Alongside a brand new location to discover, marketing campaign to finish, and raid to tackle, one of many key additions in Destiny 2: The Remaining Form is Prismatic. This can be a new subclass, of which we have solely ever had 5 in Destiny’s historical past, however this one is way completely different in that it blends collectively outdated and new choices from the present Mild and Darkness subclasses to provide you an fascinating mix. With so many decisions comes a whole lot of complexity, so we’re right here to information you thru every part there’s to learn about Prismatic, together with methods to unlock it and all of its Supers, Elements, Fragments, and different choices, in addition to really useful builds as we begin to wrap our heads round what’s potential.
How to unlock Prismatic
In contrast to Strand or Stasis, Prismatic is put into your fingers early within the Remaining Form marketing campaign, and it is not taken away. You may have unrestricted entry to it, though it takes time to unlock all of its customization choices (extra on that beneath). Merely hearth up the marketing campaign, and you will be mixing Mild and Darkness like by no means earlier than in your path to confronting The Witness. A part of this entails unlocking a wholly new Tremendous and Facet, which will even be accessible when utilizing the corresponding elemental’s subclass, along with Prismatic.
How to get extra Prismatic Supers, grenades, Elements, and Fragments
What makes Prismatic so thrilling and enjoyable are the entire choices you will finally have at your disposal. Taking part in by the marketing campaign will get you a restricted collection of Supers, grenades, Elements, and Fragments, however as you may see on the customization display screen, there are extra that await you.
As quickly as you are carried out with the marketing campaign, you can begin the Destined Heroes quest, which can finally help you unlock the Ergo Sum Unique sword. However a part of that prolonged questline entails finishing a number of different missions, which include some nice story content material but additionally will fill in a lot of your Prismatic arsenal.
Ghost will give you two Transcendence quests, every aligned with both the Mild or Darkness. You’ll be able to full them in both order, however finishing them and their related Adventures will every present a further grenade choice, Facet, and Tremendous. When you’re carried out with these, you need to have your entire Prismatic unlocks accessible, apart from Fragments.
New Prismatic Fragments are unlocked another way. Hidden Prismatic chests will be found all through the Pale Coronary heart, and it is by opening these that you can spherical out your arsenal. We’re engaged on monitoring all of those down, and we’ll have a information that can assist you discover these quickly.
Transcendence
Apart from the interaction that opens up from with the ability to combine and match parts of the completely different subclasses, Transcendence is maybe probably the most key aspect of Prismatic. Two new bars might be positioned beneath your Tremendous meter when utilizing Prismatic. The Mild bar is stuffed by dealing harm with Void, Photo voltaic, or Arc potential or weapon harm, whereas the Darkness bar is stuffed by Stasis or Strand talents and weapons. (Kinetic weapons slowly construct up each bars.) As soon as each bars are stuffed, you may activate Transcendence. This does just a few issues:
- Will increase weapon harm
- Immediately refreshes grenade and melee talents
- Will increase grenade power regeneration when dealing melee harm
- Will increase melee potential power regeneration when dealing grenade harm
- Swaps your grenade to a particular Prismatic model
- Supplies harm resistance
This state solely lasts for a restricted time, though kills do refill your meter, permitting you to increase the length. The meters will be stuffed extra rapidly by standing on glowing pink/purple patches on the bottom, which you will sometimes see within the marketing campaign any time you encounter particular sorts of enemies.
Being Transcendent is required to be able to make sure foes–Sure enemies, people who you will see with the same kind of pinkish-purple coating round them–vulnerable to wreck. Any harm dealt to those enemies whereas Transcendent means that you can begin attacking them with any harm kind, though in the event that they’re left alone for lengthy sufficient, they will change into Sure once more.
Prismatic synergizes properly with the aforementioned Ergo Sum, which has a perk–Transcendent Duelist–that helps to hurry up filling the Mild and Darkness bars, offers elevated harm whereas Transcendent, and additional extends its length when getting kills with the sword whereas Transcendent.
Prismatic suggestions
The character of Prismatic means you really want to suppose by your construct, maybe extra so than another subclass. When you can have enjoyable mixing any mixture of talents, Supers, Elements, and Fragments, there are clear synergies available. It additionally opens up another fascinating prospects that we’re nonetheless discovering. Listed below are some suggestions based mostly on our time with it to this point:
- Equipping a dependable Strand or Stasis weapon along with a Void, Photo voltaic, or Arc one could make it simpler to persistently construct up your bars to activate Transcendence.
- As famous above, Sure enemies are invincible till broken by a Transcendent participant, but when essential, you may quickly construct up your Mild and Darkness bars by firing at a Sure foe, permitting you to activate Transcendence.
- Earlier than activating Transcendence, make sure you use your grenade and melee fees. As a result of they will be robotically refreshed (and your grenade changed with a Prismatic one), you may deal some further harm this manner.
- Preserve alternating between your grenade and melee potential. Dealing harm with both one whereas Transcendent will quickly velocity up power regeneration for the opposite, permitting you to leap forwards and backwards between them.
- Transcendence doesn’t make you invincible. It is easy to really feel empowered by its elevated harm resistance, however do not mistake that energy for invincibility–particularly in case you’re in a Darkness Zone the place a demise will be pricey.
Recommended Prismatic builds
We’re nonetheless digging our enamel into the entire prospects that Prismatic permits, however listed here are some early options for builds or combos to contemplate. We’ll proceed including extra as we spend extra time with the subclass, however make sure you tell us what you want utilizing within the feedback beneath.
Titan
An attractive combo comes with the Consecration Facet. Whereas sliding, this allows you to use a melee cost to launch out Photo voltaic power to scorch targets, after which slam all the way down to ignite them. However whereas the Photo voltaic subclass would usually have only one melee cost, you may go for Frenzied Blade, which might retailer as much as three melee fees. This manner, you may probably use Consecration a number of occasions in a row, or simply extra usually typically. To make this much more highly effective, you may equip the Side of Smash Fragment, which (amongst different issues) will increase Photo voltaic ignitions’ space of impact, making these much more devastating.
Hunter
As a Hunter, you may leverage the flexibility to go invisible with different subclass perks. The Void Facet Fashionable Executioner offers you Invisibility and Truesight everytime you defeat an enemy who’s weakened, suppressed, or unstable; it additionally weakens a goal once you melee assault an enemy whereas invisible. Mix that with Gambler’s Dodge–the Arc subclass ability–which absolutely recharges your melee once you dodge close to an enemy, after which you’ve gotten entry to a melee extra usually. Then, equip the Mixture Blow melee, which buffs your melee harm as you get kills and recharges your class potential once you get a kill (along with supplying you with well being), and you’ve got an incredible loop:
Void debuff an enemy, kill them together with your melee to go invisible, buffing your melee harm, dodge to revive your melee, and weaken an enemy by doing a melee assault whereas invisible, restarting the loop and offering that Void debuff.
Warlock
Prismatic pairs very properly with the Getaway Artist Unique gauntlets and Bleak Watcher Facet. You are capable of hold Radiant, Devour, and Amplified activated by most fight encounters and have each a number of Bleak Watchers deployed together with an Arc Soul.