Weapon Crafting

Weapon Crafting, referred to in universe as Shaping is a feature introduced with The Witch Queen expansion which allows players to make, upgrade, and customize their own weapons. It can be accessed by interacting with the Relic found in The Enclave in Savathûn's Throne World near the left-hand side of the map. The Relic where weapon crafting is performed is found behind large black doors down the steps in The Enclave.

Crafting a weapon

In order to unlock weapon crafting, players need to complete the first mission of The Witch Queen campaign, after which they will be taught the process through crafting The Enigma.

Weapon Crafting

Weapon crafting is a seven step process. As the player levels a weapon, they can return to the Relic to modify their weapon with new options.

1. Select an intrinsic Frame. This does not mean one can choose weapon archetype, rather it serves to provide a selection of unlockable stat boosts.
2. Select a Barrel perk.
3. Select a Magazine perk.
4. Choose a Trait perk.
5. Choose another Trait perk.
6. Optionally choose a Memento, if available.
7. The selected customizations can now be finalized.

Deepsight Resonance

Deepsight Resonance is a new weapon feature also added with the Witch Queen expansion. Weapons with extractable Patterns have a chance to drop with Deepsight Resonance, marked by a red border around the icon of the gun. In order to extract the pattern, players can dismantle the weapon, or if they wish to keep using it, they can fill up the bar labeled Attunement Progress to progress the pattern without destroying the weapon. Once a weapon's pattern is fully extracted, future copies will no longer drop with Deepsight Resonance.

Patterns

Patterns are needed to craft weapons and are unlocked by extracting Deepsight Resonance from a certain amount of the same gun. For example, in order to craft an Austringer, you will need to extract the resonance of five Deepsight Austringers in order to unlock the pattern. Your progress for patterns can be seen by going to Patterns & Catalysts under the Triumphs page. Some weapons require more Deepsight Resonance extractions than others in order to unlock their pattern. Players can also use Deepsight Harmonizers to unlock patterns faster at the cost of one harmonizer and Spoils of Conquest on craftable raid weapons.

Ascendant Alloys

Ascendant Alloys are needed to craft weapons with Enhanced Perks. They can be obtained from Master Rahool (once per week), the weekly campaign missions, some seasonal activities, the Master version of The Wellspring, as well as from Banshee-44 upon reaching reputation rank 16 or the Seasonal vendor's track.

Weapon Upgrading

Weapons can have their perks changed and upgraded by going to the Reshape tab when interacting with the Relic. Note that you cannot reshape weapons that are locked and/or that are currently equipped. Adept raid weapons can only be upgraded by reshaping the weapon and then spending Glimmer and Upgrade Materials to unlock the ability to enhance the traits that dropped with the weapon.

Leveling Up

Newly crafted weapons will only start off with a handful of perks and intrinsic traits. In order to unlock all the available perks from your weapon, you must level up the weapon by getting kills or completing activities with the weapon. You may also spend resources to upgrade your weapon, with increasing costs as level increases. You can track your progress by checking the "Weapon Level" progress bar beneath the weapon's Power Level. Your perk options will increase per level and all perks and their enhanced versions will be unlocked by level 16. Players can also level up a weapon instantly at the cost of Glimmer and Upgrade Materials.

When a weapon reaches level 7, it can be reshaped to have an enhanced intrinsic trait, giving it bonuses like a Legendary weapon's Masterwork. When a weapon reaches level 20, this intrinsic trait will have its value increased. All traits cost Glimmer and Enhancement Cores.

Enhanced Traits

Enhanced Traits are upgraded traits that are slightly better than their non-enhanced counterparts. In order to reshape a weapon with Enhanced Perks, you will need Ascendant Alloys and Enhancement Prisms to do so. A weapon with an enhanced intrinsic trait and an two enhanced traits will gain a golden border, like fully upgraded Masterwork weapons.

Mementos

Mementos are rare drops that can be obtained from endgame activities like Gambit, Nightfalls and Trials of Osiris, as well as events such as Festival of the Lost. Applying a Memento to your weapon unlocks a kill tracker, weapon title, and unique shader. Mementos can also be upgraded, unlocking the aforementioned perks with more leveling.

• Level 1 - Activity Kill Tracker
• Level 20 - Weapon Title
• Level 30 - Shader

Exotics

Some Exotic weapons can be crafted. Exotics will not have enhanced traits, and their Exotic catalysts will be inserted as part of the crafting process, depending on the weapon. Mementos cannot be inserted in Exotic weapons.

Craftable Weapons

Primary Auto Rifles Come to Pass Sweet Sorrow Firefright Ammit AR2 Rufus's Fury Perpetualis Age-Old Bond Abyss Defiant Bows Fel Taradiddle Under Your Skin Tripwire Canary Raconteur Tyranny of Heaven Lethophobia Hand Cannons Austringer Zaouli's Bane Posterity IKELOS HC v1.0.3 Round Robin Targeted Redaction Nation of Beasts Kept Confidence Word of Crota Optative Pulse Rifles Insidious Piece of Mind Syncopation-53 BxR-55 Battler Smite of Merain Revision Zero Disparity Phyllotactic Spiral Different Times Chattering Bone Oversoul Edict Adhortative Scalar Potential Scout Rifles Pointed Inquiry Tears of Contrition Doom of Chelchis Tarnished Mettle Trustee Transfiguration Dead Man's Tale Brya's Love Fang of Ir Yût Imperative Sidearms Empirical Evidence Drang (Baroque) Brigand's Law Mykel's Reverence Submachine Guns Osteo Striga Forensic Nightmare Submission CALUS Mini-Tool Blood Feud IKELOS SMG v1.0.3 Rapacious Appetite Subjunctive

Special Fusion Rifles Likely Suspect Deliverance The Epicurean Midha's Reckoning Royal Executioner Iterative Loop Techeun Force The Eremite Scatter Signal Glaives Edge of Concurrence Edge of Action Edge of Intent The Enigma Lubrae's Ruin Nezarec's Whisper Judgement of Kelgorath Vexcalibur Grenade Launchers Forbearance Explosive Personality Pardon Our Dust Prodigal Return Dead Messenger Shotguns Ragnhild-D Without Remorse Imperial Decree Wastelander M5 No Reprieve Heritage UKELOS SG v1.0.3 Nessa's Oblation Until Its Return Swordbreaker Supercluster Sniper Rifles Father's Sins Thoughtless Beloved Defiance of Yasmin Succession IKELOS SR v1.0.3 Volta Bracket A Distant Pull The Supremacy Locus Locutus Trace Rifles Hollow Denial Retraced Path Path of Least Resistance Acasia's Dejection Appetence

Heavy Grenade Launchers Tarnation Koraxis's Distress Regnant Dimensional Hypotrochoid Linear Fusion Rifles Cataclysmic Taipan-4fr Sailspy Pitchglass Fire and Forget Briar's Contempt Doomed Petitioner Machine Guns Recurrent Impact Fixed Odds Qullim's Terminus Planck's Stride Commemoration Retrofit Escapade Eleatic Principle Song of Ir Yût Rocket Launchers Red Herring Palmyra-B Bump in the Night Apex Predator Semiotician Swords Half-Truths The Other Half Goldtusk Death's Razor Throne-Cleaver Bequest Caretaker Thin Precipice

Trivia

• There used to be several different Elements (Ruinous, Adroit, Mutable, Energetic and Drowned) to be used in crafting alongside Resonant Element (then called Neutral Element), but they were removed with the beginning of Season of the Haunted.
  • Resonant Elements were ultimately removed with the release of Lightfall, replacing them with Glimmer.
• Harmonic Alloy use to be called Drowned Alloy before Season of Plunder.