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Each season ofDestiny 2is unique, andRevenant’s new potion crafting mechanic really brings something special to this season’s loot hunt and sandbox. Alongside allowing you to focus seasonal weapons and armor, giving you a higher chance of getting the rewards you’re chasing, you can also use potions and tonics to buff your abilities in a few ways. Before you can start crafting, you’ll need to play the intro mission to the season, which should pop up right after the character-select screen.
There are two types of Tonics you’re able to craft: Enriching Tonics and Volatile Tonics. As mentioned in the Revenant roadmap stream in early October, these tonics do a few different things depending on which recipe you pick.Volatile Tonics empower your battle prowess, while Enriching Tonics increase your rewards.Thankfully, crafting these tonics is pretty simple.
How To Craft Potions
Help Out Eido, And She’ll Help You
You’ll get a pretty thorough tutorial when Eido teaches you how to make Tonics in her lab, so follow along with that after selecting a recipe and you should be fine.If you forget, the quest UI will appear each time you select a Tonic recipe, which will show you each step in the brewing process in case you forget.What’s more complicated than brewing Tonics is learning new recipes.
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Thanks to a handy popup you only get to see once, you’ll find out that the only way to learn new Tonic recipes is to craft a bunch of “related Tonics.“This means you’ll have to craft a Tonic a few, undetermined amount of times to unlock a more powerful version of it.I ended up unlocking the Potent Tonic of Stasis Crystallization after crafting the Diluted version four times, and this number likely increases when unlocking the higher-level Tonics.
How To Farm Material For Potions
Onslaught: Salvation Is Good, But This Mission Farm Works Best
Unlike the complicated and annoying process ofgathering cookie materials for the Dawning, getting reagents for your Tonics is relatively simple.All you need to do is defeat enemies throughout the system.This can be in any playlist activity, story mission, or even in patrol, so no matter what you do, you’ll get some reagents for crafting.
If the passive reagent gain you get for playing the game isn’t enough, you can run the seasonal activity, Onslaught: Salvation. This is a new and improved version of Onslaught, andrewards you with extra reagents for every 10 waves you complete.It’s also a good way to grind out loot, which you can use your Enriching Tonics to improve.
If you get bored of Onslaught and simply want to grind as many Reagents as you can, complete Eido’s first Major Fieldwork, which gives you a chance at getting Reagents whenever you get Reclaimed Vitality.Then, load into this week’s highlighted campaign mission,“Into The Deep.“Run the mission until you pick up the Cryptogryph, then jump off the edge to wipe.
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You’ll reload into the same arena, where you shouldkill the Acolyte Hive and then farm the infinite number of Thrall that spawn.In his video on YouTube,Esoterickkused this method and farmed over 50 Reclaimed Vitality per minute. You should end up with plenty of materials, allowing you to craft as many Tonics as you want.
Best High-Tier Potions
These Will Depend On Your Build And Loot Goals
There are 26 Legendary Tonics inD2this season, and their effects are different depending on whether they’re Enriching or Volatile.The Volatile Legendary Tonics provide the best version of their original perk and boost a different artifact perk, making them all pretty useful.The Enriching Legendary Tonics allow you to more precisely focus which armor pieces or weapons will drop, similar to Onslaught focusing on Lord Shaxx a few seasons ago.
Both types of Tonics last longer the rarer they are, and refined Tonics boost more than one Artifact Mod.
Generally, it’s a good idea to match your active Volatile Tonic to your build’s focus.Say you’re runninga build that relies on generating Stasis Crystals; you’re going to want to have a Refined Tonic of Stasis Crystallization active when you need an extra boost.
Artifact Mod Boost
Refined Tonic of Stasis Crystallization
Shattering a Stasis Crystal grants you a small amount of class ability energy.
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This will not only last longer than its less-rare counterparts, but it also provides a boost to two Artifact perks rather than just one. This goes for all of the Refined Tonics, so pay attention to your build when choosing which Tonic to activate.
However, there are also Exotic Tonics, which drop randomly.These Tonics have no recipe, and as of the time of writing, there’s no way to guarantee that you’ll get one.Exotic Tonics give you the chance to gain either an Ascendant Alloy, an Ascendant Shard, or an Exotic Cipher, all of which are exotic-rarity materials that will let you upgrade armor you already have orget a new Exotic from Rahool.
How To Get New Reagents
Complete Fieldwork Tasks And Seasonal Triumphs
You’ll only be able to get Common and Rare Reagents to begin with, so to get more, you’ll need to complete Fieldwork tasks for Eido.You can only pick up Major Fieldwork after you’ve picked up and completed so many Minor Fieldwork tasks,which only unlock after you have a certain number of potion recipes. This is a bit restrictive, so you’ll have to keep brewing potions as you play in order to keep unlocking tasks.
The best Major Fieldwork to start with is Blood Drive, which is the one mentioned above that awards Reagents when you gather Reclaimed Vitality.The Fieldwork that allows you to gather rarer Reagents is Bounty Harvester, which provides a chance at getting Reagents when you turn in completed daily bounties, with a chance at higher-rarity Reagents.This is the only way to get those rarer materials so far inDestiny 2, so unlock it quickly by completing as many Minor Fieldwork tasks as possible.
