Unlock the full potential of your armor with Destiny 2's Mod System. Mods are crucial for enhancing your Guardian's stats, improving ability regeneration, and providing vital damage resistance. This section breaks down how to effectively use and acquire mods to optimize your builds.
Armor Mod Slots
Each piece of armor (Helmet, Gauntlets, Chest Armor, Leg Armor, Class Item) has a limited number of mod slots. These slots are categorized by the type of mod they can accept:
- Helmet Mods: Typically focus on ammo acquisition (e.g., Heavy Ammo Finder) and Super generation (e.g., Harmonic Siphon).
- Gauntlet Mods: Often enhance grenade and melee abilities (e.g., Firepower, Heavy Handed) or improve weapon handling.
- Chest Armor Mods: Primarily provide damage resistance against specific enemy types or elemental damage (e.g., Concussive Dampener, Sniper Damage Resistance).
- Leg Armor Mods: Can boost weapon reload speed, ammo reserves, or provide healing on Orb pickup (e.g., Recuperation).
- Class Item Mods: Focus on ability regeneration (e.g., Bomber, Reaper) and utility effects.
The energy cost of mods increases as you slot more powerful ones, requiring higher-tier armor with more energy capacity.
Types of Mods
- Stat Mods: These mods directly increase your Guardian's core stats (Mobility, Resilience, Recovery, Discipline, Intellect, Strength). They are essential for reaching high stat tiers.
- Ability Mods: Enhance the effectiveness or regeneration of your grenades, melee, and class abilities. Examples include mods that grant ability energy on kill, on ability use, or on Orb pickup.
- Damage Resistance Mods: Crucial for endgame PvE content, these mods reduce incoming damage from specific sources. They are vital for surviving in activities like Grandmaster Nightfalls.
- Ammo Mods: Increase the chance of finding Heavy or Special ammo bricks in combat.
- Utility Mods: Provide various benefits, such as faster weapon swapping, increased sprint speed, or improved radar.
- Armor Charge Mods: Introduced with the Armor Charge system, these mods consume Armor Charges to provide powerful buffs, such as increased weapon damage, faster ability regeneration, or enhanced damage resistance.
Acquiring Mods
Mods are acquired through several methods:
- Ada-1 (Tower): Sells a rotating selection of armor mods daily. This is the primary source for many essential mods.
- Banshee-44 (Tower): Sells weapon mods.
- World Drops: Some mods can drop randomly from completing activities or dismantling gear.
- Seasonal Artifact: The seasonal artifact often unlocks powerful, temporary mods that are only available for the duration of that season.
It's recommended to check Ada-1 daily to purchase any mods you are missing.
The Armor Charge System
This system, introduced with the Beyond Light expansion, allows your armor to store "Charges" when you pick up Orbs of Power. These charges can then be consumed by specific mods to activate powerful effects.
- Orb Generation: Mods like Siphon (on helmet) and Heavy Handed (on gauntlets) generate Orbs of Power.
- Charge Storage: Mods like Stacks on Stacks (on legs) increase the number of Armor Charges you can hold.
- Charge Consumption: Mods like Charged Up (on chest) or Utility Kickstart (on class item) consume these charges to grant benefits.
Mastering the Armor Charge system is key to creating highly optimized and powerful builds.
Mod Loadouts & Management
With the introduction of Loadout slots, you can now save and quickly swap entire sets of weapons, armor, and mods. This is invaluable for quickly adapting your build to different activities or enemy types.
- Save Loadouts: Create a loadout with your preferred armor pieces, mods, and weapons.
- Swap Quickly: Equip a saved loadout with a single click, saving time and ensuring you're always prepared.