Destiny 2 The Witch Queen Guide

Season of the Risen

What is Season of the Risen

Season of the Risen is the 16th season of Destiny 2 and follows the story of the Cabal and Empress Caital helping the Vanguard take down the Lucent Hive and the Hive Guardians. In the new season there is a new seasonal activity, weapons, armor, and story to do. Each week the story will develop and countine and you get to be a part of it to see how it ends and how it will set up next season.

Seasonal Activity

With each season comes a new seasonal activity and with season of the Risen it introduces PsiOp Battleground. PsiOp Battleground is a three person activity in where you fight the Lucent Hive and Hive Guardians. Your objective is to hunt down the light wielding Hive and help bring them back to the H.E.L.M to figure out what Savathun is up to. When you complete the activity you get rewards which are the new armor and weapons.

Weapons

In each new season comes a new arsenal of weapons. This season gives us six new seasonal weapons which in my opinion are all good in their own way. All of these weapons are craftable and so you will be able to pick whatever perk options you would like. These weapons can be earned from the new seasonal activity PsiOp Battleground. Down blow I do recommend some perks but these are my personal picks your combos may be different than mine but if you do not know what to go after these are what I recommend.

Weapon Slot/Type PVP Roll PVE Roll
Piece of MindPiece of Mind Pulse Rifle, Kinetic, Rapid-Fire Frame Hammer-Forged Rifling, High-Caliber Rounds or Ricochet Rounds, Overflow or Perpetual Motion (controller players I would also say Heating Up), Moving Target or Elemental Capacitor Arrowhead Brake, Appended Mag or Alloy Magazine, Overflow, Vorpal Weapon or Adrenaline Junkie
ThoughtlessThoughtless Sniper Rifle, Stasis, Adaptive Frame Hammer-Forged Rifling, Accurized Rounds, Firmly Planted or Perpetual Motion or Steady Hands, Snapshot or Quickdraw (if you a using a Stasis subclass I would say try Headstone) Corkscrew Rifling, Extended Mag, Rapid Hit or Overflow, Firing Line or Focused Fury (if you a using a Stasis subclass I would say try Headstone)
Sweet SorrowSweet Sorrow Auto Rifle, Arc Energy, Rapid-Fire Frame Arrowhead Breake, Accurized Rounds, Killing Wind or Perpetual Motion, Tap the Trigger Arrowhead Break, Appended Mag or Extended Mag, Triple Tap or Stats for All, Vorpal Weapon or Demolitionist or One for All
Under Your SkinUnder Your Skin Combat Bow, Void Energy, Precision Frame Elastic String, Compact Arrow Shaft, Hip-Fire Grip or Archer's Tempo or Firmly Planted, Opening Shot or Successful Warm-Up Agile Bowstring, Carbon Arrow Shaft or Helical Fletching, Archer's Tempo, Explosive Head or Dragonfly
Explosive PersonalityExpolsive Personality Grenade Launcher, Solor Energy, Wave Frame Volatile Launch, High-Velocity Rounds, Auto-Loading Holster, Disruption Break Volatile Launch, High-Velocity Rounds, Feeding Frenzy or Auto-Loading Holster, One For All or Frenzy
Recurrent ImpactRecurrent Impact Machine Gun, Stasis, Rapid-Fire Frame Smallbore, Accurized or Steady Rounds, Firmly Planted or Perpetual Motion, Tap the Trigger Smallbore, Extended Mag or Appended Mag, Subsistence, Firing Line or Frenzy or One for All