No Backup Plans

"No ammo? No problem"

— Armor description.

No Backup Plans
Specifications
Name:	No Backup Plans
Type:	Gauntlets
Rarity:	Exotic
Class:	Titan
Minimum level:	40
Defense rating:	280-400
Intellect:	30-60
Disicpline:	30-60
Strength:	30-94
Availability
Loot drop?:	Yes
Sources:	Raids/Strikes
Vendor:	Xur
Price:	13 Strange Coins

No Backup Plans are a set of exotic Titan gauntlets in Destiny and Destiny 2. Designed to augment the melee ability of the Titan Defender subclass, they received a rework in Year 2.

Upgrades

Year 1

Column 0

Ascend - Increases the Defense value of this armor to the highest available in Year 1.

Column 1

Special Weapon Loader - Increases the reload speed of all Special Weapons.

Column 2

Upgrade Defense - Increases Defense Power, allowing this armor to absorb more damage.

Column 3

Rain Blows - Increases melee attack speed.

Column 4

Improved Disintegrate (Exotic Perk) - Increases the duration of Force Barrier.

Column 5

Upgrade Defense - Increases Defense Power, allowing this armor to absorb more damage.

Column 6

Upgrade Defense - Increases Defense Power, allowing this armor to absorb more damage.

Upgrade Defense - Increases Defense Power, allowing this armor to absorb more damage.

Year 2

Column 0

Force Multiplier (Exotic Perk) - Shotgun kills trigger Force Barrier and Force Barrier's duration is increased.

Infuse - Consume a more powerful piece of Armor to boost the Defense value of this Armor.

Column 1

Option 1: Randomly Selected Perk - This can be one of two randomly selected perks:

• Increase Intellect
• Increase Discipline

Option 2: Increase Strength

Column 2

Option 1: Rain Blows - Increases melee attack speed.

Option 2: Randomly Selected Perk - This can be one of two randomly selected perks:

• Momentum Transfer - Gain bonus melee energy on grenade hits.
• Impact Induction - Gain bonus grenade energy on melee hits.

Column 3

Option 1: Shotgun Loader - Increases the reload speed of shotguns.

Option 2: Randomly Selected Perk - This can be one of two randomly selected perks:

• Machine Gun Loader - Increases the reload speed of machine guns.
• Rocket Launcher Loader - Increases the reload speed of rocket launchers.

Destiny 2 perks

• Force Multiplier: When you have full melee energy, Shotgun final blows activate your Defensive Strike and consume your melee energy. Shotgun final blows also give you melee energy.

Lore

Austyn is thrown out of the ley line onto a piece of flat stone no bigger than a banquet table. High walls rise on all sides—an impossible place, a hiccup in the ascendant energies.

It will do.

She measures the space to the far corner of the stone cell, then faces the rippling wall of energy that deposited her there. She thrusts her hands back into the flowing magic and uses her skills as a Wayfinder to churn the boundaries of the Line. Soon the undertow takes hold, and the activity is enough to draw the attention of anything scrabbling through the darkness.

She rests, then reaches again into the swirling magic, feeling for something that does not belong: the outstretched arm of a Hive Thrall, groping blindly through the turbid energy.

With worrying immediacy she finds one, thin and brittle; part of it remains shift-bound to an unknown plane. Her hand snaps shut and she twists, feeling the limb splinter in her grip. The creature shrieks.

She steps back and uses the last of her magic to spread a thin crystal wall across the air in front of her just as a horde of Xivu Arath's ravenous Hive, lured by the sound of suffering, force a breach in the line.

They puddle and then pool, forming a deep well as they flow into her trap, held fast by the crush of their compatriots. The clot of ravenous Hive builds, their claws scraping against the crystal.

Austyn sits with her back to the barrier and waits for her queen.

List of appearances

• Destiny (First appearance)
• Destiny 2: Season of the Lost