
Mountaintop back in the era of instant reload abilities might be a challenger. The fact that the two could be used together really just made them both better though, they were almost a package deal.
I remember when i got mine mindbender's, for some reason i put in my mind that i was gonna get it alone, and was a painfull week, but when i got the roll that i wanted, i was so happy that i absolutely forgot that i wasn't really a shotgun player, neither a crucible player, in the end, was a painfull week to get the gun and a painfull month learning how to use it and play crucible
Ace has been the most consistent tho
Ace has been high tier ever since it got released in D2, and it was pretty good in D1 also... just an all around great weapon
after leaving right before forsaken and just returning in season 15, i’ve just now almost recovered from missing all that loot. now i don’t wanna leave, even during bad seasons, just so i don’t fall out of the loop
I remember using Uriels all the time in vanilla. Kept telling my clan members you guys NEED to try this gun out in cruci! Days later it was everywhere! I think I still have mine, locked in my vault as a momento too.
The double Mida strat was such a pain
I absolutely love the way you approach your content, man. I feel like almost all D2 Content creators bring something to the table that's a little different than the others, making it enjoyable to watch all of them.
Keep up these awesome vids, and keep making stuff you love!
I do not miss the Luna/NF/Recluse meta in the slightest, that meta killed pvp for me and I’m just now getting back into it
I’ve used every singe weapon on this list at its peak of the meta and I’m so glad that I went on this nostalgia trip with all of you.
*Talk about Mountaintop*
*Hear Riven's Heart dreadful OST*
*See Recluse*
Yep, I feel the PTSD coming back faster than ever.
LOL that was intentional xD
@@PattycakesGaming You would have said otherwise, I wouldn't have believed you xD
Suros Regime and Hard light were kings of the 600 rpm meta. There was also short linear fusion rifle (arbslest) meta when everybody tried to get the ritual linear fusion rifle.
This was very enjoyable to watch and painful at the same time. So many fun weapons and maps that are sunset/vaulted. RIP
Wow, Patty. You make a 30 minute long video, and put your sponsorship at the end?! You’re awesome.
Take a shot whenever he says “140 rpm hand cannon”
Where’s the Telesto meta back when Forsaken came out? I still have PTSD from fighting that thing in competitive while trying to get Luna’s Howl.
I know this might be weird but I actually miss the old op guns, they were just much more fun to use
I've love to see not forgotten/recluse return, just for a weekend.
Prometheus Lensssss... I remember the laser tag weekend. I played exactly one match, took a break from Destiny until Warmind dropped, and then like a year later I got the emblem lol.
I used my bygones so much in forsaken, kill clip with full auto trigger, that was the weapon i used to get my redrix and lunas (after doing the other challenges) what a great servant to me that was
Erentil is the best sniper ever. 💜
This video has brought me a great bit of nostalgia. Thank you so much. Year one had some good times too
“The messenger is one of the most high-skill high-reward weapons” the only skill required is standing on the back of the map and doing nothing
Edit: and calls the vex a crutch
A few history notes for the first couple of minutes--
The pulse meta in Y1 really started with Darkest Before's initial release in Curse of Osiris, which competed directly with the auto offerings of the day for the few still playing. Additionally, the IKELOS SMG was strongly bolstered by one somewhat-glitch that would regularly impact duels: double impacts. Essentially, with Seraph Rounds, IKELOS bullets could penetrate targets and hit them again after bouncing off a wall, causing some absolute melts that other weapons couldn't compete with at the time.
Yooo, Ive been waiting for this video for months since you made that poll, hell yea!
8:38 kinda funny to watch frame by frame where the reticle is and where the bullet goes
Honorable mention: witherhoard. After its release, it was 'floor is lava' for like a month
go to 8:38, pause it, use the < and > keys to advance frame by frame. Note how badly the player missed the headshot but still got credit for it. Tell me still this is a skill based game.
Im just happy that i got a perfect multimach godroll at the start of season of the chosen, almost deleted it lol
If there's one thing I never really understood, is when people say things like "this gun revived a weapons type again"- when really it's just those few specific easy to use or broken guns that were popular at the time.
Thanks for making this vid! Especially for new players to see how the meta has grown!
I'm surprised you never brought up Orimund's Anvil. It was basically the Pariah, but upgraded with accurized rounds and under pressure. I actually took Pariah into Crucible for a while before Anvil came out once I found out how insane it was.
Anvil was freaking insane, and it turned into a war over Anvil and Uriels users.
Awesome video! So fun to reflect back to the beginning. How could you forget The Last Hope?? That paired with Mida was a brutal combo for original trials of the nine.
R1 for me, I've never used the trigger to fire in Destiny. This stemmed from PS3 CoD where the default control option was L1 to ads and R1 to fire since it had no triggers. So when I got my PS4 and Destiny at launch, and now PS5, I never attempted to adjust and always swap my bumper buttons. This is actually beneficial since it baiscally gives me trigger stops on a normal controller and in a fast pased game like Destiny(or any fps for that matter) any advantage even a couple milliseconds is enough to win some gunfights. Also on the PS5 with it's adaptive triggers some games(not Destiny) give resistance on larger guns with the triggers and while it's more realistic and kinda cool at first after hours long sessions with simi auto weapons it can really make you hand start to cramp for games without an option to swap bumpers like Back 4 Blood.
It's funny I can recall every one of these from memory, in order. I knew you missed Last Hope immediately along with some other y1 weapons like Stocastic Variable, Darkest Before and Purpose(used in both pve and pvp but probably more in pve) and some power weapons like Tractor Cannon, any cluster rocket, Play of the Game and Maxim XI. I also loved y1 Truthteller after they got an ammo buff getting you 8 shots per power ammo pickup and 1 shotting with proximity even around corners meaning I could have power ammo the entire game with how fast it spawned b4 Bungie made it shared. You also missed Twilight Oath in y2.
The most memorable drop for me is spare rations, because I got a god roll from drifter when I unlocked tier 2 reckoning. Paired that with a twilight path and murder lobbies at both close and far range via shotgun sniping.
Do a list of the exotic armour in the same format , that would be good
If this does well I’d like to do armor for sure
@@PattycakesGaming awesome , first things that come to mind are one eyed mask and most recently the stag . Can't wait to watch it
RIP-Blast furnace; the king of dad rifles.
Been using Crimson alot in pvp and pve since the Lucky Pants buff. Usually use it with Found Verdict in crucible.
Kindled orchid, midnight coup, randys throwing knife, Trustee, Rose, Trust, perfect paradox, hawthorne’s field forged shotgun, seventh seraph shotgun, ghost primus.
Just a few honorable mentions imo, I used alot of these ^
Very well done video bud. Came out awesome!
14:16 I miss. The only thing that could make me cry is the removal of this gun. Which happened when it swapped to the 140 rpm and got sunset.
I ran Better Devils and Uriel back in the day, it was CRAZY how strong they were
Even though I played in Y1 I didnt know melees were 3 hit.
I started playing d2 during the felwinters lie meta. Ah man I despised that gun. Finally when I got my hands on one it was nerfed into the ground lol
Great stuff! I would have expected the Ikelos shotgun to make this list but overall this was some good reminiscing!
'Some players were willing to put in the effort to master the messenger.'
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
The face at 0:20 reminds me of me right now because I only slept for 5 hours because I stayed up and played Destiny 2 until 3am.
As a PvP main since launch, some weapons that I felt were left out:
Immediately after launch, Pulse grenades 2 shot, even through titan barricades, were completely broken for several weeks.
Tracker Cannon in double primary after it's rework in warmind, especially in comp for claymore. (Lowkey meta then was breach launchers though)
Astral Horizon as an Honorable Mention when Felwinter's was discussed.
The Summoner as honnorable mention over gnawing hunger as it was/is better for dueling.
Twilight Oath pre-zoom nerf with 2 body shot kill around last word meta on PC (Rapid fire snipes nerfed due to this)
Arguably Chap Earlier/ twice on the List with not forgotten with spectral on launch was insanely strong.
Breach Launchers were incredibly strong for a long time.
Overall, amazing video, was a huge nostalgia hit to go through the old metas. Really made me miss some old maps. Thanks for the content!
Crimson is a beast but i'd trade it for Red Death in a heartbeat.
Me too!
You could add the astral horizon, the one eyed mask striker titan, the last dance sidearm (console), parcel of stardust, arbalest (console), bastion, suros (alongside the hardlight you mentioned), telesto (obviously), jötunn,
I definitely remembered the old 120 meta. Trying to finish Ticcu’s Divination Catalyst Crucible Steps while 120s could map you at similar ranges.
I'm so glad you mentioned bottom dollar. I just got a range finder explosive payload 🥰
My igneous hammer had the same roll as your adept one just instead with rico rounds and I absolutely loved it it was my first ever trials weapon and was my favorite after the QuickDraw nerfs I never really used it and at this point I had deleted it because I didn’t use it anymore